Ack! Working on painting Viatrix, and her flimsiness has brought woe. One of her helmet feathers broke off, and I've decided that her sword is too crooked to be acceptable - it's wonky and won't go straight. I understand why Septimus' spear is cast in metal. So I've replaced her feathers with small paperclip horns and her sword with a GW plastic bit.
In other news... I made a beast-chaining-hazard. I ended up cutting the centre out of my old duelling ring and placing the chaining post in there. The edge of the old ring is now a thin donut which I'm thinking will make a cool sacrificial pit.
The chained beast, post and beast both still unpainted:
This hazard was and is super fun to make. I put a magnet on Proximo and a magnet at the end of the chain, so the beast is chained up when I want it to be, but can easily detach. Then if I put collars and magnets on all the other beasts I get too, I can chain any of them up at will. Or chain them to each other, if I make a chain with magnets at both ends.
The next beast I'll be getting is Caho-Ta though. I'm not sure if the Atlantean horse will look good with a chain around its neck. And I'm really not sure what part of Sereqet can have a collar put on it. And Leo already broke his chain... oy vey. The questions.
I wanted to make the hazard as heavy as I could to try and keep it from being bumped around during play, that's what those little golden rocks are about. I hope it actually will stay approximately in place in reality... fingers crossed. The radius of the hazard is about an inch and a half, so I made the chain 6,5 inches long, so it is 5 inches from the edge of the hazard to the beast's collar.