| von Schwartz | 25 Sep 2018 6:21 p.m. PST |
OK, lets have a show of hands (so to speak). How many of you out there, who paint 15s, paint your horses hooves and the riders stirrup irons and harness metalwork?
Am I being totally anal, or is this a common practice? I await your responses and will give them the respect due(that and a buck will get you a cup of coffee, a small one). |
| shadoe01 | 25 Sep 2018 6:30 p.m. PST |
Hooves – definitely
Ironwork – always
Stirrups – didn't in the past but there are really good figures now that make it easy. So I do now. Does it make a difference? Yup. |
| goragrad | 25 Sep 2018 7:31 p.m. PST |
Hooves always, some socks. Most stirrups. Lately been doing a dab of brass or bronze on harness. |
| Cooldude | 25 Sep 2018 7:31 p.m. PST |
generally not the hooves because they are obscured by ground cover and static grass half the time anyway. The rest of it depends on the figure and the level of detail. Usually it won't take long to get a quick bit of paint on the stirrups and small metal bits of the harness. |
| skinkmasterreturns | 25 Sep 2018 8:13 p.m. PST |
That and socks and blazons. According to what I have red,its not that common for a horse to have no markings at all. |
DisasterWargamer  | 25 Sep 2018 9:10 p.m. PST |
Hooves, Socks, Ironwork, Harness – Thats enough on a 15mm for me |
 Doctor X | 26 Sep 2018 1:30 a.m. PST |
+1 to what DW said above. |
| langobard | 26 Sep 2018 1:32 a.m. PST |
Another vote for DW's approach. |
| ZULUPAUL | 26 Sep 2018 3:03 a.m. PST |
Hooves, never. Socks yes. Harness metals yes. Stirrups if I can see them. |
| 14Bore | 26 Sep 2018 12:53 p.m. PST |
Finally trying to get hooves color right, leather work just gets black but been painting stirrups for a long time
link |
| evilgong | 26 Sep 2018 3:07 p.m. PST |
if I can see it, I paint it. |
 Flashman14 | 26 Sep 2018 3:51 p.m. PST |
Yup, if it's sculpted, I paint it. |
| goragrad | 26 Sep 2018 4:14 p.m. PST |
Forgot to note spurs on knights as well. Hooves may or may not be obscured so easier to paint them and not have to deal with it later. As to that link 14bore – a bit further than I plan on going with 15s… At least at this time when I have a several thousand figures unpainted. On a further note, some of the OG15 horses have molded chest bands that don't reach the saddles when the riders are attached (or may be missing on one side of the horse – I try to pain those in as well. |
| Terry37 | 26 Sep 2018 8:04 p.m. PST |
I paint 15s and on my horses I paint the hooves, the stirrups and stirrup strap, and other details including the bit in the horses mouth and cinch strap that goes under the horse, etc. I know a lot of guys don't enjoy painting horses, but I look at them as just another figure so want them to look compatible with my riders. Terry |
| Fat Wally | 27 Sep 2018 2:44 a.m. PST |
If it's sculpted I will paint it. |
| oldjarhead | 27 Sep 2018 7:14 a.m. PST |
As Terry 37, and I paint blaze or star etc on face, and a little steel for spurs (if sculpted) on riders heel. |
| von Schwartz | 01 Oct 2018 6:19 a.m. PST |
Wow! What a great response, thanks to all who contributed, I feel vindicated |
's motivation to paint Napoleonic ships returns!