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The poor chap under the 'orse is looking a lot better now you have filled him out a bit! As for the mid-air solution; Brilliant idea and the new pose really helps it look like the running horse is trying his best not to trample the fallen horse. This just keeps getting better every time I look in.Comment
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Hi Neil
Great job you're doing on this. Really interesting to follow your thinking and how you sort things.
JimComment
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Thanks Ian.
Body language is a very subtle thing- if it's not right we know instinctively - even in horses!
That's what makes altering an existing pose such a minefield, once you change one element, all sorts of other bits need to change as well.
That's why I carved away the cuirassier's right arm- the existing creases just weren't right.Comment
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.. wow... i'm really looking forward to see this done....Comment
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Morning All!
Having altered the pose of the grey to my satisfaction I started to work on the positioning in the air and I just couldn’t get the composition right.
In the end I decided to dump the tail idea and after a couple of abortive methods I finally arrived at this!
And especially for Andy I have gender-assigned the horse.
I figured it was easier to add than to subtract………
thanks for looking in
NeilComment
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Very impressive work Neil. Glad the French Neddy has a gender.Comment
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Can this get any better I thought, then the flying horse ! :thumb2:x 10
Your knowledge of anatomy is something else Neil.Comment
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I shudder to think what your Google search history looks like....
Great Gods this is getting better every day- Glad that its not me that has to paint it though!Comment
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Well done for adding Dobbin's 'bits' and the 'grey' looks a lot more comfortable without that wire up his bum!! Good solution.
(I'm more comfortable at last thanks and will hopefully be able to work next week. Shingles is torture!)
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Afternoon Chaps!
Having finally settled on a position for the grey it was time to begin the rider, so I made up the saddle, which fitted very nicely thank you. Then I fitted the rolled greatcoat(or whatever) and here is where I pay the price for raising the horse’s neck- there’s no room for it in front of the saddle!
I am quite capable of sculpting a new one to fit, but that would involve making all the straps and buckles, and I’m feeling lazy at the moment, so I left it a bit while I built the rider.
This is how he would look if I used him straight out of the box- all hunched over –
whereas the painting requires for him to be leaning right back
So more butchery is required.
I cut him above the girdle and carved a wedge out of the back of both parts to lean him back.
I also slightly compressed his legs so he's more standing up in the stirrups. I didn't want to do it too much, because I remember back in the mists of reading that they kept the stirrups quite deep-not like a racing jockey who has them very shallow.
This time I didn’t bother with the arms from the kit as, although the right arm is straight, the right hand is very poorly moulded.
So I just found a gauntleted right hand in the spares box (Airfix Polish Lancer, I think) carved out the cuff and drilled in a piece of copper wire. The left hand is from the kit, treated in the same way.
I also gave him a bit of a twist at the waist to bring his left arm forward more.
And then I came up with a lazy solution to the rolled greatcoat problem. I cut out the middle section, wired the two ends together and bent them to fit, which means I only have to sculpt a little bit and one strap.
Result!
Here is another view which is closer to the painting
As always, many thanks for looking in, and for all the encouragement.
NeilComment
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