Monday, April 10, 2017

All the King's Horses


One of my favorite aspects of the Tomb Kings was converting all the skeletal horses, including those pulling the chariots.  I believe it was either the cover of the new army book or one of the interior illustrations that showed the horses with these scale mail 'blankets'.


I could not resist trying to make those myself!  I even had to create an entire theme/story to go with them :-)


I used tin foil as a base for the green stuff, which could be pressed into a mould (made from the original piece that I sculpted) and then wrapped over the miniature.  This tin foil gave the green stuff critical support as it cured, so I could put the blankets into any position that I wanted, and it would not sag!


I also had a lot of fun with the "demon marble"... so much fun that I even made one of my kickstarter painting videos featuring this technique.  The entire army was painted with this marble effect.


You can get a better view of that here:



Here's an example of converting the Hierophant on skeletal horse:



One last view of an old favorite!