Luthor Von Drak

I finished my new (replacement) character for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.  Following Jurgen's tragic demise a new character was needed and as a player group we decided our new addition needed to have the "Heal" skill.

Not being overly original when it comes to character concepts I started by assuming I'd choose a Warrior Priest.  One of the neat things about character generation in Warhammer Roleplay is that you can basically randomly generate every character aspect and if you chose to keep those results you get bonus XP to improve your character.  Having said that you can keep some random results, and ditch others.  When I rolled my character options one of the career paths I generated was "Duellist".  I was pleasantly surprised to find that the Duellist career included the Heal skill!  I also ended up with a noble background so decided to tie my new character's backstory to the former Elector Counts of Sylvania before the rise of the Von Carsteins.

Introducing Luthor Von Drak!

Luthor is basically made from the old Empire Milita/Mordheim sprues with  head from a Bolt Action British Infantry squaddie.  Although keeping with the Sylvanian background I wanted to go with dark reds and black as my colour-scheme I chose to mix it up a bit this time by going much heavier on the red and much lighter on the use of black.  Overall I'm quite happy with how he turned out and could easily seem this figure doing double duty in a D&D game as well.

Let's hope Luthor is a bit luckier than poor Jurgen was!

-Jay

Getting a lot of things started...not getting very much "done"

I can definitely say the spirit of hobby A.D.D. is alive and well.

In the past couple of weeks I've started several projects but haven't actually finished any of them.  I need to get at least one of these off my "to do" list this weekend just to get back into the swing of things.

First up I've got my first two Dungeons & Doggies miniatures by Steamforged Games.

I got these via a very well executed and delivered Kickstarter (I think I received the models almost  month AHEAD of schedule).  Originally Zoe (who is also painting a doggie) and I were doing these for an online painting contest on Facebook but once I left Facebook the urgency to complete the models instantly evaporated.  I'm actually planning on the smaller dog being a companion animal for Garkas in the Saltmarsh game I'm playing in, hence the matching bases with my sailors.

Next I'm finally planning on playing Warhammer Quest Silver Tower and decided to paint the Excelsior Warpriest and his loyal Gryph-hound as my character.

I actually just started these and have to figure out my bases and patiently layer on some white robes but they should be done sometime this coming week.

My final project is actually the one I started last but probably need to complete first.  In my last Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay game my gravedigger character Jurgen came to a comically tragic end, and therefore I need a replacement.  I rolled up a duelist and quickly assembled one for one from those fantastic Empire Militia sprues.

I may have mentioned this before but the current version of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is great!  It does a really good job of capturing the flavour of the original game while being a lot less crunchy.  It's definitely more complex than D&D 5e but not so complex it slows down game-play.

Let's hope I have something finished to show off soon.

-Jay