First Previews For North Star’s Rangers Of Shadow Deep Range
April 11, 2019 by brennon
North Star Military Figures shared the first images of the miniatures that they are going to be designing for use in Rangers Of Shadow Deep. We got our first look at one of the Rangers modelled on the cover for the book.
This fellow looks just as grizzled as you might have imagined one of the Rangers to look. I love the cloak and hood combination, the style of the sword and the expression on his face, as if he's had quite enough of dealing with zombies!
I absolutely can't wait to get my hands on these miniatures to start painting them. They're going to work really nicely alongside the plastic models that already exist for the game. However, I think the metal is going to allow them to get that extra level of detail into the core aspect of your warband, namely the Ranger.
Monstrous Flies
As well as the Ranger we also got a preview of one of the Flies that they're going to be creating for the game.
These pop up in one of the early missions in the game and give you something horrible to deal with! Unlike many flies which are just a nuisance, these will come and try and chew on you! It looks like the team are going to be doing what we all hoped, namely dealing with some of the harder to find miniatures from the adventures.
I am very excited about this range as I mentioned earlier and just can't wait to get painting!
What do you want them to work on?
"I am very excited about this range!"
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Oh, a bloatfly!
Seem to be further ahead than I expected. Bobby is hitting it out of the park, the ranger is lovely and should come out a treat.
Mmmmm
That chin is just crying out for some Desperate Dan stubble to be painted on it. Very nice sculpt and should be cast in one piece. Nothing nicer than a well cast one piece metal miniature… minimal prep before attacking it with the paints sticks.
Hi BoW.
You are spot on about us concentrating on the monsters from RotSD that are hard to come by. You’ll find if there’s a creature that is already in the Frostgrave or Ghost Archipelago range, we won’t redo it for RotSD. But if it’s unique to it, we’ll endeavour to get it made.
Nick North Star
Awesome stuff 🙂
It there a production/technical reason why you create tiny bases on the figure versus just giving us no base or maybe have a pinhole already molded and allow us to pin the figure to the base or our choice?. I find myself either having to build up the base using green stuff or cutting off the base completely. It would be a lot better IMHO if there was either a complete base or no base but not the in-between small bases.
Can’t wait to get these figs. I think that having a range that will allow me to play the different scenarios of the game is a great idea. Great job.
Great figures the fly may be great as a Nurgle hover bike?
They look good, and a big step up from trying to get paint to stick to pound shop toy flies 🙂
Cool more Gribblies for my collection.
Ive been working on my monster pack as my current hobby streak. Ive been using a lot of my old unpainted Skaven as the Gnolls, with the stormvermin being the lieutenants, and slingers for the archers. For the flies and spiders,: I bought a bag of holloween decoration bugs for like $5, and it comes with a whole host of spiders, flies, crawlies and what-not that when painted quickly, will absolutely serve as the more numerous and less fancy forces of the dark.
I’m really enjoying the same sort of thing with first Frostgrave and now Shadow Deep (and still loads of Frostgrave).
While good I would say that that Ranger is weaker of those two.
I love the idea of the metals. They are too few and far between anymore. However I also need, NEED, severed-head-in-hand as a bit in my life. Can we do both? Maybe just a bits pack? I’ve done it with greed stuff, etc. but it’s just painful.