Rangers of Shadow Deep - Building the Company part 1

Both Andy and myself really enjoyed our first game of Rangers of Shadow Deep, and we're looking forward to playing more of the campaign. I cobbled together terrain and minis for that first game, but it would be nice (and a spur to get me doing some painting and modelling) if we had a better set of minis and terrain.  So I picked up some Frostgrave sprues to build some dedicated Rangers and Companions at RECON. 

The First Three Builds

Before I plunge into building our Rangers I thought I'd practice on the Companions.

Skegi survived his rat bite and managed to avoid catching a disease. He's a Man-at-Arms, so wears light armour and uses a hand weapon and shield. The book suggests that men-at-arms are drawn from Alladore's army, and I wanted a mini to reflect this. I had planned to use the Frostgrave soldiers sprue for most of the Companions, but the military background got me thinking.  I've plenty of the Oathmark Human Infantry left from my Kingdoms of Men Kings of War Ambush force, suitably military looking if I can match the equipment. The Oathmark sprue does have bows and hand weapons, but no two handed weapons or crossbows, so I looked to the Frostgrave Soldiers sprue for these.  Given that I was using Frostgrave arms I thought about using the heads too, but they don't quite fit the Oathmark torsos.  Nothing a bit of greenstuff couldn't fix, but why make life difficult?

Oathmark torso and Frostgrave arms

Arthur is a Guardsman, essentially the same as a Man-at-Arms, but with a two handed weapon instead of the hand weapon and shield.  Again, the components are a mix of Oathmark and Frostgrave, it took me a while to find the correct left arm on the sprue, but I really like the end result.

Oathmark torso and head with Frostgrave arms

Uli is and archer with the crossbow option.  The arms with the crossbow come from the Frostgrave sprue, and the quiver is a cut down version of one of the quivers on the Frostgrave sprue.  Yhere is a case of bolts on the sprue, but its not obvious what it is, so I went for something that was.

Another Oathmark torso and head, with Frostgrave arms, crossbow and quiver

Apart from the general clean up of parts, I removed the solid base as they will all be mounted on clear bases.  The Frostgrave arms all have a sort of shoulder pad which I shaved off to better fit on the torso.

All three Companions are assembled and are awaiting painting, but I'll get the three women built before I start painting.

L to R Skegi, Uli and Arthur