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

Yes, the miliput is drying up on the outsides of the rolls, that part I cut off. To get it a bit more flexible I added the green stuff... which also started to dry up it seems...
 
Heat can help the mix? Eons of Battle did a nice video comparing different putties in a recent video that might help?
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To mount Yellow Toe Nail on Fleabite Worm, I drilled two holes into the wyvern's shoulders, to insert two 3mm magnets.



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Placing two magnets on top, I bent paper clips into shape to mount them on these second magnets.




After securing the paper clips in place with super glue and miliput, I bent them into shape and cut them to length to mount the orc, into which I also had drilled two holes.






After gluing the orc in place, I added more miliput for stability, before removing him.




Not looking nice so far, but working. I can now use Yellow Toe Nail on Fleabite Worm, remove Yellow Toe Nail and use the wyvern on its own, if the rider gets killed, and have a Yellow Toe Nail on foot in case the mount gets killed during a game.




The magnets in the shoulders I hid under a layer of miliput / grees stuff, which I textures as the area around it.




The connection of the rider got smoothed out with more green stuff / miliput.






Next job is to add nice optics, to hide the functional mount. I think of sculpting a saddle under the orc, then hide the rest with draping down pieces of cloth.
 
I am mostly done with the sculpting on Scak. Last step was to add an embellishment to each of the wiggly decorations on the horn.




Then I started to work on the chariot. Inspiration for the general layout are the Goblin Battle Chariots from back in the day.


First, I cut the three parts of main frame from 4mm square wood dowel, and a floor from coffee stir sticks.




After the floor planks were roughened up, I glued the parts together.




These two contraptions will form the side walls. I will cut the general shape (an oval) from cardboard, and use that as a template on both parts to get the same shape.




Here is the chariot shaft. I still need to bend it in shape, which I will do over hot water steam; never done that before, lets see how this will turn out. Instead of making it as long under the floor as the two side beams, I glued two magnets in place, to keep Scak and Zrok securely in place during game play, whilst being able to remove them as casualties. These are only glued in place with superglue so far, I will embedd them in putty for added security. I don't know how often those two flipped on top of each other during construction... don't trust a drop of superglue alone.


 
For the wheels, I glued coffee stir sticks in a 90° angle on top of each other. Using a circle cutter, I cut into the wood, before cutting all the way through with a hobby knife in the marked groove. Finally, I drilled a 3mm hole into the middle for the axle.




The wheels got a steel rim from .75mm plastic card. I cut three grooves into it (the fourth is where the two ends meet) to represent different segements of metal that were fitted around the wooden wheel.




For the 3mm axle I took a 4mm wood rod, and shaved off ~1mm around it, to get a rough, non-uniform, hand crafted looking axle.




Wheels and axle were glued under the frame.




With .5mm plastic card, I added metal banding, which is holding the axle in place, but that was the wrong material choice, as it cracked at several places. So I finally added a layer of sprue goo over it. This part will be hardly visible anyways, once the chariot is mounted to its base.




For the side walls I cut the general shape from paper, transferred it to the wood, and cut the shape with a knife, then sanded the edge.




The shaft I held into boiling water's steam, and slowly bend it in shape.




Not too bad, for trying this technique the first time. I only got one mild crack, otherwise this worked quite well. Next time I need to bring a little more patience.




The shaft was then glued in place.




Here is the final general look with the three draft wolves. Base will be 7.5cm x 12.5cm; the width being based on three wolf base widths (each 2.5cm), and the lenght as short as possible but also based on a 2.5cm increment.




On the wheel rim and all the metal bands, I added nail heads from different diameter plastic rod.


Oh, and I had four snotlings lying around, they will be decorations for the chariot.


Still a lot of detailing left.
 
Steamed the wood old school like? Nicely done! That chariot/cart is absolutely fantastic! (Side note: the local, nearly dead, dialect of French uses "char" to mean automobile. Where the high Frenchity sorts use that word for tank. Ain't that fun? I want to say "char" is distantly related to both cart and chariot, and it was locally used for a kind of cart that actually looked a bit like that in the days before automobiles, which is probably how it came to mean "automobile" here. Also the fact that it's pretty close to car probably helped. "Let me go git in ma char and head to the market.")
 
symphonicpoet said:
Steamed the wood old school like? Nicely done! That chariot/cart is absolutely fantastic! (Side note: the local, nearly dead, dialect of French uses "char" to mean automobile. Where the high Frenchity sorts use that word for tank. Ain't that fun? I want to say "char" is distantly related to both cart and chariot, and it was locally used for a kind of cart that actually looked a bit like that in the days before automobiles, which is probably how it came to mean "automobile" here. Also the fact that it's pretty close to car probably helped. "Let me go git in ma char and head to the market.")
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Char de Bataille, a "battle tank"? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Char_B1
Such a cute little tank! Reminds me of Metal Gear Slug!! :lol:
 
As I base all my minis on magnetic bases these days, I needed one for the char (@symphonicpoet :) ). But I don't have one that large, and the dimensions are rather custom. So I cut the base from 1mm plastic card (the metal bases are also 1mm), and then cut two rectangle holes in it to glue two metal bases in there.




The chariot needs scythes, to cut through the elves, so I worked on those next. I used 2mm plastic card, drew the shapes, then carved the scythes out of the plastic. The cutting edges were bevelled. I pinned them to the chariots front beam.




To keep the wheels on the axle, I drilled holes through it, and inserted wood splinters. Between the wood splinters and the wheel surface, I will sculpt a metal ring.


 
KingOfTheLeadPile said:
For the goblin archers, I converted one model to be their leader, replacing a hand weapon with a piece of paper clip (last row, second from left), which will be sculpted into a bow. To get more variety, I cut up the standard bearers and altered the banner poles with brass rod, also needs some sculpting.




The three units are otherwise done and based.


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Do you have any of the plastic Orcs from em4 by any chance?
I would be keen to see how the metals compare to the plastics.
 
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