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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Frostgrave => Topic started by: CPalmer on 09 February 2017, 03:34:12 PM

Title: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
Post by: CPalmer on 09 February 2017, 03:34:12 PM
 Last year I got a good deal from a friend at a local game convention flea market on the Games Workshop "Vampire Counts Coven Throne". It's such a crazy over-the-top model that I thought it might make a really cool basis for a monument statue for our Frostgrave games.   Something along the lines of the Wellington Arch in London, but more over the top.
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    I thought I'd base the concept of the monument on where it says in the  Frostgrave rulebook Bestiary that in the city of Felstad some Vampires rose to be powerful wizards in their own right .  So I got the idea to make the monument be one constructed by one of these prominent wizard-vampires, depicting him and his apprentice in the heyday of their power.  So I ordered a Reaper Bones vampire figure to stand at the front of the throne, with the idea to use the reclining female vampire figure(that comes with the model) in the back of the throne to be his apprentice.
   I built a simple base for the model out of some foamcore and some old plaster dungeon pieces, and made a pedestal from a juice lid, some Hirst Arts skulls, and some round bases.

   For the full step-by-step build article, and many more photos, please see my blog: http://onemoregamingproject.blogspot.com/2017/02/gw-vampire-counts-coven-throne.html (http://onemoregamingproject.blogspot.com/2017/02/gw-vampire-counts-coven-throne.html)

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Title: Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
Post by: jp1885 on 09 February 2017, 03:39:57 PM
What a stunning and imaginative piece of terrain - love it!
Title: Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
Post by: supervike on 09 February 2017, 07:50:05 PM
Excellent.
Title: Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
Post by: CPalmer on 10 February 2017, 11:23:26 AM
Thank s for the comments!  I'm glad you like how it turned out.  :)
Title: Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
Post by: critsmash on 10 February 2017, 01:09:22 PM
Lord have mercy....with what witchcraft did you attach that thing? hotglue? Over the top awesomeness! 
Title: Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
Post by: CPalmer on 10 February 2017, 10:26:57 PM
Quote from: critsmash on 10 February 2017, 01:09:22 PM
Lord have mercy....with what witchcraft did you attach that thing? hotglue? Over the top awesomeness! 


Thanks!
  If you're asking what I used to glue the model to the top of the pedestal, it was E6000 glue.  :)
Title: Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
Post by: Momotaro on 10 February 2017, 10:35:34 PM
Bloody lovely!
Title: Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
Post by: beefcake on 10 February 2017, 10:53:23 PM
A much better use for it. Completely impractical as a gaming piece but awesome as a terrain piece!
Title: Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
Post by: CPalmer on 11 February 2017, 10:51:52 AM
Thanks for continued kind remarks!

Quote from: beefcake on 10 February 2017, 10:53:23 PM
A much better use for it. Completely impractical as a gaming piece but awesome as a terrain piece!

That was my feeling too when I saw it!  But it was such an over-the-top crazy model I wanted to do something with it! :)
Title: Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
Post by: Cymril on 11 February 2017, 12:46:44 PM
Wow, this is a really cool idea!  :o
Title: Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
Post by: CPalmer on 12 February 2017, 01:28:00 PM
Quote from: Cymril on 11 February 2017, 12:46:44 PM
Wow, this is a really cool idea!  :o


Thanks!
Title: Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
Post by: joe5mc on 12 February 2017, 02:47:06 PM
Now that is a centre-piece!
Title: Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
Post by: CPalmer on 12 February 2017, 08:25:34 PM
Quote from: joe5mc on 12 February 2017, 02:47:06 PM
Now that is a centre-piece!

Thank you, Joe!