Season of the Witch! (spellcasters)

timbus the thirteenth
10/26/26, 1:10 PM

I'm splitting this off from a couple different discussions, but recently there's been a lot of talk about minatures for spellcasters. Obviously, we are fortunate enough have the frostgrave kits and the upcoming monks, which can combine to fulfill about 70% of my spellcasting needs. However, I'd like to float a handful of kits that I personally would love to see, as well as ask what other people might want.

First of all, obviously, the cultist kit is one of WGA's coolest kits (in my humble opinion). Unfortunately, however, it's stuck on digital, which is not a format that everyone enjoys using. The frostgrave cultists are great, but they better represent the masses of worshippers rather than elite guards and dark magistrates. It's also just an awesome kit, I mean, look at it!

My second proposal would be witches. Now, you can totally just get your witch fix from the frostgrave wizards ii box. However.... there's only one witch hat, and it's not even crooked. There's only one athame, too (the little wavy knives). And no broomsticks! And the old ladies don't look that old! Plenty of games now (silver bayone, turnip28, trench crusade, just off the top of my head) have a demand for a properly creepy and occult coven.

Anyways, in the interest of keeping it specific: you can get as many candles and cauldrons as you need from sorceror's spoils. Honestly I think this is specific enough it could easily be crammed onto half a sprue, similarly to werewolves. What this would need, though:

- options for hooded/blindfolded/pointy hats

- athames

-dramatic hand gestures

-loosely puritanical but could-be-fantasy clothing

- broomsticks

- maybe a cat if we're being generous

Anyways, though, those are just two off the top of my head. What other spellcasters would you want to see? Druids have some demand, as well as a more specialized cleric set.

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Yronimos Whateley
10/28/26, 6:18 PM
Be sure to give these WA kits a glance, there's a bit more in them than meets the eye that would be right in line with this project:
- The Baron's War: Peasant Levy - At first glance, you've simply got some grubby-looking peasants with spears, pitchforks, flails, and billhooks. Look a little closer, you've got a bunch of guys in ratty hooded outfits, some with facemasks, carrying staves and billhooks and scythes that can be cut down into evil-looking knives: they make fine generic fantasy cultists, not very flashy, but perfect for rank-and-file evil cultists.
- Classic Fantasy: Villagers - At first glance, you've simply got some eccentric fantasy peasant-folk. Look a little closer, and you've got a half-dozen different poses on each frame, three male and three female, each in a different economic bracket between beggars, shopkeepers, and aristocrats, with a pretty solid variety of hats and equipment, including top hats, tall conical hats, pointy witch-hats, hoods, turbans, staves, wands, potion bottles, and more; there are even a few familiars like snakes and owls. Combinations of these bits will make great witches and wizards!
- Classic Fantasy: Villagers II (Elves and Dwarves) - Similar to the first Villagers set, but each frame contains 2 each of male and female evles and dwarves, with a similar variety of equipment including bits suitable for witches and wizards (including scrolls and staves), with the elf bits in particular being well-suited for kitbashing with the first Villagers set for this purpose.
- Others - If you have any of these stashed away for bits, try repurposing some of the less obvious kits as well for some more unusual options; consider the Afghans (for some Arabian Nights inspired spellcasters), Boxers (for something a little more Big Trouble in Little China), the ever-versatile Dark Age Irish (Druid cultists), The Damned (the command set isn't yet in WA's online shop, but includes bits for post-apocalyptic psycic cultists, including scarred-up heads; half-orc sorcerers? hobgoblins? ghouls? deadites? mutants? You decide!)
- Sorceror's Spoils - Contains only accessory bits, but the bits it does contain would come in VERY handy for a project like this: spellbooks, magic scrolls, potion bottles, small cauldrons, crystal balls, and more.
You can probably also get some unexpected third-party mileage from:
- Dead Man's Hand Gunfighters II: The Ladies - At first glance, you've got a half-dozen cowgirls with and without cowboy-style hats and/or bandana masks. Look a little closer, and four of the bodies are in long, Victorian-style Wild West dresses and jackets with high-heeled boots, which woulnd't look out of place on fantasy witches (compare to the Wicked Witch of the West from the 1930s version of the Wizard of Oz); the cowboy-style hats might not be hard to modify into pointy witch hats with a little Green Stuff wizardry, but they'd probably work fine as-is, and the cowgirl heads without hats might also work fine as bare witch-heads (several look like elderly crones!) Most of the arms hold revolvers, shotguns, and rifles, but this kit mixes very well with the Frostgrave witches, so if you have both kits you'll have plenty of spare arms from the Frostgrave kit (and there are plenty of useful arms from the WA kits listed above, too!)
- Frostgrave Cultists I, II, III - Designed to be rag-tag cultist bodyguards/warriors supporting a witch/wizard leader, these guys could easily be modified into wizards and witches in their own right. I especially liked the first (male) set.
- Frostgrave Wizards I, II - Not the best price-per-mini for this sort of set, but the frames it does include are packed to the brim with magical gear, with plenty of spare arms to share with other kits.
- Oathmark Light Infantry (dwarves, elves, humans, goblin slaves) - At first glance, you've got mobs of militia in light cloth or leather armor, with odd or improvised weapons, but look a little closer, and you've got some great figures to kitbash into townsfolk, specialists, bandits, rogues, cultists, spellcasters, etc. Combine with spare arms from the WA Villazzgers sets, Frostgrave wizards and cultists, etc.,
- Reaper Bones Villagers - Reaper used to be a great place to find soft, vinyl plastic villagers and other characters (including several excellent witch models) at a pretty low price, with the material being soft enough to easily trim off arms and heads for quick-and-easy kitbash swaps with e.g. spare Wargames Atlantic bits. They've since reformulated to a more expensive resin "Bones USA" material manufactured with American labor that holds great detail but is a little too hard and expensive to readily lend itself to routine kitbashing of this sort, but you can likely still find a lot of these minis in Reaper's catalogue, and on the usual auction sites (they will be the ones cast in white plastic, and might be referred to as "Bones Classic"). Look for the villagers, henchmen, NPCs and heroes like witches, wizards, druids, etc., and the "Chronoscope" branding, which once included a great selection of "Deadlands Noir", "Mythos Investigator", and other alternatives to "traditional fantasy" figures.
And finally, if you are into 3D printing, there are these Wargames Atlantic options:
- Classic Fantasy: Vampire Hunters - You've got "Puritan" style wide-brimmed hats, long coats, capes, and buckled shoes, with a selection of torches, crossbows, and axes, making this set more appropriate for a nice, folk-horror, witch-hunting inquisition, but I bet they'd also make some fine warlocks as well. What would Nathaniel Hawthorne say?
- Classic Fantasy: Hag Coven - A pretty straightforward generic fantasy batch of witches, can't get more on the nose than that! Even includes a caulron (but no black cat!)
- Classic Fantasy: Halfling Villagers - A set of halfling village folk, in the spirit of the two hard plastic Villager sets listed above. Looks like it would be a fun way to cook up some halfling, goblin, gnome, leprechaun, fairie, munchkin, or other little-folk witches and wizards!
- Classic Fantasy: Dwarf Mages - A band of dwarf spellcasters (might combine nicely with the dwarf bits from the Villagers II set above?)
- General Accoutrements: Priests - A bit more like a band of (modern pulp) Catholic-style action-exorcist/vampire-hunters, armed with stakes, crosses, and automatic pistols, but the robed priest costumes have some interesting possibilities.
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