"Those Wargames Factory ancient horses..." Topic

I found someone in the UK that sells those Wargames Factory horse sprues: Scarab Miniatures scarabminiatures.com

However, I seem to have completely cleaned them out! (Sorry guys).

I now have a small herd of 36 horses to assemble and anyone who visits at the weekend will think I've taken up glue sniffing…

Coincidentally, WF has a bundle of those sprues on sale right now. They're having quite a tempting Gencon sale.

Doug

If you're talking about the Persian horses without any saddle or tack, they've been on sale at the WF site for a very long time.

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It may not help those in the UK since shipping would be expensive, but 50 cents per horse is a pretty good deal.

Yup. The horse sprues have been on sale for a long time, but the Gencon sale has pretty hefty discounts on a lot of other goodies as well.

Doug

If you're talking about the Persian horses without any saddle or tack

"Or tack"… that is the issue.

I picked up a bucketful a couple years ago figured I'd come up with an easy way to add the tack… heh

Still pondering, saddles & blankets not really an issue before about 1,000 CE, "black powder" era forget it.

Horses are a real deal otherwise.

I've used non-embossed paper toweling for the blankets (stuck on with white glue), and unwaxed, tape-type dental floss (stuck on with gorilla superglue dots, but not everywhere) for reins, bridles, etc. It worked, although the scale is maybe a bit off – although you can actually get thin reins that way which look pretty good. They painted up well.
If you're a purist you could even use jewelry rings and pins for metal bridling parts, but that is beyond my modeling skills! I guess I could do saddles with green stuff or similar, but I doubt my competence…

unwaxed, tape-type dental floss

Brilliant, never thought of that, where does one get it? I was trying to find formatting tapes like graphic artists (remember them?) used to use for layouts (remember them?).

The multiple WF horse pose possibilities are too much to pass up. Also I have 100s (& 100s) of beautiful 28mm horsemen ca 1st millennium whose [own] horses were rather, well…meh!

That provides my impetus for solving the "missing tack" on these otherwise very decent WF ancient horses. I wish Perry (or even WF) would produce a standard box of plastic horses with sculpted tack no (or very generic) saddle or blanket.

It would seem a logical next step in the hobby.

They also make excellent mustangs and wild horses for Western settings.