I got my first Knights Panther War Chicken converted, the musician of the unit:
The horn was made from greenstuff fitted around a bit of stiff steel wire bent into an arc, and put through a hole I had drilled through the gauntlet of the rider. On the cloak, I took my greenstuffing to a new level. Those cloaks, as they are, are too long to fall naturally along the back of the rider, the mount gets in the way of that. Glueing them as they are makes them flutter way too much in the wind. So I cut the cloak into several pieces and bent them relative to each other to get it to smoothly get around the shoulders of the rider, then fall almost vertically down to the back of the mount, and fold along the back. Or, that was the idea. In reality, it doesn't entirely rest on the back of the mount, but is slightly above it, but close enough to pass for the effect of movement. Anyway, I filled the resulting cutting seams and gaps with greenstuff and sculpted the fur.
I have never greenstuffed and sculpted on this level before, and I'm quite surprised how well it turned out. That's something I've found out time and again: If you just dare try out new things, you'll be surprised to find out what you're capable of. Look for opportunities to push your limits. I too was a terribad hobbyist once, my first conversion literally ended up having two left hands, something I didn't realize until a guy at the gaming club realized.
Thread title changed since it's no longer just about Reiksguard.
