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RHA HISTOREX Diorama; Painting Has Begun

Discussion in 'vBench (Works in Progress)' started by Auggie, Mar 23, 2020.

  1. Auggie Active Member

    Country:
    Canada
    First, I hope that everyone is safe and well where ever you are in the world. We are definitely living in very frightening times.
    The painting of my RHA diorama is coming along. The 3 RHA figures are 99% finished so I started on the team of horses. The horses of the RHA were dark bays or chestnuts.
    Two are complete. I have enclosed some photos.
    The first picture shows the under coat of the basic colour. I always paint horses in oils. There's more time to move paint around while it is still "flexible".
    With all this "guilt free" time on our hands, we should all take advantage of it and model away, but alone!
    My message from Canada to all is this,
    Stay Calm. Stay Home.
    Thank you.

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  2. Nap Moderator

    Country:
    England
    Hi Auggie

    Great to see an update on the RHA ....horses are looking good , interesting to see how they progressed

    Put pics in on thread ...no problem

    Thanks for sharing

    Happy benchtime

    Stay safe

    Nap
  3. Auggie Active Member

    Country:
    Canada
    Thanks Nap. I still can't figure out how to do that. :(
    Stay well.
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  4. Nap Moderator

    Country:
    England

    No worries ....look forward to seeing more

    Watching this with interest

    Stay safe my friend

    Nap
  5. clrsgt A Fixture

    Country:
    United-States
    Great looking horses.
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  6. Wings5797 A Fixture

    Country:
    France
    This will be a real cracker.
    Looking forward to this take shape
    Cheers
    Keith
  7. Jed Active Member

    Country:
    United-Kingdom
    Nice job, I remember quite a while back watching a programme called Modellers World, I don't know who it was doing Historex horses but I remember he said he always put plasticard between the two halves as he believed they always looked too narrow, I couldn't tell myself to be honest
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  8. Richard Baxter A Fixture

    Country:
    Scotland


    Sounds like Max Longhurst. If I remember rightly, the programme was compered by Bob Symes-Schutzman.
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  9. Jed Active Member

    Country:
    United-Kingdom
    Those names do ring a bell,it was a long time ago mind
  10. Auggie Active Member

    Country:
    Canada
    I have done the very same.
    HISTOREX horses are quite beautiful as racing stallions, but a bit on the light side for a Napoleonic cavalry mount.
    I use a piece of the base that comes with the horses as a 'shim'.
    Stay tuned and stay safe, at HOME everyone.
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  11. Chris Oldfield A Fixture

    Country:
    England
    Beautiful horse painting, Auggie. Re. the Bob Symes Model World shows, most of them are on YouTube if anyone fancies a trip down memory lane.
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  12. Nap Moderator

    Country:
    England



    Nap
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  13. Chris Oldfield A Fixture

    Country:
    England
    The legendary Pyrogravure in action - still got mine, & use it regularly to create weld seams on AFVs.
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  14. fogie A Fixture

    Country:
    United-Kingdom
    The first time I heard about the 'shim' idea was by Shep Paine, who used it for his
    Scots Grey trooper - a Historex conversion back in the early seventies.

    scots grey.jpg

    Mike

    PS Nice work Auggie, by the way.
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  15. Richard Baxter A Fixture

    Country:
    Scotland
    Yes, difficult to say who first promoted this idea. I remember seeing Dr Mike Thomas (another great Historex modeller, from Wales) using it in a modelling demo back about 1975 or so. Agree that the Historex horses are fine for light cavalry bur a are a bit lightweight for heavies or gun horses, hence the need to broaden their beam sometimes. The Airfix Collector's Series horses were a bit heftier in that respect
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  16. Auggie Active Member

    Country:
    Canada
    Thanks for the encouragement gentlemen.
    I hope you and your families are all well wherever you are.
    (BTW Richard Baxter I have quite a few of the original AIRFIX Collector's Series Napoleonic mounted figures for sale.)
    Here are the 4 artillery horses finished to this point.
    Bridles and harnessing still need to be created, painted and added.
    Now I will move onto the 4-5 French Chasseurs. Their mounts were rather small so I will not have to add the plastic shim between the 2 body halves.
    This diorama was to be complete in time to enter the Ontario Model Soldier Society (OMSS) annual competition in June. It has now been cancelled as is everything else.
    No worries, now there is no rush.
    Stay Calm. Stay Home. image.jpeg image.jpeg image.jpeg
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  17. Chris Oldfield A Fixture

    Country:
    England
    Brilliant shading & highlights on the horses, Auggie.
  18. Nap Moderator

    Country:
    England
    Hi Auggie

    That's a lot of legs there ...lol

    Nice painting on these four leg models .....like the shading and the way the highs have worked

    Happy benchtime

    Stay safe

    Nap
  19. Auggie Active Member

    Country:
    Canada
    Thanks for fixing the pictures Nap. I can't figure out what I am doing wrong/not doing right.
  20. Nap Moderator

    Country:
    England

    No worries mate keep updating

    Look forward to the next

    Happy benchtime

    Stay painting and stay safe

    Nap

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