John Bowery
A Fixture
Since my last posting went well I thought that I would try again.
Maureen bought this for me for Xmas
and though it looks like an ambitious project, I thought that I would start it right away Hehehe.
I thought that this might give others a head start on what to expect with this wonderful kit.
First I would like to say that I think that A Jula, and R Galiceck did a superb job of sculpting. I have no idea how they managed to get the pieces all broken down.
The fit seems super and I raise my hat to them.
The kit comes with two heads. I am going to go with the face and crown head.
Guy Herrick gave me one of his bases that he had spare and this will go good with the above figure
I changed the angle of the horse on the base so that the figure looks at you. This will mean that the horse will not be parallel with the base back. So all the holes had to be re-drilled
At least it was at this stage.
The horse has the hind leg attached to the tail which is part of the body. There is a steel pin in the stump and upper back leg and up into the tail so this should help with the weight, thanks to pegaso.
I do not want to take any chances, so I drilled out and insert copper wire into the legs mainly to stop a tipping motion and not for weight control. This thing will be heavy when finished.
The pins go all the way through Pegaso's base and will end up in the wood base. Two Part epoxy will be used to glue the horse to base. The Pegaso base will be screwed and epoxied to the wood
base
Sorry this is blurred, but you get the idea.
This was a very clever idea to stabilize the weight. Kudos.
The head of the horse is hollow. That does not leave much glue surface. So I attached some epoxie putty to the hollow inside of the horse leaving it sticking up so that the hollow head has a little more surface for glueing. You could use other methods but the putty was handy.
I have the pegaso base screwed to a block of wood for painting. The horse will be glued to the pegaso base at this time but not the wood. This should allow ease of painting?
For the armour metal I am polishing the metal casting and then painting with Gunze Sanyo smoke and lining with Raw umber oils. The head metal has been done but not highlighted.
Most of the model will be brush primed with lacquer primer Mr Surfacer 1200 thinned down.
The only thing I am not sure of is how the reins will go behind the head of the horse. I will be using him holding the shield as well as the sword so the reins will not go to the hand????
If anybody sees the pegaso demonstration model at a show and could photo behond the head that would be great. I have emailed Pegaso but have not yet heard anything back.
All advice and comments are welcome and encourage.
Thanks for looking.
Cheers
John
Maureen bought this for me for Xmas
and though it looks like an ambitious project, I thought that I would start it right away Hehehe.I thought that this might give others a head start on what to expect with this wonderful kit.
First I would like to say that I think that A Jula, and R Galiceck did a superb job of sculpting. I have no idea how they managed to get the pieces all broken down.
The fit seems super and I raise my hat to them.
The kit comes with two heads. I am going to go with the face and crown head.
Guy Herrick gave me one of his bases that he had spare and this will go good with the above figure
I changed the angle of the horse on the base so that the figure looks at you. This will mean that the horse will not be parallel with the base back. So all the holes had to be re-drilled
At least it was at this stage.
The horse has the hind leg attached to the tail which is part of the body. There is a steel pin in the stump and upper back leg and up into the tail so this should help with the weight, thanks to pegaso.
I do not want to take any chances, so I drilled out and insert copper wire into the legs mainly to stop a tipping motion and not for weight control. This thing will be heavy when finished.
The pins go all the way through Pegaso's base and will end up in the wood base. Two Part epoxy will be used to glue the horse to base. The Pegaso base will be screwed and epoxied to the wood
base
Sorry this is blurred, but you get the idea.
This was a very clever idea to stabilize the weight. Kudos.
The head of the horse is hollow. That does not leave much glue surface. So I attached some epoxie putty to the hollow inside of the horse leaving it sticking up so that the hollow head has a little more surface for glueing. You could use other methods but the putty was handy.
I have the pegaso base screwed to a block of wood for painting. The horse will be glued to the pegaso base at this time but not the wood. This should allow ease of painting?
For the armour metal I am polishing the metal casting and then painting with Gunze Sanyo smoke and lining with Raw umber oils. The head metal has been done but not highlighted.
Most of the model will be brush primed with lacquer primer Mr Surfacer 1200 thinned down.
The only thing I am not sure of is how the reins will go behind the head of the horse. I will be using him holding the shield as well as the sword so the reins will not go to the hand????
If anybody sees the pegaso demonstration model at a show and could photo behond the head that would be great. I have emailed Pegaso but have not yet heard anything back.
All advice and comments are welcome and encourage.
Thanks for looking.
Cheers
John
