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
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ReplyDeleteYou mean the minotaur, not centaur, yeah?
ReplyDeleteI've discovered that by looking for the heaviest booster for the Han, you can get the guardian lions without having to deal with getting too many extraneous miniatures. This may work with the bear riders as well.
As for the lack of poses, I think that there is some room for conversion due to the fact that the figures take glue well, but in general I agree that they are toy-like. Still I can't complain too much, given that almost nobody else is doing a thing in this scale.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI will be in Manila for most of January and would like to meet up with some ganers and hopefully play some historic minatures games. You can contact me paul-reynolds at clear.net.nz
Paul
Hi Paul,
ReplyDeleteI just got back to Manila this weekend but will be out again by the coming one. :(