Planned to upload new pics of my newly painted minis. worked in the garage and stood up to look for my card reader inside the house. My dear old Tumbling -- a long-haired Askal mongrel or native Filipino dog -- peeped at my work table and snuck off with my memory card. Lesson: memory card + dog = bad idea!
I've been nursing a bum foot since Sunday and worked on these during the afternoons. While casually surfing for horse references, I discovered a new, exciting and tremendously complex thing -- Equine Color! Ever since I was given a book written by Sheperd Paine with a chapter on horses, I was intrigued. Only when I attempted to do research on the Numidian horsemen & their mounts did I realize how complex horse color is. Presented here are a few work-in-progress pictures. I still have a lot of touchups to do as well as texturing the bases and flocking until I can call this done. But for idly playing with them while making moronic hoofbeat sounds, they pretty much suffice. I'm pretty happy about the way the greys and the bays turned out but I'm still at a loss how to do really red chestnuts. Among the pictures, you'll find a sample of a really badly-done attempt at a chestnut with a really red coat & mane. I may post an article here soon about the information I
Bummer!
ReplyDeleteI'd suggest getting a new one rather than waiting for the old one to...reappear...! :-)
Nick
Pets and hobbies don't always mix. I had a cat that chewed up a bunch of figures from a rare set of Atlantic 1/72 plastics once. Not sure why, since it never showed any interest in toy soldiers previous to that incident.
ReplyDeleteGot a new card already:) And even got Tumbling a new chew toy (rawhide bone). all's well that end's well:)
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