The Dogs - Spring Clean Challenge 2026

I wanted a sorceress on horseback and remembered the Kislev Ice Queen so looked at images online and was rather struck by this conversion on Stuff of Legends

This is a conversion using parts from several models.  The queen herself originally came with a standard plastic horse.  The horse here is from the Prince Tyrion High Elf miniature, two different versions, the head is from the earliest one that came with a plastic barded horse and the rearing body is from a later version.

I went to the modern version of the Citadel Bitz Service, eBay, and found the queen herself without horse, the two halves of the horse, his head and his tail all from separate dealers.  Probably cost me just over £40 which compares to buying a special character for AoS.

Everything arrived yesterday:

The build was fairly straightforward.  The only adjustment was to shave the peg in the neck down to fit the smaller round hole in the body.  The ridge that runs along the middle of the caparison over the flanks needed to be trimmed back slightly to allow her majesty to seat more easily.  Overall she is a pretty good fit but there will need to be some greenstuff work on the joins on the horse, especially at the neck, and between the rider and horse.

You can see the size of the bit of greenstuff that was used.  Once filled we get this:

Particular attention was paid to creating a realistic join for the rider.  This mostly meant filling in any gaps between her and the horse where a gap wouldn’t have shown were she a real person sitting on an horse.  The largest amount went on filling in under the fur cloak.  The cloak is fully sculpted so to extend it and sculpt more might not look right.  Therefore, I opted to fill under the fur as if there were layers of clothing that were ruched up as she sat in the saddle.  The edge of the fur then sits on them.

Another concern was the single attachment point onto the base.  There is a single plug under one of the hooves.  A hole was drilled in the base and the plug was glued into place, with extra greenstuff added on the underside to provide a bigger surface area for the glue to contact, which should make it much more robust for use on the tabletop.

As well as the Ice Queen the Green Knight has been getting some greenstuff attention to various gaps and uneven joins.  He was pinned onto his base with holes drilled into his rear hooves and then a chopped up paperclip stuck down into the groove underneath the base with a small amount protruding above.  The hoof holes were located onto the two protruding paperclip pins and then the whole securely glued. The underside was greenstuffed over the top of the pins to provide a better hold for the paperclip section that are under the base. He now looks like this: