Like most of my collections I have had this mini-scene for sometime. I had placed this kit into a small box on a shelf next to my workbench to wait my attention.
I usually use super-glue for the kit parts. The metal parts required very little clean-up.
Sometime ago, when I was searching for sprue I came across three horses and a dire wolf, which I recently dug out of storage. However two of the four "kits" were built a while ago, which leaves me two more of horse to build. I built one these last night.
I seem to have gotten the heads for these two mixed up and attached the head for the Empire horse on the High Elf body, or something like that. I need to add some paint.
Here are links to the other two miniatures
& the Dire wolf
I found these hard plastic farm animals at a local discount store. They are made in China; where else? It seemed that the packages contained a random selection of animals. This package contained a verity of animals. The figures stand anywhere from one to three inches high and up to 4 inches long.
There are a horse and colt, a cow and calf, a pig, three sheep, a goat, and a farm dog. Although I feel like their paint jobs could have been applied with a little more care, their molded detail in is tolerable.
This is not all of my 1/87 horses; I do own about a dozen, to what I believe are “Life Like” horses like the white horse on the left. All of them look exactly alike and will need to be varied a bit with a spot of paint or two. The others are from various sources, some plastic, while others are in white metal. Most of the collection still needs to be painted or at the least, some will need a little touch up.
“In Numenor all journeyed from place to place on horseback, for in riding the Numenoreans, both men and woman, took delight, and all the people of the land loved horses, treated them honorable and housed them nobly. The horses were trained to hear and answer calls from great distances and it is said that they could be summoned at need by thought alone."
A Description of Numenor, Unfinished Tales, J.R.R. Tolkien
My Games Works 28mm Bretonnian Horse is complete. I still do not have a place for this miniature, but eventually it will be used in some scene. This miniature went together easily.
Recently, I went back through a few of my earlier posts and added a “horse” label. It really is a lot easier to add the appropriate labels as you go, but sometimes I don’t have enough foresight as to the needs of posts in the future.
Half the year has passed and I am so far behind in completing my miniatures. I purchase new items faster than I can complete them. As a fellow blogger has recently mentioned it is the collecting that is more than half the fun of this hobby.
Creating a project list seemed to work last month. I completed three out of the four projects that I had designated for the month of June. Perhaps I should have stuck with three projects instead of the four, so this month I have only designated three projects for the month of July.
I have brought the incomplete project forward to this month list.
These projects may be completed in any order, as the mood strikes.
Here are those Games Workshop spruce by type. As you can see all of these miniatures come in four parts and are either distributed on one, two or three separate spruce. All of the miniature have great detail.
In retrospect, I wish I had ordered two wolf miniatures and had not purchased the Bretonnian Horse as the wolf has more appeal. The other two horses look great and will fit perfectly into my plans for a couple of fantasy scenes I have in mind.
WTF are these kits hiding?
I was preforming one of my reverse web searches the other day. This is where I search through the images on a particular topic and visit the associated website for those I have an interest. I was searching for plastic spruces and came upon a plastic wolf and High Elf horse, but for some reason I did not initially save the link to my Bookmarks. I have been searching for those spruce ever since. Well today, by chance, I finely relocated those plastic spruces. They were found at Great Escape Games. Here is what I have settled on:
According to online literature these miniatures are either 25 or 28mm. Although the Bretonnian Horse seems like a generic looking horse, the other two horses look like they will fit well into a fantasy theme game, as well as the wolf, which looks very aggressive and menacing.
Shasta had heard the Tarkaan and Arsheesh haggling over a fair price for him. Although Shasta knew that his father would probably not get his asking price, he knew that he would be the property of the Tarkaan in the morning.
This got Shasta thinking, would the Tarkaan be a good master or would he worse than his father? He was at this time stroking the horse and was thinking out load. How can I know? If only the horse could talk. This is when he found out that the horse could speak and had understood all Shasta had said.
The horse was a Narnian and of cause he could speak. Bree, as the horse was called, told Shasta that the Tarkaan was very bad and that Shasta would not fare well with the Tarkaan. It was agreed upon that Shasta and the horse would run away to Narnia as soon as Tarkaan and Arsheesh were asleep.
The Aspen Modeling Company is offering a tutorial on painting one of their S gauge Cowboys(S-23). The 15 page PDF will walk you through the process of painting of their highly detailed resin casting.
The second tutorial “How to Paint a Brown Horse” gives you a step by step instructions on how to paint a 1/72 Zvezda French horse. There a many images showing the transition from a highly detailed plastic casting into a work of art.
Excuse me, but I have go see man about a horse.
