I recently bought an old Pegaso 54mm mounted figure from Fleabay which was missing the horse and a couple of bits. Originally intended to be a 'Templar knight' I believe, but the horse had been nabbed for another project by it's previous owner and I bought it on a whim.
Anyway like most folks I've a bit more time on my hands at the moment so I decided I'd spend some of it playing about with this rather than painting for the last few days . . .
The figure was quite nice although I unglued everything and re-glued with 24 hour Araldite and pinned all the joints with paperclips so there was no danger of it coming apart. I also filled the slot in the helmet since I won't be using teh crest on this (although I may add some horns from plastic card if the mood takes me later)
Rooting through the spares box of horses I found the old Airfix Cuirrassier which was a suitable size and 'weight' for a proper destrier (The Historex ones are a bit delicate for a proper knights steed IMO). I carved off the bridle and rebuilt the mouth area to give it a set of fuller lips and added both sets of teeth since the mouth was open (all using Miliput) The ears came from Historex, I think, and were glued on in reverse given the brutality of the pose
Next up was adding some strength to the back legs to make sure that we won't have a 'nose dive' at a later date No easy way to do this other than carve a great trough into the legs and bend some piano wire to suit. After much muttering and cursing this was done and they were glued into place with Araldite.
Once everything was dry I filled the gaps and added some fetlocks and hairs around the hooves (Duro putty and Miliput) and the two halves were glued together top see what we had.
A final touch was to sculpt some, ahem, 'gentleman parts' since these would be obvious due to the pose and very apparent if they were not on display so to speak
Hooves and other delicate pieces will be added later.
Next up a new horse cloth . . .
Stay safe folks
Paul
Anyway like most folks I've a bit more time on my hands at the moment so I decided I'd spend some of it playing about with this rather than painting for the last few days . . .
The figure was quite nice although I unglued everything and re-glued with 24 hour Araldite and pinned all the joints with paperclips so there was no danger of it coming apart. I also filled the slot in the helmet since I won't be using teh crest on this (although I may add some horns from plastic card if the mood takes me later)
Rooting through the spares box of horses I found the old Airfix Cuirrassier which was a suitable size and 'weight' for a proper destrier (The Historex ones are a bit delicate for a proper knights steed IMO). I carved off the bridle and rebuilt the mouth area to give it a set of fuller lips and added both sets of teeth since the mouth was open (all using Miliput) The ears came from Historex, I think, and were glued on in reverse given the brutality of the pose
Next up was adding some strength to the back legs to make sure that we won't have a 'nose dive' at a later date No easy way to do this other than carve a great trough into the legs and bend some piano wire to suit. After much muttering and cursing this was done and they were glued into place with Araldite.
Once everything was dry I filled the gaps and added some fetlocks and hairs around the hooves (Duro putty and Miliput) and the two halves were glued together top see what we had.
A final touch was to sculpt some, ahem, 'gentleman parts' since these would be obvious due to the pose and very apparent if they were not on display so to speak
Hooves and other delicate pieces will be added later.
Next up a new horse cloth . . .
Stay safe folks
Paul