Red Duke

[Sanai]

Archaeon is in finecast these days, so it shouldnt be too difficult to remove bits... removing the head however will not be a simple slash of the hobby knife, it appears to be joined to a far amount of the shoulders/cape/etc.
I would personally just use the plastic blood dragon, and then have him switch between sitting on the zombie dragon, and on a blood knight horse (or even on the old red duke models horse, which is actually available seperate in the VC bits section)

 

[craigo07]

Ive found some chaos knights steeds on a bits website so I might get one of them and just swap the vampire model like you said. Its probably easier that way. I might try the archaon conversion when im more experienced.

 

[MadLarkin]

I had built a Red Duke once for a campaign. I used beguile, dread knight, red fury, dread lance, crown of the damned.

He was a beast of a jouster, and was veritably insane with the stupid and the red fury and being in a unit of blood knights he followed along on frenzied charges. Worked pretty well for me.

 

[Count Darvaleth]

That Blood Dragon on HE steed looked awesome, by the way. My only problem now is that I need to have the armoured vamp both on the dragon, and also on horse... eek!

 

[Sanai]

Darvy, if you plan on them just being alternate mounts for one vampire, just dont glue the vamp on.
If not, just find someone who isnt using their blood dragon vamp on their TG/ZD and buy it off them.

 

[Count Darvaleth]

Darvy, if you plan on them just being alternate mounts for one vampire, just dont glue the vamp on.
If not, just find someone who isnt using their blood dragon vamp on their TG/ZD and buy it off them.

Thing is I might need him on a horse and on a TG at the same time...

 

[Sanai]

Aaah. Then you'll have to buy someones spare (which should be pretty easy, plenty of people are just assembling theirs as a TG)

 

[Krysdagger]

The Zombie Dragon guy mounted on Archeon's horse would look fantastic .... that is a big big horse.

 

[Uziel]

I I am not mistaking, the Red duke originally had a magical sword with +3 attacks, which was quite nasty in the old days since he already had S7 (as all vampires did back then).

Really cool conversion Fallen Angel.

 

[El Syf]

I've been using the following to represent the Red Duke. Dread Knight, Red Fury, Infinte Hatred, Gem Of Blood Walach's Bloody Hauberk and the sword of might. I know using Walach's armour in fluff terms is wrong but it does give a decent amount of protection.

 

[SotF]

I've been using the following to represent the Red Duke. Dread Knight, Red Fury, Infinte Hatred, Gem Of Blood Walach's Bloody Hauberk and the sword of might. I know using Walach's armour in fluff terms is wrong but it does give a decent amount of protection.

I think there's also a conversion somewhere (read it in the last couple days) of the campaign that introduced the Red Duke to 7th edition.

 

[Aeudair]

Hi guys here is a pretty easy conversion i done using the zombie dragon rider and a blood knight mount.

Still needs painted... but all that was requiered was to cut the long overhanging plates off the bottom of his brestplate stick him to his mount ..... and then pack the small gap between the body and the legs with greenstuff.

(Pictures aint top qualitys as its 1am with no natural light)

 

[Jaeger Von Carstein]

If you read the fluff in the older books about the red duke, you get a good idea about how to draw him up. Would have been better to do it from the previous VC book, but still. He is a great swordsman, and a Blood Dragon. I have seen some people give him dreadlance, but a magic sword would fit better with the background. I just finished the red duke book, and at no point did he use a Lance. As for his retenue, his original fluff stated black knights, and the book also followed this thread. He had one Thrall, and then one or two necromancers. As is typical for Blood Dragons, his necromantic powers are weaker than most vampirs. The original red duke model is still a decent model, and can be found on ebay or in games workshsp's collectors. His Skellies are typically armed with spears, and he has one or two packs of ghouls, finished off with a tonne of zombies. No wolves, but he does have bats.