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Offline CPalmer

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GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
« on: February 09, 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.



    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





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Offline jp1885

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Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2017, 03:39:57 PM »
What a stunning and imaginative piece of terrain - love it!

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Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2017, 07:50:05 PM »
Excellent.

Offline CPalmer

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Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2017, 11:23:26 AM »
Thank s for the comments!  I'm glad you like how it turned out.  :)

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Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2017, 01:09:22 PM »
Lord have mercy....with what witchcraft did you attach that thing? hotglue? Over the top awesomeness! 

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Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2017, 10:26:57 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.  :)

Offline Momotaro

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Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2017, 10:35:34 PM »
Bloody lovely!

Offline beefcake

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Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2017, 10:53:23 PM »
A much better use for it. Completely impractical as a gaming piece but awesome as a terrain piece!


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Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
« Reply #8 on: February 11, 2017, 10:51:52 AM »
Thanks for continued kind remarks!

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! :)

Offline Cymril

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Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
« Reply #9 on: February 11, 2017, 12:46:44 PM »
Wow, this is a really cool idea!  :o

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Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2017, 01:28:00 PM »
Wow, this is a really cool idea!  :o


Thanks!

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Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
« Reply #11 on: February 12, 2017, 02:47:06 PM »
Now that is a centre-piece!

Offline CPalmer

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Re: GW Vampire Coven Throne as Forstgrave Monument
« Reply #12 on: February 12, 2017, 08:25:34 PM »
Now that is a centre-piece!

Thank you, Joe! 

 

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