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Hi all,

Does anyone know a good place to get tabards (like what Dire Avengers have hanging from their waists) that aren’t too pricey? I want to add them to my Ulthwé black guardians but the only ones I’ve found from Spellcrow are over £5 for only 10 of them (and I need 60!).

Make them.

Roll some greenstuff, and cut to shape.

Not that I've tried it mysself, but it's what I'd do.

Well I’ve got plenty of green stuff so it is a possibility! Never done anything like that though.

I'd recommend GS for sure, it can actually be pretty easy.

My advice way of doing it would be:

1) Mix GS and roll it out flat to the thickness you want the tabard to be; make sure you are using water or vaseline to stop it sticking to whatever you have rolled it out on.

2) Let the green stuff cure a little. Let it sit for somewhere in the range of 2-3 hours. By that point it will still be flexible and able to change shape, but it will hold a sharp edge better and will be MUCH easier to work with; you won't get fingerprints, and picking it up and putting it in place will be easy.

3) Once it's the right level of cured, take a hobby knife and cut your roller sheet into tabard-sized bits, then position on the model. You can use a little super glue to adhere it, or just wait until it's dry and pull it off an re-adhere it.


I find it is easiest for this sort of thing to not really think of it as 'sculpting' a tabard, but think of the greenstuff as a piece of fabric that will set hard. Just use your fingers to put length-ways folds in it and you'll have pretty convincing looking cloth for that scale and purpose. The big thing is to let the GS cure for a while before using it like hits.

That’s a really useful guide. Thanks!

A method i've seen used, though not used myself, is to first get a strip of plasticard, cut it to the general shape you want and then use putty to sculpt folds/creases/etc onto it. That way you don't have to worry about sculpting the body of the cloth, you just do the details.

Same can be done for capes and such.