Making a Tabard from Card - Hobby 101

On my Luna Wolf I wanted to add a Fur Tabard but didn't want to use any Space Wolf bits as it was a perfect opportunity to try out this technique.

You start with a piece of paper card cut roughly to size and shape. I used a piece from an old Business Card which seems perfect. Once you have the correct cut-out, glue it in place with super-glue, allow to dry then go back and add glue to the entire surface area of the card back and front creating a plastic-card type surface (which means making the paper harder so you can work with it).

Once that is nice and dry you can go ahead and add your greenstuff and sculpt your fur pelt. See my Fur Test  post for an idea on how to sculpt fur.

Here is the end result.

Pretty easy to do so don't be scared to try it out.

Vitor.

Librarian Tabard Greenstuff Press Mold

 

I have used press moulds for various bits and wondered if it would work for a tabard. 

I made my mold from greenstuff and used a tabard from the Grey Knights Terminators sprue as the casting piece. Unfortunately my mold was not deep enough and the chain didn’t come out very well. 

I used the cast piece anyway hoping that after it was painted it would be less problematic. 

The actual tabard was cut down to fit the Marine sized figure and then smoothed out etc as best as possible.

I think the result came out better than I expected and I want to use this technique again as it can easily give you detail on your casting like the chain and cross on this tabard, if your sculpting is not that great like mine, but I will need to remember to make my new mold deeper!

Vitor