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I just wish they'd do a sprue of tech accessories so I don't need to loot my bits box to use them as 40k cultists and civilians.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
I just wish they'd do a sprue of tech accessories so I don't need to loot my bits box to use them as 40k cultists and civilians.

They do a metal sci fi pack: http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=8780

But yes, a dedicated plastic sprue packed full of sci-fi gubbins would be fantastic


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Oh, another Frostgrave thing coming up is a Geek Nation tour of Tallinn in Estonia with Joseph A. McCullough himself. The city that inspired Felstad.

http://geeknationtours.com/tours_post/frostgrave-immersion-101-2020/

Looks good fun, though I'm not sure I can justify the £3k though I never did do anything special for my 40th...

I'm pretty excited for those natives. They do seem to suffer from the same problem as the pirates though (massively long arms).

 lord_blackfang wrote:
It's so cool that a small company can put out plastic kits on a steady schedule.

Looking forward to wizards especially as they probably won't follow the same repeating sprue layout formula as all the others.

Really wish the sculpts weren't midgets. I would have multiples of each kit if they looked normal next to WHFB stuff.

Ugh, you're not alone. Why did they opt for such tiny figures... They make lovely, tall-ish halflings, though!

I’m guessing it’s because Frostgrave just isn’t heroic scale?

Curious to see these wizards I must say.
Never bought or even looked really, at any of their stuff, but it looks not too bad

 pancakeonions wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
It's so cool that a small company can put out plastic kits on a steady schedule.

Looking forward to wizards especially as they probably won't follow the same repeating sprue layout formula as all the others.

Really wish the sculpts weren't midgets. I would have multiples of each kit if they looked normal next to WHFB stuff.

Ugh, you're not alone. Why did they opt for such tiny figures... They make lovely, tall-ish halflings, though!

I will never ever understand their choices about scale. On the other hand, they seem to be doing quite well with their small humans, so what do I know?

 Gallahad wrote:

 pancakeonions wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
It's so cool that a small company can put out plastic kits on a steady schedule.

Looking forward to wizards especially as they probably won't follow the same repeating sprue layout formula as all the others.

Really wish the sculpts weren't midgets. I would have multiples of each kit if they looked normal next to WHFB stuff.

Ugh, you're not alone. Why did they opt for such tiny figures... They make lovely, tall-ish halflings, though!

I will never ever understand their choices about scale. On the other hand, they seem to be doing quite well with their small humans, so what do I know?

I'm assuming they are in 'scale' with most historical plastics/ GW LOTR? I know of several that have been using them with such to kit bash Game of Thrones and the like.

The cultists I got didn't seem too small.

The Frostgrave soldiers and metal wizards I have seem the right size to match most of the fantasy figures I have.
I agree they don't match GW's current action figure size, but that's a GW problem, not a Frostgrave one.

Yeah, they match nicely with a number of historical figures.

Of course, personally, I reckon that people are pretty varied in size. If my some of my models suggest that people of one group are consistently a foot shorter than some other group, that's okay as far as I'm concerned.

I really like having such a broad selection of fantasy plastics in non-heroic scale. After painting a bunch of historicals and LOTR stuff, I've found I just can't go back to bobbleheads with elephantiasis of the hands. It just looks off to me, now.

Great stuff - need to find a reason to play some Frostgrave, or use the figures in some way.


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Great stuff - need to find a reason to play some Frostgrave, or use the figures in some way.

Frostgrave plastics are your bog standard heroic 30mm - they fit right in with oldhammer and middlehammer models.

They do not match LOTR which are truescale 28mm.

GW proprietary IP's went scale-free about a decade ago; their current humans (Darkoath and Bloodreavers) are roughly 38mm scale (or O scale, 1/43)

 kestral wrote:
Great stuff - need to find a reason to play some Frostgrave, or use the figures in some way.

I recently acquired a game called "Rangers of Shadow Deep". It's a narrative driven solo or cooperative tabletop wargame. It's low model count and created by the person who designed Frostgrave. Just read through and I can't wait to play it. I'm just starting building some of the female soldiers.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/257695/Rangers-of-Shadow-Deep-A-Tabletop-Adventure-Game

 judgedoug wrote:
Frostgrave plastics are your bog standard heroic 30mm - they fit right in with oldhammer and middlehammer models.

