The Vengeance of the Lichemaster (Part seven : Monastery of La Maisontaal)

Today, I'm going to present you my works on the unique building of this scenario. The monastery of La Maisontaal. This picture comes from the rule book of WHFB 3rd ed.and it’s the only picture of this monastery.

The most economic and the fastest alternative to realize this monastery, it is to use the card building of the Citadel Newspaper Spring 86. They are easily downloadable on Web, advise, print the set of card board a second time in mode mirror, it’s useful to dress walls inside  the building. I realized this building a few years ago and I find that the result is honorable.

If you wish something more detailed and if you have enough time, several other alternatives offers to you. You can realize the building yourself as the pic from 3rd ed rules book). Another option, you can buy a building in resin which looks like in the monastery of La Maisontaal.

I chose this last option which is the most expensive. I had to sell numerous chaps from my lead pile to finance this purchase at Grand Manner. One It was necessary to me to give an aspect in ruin to this building to integrate it into the scenario, I also added a small dependence in ruin to in increase the general aspect of destruction.

I realized the columns of smoke by dressing a wire with clump. Once the volume was created, it is necessary to wash the set with a mixture of water and PVA glue. The clump is spongy and is going to absorb the mixture of glue. After 24 hours of drying, the set becomes very solid. You can Airbrush it and/or Drybrush it.

To help Bagrian and his monks to defend the monastery, I painted some survivors of the village of Frugelhofen (ex Citadel from Foundry Miniatures range) accompanied by two characters of the scenario of Terror of the Lichemaster. The brave Gim Grundel and the Beautiful Riolta Snow, a modified  Skarlok archer. For those who don’t know the RpG scenario, this group arrives at the monastery by the river Vaswasser on boats of fortunes. They are the last survivors of Frugelhofen after the attack of the Lichemaster.

Next step... More troupe for the Lichemaster.

The Vengeance of the Lichemaster : (Part Five : The Monks)

This small monastic community is one of the major cult centre of Taal, and its hierophantic leader Bagrian is an extremely powerful magician. Over the last few years Bagrian has increasingly tired of his quiet rural life, involving himself more and more in strange mechanical experiments. Bagrian wears a hooded cloak and wears the scarlet robes associated with clerics of the god Taal. He carries no weapons, but his mechanical right hand allows him to fight in combat as if he had a normal weapon
I tried to paint this character as the original art work of John Blanche, I’m pretty happy of the result. This model have a very fine sculpt, I dont know who's it creator.

Warrior monks of Taal : These young monks are not yet judged able to progress to magical tuition. However, they are by no means ordinary men. Years of mental preparation and study of the martial arts has iven them considerable fighting abilities as well as unusual mental aptitude. The main problem with cleric’s models, they are hard to collect. It’s necessary to be patient to find them at a decent price. You start the battle with 12 monks but as you can see, it is very difficult to obtain. I admit to have realized two copies of  models in Green Stuff, you see them? You will notice that I transformed shields to unify the Clerics. We name them the monks of Taal, from  the brotherhood of the black cross.

Wizard monks of Taal : These are the older and more powerful of the clerics of Taal, they are fewer in number than the warrior monks, but they are all magicians. As the clerics, the Monks wizards are hard to find. Only 3 chaps on the 5 advised in the scenario.  I planned to paint some reinforcements , that’s the subject of another message… Keep an eye on my blog !

Here is the strange character, why we need mechanical warrior in this scenario? It 's too early to talk about it... This model come from Reaper Miniature range.

What'next? The Skaven faction of course!