great Colin,

I agree with you about the practice, do it with historex and Airfix horses are absolutely cheaper than with Eisembach or other brand horses.

Airfix selection isn't so large, historex is better but not really easy to be modified for same pose.

anyway, pay attention to the comparison between the pictures and the plastic horses . an incorrect leg change completely the attitude.

here attached an example of historex modified horses

In Bill Horan's masterclass book he has a section on modifying Historex horse's for a diorama of the 16th Lancers. What I do like about the plastic horse's light weight is they lend themselves to really extreme action poses.

First I have to make them right before I get too fancy.

Colin

Hi Colin and all,

This is a very nice and interesting thread for me. I share with you a page taken from an old book "Modelling Miniature Figures" by Bruce Quarrie, PSL, which is on modelling Airfix plastic horses.

Rgds Victor

Hey all
An update on the horse mods... I tweaked the right front legs forward about 15-20 degrees from vertical. The left front leg was straightened some at the knee to appear to be unfolding and kicking forward.

Thoughts?

Colin

Looking good mate keep it up.

Ian

Although your first attempt was anatomically correct this looks soooo much better . Will be fallowing this thread as I love plastic conversions .
chippy

Thanks Ian and Chip
I feel much better about this one now. The advice was spot on.
Next, I want to try one falling ass over teakettle or else one slewing as it's violently reined up.
Both will involve heavily rotating the hindquarters and severe twisting of the neck and head.

Colin

Great progress Colin.

Cheers

Huw

Thanks Huw

Looks much better Colin.
Just that slight angle on the grounded leg has completely changed the dynamics.
Keep plugging away

Haha plugging away hahaha

Sorry. Electrician humour

Hi Colin,

It looks pretty good to me!! Keep the good work

Regards
Pedro

Interesting thread indeed
Eismbach stuff looks great but truly daunting as the choice is so large ; where to start
Like the idea of bare horses as you can then addd historex saddle furniture , must give this a try

See you are going to the long island show this year Ivo are you doing any other shows .

Watts up with you, have you got your wires crossed.
I thought that you had blown a fuse. Shocking!!!
Sorry crazy old bloke humour.

Ohm my god, what a shock this is, such resistance and a dyer drive to interfere, this seems to be the current flow on here. Watt is going on?
Colin you, having a recharge and break has made this more positive than negative, in spike of some of the other comments. By the way did you use any sort of armature?
It's just the frequency of these comments that are discharged and this is one element I cannot agree on with such reluctance.
I will be on your side here as a resistor to these. You stay grounded my friend as your magnetism always shines through.
If any more of these unjust comments come through, I will be the rectifier and if I cannot deal with them I will ask for a regulator and relay this back to you.
I think things have been amplified enough for now and I seem to be the growler. The way I'm going I'll have a blackout or at least blow a fuse, so I'm going to short circuit someone else's thread.

By the way the horse looks great
cheers
Richie

Excellent. I'm so pleased to see I'm not the only PF who needs help!!!

Cheers

Huw

Bravo Richie bravo
You must have dug up your old high school physics text books. You missed inductance and impedance

Colin

great thread colin, I follow !

Hiya Mate,
Too many years spent in electronics, must be getting rusty, it took me 15 mins to work that lot in . I must say I'm really enjoying this thread, I have an idea I would like to do in large scale, but it would mean some major surgery. I would want it laying down and a trooper firing over the saddle. As yet I have not worked out the mechanics for the horse.
So all this horse doctoring it very useful.
cheers
Richie