[Warfork Fantasy Battles] New Year's resolutions 2025 - The Battle for Arduthrond Glade

Would rope rather than chain be an option?

For the real easy way out I would have bought some original models.

This is all very useful for when I start my own orc army next year though.
 
Sculpting chain is a nightmare. Simple in principle, a bugger in reality.
Unfortunately, I totally have to agree, having been there ...

I finally settled for doing one row of chain links first, letting that set, then doing the interlinked ones, perpendicular to the first. This seemed to work best for me.


Still, the overall effect on the chains didn't really turn out well, they are too big, not refined enough... on the other hand I am happy I even got this result, so I will stick with it. Took me long enough already.



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All the fellas got lolling tongues, shroom induced behaviour. I didn't want all the balls to look the same, after all goblins don't do industrial production lines. That is why I started out with differently sized balls. To two I added toothpick tips, by drilling holes in the balls and gluing the tips in.




Last step was to cover the balls in a thin layer green stuff and impress some kind of structure in them, trying to represent manufacturing marks. To two balls I added metal banding with green stuff for even further variety.




Fanatics done.
 
Nice work on those balls! Love the amount of customisation going on.
Thank you :)

Plan to continue this with the other units?
Absolutely not :) No time. Not with the rank and file, at least. Last construction step is with the orc wyvern rider's saddle and some final details on the chariot; then I hope I am done building and can think of starting to paint.
 
After adding a few more details, like the forward facing hooks, the metal bands on the wheels, etc., the build phase of the chariot is done.







To finish the saddle, I covered Fleabite Worm with a sheet of clingfoil, onto which I then pressed green stuff at the front and back. This way I hoped to press the greenstuff into the model's contour, providing more adherence and stability, while being able to take the cured green stuff off the foil, preventing it to stick to the wyvern.






At the back, I added a banner pole using a toothpick.




At the front, I added a saddle horn. In the kitchen we use wet wipes for quickly cleaning small spills etc., and had a rest which had dried up. Of course I kept these for future hobby use. I cut some strips from the (now) dry wipes and placed them around the saddle, then drenched them in thinned modge podge with a bit of added iso. The wipes, I thought, would be easily bendable into shape once drenched and therefore being heavily hanging down, but they were surprisingly resistant.




In three layers/sessions I achieved the desired effect. Taking everything off the clingfoil also worked well.


I prepared a piece of chain. Around the ends I looped twine, which I then drenched in superglue.




The idea is to glue the chain to the saddle horn once everything is painted. The ends with the twine can be loosely hung on the horns at the wyvern's head. This allows for the removal of the magnetized rider, while adding one more visual attachment point to the wyvern.


 
The build phase of this project is done.


Going back to my roots, the first ever conversions I did were simple head and weapon swaps. As the number of different poses with the Mirliton range is limited, I came back to that technique. On the one hand I wanted to increase the number of different models, on the other hand, that way I also converted some of the hand weapon goblins to spear armed goblins, to get more of those into the units.






















And this is the whole batallion, ready to be washed and primed.


 
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