I know I'm walking on the very edge of this forum by asking questions about a WE conversion, so I'll start and do the twist part.
I think the model I used is the best you can get for your Karl Franz's imperial dragon, this is the old forest dragon without the spites and vines. I think it beats the
high and
dark elven cousin in looks, the
zombie dragon has potential, but it will require a lot of sculpting to make it imperial looking (the pose is wounderfull though)
These really are the dragons you can choose, additionally you could try a
wyvern but well, it's a wyvern ^_~. Or
galrauch but that's, eeuhh, warped really. Or the old
chaos variant, but that is once more the plastic with a different head.
Quite recently I saw the new
LotR dragon and I must say that this is also a great model for an imperial dragon, the real downside is fitting it on a base though.
Oh, and to complete the list I must give you the
greatest choice (though definitely not the most practical) and off course it's
chaos brother.
Wrapping it up I think that the LotR and forgeworld dragons would be the best choices if you want to build the dragon for looking at. And the old forrest dragon or, for the more talented sculptor, the zombie dragon if you plan on using him in battle on a more regular basis.
So enough of the side talk (to me), the following is the real reason why I started the topic:
I started this project 2 years ago, but it was shelved when the Cult of Ulric list got out, by then I had the dragon assembled and converted (mainly the shoulder part where I added pointy scales to substitute the squares) and applied a base colour to most regions.
As soon as I saw the spellsingers on line I knew I had to put that one on my forest dragon and now I'm finally making some progress with the conversion (by starting it ^_~)
Right now I still need to sculpt the right leg, the details of his loincloth, finish his quiver/bowcase (I'm using an extended HE one with a WE bow) with details and finally fold a part of the cloth he's sitting on backwards over the weapons.
This is all just a bit more work, the chain however gives me some trouble. First, I have two sizes, the smaller chain fits better with the elf but looks a bit like a toy for the dragon. The bigger one might be a bit much for the elf though. I do prefer the larger one myself.
The biggest problem however is attaching the chain to the dragon, I have several options:
- wrap it round the horns as in the pics, with the additional advantage that I can dismount the elf should he be killed.
- pierce the chain in his mouth, this is something better suited to chaos and greenskins I think
- create a (how do you call the thing you put in a horses mouth to steer the damn beast?).... I'm actually not really sure about this one.
So do you think you could give me some help with the chain part?
And if not, I hope the empire part was usefull to you.