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The second skyrim one is really nice. It looks like chitin armor, which is objectively cool as balls!

I had a game yesterday, so rushed through painting these overnight. Unfortunately I forgot to take any pictures of the actual board. =/

Another Telvanni wizard. As I'm playing a Frostgrave campaign this one may wind up replacing the existing apprentice wearing a Molecrab Helmet at some point.



An Ancestor Skeleton construct (made by taking a regular skeleton and adding some extra bones to it - the cloth bits cover up the joins). They guard Dunmer tombs along with other necromatic creatures (which never made it into the actual game, for instance Nix Hound exo-skeletons with priest's skulls for heads).



Another Chitin Armoured warrior. I avoided using as much white this time around, which I think looks better.



A Bonemold armoured Redoran Watchman.



And an Indoril Ordinator. The leg's pose is crap. =P


Oh yeah, and I'm not sure I posted these on the other page, but what I based some of the models on.




Tangentially I've been asked to make some models for the Numenera RPG setting. I could start a new thread for those, but seeing as I already have three ongoing ones I think I'll just stick them in here. ...Even if the first model I made is a mage in a space suit.

I see, bonemold concept #6 is what you decided on. I also like the #12 design as well.

Awesome work on the bonemold and Chitin armours, the Indoril Ordinator looks fine a better pose than any you would see in morrowind animations.

Awesome stuff Wyrmy!

I've been asked to make some models for the Numenera RPG setting by someone at my club. My knowledge of that particular game isn't very deep, but I know its broad enough that I can get away with a lot.

As a test run I've had a go at making models for each of the game's three major classes: Glaive , Jack and Nano (Warrior, Rogue and Mage). Here's the greens of each, I'll be painting them throughout the week hopefully.



I'll have to see what she thinks when I give her the models. I'm not sure if they're too heavily armoured for a generic adventuring party (hey Rogues can wear plate armour). Trial and error I suppose. Expect the Glaive to be painted in brown/ orange, Jack to be red/white and Nano in a grey/blue.

And yes, all that ruffled cloth was a real pain in the arse.

Here's a Nord Bandit as well. Thirs was originally for the Numenera stuff, but decided it was looking too low-fantasy like for that setting. He still needs a bit of touching up, but he'll do for posting at the moment.



I'll need those first three painted for next week. On top of those I have a couple of portacabins and sheds for my S.T.A.L.K.E.R. stuff, though, well, that's for another thread.

I've not been in much mood for painting, or taking pictures of what I have finished lately, but well, here's what I've managed since last year.

A Kwama Warrior (originally starting out as a Reaper Miniatures Ice Horror - or whatever its called -, then resculpted).



Its based on the Elder Scrolls Online version, as oposed to the original. The big difference is that rather than being a symbiote  of a Kwama Worker and worm like Forager, they're just straight soldier ants.

An Ascended Sleeper.



The Ash Priestess from yonks ago...



A wee Argonian bandit, made from a Achtung Cthulhu Deep One. All I did was give it some weapons and a snout (thus the fish eyes).



Random Chitin Armoured bandit.



Plus a pair of WIPs. A Redoran Guardsman and a Skyrim style Chitin armoured warrior.



Besides from Morrowind, here's the Numemera stuff painted up as well. In future I think I'll go for more of a sci-fi look with these, and probably tone down the amount of armour too. We'll see.





To plan then with this stuff is ...um. Wells there's more WIPs laying about, but whether I finish any of those is up in the air. As for terrain though I'm making some sets of scaffolding. The idea's so as to make the boards look more ruinous/ enable 3D movement. Bitch to paint though.  

You should cast these and sell your own bespoke fantasy miniature range.

Also...is that second to last figure with the red armour carrying a Blunderbuss?? Sure as feth looks like one.

Giant crossbow.



In the setting the technology for guns has been lost, so crossbows are more common.

...Though given the setting too, when I say modern guns are extinct, that's not to say all other firearms are.

Oh I thought it was a Dwemer blunderbuss, didn't notice that it was for Numenara. Should read more carefully.

I should just start another thread in the RPG subforum for that stuff. If you read through my other three threads you'll see I start each new setting by posting in the previous thread and going "yeah, this might take off, but I CBA starting a new thread right now".

...Though the same goes for those settings that I didn't bother with. Looking at you The Walking Dead, The Last of Us and that random 40K stuff I found in a box.

I think a separate project log would be a good idea actually. Add it to your signature. I frequently get confused when you bounce back and forth between settings in a single thread. I follow all of your project logs because your models and terrain are so damn cool and characterful.

And speaking of The Last of Us...I recently got the Joel and Ellie miniatures from Hasslefree miniatures. TLOU would be a great setting for a game. With it being a modern setting, you have a huge range of miniatures to choose from. A couple guys at my club have the entire range of Zombicide board games between them, so we'd have a huge supply of zombie stand in's. I might pick up Warlord Game's new zombie wargame for that.