They do not match LOTR which are truescale 28mm.

GW proprietary IP's went scale-free about a decade ago; their current humans (Darkoath and Bloodreavers) are roughly 38mm scale (or O scale, 1/43)

None of this is right really, save the LotR thing.

Firstly, Frostgrave stuff is still smaller than most middlehammer stuff, especially the plastics, don't let that integral base fool you. Secondly, GW's stuff is not "scale free", it's a new scale - their "basic" humans have all fallen into the same ~32mm tall range since the Chaos Cultists from Dark Vengeance, the Darkoath and Bloodreavers are not a different scale, they're just meant to be bigger people, in the same way that the new Goliath and Delaque are meant to be bigger people not a different scale to the other gangs.

I get that people want folk to support smaller companies, that's a laudable goal, but you're not going to do it by telling people who care about scale that their products are scaled a certain way when they're not.

 Aesthete wrote:
Yeah, they match nicely with a number of historical figures.

Of course, personally, I reckon that people are pretty varied in size. If my some of my models suggest that people of one group are consistently a foot shorter than some other group, that's okay as far as I'm concerned.

Yeah, I also like having a range of sizes.

Yea, the Frostgrave stuff feels like 25mm (or "truescale", aka tinyscale), though I've not put them up side by side since I don't have any LOTR, it seems like they'd look fine alongside LOTR figures from what I remember of those.

Anyone have any photos, or mind taking one?

Thought I had some comparison pics but apparently not. FG dudes are def not as small/fine as LotR figs.

EDIT: ... I did have a pic!

LINK

 pancakeonions wrote:
Yea, the Frostgrave stuff feels like 25mm (or "truescale", aka tinyscale), though I've not put them up side by side since I don't have any LOTR, it seems like they'd look fine alongside LOTR figures from what I remember of those.

Anyone have any photos, or mind taking one?

The Frostgrave are definitely Heroic Scale, but the are between 25 and 27mm heroic scale. Current Stormcast are 35mm Heroic scale.

Yep Frostgrave plastics have huge heads and limbs just like any other model in heroic scale, they’re just smaller overall than GW.

These models scale well with plastic manufacturers other than GW, which they don’t scale with. Are GW models out of scale with everyone else?

No, it’s the children that are wrong.

They scale as well with GW models as they do with Shieldwolf's Shieldmaidens. Some models are a better fit than others though.

I do not have any plastic Malifaux or Kingdom Death humans, but I imagine that the scale would make a poorer match in that situation.

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
These models scale well with plastic manufacturers other than GW, which they don’t scale with. Are GW models out of scale with everyone else?

No, it’s the children that are wrong.

Only with certain manufacturers of historical minis. They don't match with the Perry minis nor with any fantasy plastics I can think of, excluding Northstar's line and maybe Ring of Rule.

I thought they scaled well with Empire and Brettonians?

Maybe the old starter set minis, but the barefoot State Troops look less squat.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Maybe the old starter set minis, but the barefoot State Troops look less squat.

They don't scale well with any plastics except maybe the Bretonnian Men at Arms. If you're talking *really* oldschool all-metal infantry, yeah maybe they're a match. Not all metal models though, pretty much anything from late 5th/Mordheim onwards is in the 30-32mm range(height).

Nick Eyre

We don't do this very often, but during the Nickstarter you'll be able to buy individual frames of the plastic Crewmen and Snake-men. They won't be restricted to Nickstarter participants only, but they'll only be for sale in the Nickstarter period.

http://www.northstarfigures.com/list.php?&man=271&page=2

The Ghost Archipelago Gods of Fire Nickstarter is now live, with the new plastic tribals box and the attendant metal specialists:

http://nstarmagazine.com/FROSTGRAVE_GHOST_ARCHIPELAGO_GODS_OF_FIRE.htm

Nice kit. First one with no crossbow?

I really like all the stone tools.

Maybe I could actually make that Slann army I planned all those years ago, I hope I don't try it though.