FINALLY! My dream project – The Black Coach

The final stage was to fix the actual coach in place. I wanted to make it quite dynamic, and I liked the idea of the coach taking off into the sky rather than staying flat on the ground.

I could only find regular length flying bases rather than the xl one I’d need, so I rummaged in the bits box again and found a nice pile of rocks that I could use to prop the stand on in order to make it high enough. A quick base coat, inkwash, drybrush, and application of slimy grime had it looking consistent with the rest of the base.

A bit of plastic glue and patience later, and viola! One black coach rumbling through the once consecrated woods near the ruined monastery. As it passes, the spirits of those long dead wake once more to follow it’s path.

Time to get the base finished and the coach fixed in place.

I continued with the same monochrome from the wood on the coach itself, and simply drybrushed the whole base with a couple shades of grey, followed with a final pass of white.

AK slimy grime is awesome, and I discovered this during my next step, which was sticking in random withered tufts and splashing some grime around the place.

I really love how the ghosts stand out against the simplicity and darkness of the rest of the base. Ready for the coach now!

I also managed to get the last 2 horses done and attached. Now, I can turn my full attention to the base next week, before coming back for some final detail work on the coach.

I’m really pleased with how the colour scheme has turned out. I love the ethereal ghostly forms, and how the lack of detail/heavy shading on them just adds to their incorporeal feel.

I assembled the alternative coach driver ghostie, and added him to the ruins in the woods. I kept to the same paint scheme of Flayed One Flesh highlighted with Bleached Linen.

I’m trying to find a little time every day at the shop to work on the coach, even if it’s only an hour or so. Yesterday, I managed to get the monks done. Keeping to the monochrome idea for the basing, I used a simple method of Eshin Grey, highlighted up with Mountain Stone and Ulthuan Grey.

Didn’t get much time to work on things today, so I just set a target of painting and glueing the ghosts who hang off the back of the coach.

I base coated them in Flayed One Flesh, and highlighted in Bleached Linen, the same as I had done for the coach driver. I used Tainted Gold with a Nuln Oil wash for the treasures they are holding.

I was really happy with how the first horse had turned up, so I decided to do another! I couldn’t wait to see how they looked attached to the coach.

I highlighted a few larger areas of the Screamer Pink with Pink Horror, and then did a little edge highlighting with Fulgrim Pink, especially around where the flesh had peeled back to show bone. I used Naggaroth Night for the tail and mane, and some of the swirly bits that I’d left on the hooves. I highlighted that with Genestealer Purple and then Dechalla Lilac, with the tiniest amount of Bleached Linen on the very tips of those areas.

I used the same Tainted Gold for the horse’s tack as I’d used for the metalwork on the rest of the coach.