The Last of Us would be easy enough to do as a game. Two issues though:

Scale - would it be just the two main characters against a load of enemies, or more generic group on group.

Terrain: A lot of the game takes place in a central urban setting. So lots of tenement blocks and multi-stories would be required as apposed to the regular one floor ruins most people have.

I made a few models for it, but they never went anywhere as I'm not too invested in the setting (who have guess. RPG games where I have hundreds of hours hold my interest more than first person shooters). For an actual The Last of Us thread check out this one.

Well not necessarily. Who says you have to focus on Joel and Ellie? You could focus on the multiplayer setting instead.

You could do Fireflies vs Military. Survivors vs Scavengers and Cannibals. Infected as an environmental hazard. Joel and Ellie might be a sort of special character mercenaries who can be taken as allies for certain groups (Fireflies and Scavengers).

I believe the new Mantic Games board game for The Walking Dead and Warlord games' zombie wargame are doing something similar, focusing on groups of competing survivors with the zombies as environmental hazards.


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For an actual The Last of Us thread check out this one.

Oh cheers. I have those exact Joel and Ellie miniatures.

Setting wise it'd also depend on the style of game. It could be a generic action style game, or one based around survival and looting. Scavenge Skirmish Survive is a game where two groups face off against each other attempting to secure as much loot as possible and give the enemy a bloody nose. However that game's more about the former, and there's enough environmental hazards + animals (and if you so chose, zombies) to give everybody a hard time without bullets flying.

Yeah

A thread which I've neglected...

I guess I aught to update this on what I've worked on since the last update.

Don't get your hopes up, I've been really lazy...

Right, greens:

An Orc Warrior. Aye his arms are too long. Luckily one's being covered with a shield!



A Redoran Archer in stripped down Bonemold armour:



Random dude in Bonemold/ crappy picture:



Hlaalu Guardsman:



Not a green, but a neat mini I found. A Vigilant of Stendarr?



As for terrain..

Another mushroom house:



And a tower for my Hlaalu stuff:



Plus, something actually painted, some roads:



At the moment I'm playing the Frostgrave Thaw of the Lich Lord campaign with a friend. Anything being made will wind up being influenced by the needs of that.

The third scenario involves a treasure cart being ambushed. Thus the roads, and the tower with the road running beneath (as the ambush point). Along with the Bonemold armoured models which are replacements for my existing warband models - having upgraded them.

Oh, and as for Frostgrave, at odds with my terrain, I played a game using actual winter terrain...



Followed by this.



Aye, the second shot's table looks crap, though it was limited by the scenario. We needed something to simulate an empty river with a ship in the middle see.

What? That's totally a ship.

Aww screw you guys!



Aye I'll see what I can paint. The priority's the tower, the archer, a couple of unpictured barricades then whatever else I can be arsed with. Then its a case of sticking my hand into my bag of holding and picking out whatever unpainted crap looks shiny.

Maybe not the update which was planned (damn, I would have liked to have had that tower finished), but blame that on my "ooh shiny" tendencies.

With Into the Breeding Pits coming out, and my love for dungeon crawlers, I thought it'd be cool to get into that setting. The plan was just to use my club's stuff. However we have a tiny bit of the Dwarven Forge stuff, and a load of Heroclix style copy and paste bits. Neither really usable for a decent board.

So I thought I'd try my hand at some. ...And start yet another bloody project.

Early days, but here's what I managed overnight.





They smallest pieces are 4'' by 4'', with everything else being a multiplication of that. The 8'' by 8'' will be the main mass of the table, but I'm sticking in the weirder pieces for gap filling.

The plan's to start out with the generic bits and then start adding in details like tombs in the walls, ores/ geodes, etc. From there may then I'd start adding Dwemer bits. I'd considered including a mine or Dunmer ancestral tomb, but the Dwemer stuff would look cooler.

How does the rock texture look? I was going for something like sandstone.

I've tried modular dungeon sets before, but never made it further than the test pieces. Any advise for making these things? I'm already banging my head and tidying up the edges so there isn't massive gaps. :(

Hmn, and now I'm wondering just how much of this stuff an Into the Breeding Pits game would require? A 1 by 1 board? 2 by 2? ...3 by 3? 0.o

Just as I start up a new morrowind character!
Great stuff as always

I just sorta skimmed the thread, sweet models BTW. If your still looking for Argonians. The Warlord Reptus by Reaper may work for you, specifically the Clutchlings as they arent super buff.

I actually have an Argonian sitting mostly painted right now. ...But as it'd be mercenary, and its equipment don't fit in with my current warband, its seen no use.

If Frostgrave had rules for bandit NPCs though I'd have plenty of use out of my random minis. A future expansion perhaps.

