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| The Black Coach rides forth. |
I have always loved the old Black Coach model. It was so Gothic and regal. It was also loaded with stoic charm despite it's implied movement. All this made it a bit creepy. I also really like the current plastic one with all it's energy and spirit mayhem. However, it 's price point made it unattainable for me. Lucky for me I found this old one for a fraction of the cost. While putting it together I kept finding images of the newer kit, and it's ghostly attendants were really starting to grow on me.
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| Primed to the right. |
As you can see, I came up with a solution. I found a pair of ghosts attached to a single sprue on ebay. I believe they may have been part of a Warhammer Underworlds team. After a bit of trimming and tweaking I was able to make it seem as if they were whisping forth from the window of this herse.
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| Primed to the left. |
I was excited to get cracking on this so I primed the whole thing in
Wraithbone and after it dried for a few hours I set about applying Contrast Paint for a basecoat.
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| Contrast paints for the basecoat. |
I started off with
Skeleton Horde for the bones (horses and corpse-on-a-stick),
Wyrmwood on the wooden wheels,
Black Templar for the bulk of the coach,
Briar Queen Chill on the ghosts and
Baal Red on the curtains, cushions, padding and the top knots on the horse's armor.
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| Spooky ride. |
The things I didn't paint is the armor on the skelly horse's heads, but I will get to that when I do the touch-ups. After that I proceed to the mid coats and build the whole thing up with highlights. I am satisfied with it enough to call it battle-ready, but it's fsr from done in my eyes.
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| A piece of a spooky road. |
Of course to truly make it battle-ready I would need to stick onto it's base, which is mostly done at this stage. It just needs a bit of grass tufts and maybe some fallen leaves. But for now, we'll save that for a follow-up post.
