DomyHill wrote:
Those are much better than my attempts! I'd love to see how you did it?
Thanks Dom- I've read your blog in the past. Some great stuff there!
Unfortunately I didn't take any WIP images. But the process wasn't too complicated.
I started with regular Riders of Rohan, and removed everything above the belt. I cut out little bits of paper to the size I wanted for the chain mail skirts on the horses and men, and then used them as a template to cut out the right size piece of greenstuff. I let the greenstuff semi-cure before i work it, and then use the end of a dental tool for the chain mail pattern. Then I used a colour shaper to define the borders.
Always with greenstuff I roll it out, using two thick pieces of card to roll against, so I get an even thickness, and use oil on my rolling surface and on the paintbrush I use as a makeshift rolling pin
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Above the waist they are Wargames Factory's Viking Huscarls, and i used a similar technique for measuring out the size of cloak I wanted. I'm not very good with greenstuff, so I tried to lay it out with the folds i wanted rather than trying to work them in afterwards- that always results in my stretching it out of shape too much. Afterwards I did add a few "high" points and folds in the cloth applying small greenstuff "sausages" and working in the edges to the main cloak. This was all after the main cloak had fully cured though.
I used Pro-create (gray) for the fur on one of the SoE's cloaks, as it's less elastic than greenstuff, and not quite as sticky. For me it's easier to sculpt a fur pattern on it. I kind of wish I'd used it for the cloaks and horse barding as well actually, but I've got a mass of greenstuff to get rid of!
Sorry to hijack the thread a little, but with no WiP pictures I didn't think this warranted a thread of its own.
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