16 : Stone Golem
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I made myself a stone giant! I think I’ve pretty much always wanted to put together or make a rocky elemental or stone golem type model out of scraps. I was sure that it must be a fairly simple thing to do. And, indeed, it was
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I started with a 50mm round base. I laser-cut myself a raggedy one in my Frozen City style. I made a simple stickman with wire and glued the ‘feet’ into holes drilled into the base. It was then a simple process of gluing on broken cork pieces. I used an old cork coaster and some much more superior cork bark. I glued on the pieces to give the appearance of individual rough boulders and stone slabs that were being animated like a string of beads rather than a stone-carved sculpture. By the time I had something looking like a rock monster I only had to texture the flat parts of the coaster pieces and cover over any wire armature that was still showing. I used my favourite filler: tile grout. I also used the grout to create a texture over the base. All that was left was to paint my little giant.
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I used a Payne’s Grey emulsion paint undercoat. Over this, I drybrushed a series of greys using cheap acrylic paint before highlighting with white. The white was used liberally, just as with my Frozen City Ruins models. I then added some light blue detail and a wash of Payne’s Grey before finishing off with some further white frosty highlighting.
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It is pretty easy to throw some scraps together to create a stone monster model that assumes some vaguely human form – that looks like a pile of rocks that have magically sprung to life. For my monster, I didn’t want it to look too symmetrical or regular but also not too lopsided. But I didn’t want it to look too solid or static, either. I wanted it to look like lots of rock pieces that could move together and put up a fight in human form. Because I painted it in the same colours as my Frozen City models, you could say that I would be happy if it looked like it could emerge from the ruins themselves! That should be enough to scare the adventurers!
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Next thing was to check the stats of my new monster in the new Frostgrave rulebook. It’s classed as a Large Construct. There are some changes from the original version of the rules. The Fight stat has been increased from plus-three to a hefty plus-four. Also, it is now classed as Strong so it does plus-two damage. However, it’s Will is still zero. What could they be saying about my golem? That he don’t have no brains? Well, yes, almost for sure.
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