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January update- pt.2 (“The Rogues’ Gallery”)

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Hi, folks.

I had unwittingly left a bunch of photos lying hidden in a draft since late last year. Many of these (with the exception of the last 2) are from 2025 and I must not have gotten around to posting them. The final 2 are recently painted and completed. So here’s a rogues’ gallery of a few missed minis from the latter half of the last year.

The first is my Shrine Anchorite from Trench Crusade. This miniature is pretty hefty, even for a resin mini. Powered by a monk (and sporting a bone-broken ecclesiastic prisoner on the shield), this towering contraption accompanies the warbands of the Trench Pilgrims into battle, adding a touch of strength and endurance to the procession.

I used various washes and dry brushing to add shade and highlight to the plate metal, and used a sponge to add rust effects here and there. Blood for the Blood God was the final step, and while it’s easy to get carried away with this paint, I stuck to the artwork to keep me right. All I’ve not done is the boards dangling from the chain mantle, as I wasn’t sure to use decals or freehand something; some of the freehanding I’ve seen on these Trench Crusade models has been astounding. I won’t be able to pull anything off like that, but I shall maybe give it a go.

Other minis I wrapped up in late 2025 include my Town Watch models, which I really enjoyed painting. I aim to use these guys in games of Mordheim and Frostgrave, as they have such an over-exaggerated fantasy whimsy about them. Countering this is the fearsome Hanging Tree, one of the biggest pieces of terrain I own currently.

This was built without the hanging bodies first. I painted the tree, then the corpses separately, and then had to source some small chain, which I thought looked better than the string for hanging them. I think it looks quite brutal, and is one of the more harrowing pieces in my cabinet, for sure.

Finally, I have two bands I recently completed, these being my summoner’s warband for Frostgrave, and the Green Bruisers for Rumbleslam. My summoner for Frostgrave turned out as I’d hoped: I wanted a book-holding wizard in red robes for a summoner and, despite my kids pointing out that she looks a lot like the pigeon lady from Home Alone 2, I’m happy with her all the same!

I’ll be sure to update with how things have gone in the first game, as my son and I played this yesterday afternoon, and it was a heap of fun!

Rumbleslam, I am yet to play. I have been painting the minis slowly. It’s also annoying them needing to be mounted on the clear plastic bases. This means assembling these guys on their bases and then priming is kind of out of the question. Also, the chances of me getting washes and eve stray paint on the bases are too high. I’ve started using blue-tack and an old paint bottle as a makeshift holder for any Rumbleslam mini I’m painting, but it means I have been painting these chaps one-at-a-time, instead of my usual, which is a bit closer to batch-painting, I guess?

Thanks, as always, to anyone who stops by. Let me know if you have played any of these games recently, and I hope you’re all keeping busy.

Cheers

January update

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Hi, folks.

I’ve been hitting the painting and building quite a fair bit this winter; it’s my favourite season to do so, and it’s relaxing in its own way. Lately, I have been working on some figures for my Rotten Rodents stable in the tabletop game Rumbleslam, which my wife and kids got me for Christmas.

This is a wrestling/fantasy tabletop game featuring heaps of dice, colourful characters (with some nods and sideswipes at real-life wrestlers, old and new), and some lovely models. While we get a team of orcs, goblins and a troll, as well as a more human team (though also with an ogre) to face off against each other, I picked up a box that caught my eye: this being the Rotten Rodents.

Molerat Pugilist & Sewer Rat.

These guys are pretty disgusting, ranging from a potion-flinging high-flyer, to a boil-covered hulking rat, and so I started with two of the easier figures to paint, which are the Molerat Pugilist, and the Sewer Rat. While these guys are considered ‘jobbers’, what folk outside the wrestling world might call ‘fodder’ essentially, they can be joined by a superstar; I picked up Sir Scratch Flagon, the armoured mouse who I believe references ‘Big Poppa Pump’ Scott Steiner, right down to his pose and his chainmail-covered head. I’m still in the process of reading through the rules, but Sir Flagon here seems to have some decent defence stats, which is something the rest of the stable struggles with.

Sir Scratch Flagon.

In terms of Frostgrave, me and my son have been gearing up for a game soon. I am painting up a few pieces of terrain in one go, which is quite simple as the grey primer takes care of most of the surface areas of these old ruins. I have been working on this ruined tower the most, and have recently given it a Nuln Oil wash, waiting to paint the snowy sections and icicles that you can likely see along the top of the miniature. I figured this piece would be useful for a scenario like The Silent Tower but would also make a pretty useful 2-storey structure for housing treasure.

A rotting ruin, waiting to be explored.

I have been dividing my painting time between terrain, my warband, and my son’s warband. Building his wizard as an Illusionist, I asked him to pick the colours before I tackled each figure. I have currently painted 7 of his figures, with only a few left to go. The first scenario we are keen to tackle is Dark Alchemy from the Frostgrave Folio supplement book, where we use a small warband each and play cooperatively against a hulking alchemical beast, before escaping from one of two doors on the outskirts of the board.

Illusionist & one of his thugs- part of my son’s Frostgrave warband.

Cue the Alchemical Monstrosity, which is represented by this mushroom golem miniature I’ve had in my cabinet for over a year. Giving this beast a new lease of life, I thought he would be perfect for a beast forged of an alchemical explosion, with various mushrooms and ingredients mixed together to make a homicidal hulk, hell-bent on stopping our escape. I have some ways to go with this mini, including drybrushing, but he isn’t a million miles away from being tabletop-ready.

The Alchemical Monstrosity.

Anyways, thanks for taking the time to read. I hope your first projects of the new year are going well, and here’s to another year of building, painting and gaming.