Bob's Grave is a bit Frosty!

I actually didn’t jump on this because of the Frostgrave week  though it did get me motivated.  I’d had been tempted ever since it came out, and liked the look of the figures and how the game looked when it had been pushed in various magazines . I hadn’t jumped at time as wasn’t doing fantasy  and had no figures other than boxes of badly pre painted Mage Knight figures ( brought at WMMMS when it was still at the school site!) and had absolutely no Winter Terrain (he thought)

2nd edition was tempting, and a copy was brought when I had a little windfall back in October ( I also brought Warhammer Fantasy RPG). At odd visits to Uncle Vince’s at Asgard Games Walsall I picked up odd boxes of figures which sat in another box in the games room.  Other than an odd glance I didnt really look at rules till Xmas day morning. They were perhaps one of the easiest rule sets to get into  even with my low levels of concentration at the moment.

Anyway Boxing day ,already bored with the Xmas non event  plus and  with the covid regulations my one day out had been cancelled  (not helped by the fact the host had actually caught it the week before xmas), I decided to have a go at building some of the figures.

I was pleasantly surprised to find them easy to build, with bits interchangeable between sets, I began to build my merry band.

I initially built a male wizard  his female apprentice,  a couple of Knights  ,a couple of Rangers, Men at arms( By accident I planned 4 thugs but gave 2 sheilds) & Theives.

By the Sunday I was in the position to paint them   and whilst waiting for odd stages to dry, built Barbarians, an Apothecary,  2 more Thugs and another Wizard an apprentice for a total of about 23 figures. I know a party is only at max 10, but it gives me options.

Not only are they easy to build  I found them very nice to paint. Mainly Contrast paint, using a pallot of 4 basic shades for clothing on each group as I did them in batch of 4  , varying each by using one colour on the shirt of one  the leggings on another, the tabard on a third etc. Then having done the base colours I gave them an overall wash of thinned down Agrax Earthshade,  about 50/50 with water, thinned out as I wanted to pick out creases and detail more, but didn’t want it to darken the figures to much.

I then did a bit of work on the faces, aided by the figure heads sculpting to add a bit of character to them all.