"Painting horses" Topic

A little article on painting horses on my blog, enjoy!
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Mark, I enjoyed your blog and look forward to the artillery. Include some comments about how you base your limbers and guns, please. I am always interested in learning how others paint and base.

Thanks for posting – I hate painting horses so guides like this that have nicely laid out and easy to follow ways to well painted minis are invaluable

Good stuff – I hate painting horses as well. Probably why I have so many regiments of cavalry waiting on the "to do" list.

I really, really hate painting horses. I think I have only ever finished one cavalry unit in all the years I've been painting and collecting.

Very interesting. If you care about the colors of the horses and the type of stains look at this link.

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Marco

Thank you, Marco.

Useful tutorial. Thanks!

Must say I found both links very useful. Markconz, some very useful stuff here but I have to ask, what are the riders?

You say Carabiniers, but are they not Bavarians or some such? A great unit will result I am sure, whatever

This the one I found YouTube link enjoy greetings serge joe

Serge, that demo is brilliant. If nothing else, watch 41-51 minutes on painting a dappled grey………..I am inspired and thought I had that licked!

Thanks all, and for the links Marcus and Serge!

Condotta I will indeed do as you say, though Limbers will have to wait for a bit as I'm still figuring out a good way to do them! All the traces etc can make them quite complex if one wants to got that way (and it looks good if done).

Deadhead these are actually just the Austrian Cav and Generals I recently posted, but more Austrian cav is in the pipeline, Dragoons and Hussars, though probably after I add some Landwehr.

Without sadle greetings serge joe YouTube link

I think this lady is ameican i might mistaken the serge again joe YouTube link

Thank you for your guide to horse painting – it again strikes a remarkable balance between effort and results, something you have reduced to an art form!

I think my methods of horse painting could do with some quickening up.

Cheers

Another tip is to look at charity shops for horse books. I paid £2.00 GBP for one recently and its amazing at how it helps that daunting task.

Whilst the OP has very good method of painting horses don't dismiss some of the older methods either such as the oil and wipe method . Can be a little messy but is very quick and gives very realistic results IMO .

A comprehensive ten part series on horse colours for wargames.

Worth a read. It goes into detail on why the majority of your horses should be of a certain colour.

troubleatthemill.blogspot.com.au/2011/04/horse-of-different-colour.html

The genetics are indeed well explained. Of course, ideally, selection came into it. Guard units could specify black horses, however rare and hard to come by. Now by late 1812 or 1813 I suspect anything with four legs would do………..

Cheers again, and thanks great article Gozzaoz! Have added a link to that on my page also.

I positively loath painting horses. As a result most of my war-games horses are bays, easy to paint and looks better than chestnuts. Next are chestnuts and blacks. A few duns and greys maybe.

For 40mm however I go all out. My daughter is an equestrian, so whenever she has a show I take my camera and try to get at least both sides of every horse there. Then i can use these as references to paint my minis as individual animals rather than simply "generic" horses. The effort is only really worth it for my 40mm as they are used for skirmish and small unit games, and are big enough to see. Besides it is fun when she recognizes one.

A little study on actual horse coat patterns is well rewarded on the tabletop. Of course if you grew up in farm country like I did, proper breed markings of pigs, cattle, chickens, etc are also noticeable, and fun when someone actually takes the time to get them right.

in my opinion the time invested in painting horses is paying off well, there they will more or less determine how well a cavalry unit looks like

I agree . By getting your horses looking right contributes IMO to the best and finest looking units on the board. After all this is what attracted me to Naps in the first place and I bet I am not the only one :)

@Dave Cromwell

Your decision to paint the majority of your horses as bays is borne out by the genetic logic detailed in the blog series I posted above.

genetic logic is ok – they chose horses also about colours to create regiments entirely on bays, or on browns, so one has to go with those informations along as well.