Converting and painting a Lord Marshal Dreir

I received this Lord Solar Leontus mini as a gift, but I already had a Lord Solar conversion in the works. So I decided to make him into a Lord Marshal Dreir.

Conversion

Assemble the horse and rider separately. The mini is generic enough that a paintjob will do the heavy lifting. However, I do want a Krieger head, so chop a head off the neck, and glue in the neckstump.

The Lord Marshal's base is much smaller. I reused a couple bits of Lord Solar's scenic base, and affixed the horse using a heavy helping of Milliput. Also added sprue bits to hold barbed wire, and skulls, because Warhammer.

A bit of green stuff is enough to fill out the neckstump, and affix a standard Krieger head. However, it looks small.

So I carved up and glued on this crest from a Slaaneshi Hedonite rider kit.

Painting

Basecoat and highlight everything included in Painting Death Korps of Krieg. The horse is really confusing, couldn't tell which part is armor and flesh (if there is any), so I just decided on painting it in Krieg blues.

Additionally, for the base:

• Painting marble
• Bone

Additionally, for the horse:

• Dark leather reins
• black horse tail (Black, Cold Grey highlight, Nuln Oil, Cold Grey drybrush)
• Bone colored teeth
• red eyes with white spot highlights

Additionally, for the rider: Bright red crest.

I also tried for a turqoise-bluegrey power sword.

I wanted to do pictures and all, but I lack the exact colors. For completeness: Stegadon Scale Green basecoat, successive glazes on opposite sides of Sotek Green, Thunderhawk Blue, Fenrisian Grey, Ulthuan Grey. Ulthuan Grey edge, then white edge around the lighter end. What I did instead: an unholy wet palette mix of Turqoise, Heavy Blue, Night Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Jade, Sombre Grey until the colors looked kind of-sort of right.

Final steps

I pulled out the pin rod, scraped off the contact surfaces and glued on the rider. Unfortunately, the gas mask did not fit completely - shame on me for not triple checking first. I had to snip off the end. The mini also broke apart when I tried to push the rider into place - superglue to the rescue. 

Write the name on the rim.

Finally, add the barbed wire. I pulled it as tight as possible in between the columns.

Then run a bit of superglue on any contact points.

Finished!