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If you remember, I also made the Icon or battle banner out of clay in a previous portion of this tutorial, well I never could figure out where it would look good. I ruled out at the top of the watch tower, it just looked too cumbersome. So it was back to the drawing board, and more bamboo skewers!

I picked up a cheap box of Skeleton warriors (Warhammer), which came with a TON of extra bits. Shields, swords, skulls-o-plenty, and lots of full skeletons to litter about the base as well. Using all the same ideas as previously mentioned, I built a makeshift tripod tower, really junky looking.

After getting the basic frame and wire together, I looked through the box. I used three skulls to make one side of the hanging cross frame. Glued the skulls together around a wire, than painted them wit Kehermi Brown, Wash of Gryphon Sepia, than Bleached bone and Skull White. I would used this same color scheme on all the bones!

The opposite side would be a hanging skeleton, held up by more of the craft chain. This was a little more difficult, as the skeleton was walking and attacking in actual molding. A couple careful cuts, not all the way through the model, but enough to bend, as well as removing the weapons, and it was ready to hang.

The icon is at the top, and capped with a banner that came with the Skeleton box, and I will be adding green-stuff to the back to make a welded anchor bracket for the banner, and then it will be time for basing of both of the models.

Evidently, they don't want this pirate skeleton wandering off. IT is tethered to the door with a cheap bike lock.

C'mon, anyone who has watched any Ray Harryhausen Sinbad movie knows that pirates could get away from this.