"A Horse is a Horse Unless of Course Parts I, II & III" Topic

A Horse if a Horse of Course of Course Unless You Have to Paint Loads of the Bleeders Part II !

Here's the second in the feature on how to paint up horses as quickly as possible and still have them look OK on the table top…

And the link to my Gewalthaufen Blog:

Part I:
gewalthaufen.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/a-horse-if-horse-of-course-of-course.html

Part II
gewalthaufen.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/a-horse-if-horse-of-course-of-course_12.html

Part III
gewalthaufen.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/a-horse-if-horse-of-course-of-course_14.html

First the obligatory pics to (hopefully) entice to to click on my blog :smt045 :

From Part I

From Part II

From Part III

Cheers,
Darrell.

Darrell Hindley Figure Painter:
darrellhindley.co.uk
Just Add Water II Blog (Painting etc):
link
La Journee Blog (Hundred Years War):
link
Gewalthaufen Blog (Late 15th Cebtury Blog):
gewalthaufen.blogspot.co.uk

Very nicely done …

Thanks Legion 4…. at least someone noticed! lol :>)

Darrell.

Darrell Hindley Figure Painter:
darrellhindley.co.uk
Just Add Water II Blog (Painting etc):
link
La Journee Blog (Hundred Years War):
link
Gewalthaufen Blog (Late 15th Cebtury Blog):
gewalthaufen.blogspot.co.uk

I painted up a bunch of 6mm Cav and know how much fun and challenging horse painting can be. Had to look a real pics just to see how horses colorings, patterns, etc, really look. I've see a lot of horses at the county fair. But still had to look at pics to get it "right" …

Being a city kid, learning to paint realistic horses was a challenge. You've done a very nice job of walking (trotting? :} ) through the steps. I use horse books from the childrens section at the local library. These tend to have big glossy pictures that help with details and shading. Thank you for posting.

So it basically comes down to drybrushing and washes I understood.

Hi BelgianRay,

Apologies for not replying earlier but I've had a lot of stress in my life of late.

Yeah, this is most definitely not how I would normally paint up a horse. It's usually a much more intricate process for me.

I just needed a convincing way of painting up horses quickly and neatly so that they could take their place in the Battle of Fornovo Demo game that I have planned for Salute at some point.

Hope that clarifies things?

Thanks to everyone else who has commented on the article.

Darrell.

Just Add Water II Blog (Painting etc):
link
La Journee Blog (Hundred Years War):
link
Gewalthaufen Blog (Late 15th Cebtury Blog):
gewalthaufen.blogspot.co.uk

Dry brush the edge of the stockings as unless someone is painting a show horse there is usually not a hard line in the border of the stocking tending to merge color instead.

Dry brush the edge of the stockings as unless someone is painting a show horse there is usually not a hard line in the border of the stocking tending to merge color instead.

I think I'll pass :>)

Darrell.