| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 05 Oct 2009 10:15 a.m. PST |
Just painting my first Apache on a horse & googled on the breed… Let's pretend these horses never existed… & some fantasy gamer announced he'd invented a new paint scheme for his wood elf cavalry (or woteva)'vertical light & dark stripes on the hooves, human-like eyes, dalmatian spots & mottled flesh…' How impressed, or convinced would we be? |
| Jovian1 | 05 Oct 2009 10:25 a.m. PST |
Have you seen a Przewalskis Horse? How about the dapple grey horses, or a roan, or a paint. All of them are similar to the Appaloosa and they aren't that strange in appearance. Many horses which have roots in ancient horse lines have throw backs to zebra striping on the legs, dorsal stripes, so I guess I wouldn't be a skeptic about it. |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 05 Oct 2009 10:27 a.m. PST |
Yeah, just few weeks ago at Wild Wood in Thanet, as it happens… |
| CPBelt | 05 Oct 2009 12:30 p.m. PST |
I dread painting 25mm horses, but the horses you mention are my nightmares! |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 05 Oct 2009 3:21 p.m. PST |
Nah. spatter it on, can't go far wrong! |
| Norman D Landings | 05 Oct 2009 3:39 p.m. PST |
I try not to obsess over painting horse colours and markings.
I've long since learned that whether you try to match colours and marking with painstaking care, or just take the closest colours you have to hand and give a general impression of the markings, the results are no 'better' or 'worse'… mine aren't, anyway.
And if we're being technical about it, Appaloosas in particular come in such a wide range of colours & markings, you can't really get them 'wrong'. |
| SgtPerry | 06 Oct 2009 2:13 a.m. PST |
Not so easy to paint. I painted one for my outlaws posse and it was far more difficult to paint than the common "paint horse". link |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 06 Oct 2009 2:23 a.m. PST |
I'm looking forward to using 'dip' on my first horse… I've heard the results are really good. May not bother with this one because the colouring is so light |
| Norman D Landings | 06 Oct 2009 3:29 a.m. PST |
I'm a recent convert to Army Painter's dip… nice shading effect plus rock-hard protective varnish.
I even like the semi-gloss finish. (matt-puritans cover your ears!)
I've used their 'soft tone' dip on white horses with good results, so I'd say it's worth doing for the effect as long as the dip is not too dark. |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 06 Oct 2009 6:28 a.m. PST |
Yeah only got strong for now so will stick to doing dark brown horses with it! I'll paint it on the apache rider tho' |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 06 Oct 2009 6:29 a.m. PST |
I then touch up the painting & matt varnish over. Nice result |
Stronty Girl  | 06 Oct 2009 12:00 p.m. PST |
The simplest type of appaloosa to paint is to do it whatever colour you usually do your horses (e.g. dark brown) then do a big splodge of white on the rump and a few small black spots on that splodge. Like the horse on the far left in this pic: link |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 07 Oct 2009 2:28 a.m. PST |
Yeah, I'd noticed that type of pattern… |
