Miniature Figurines

  The stallion has received his white coat - rattle-can spray in matt acrylic lacquer and that was the easy part! Once fully hardened I will start on the hard work of detailing him by hand-brushing.

This is a beautiful figurine, crafted by Tim, the MidniteMaker , and is in 1/10th. scale. Her name is "Tuya - Queen of the Plains" and is one of many wonderful 1/10th. designs from Ritual Casting. I have only ever painted two horses in all the years of my delving into figurine painting and both of them were a lot smaller than the steed carrying Tuya! They were Napoleonics, white-metal castings and I think were in 75mm size. I am intending to do Tuya's horse with an airbrush; conventional brush-painting would be likely to leave brush marks on the vast expanse of horse-hair. So I recently bought a relatively inexpensive airbrush kit (brush and compressor) and have had a couple of practices over the past fortnight. At this time I have no intention of leaping straight in to the job....more practice is required. But I have started to assemble said horse.......... The horse comes in four parts....hindquarters, mid-section, fore-quarters and neck with head. Today I attached the