Solo Tabletop

The Rangers of Shadow Deep campaign has a few scenarios that call for gnoll enemies. Initially I was going to replace them with orcs as I didn't have any fitting minis. Then I saw the sprues of the  Frostgrave Gnolls  kit from Northstar Miniatures - which wasn't easy to find, as practically every store page (except the one I linked) only showed the front cover of the box. I really dislike how it isn't standard practice yet to show the box content (and if possible every sprue) on the store page. I want to know what I am buying, and the box art, while beautiful, doesn't help me at all. As the Frostgrave kits are very modular and mostly interchangeable, I used the opportunity as an excuse to buy a few of the other multipart kits as well. I now have a nice selection of different bits that I can use for future projects. I also decided to challenge myself a bit and practice my batch painting. Usually I only paint 5 miniatures at a time when I work on larger groups or regiment...

This is another project I did roughly two years ago. I was playing through the core book campaign of Rangers of Shadow Deep  and needed a flesh golem for one of the scenarios. I had a few options in my pile of shame, but I chose this one since it was already primed and ready to go. It's also quite big and fits the theme really well. The fly-arm is probably one of the giant flies that the warband will encounter in a later scenario and I like to imagine that the gnoll shaman just stitched random parts together to see if it would work. I also got a better photo setup by buying a really cheap lightbox. The difference is enormous. Look at this lovingly disgusting model. It's one of the Gellerpox Infected from the  Kill Team Rogue Trader  box set from Games Workshop, and I absolutely love it. It has great details like the maggots and flies in the wounds, and the exaggerated features were a joy to paint. I've always been quite intimidated by large areas of skin. Stark highl...