Game tonight, maybe pictures if the board doesn't look too shoddy. Also should bother my arse to take pictures of some of the newer stuff afterwards.

Man, how have I missed this p&m for so long...brilliant concept and great execution!

I found this searching for elder scrolls terrain inspiration and it's been a great read, but now i'm off track and it's dinner time haha.

I'll be following along

That modular cave system looks amazing...

EDC

I'll post crap tonight once I'm home. My opponent was late to the game, so I didn't manage many pictures, but I'll see what I can filch out.

As for the cave system. At this moment I have the basic tiles there for all of the initial round of bits. ...They're just missing any detail. Already I'm looking at what I have and noticing I'm short some duplicates, for ease of setting the table up in a different configuration. They're not a priority to add, but the plan's to finish off this first set then move onto making different types of tiles for larger boards.

With the caves, it looks like most people make there's just out of large tiles, not the smaller ones. Hmn, am I doing it wrong? Heh, or I guess that way's just easier to build and plan. The way that I'm doing it means I can swap in different sets easier, and have more variety in setups.

...Even if it'll be a right headache to have all the ends line up properly. I'll cough up a lung from all the sanding.


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I'll post crap tonight once I'm home. My opponent was late to the game, so I didn't manage many pictures, but I'll see what I can filch out.

As for the cave system. At this moment I have the basic tiles there for all of the initial round of bits. ...They're just missing any detail. Already I'm looking at what I have and noticing I'm short some duplicates, for ease of setting the table up in a different configuration. They're not a priority to add, but the plan's to finish off this first set then move onto making different types of tiles for larger boards.

With the caves, it looks like most people make there's just out of large tiles, not the smaller ones. Hmn, am I doing it wrong? Heh, or I guess that way's just easier to build and plan. The way that I'm doing it means I can swap in different sets easier, and have more variety in setups.

...Even if it'll be a right headache to have all the ends line up properly. I'll cough up a lung from all the sanding.

I need to make sure my middle son never sees this thread... Not only is he into Frostgrave, he LOVES TES particularly Morrowind, I'll never hear the end of it lmao

Beautiful stuff! what an awesome idea as well.

Plus I love your modular cave system - I'm trying to work out something similiar for just a general watery type board so I will follow with interest!

Right, here's some bits and bobs for y'all to gander at.

I'd forgotten to post these ruins, so here's more of the generic Hlaalu homes. These ones have posters and hanging moss for a bit of variety at least.






Still more of those to finish...

I rushed this so I could have it for a game. Here's that tower I'd posted. Functionally I don't even know what its supposed to be? A house? Toll booth? Small chapel? Uh...






And pictures of last night's board. I hadn't the time to take many in game pictures unfortunately as we started a bit later than we'd intended.






Specifically though, I did take a picture of the start of a scrum in the middle of the board. The scenario was that a cart with treasure had thrown a wheel in the middle of the board, and it was up to the players to murder everyone and steal the treasure.

Queue the cart's owners being murderilized over the first two turns then a dozen player models stabbing each other for the rest of the game.

...We were both cheeky enough to have thieves sneak in behind the combats and steal all the loot away though.



I lost a third of my warband. My opponent lost a dog. No biggee though, as dead guys mean I can replace them with new minis (notably I'll be sticking a Captain in I think).

Ah, and here's my forgetting, here's my warband going into the game. 3 Treasure Hunters, 3 Knights, 2 Rangers, 1 Rangifer (...the big bug), a Warhound, and my Wizard and their Apprentice.



The next game in the campaign will involve skeletons and some altars, so there's an excuse for me to finish painting those fellers and make some Reclamations shrines.

That tower and bridge building is really inspiring. I might well try my hand at recreating that this summer!

Hell yes! The reclamations have some really good lore. Do you think you could make some other temple stuff?

Such cool stuffs.....

<gets popcorn>
<waits for more>

I've been skiving off this weekend, so other than the bits and bobs of sculpting on the train, it'll be later tonight when I work on anything.

Though I just noticed I have two weeks off from work coming up...

Well temple stuff could be mixed in with the existing cave terrain which I'm working on. It wouldn't be difficult to slot in some Velothi ancestral tombs there.



Though I need a focus for the caves. I could make quite a few addons - Kwama Mins/ Glass Mines/ Ancestral Tombs/ Dwemer Ruins/ Sewers, etc, but I don't have the time to make all of them.

I could get away with having one big tile and a couple of smaller ones for the Kwama/ Glass mines/ tomb stuff, but the Dwemer stuff would need a lot more work and sections.

An actual Dunmer temple ruin could be a possibility, though how it would be built is what's put me off. It'd have a large floor space, but also be multi-level. I could get away with remove most of the upper level I suppose, though it'd still need to keep the look somehow. Doable, but a ways away.

Also, I'd have to keep something that large in a box of its own for transport...

Anyway, I'm off to burn through a couple of dozen milliput sticks.