Soap Dodger's Kings of War.

I am always on the lookout for the next unit for the army. Being quite particular, I have limited options. The easy way would have been just to buy the mantic stuff.  The hard way is finding models with not enough sculpts.

So I had the models. I like a leader and a standard barer and i do like a musician. Don’t know where i got this idea from but it’s with me.

Conversion

So I had to convert these models.

My butchers are more like ogre butchers. Real big and like long pig or real pig, it really doesn’t bother them which.

My physical sculpting sucks but my digital sculpting is better. So I decided on physical improvement doesn’t come from not doing it. got out the old saw and greenstuff. Also I printed out 2 copies of each then flipped them and printed out another 2 copies.

I would go through this process but it’s mostly roughing with Milliput on top of armature wire drilled and fixed into the models after hacking up the models. I know there are much better tutorials on this on YouTube and the projects system so will skip this.

Banner

After converting a banner barer I needed a banner. I used real cloth but with a tight weave on the fabric and frayed the edges. I laminated two parts of this with some tin foil from a chilli puree tube. You could also teal the foil from a tomato puree tube. I just superglued this on. No in progress shots but you get the idea.

I painted the model after an initial test model but i will come to that later. I was going to freehand some stuff onto the banner but to be honest these are not display models and my life is too short on this occasion. I was also having a brain freeze. I knew what I wanted but couldn’t visualise it.

So I turned to AI. I asked it to make me a logo for the butchers guild in simplistic style in black and white and then edited it after I got close removing fiddly details and actually making it black and white.

I got the image and put it into the Cricut Cutter software (it’s poo but works) cut this in vinyl and used it as a stencil airbrushed onto the banner. I also then seen I had a large space at the bottom which I added the text Butchers in old English font using the same method.

This method worked great I will 100% be doing this in the future without worrying about directly copying someone else’s artwork. Instead I let the AI do it for me and change it just enough legally for me not to care.

Painting

I wanted something simple mostly based around a few brush strokes to amplify what’s already present. So I looked at the colours I had which are many and seemed to pick out a kind of Zorn pallet The Zorn Palette – What It Is And How You Can Use It (drawpaintacademy.com) This weas due to me wishing to use natural fabric colours and skin I also had some puss balls to paint so this ended up being green.

I don’t normally say much positive about my own work it but I love this pallet for this I will use this in the future for more detailed work.

This is what I done with it. These are the last 2 models so much less care was taken here but so if you think the others are painted better, you may be right.