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This is was a bit of a gamble. Having never built or painted a horse above a 1/35 before I got this just on a whim to see how I could do. 120MM has become my preferred figure/bust scale so this appeared to be a good idea.
Sadly the horse, and to some degree the figure, has issues with regard to fit. The detail is fine but the two sides of the horse appear to have distorted in the mould which means that the profiles do not match. I even thought at one point I had two halves of different horses!
This wasn‘t the start I wanted for my first horse and, initially, considered doing what I do best and bin it. Thankfully, I was overcome with calm and started to formulate a plan to sort it out.
I didn’t like the boxart pose as it was in full gallop with just the right rear hoof in contact with the floor making for a lot of stress on the thin ‘ankle‘ of the leg (I know nothing about horses....)
So, apart from having to do extensive work to get the thing to fit together, I also wanted to re pose it.
After some grinding away some resin (always observe safety rules. I did this outside wearing a mask) I drilled and pinned the horse parts and the rider and applied liberal amounts of putty after waiting for the approx resin used to glue it up to set.
I then ended up with this
Still not not happy with the pose I decided to cut the left rear leg so that I could pose it rearing up rather than galloping like this To allow both rear legs to touch the floor enabaling a stronger joint.
Having the horse rearing up, I had to consider the rider who would not have stayed sat in the saddle so I drilled into his groin (ouch:flushed
and pinned him to the front of the saddle hump so he was ‘out of the saddle’. When the stirrups are fitted, it will appear he is stood up on the stirrups (I hope).
so more putty in the cut and epoxy pinned leg and I had the pose I wanted
Some sanding and fettling later, I gave it a quick blast of primer to highlight the areas I still needed to attend to on the horse and, for me, I am quite happy the way it is turning out considering it could have gone in the bin. The boxart shows the change in pose
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This is was a bit of a gamble. Having never built or painted a horse above a 1/35 before I got this just on a whim to see how I could do. 120MM has become my preferred figure/bust scale so this appeared to be a good idea.
Sadly the horse, and to some degree the figure, has issues with regard to fit. The detail is fine but the two sides of the horse appear to have distorted in the mould which means that the profiles do not match. I even thought at one point I had two halves of different horses!
This wasn‘t the start I wanted for my first horse and, initially, considered doing what I do best and bin it. Thankfully, I was overcome with calm and started to formulate a plan to sort it out.
I didn’t like the boxart pose as it was in full gallop with just the right rear hoof in contact with the floor making for a lot of stress on the thin ‘ankle‘ of the leg (I know nothing about horses....)
So, apart from having to do extensive work to get the thing to fit together, I also wanted to re pose it.
After some grinding away some resin (always observe safety rules. I did this outside wearing a mask) I drilled and pinned the horse parts and the rider and applied liberal amounts of putty after waiting for the approx resin used to glue it up to set.
I then ended up with this
Still not not happy with the pose I decided to cut the left rear leg so that I could pose it rearing up rather than galloping like this To allow both rear legs to touch the floor enabaling a stronger joint.
Having the horse rearing up, I had to consider the rider who would not have stayed sat in the saddle so I drilled into his groin (ouch:flushed
and pinned him to the front of the saddle hump so he was ‘out of the saddle’. When the stirrups are fitted, it will appear he is stood up on the stirrups (I hope).so more putty in the cut and epoxy pinned leg and I had the pose I wanted
Some sanding and fettling later, I gave it a quick blast of primer to highlight the areas I still needed to attend to on the horse and, for me, I am quite happy the way it is turning out considering it could have gone in the bin. The boxart shows the change in pose
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