From the Frozen Wastes of Icewind Dale

I’ve been running the Rime of the Frostmaiden Dungeons and Dragons campaign for my regular RPG group for quite a while now, and they’ve made a lot of progress, being somewhere close to resolving the main plot points. As I started seeing the campaign draw to a close, I had the compulsion to remember the player’s characters in the best way I know: build and paint miniatures for them!

The campaign being set in the far north during a magically enforced winter (2 years long already and still going!), I wanted to use appropriate miniatures (i.e. no loincloth only barbarians!). I wanted them to be wearing heavy winter coats, which I struggled to find in many miniatures ranges. In the end I remembered the Bretonnian men at arms kit from the old Warhammer Fantasy range which featured padded full length coats. I figured with a bit of fur sculpted on they would look great as fantasy cold weather gear.

I scrounged through my bitz box to find suitable weapons and heads for each of the party members, and after some chopping of pieces and my first real attempt at sculpting fur ended up with models I was very happy with.

For the painting, I really wanted to continue the cold theme, so I mixed Vallejo Dark Sea blue in the shadows of every paint I used on the models. I did the same for highlights using Vallejo Ghost Grey. This was a bit of an experiment but I’m really happy with the outcome, to me the models look really unified, and more importantly, cold!

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This was a nice quick project (built the models yesterday, painted them today!), which provided a nice break from painting orks!