Hi everybody! I’ve had a handful of people ask me how I did my Forces of Nature undead centaur models, and it’s actually a lot simpler than it seems. Just getting back from Samurai Showdown where they helped me earn a pretty decent paint score, I’m going to show YOU an easy way to help increase your kitbashing/conversion/paint score!
1) What Kit Are You Even Using?
So to start you’ll need to pick up the Black Knights/Hex Wraiths box set that Games Workshop offers (https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Vampire-Counts-Black-Knights-2017). Get them cut out and laid out in your hobby space.
2) Get the torso/legs of the horse assembled.
Something to look out for on this part is that there’s a little peg on the spine of the horse. You’ll need to cut that off, and use an exacto knife to cut grooves into it and line it up with the spine. I promise, this is the hardest part.
3) GREEN STUFF!
You’re gonna want to use a bit of green stuff on the front of each assembled torso to cover this obnoxious hole that’s going to be where the horses head should’ve been. It doesn’t take much, and if you smooth it out right you’ll have what looks to be the continuation of the tunic once primed.
4) Build the Bodies!!!
Next is to assemble the skeleton torsos. Thankfully in this kit they’re not built onto the legs of the kit. These guys have a TON of options. You shouldn’t have any problems getting every skeleton in your troop/regiment to look unique.
5) Attach the Bodies to the Torsos.
This step may be a little tricky. You have to glue the humanoid torsos to the top of the horse torso where you’d envision the spine continuing up into the armor. So you can use just regular old super glue, but I found that Citadels plastic glue (https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Citadel-Plastic-Glue-2016-Global) is a godsend for these kind of “free floating” bit clashes.
6) SHIELDS!
This is the last step. Now, if you want to use the shields that come in the set that’s fine. However, for me they looked to evil for the generic “men at arms” look I was going for. Now I just took some of the mantic skeleton shields and cut them up, but a great place to get cool looking shields is FireForge Games (https://fireforge-games.com/shields/266-albion-shields.html)
And that’s everything! This conversion is a great way to take boring revenant cavalry and really make them pop, or do what I did and use them for a spooky themed Forces of Nature army, OR you could even use the hex wraiths portion of the kit and make some really unique Fiends or Soulflayers for Nightstalkers!
Hope you guys enjoyed this 🙂
