Dirty cavalrymen and horse weathering.

[Red Five]

If your following another horse over soft ground at speed you tend to get mud thrown at you. You have to be like George W Bush when that Iraqi through a shoe at him, dodging the lumps of mud!

Horses get sweaty too. They can get lots of white foam on the shoulders for example plus a bit of froth around the bit.

 

[billyturnip]

If your following another horse over soft ground at speed you tend to get mud thrown at you. You have to be like George W Bush when that Iraqi through a shoe at him, dodging the lumps of mud!

Horses get sweaty too. They can get lots of white foam on the shoulders for example plus a bit of froth around the bit.

I was hoping you would chime in Andrew. Replicating this in miniature form would be quite a challenge to make it look convincing.
Looks like the effect you get when you don't mix Humbrol matt cote properly.

 

[theBaron]

I just love your thread title, Roger, it did catch my eye!

Seriously, for thick accumulations of mud or dirt, I like to use ground-up pastel chalks, mixed with a drop or two of water, and a drop of dishwashing liquid. I can make a slurry with this, and the dishwashing liquid helps provide some cohesion and adhesion. When it dries, it can have a grainy texture, and I can add things like old tea leaves to it, or bits of twine, to make it look like there's grass or leaves mixed up in it. I hit on this mix building armor and aircraft models.

Prost!
Brad

 

[theBaron]

I was hoping you would chime in Andrew. Replicating this in miniature form would be quite a challenge to make it look convincing.
Looks like the effect you get when you don't mix Humbrol matt cote properly.

Holy crap!

Maybe some artist's gel medium, too?

 

[billyturnip]

I hit on this mix building armor and aircraft models.

Prost!
Brad

It was that current trend in armour modeling and products available that got me thinking about this Brad.

 

[billyturnip]

Holy crap!

We haven't even begun on that end yet!

 

[chippy]

Liquid Water with a little white paint mixed in would most likely give you the foam effect on the horse Roger . For the mud spattering for both horse and rider I would try and old stiff bristled brush(not a Tooth Brush) and flick the paint on . Start from a distance away for fine spots and move in closer to get more concentrated areas . Try it out on a piece of paper or plastic card first to get the feel of it . It's how I oil and mud up my tanks .
chippy

 

[billyturnip]

For the mud spattering for both horse and rider I would try and old stiff bristled brush(not a Tooth Brush) and flick the paint on . Start from a distance away for fine spots and move in closer to get more concentrated areas . Try it out on a piece of paper or plastic card first to get the feel of it . It's how I oil and mud up my tanks .
chippy

Done that one myself Chippy, also hitting a loaded brush with just air out of the airbrush works quite well, also advisable to try out somewhere else first.

 

[billyturnip]

Hmm, now beginning to wish I'd asked my wife for a mounted figure instead of two foot figs. for my birthday.

 

[Red Five]

If you ride a horse that is that sweaty. It pet upsets your boots and you smell strongly of horse.

I do enjoy walking around Waitrose smelling of horse. You get some strange looks!

The froth around the bit is quite normal and you can see it in dressage and show jumping . When you get off they always try and wipe it on you.

Andrew.

 

[Red Five]

One more thing


Going back to another conversation on painting horse hair or not.

Horses that expect to see a lot of action are clipped. Look at the pictures of that racehorse.

Andrew

 

[Red Five]

One more thing


Going back to another conversation on painting horse hair or not.

Horses that expect to see a lot of action are clipped. Look at the pictures of that racehorse.

Andrew

 

[billyturnip]

I do enjoy walking around Waitrose smelling of horse. You get some strange looks!

That's usual around here, nobody notices... except it's the C0-Op.

 

[fogie]

I do enjoy walking around Waitrose smelling of horse. You get some strange looks!

Well I never .... I always thought it was the basic range lasagne.

 

[billyturnip]

Well I never .... I always thought it was the basic range lasagne.

You're getting mixed up, that tastes of horses.

 

[fogie]

A rare painting of the 1st Patissieres in action ... but It could be said to follow the general trend of this thread.
( Not able to make a proper attribution alas, so if anyone knows who painted it, perhaps you could tell me )

 

[billyturnip]

It's by Caroline Vos.
https://www.behance.net/CarolineVos

 

[fogie]

Excellent ... thanks for that. She's a genius !

 

[martin tabony]

It's also very noisy. If you watch the officers giving direction commands they wave their swords about. All you can hear are the horses around you. And yes you end up eating dust or mud!