Man at Arms, the updatening

Having played a decent amount of Frostgrave recently, I had gotten it into my head that my Man at Arms mini was borrowed from the retinue of Tim’s Mortal Enemy, who in turn just borrowed some minis from my Game of Thrones Starks. As he’d been fairly pivotal to my success recently, I set about updating his model, as I felt bad that he was a proxy (and sooner or later Tim’s Mortal Enemy is likely to reappear, and would need him back). 

So last night, I dug out a bunch of sprues and set about rebuilding him. I tried to match the pose and equipment, just updating his shield initially, but then I also decided to give him a nice kettle helm, because they’re cool:

Like the original, he’s a Fireforge body with Gripping Beast Viking arms. I had originally planned to give him a shield from the Frostgrave Cultists sprue, as he’s in the employ of a Necromancer, but they were much smaller than I remembered so he got a Fireforge shield instead. Also, I’m not sure if you can see it or not, but there was a slight casting defect on his groin, which I fixed with green stuff.

He’s even got a scabbard and pouch, just like the original mini.

Then I made the mistake of reading my own blog trying to work out why I had initially grabbed a mini from the Mortal Enemy warband rather than making a new one, and realised… I didn’t. The Wolf shield carrying Man at Arms was in Tim’s gang first, and is even narratively relevant to the campaign, as it turns out Tim hired him on the spot when he saw Tim leaving his sorceress mistress’ bedroom tucking something into his pocket. I’d apparently just forgotten this! In my defence, due to my intermittent gaming time it’s been over a year since the Mortal Enemy actually made an appearance on the table…

So I guess he becomes either the first mini of a Barons War project, or maybe the first House Bolton trooper in my ASOIAF project (which admittedly I do want to add to for the first time in at least a decade, to make some usable forces). Or perhaps both, when he gets to the painting table.

In other news, I also cracked the plastic on the boards in Sedition Wars, to see whether they might be useful for a possible 2026 project: