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travistie wrote:
You did a great job on him!
I really love the pattern you painted on his body.Where do you list your items for sale? Have you ever heard of Model Horse Sales Pages?
She sells on the MHSP 🙂
tatt2dcowgrl wrote:travistie wrote:You did a great job on him!
I really love the pattern you painted on his body.Where do you list your items for sale? Have you ever heard of Model Horse Sales Pages?
She sells on the MHSP 🙂
Okay, didn’t know if she did or not.
Sorry for not replying..Wensdays are very busy.
First let me show you some stuff I finished up today. They are available for sale. Make me an offer 🙂
Celtic Seahorse
Flutterbye/butterflies
Those butterflies go all the way around the box and there are three tiny small ones on the back where the hinge is.
Unicorn,Jewels are all the way around the box.
Riverhorse, a freshwater waterhorse. There are bright colored fish all the way around.I woodburn the pattern then paint it then seal it in multiple coats of sealer and then line the boxes with felt.
Very nice! ‘Course I’m partial to anything Celtic — I think it goes with my heritage; I’m descended from Malcolm, King of Scots on my mum’s side of the family 😀
twindragonsmum 😀
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twindragonsmum wrote:Out of curiosity (and because I haven’t a clue how you do it 😆 ) how do you change a stance, like on the silver? Beautiful work… 😀
twindragonsmum 😀
I use a dremel tool with two different cutting wheels, I use the sander wheel, a buring tool, A heat gun (embossing tool). I get a picture to use a reference and dive in and start cutting. I make cuts into the joints and then use the heat gun in the area I want to move. You have to learn how long to hold the heat there or it will bubble and melt! I grind off the manes and cut off the tails, grind off the forelock. I clean the seams up, sand and then fill in areas. I use a wire support in the tail then scuplpt over it. I spend anywhere from 40 to 100 hours on each resculpt.
To move the neck head I make cuts into the neck and sometimes the jaw line and head and move it that way. Sometime the head is removed and the neck removed and a new neck is resculpted to assure it’s somewhat correct looking, if you just move the neck and head sometimes the portions are off.
It’s alot of work but I can get those pesky unicorns and pegasi out of my head. Since I can’t free sculpt this is the easiest way for me to create. I was once told I am a great clean up artist. I can take a rough sketch and clean and refine it. I think it’s the same with these toy horses. I clean up what I think is wrong and enjoy it.Well he’s sealed and his eyes are finished.
Thought you might like to see his final colors. Someone asked what I get for them. I get from 175.00 to 200.00 depending on the size and how much time went into them.
Shandi wrote:twindragonsmum wrote:Out of curiosity (and because I haven’t a clue how you do it 😆 ) how do you change a stance, like on the silver? Beautiful work… 😀
twindragonsmum 😀
I use a dremel tool with two different cutting wheels, I use the sander wheel, a buring tool, A heat gun (embossing tool). I get a picture to use a reference and dive in and start cutting. I make cuts into the joints and then use the heat gun in the area I want to move. You have to learn how long to hold the heat there or it will bubble and melt! I grind off the manes and cut off the tails, grind off the forelock. I clean the seams up, sand and then fill in areas. I use a wire support in the tail then scuplpt over it. I spend anywhere from 40 to 100 hours on each resculpt.
To move the neck head I make cuts into the neck and sometimes the jaw line and head and move it that way. Sometime the head is removed and the neck removed and a new neck is resculpted to assure it’s somewhat correct looking, if you just move the neck and head sometimes the portions are off.
It’s alot of work but I can get those pesky unicorns and pegasi out of my head. Since I can’t free sculpt this is the easiest way for me to create. I was once told I am a great clean up artist. I can take a rough sketch and clean and refine it. I think it’s the same with these toy horses. I clean up what I think is wrong and enjoy it.😯 Wow! 😯 That’s quite a lot of work! I never would’ve thought of chopping things apart to create something new…. See how smart you are? Beautiful, beautiful work!
twindragonsmum 😀
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These are two new ones. I finally finished, it took forever it seemed,just to get them done.
These are small with lots of POP 🙂This is “Reja” also know as SunChaser
This is “SpiralRain” the stallion that runs along the storm clouds and brings rain.
This is a custom order, he was very stubborn and he didn’t like the way I was going so I repainted him in a darker richer green and then the flames just flowed on to him. The order was for a charging fighting stallion I think he actually looks like he’s about to kneel to either purify water or heal someone/things wound 🙂
Wow, he’s beautiful! But yes, he does look like his weight is shifted back rather than forward. Still, he’s amazing.
there are spots in the photo on his body that look like dust that isn’t. I add so many layers of translucent color some metallic that when the flash hits it it looks like dust but when he’s in hand his coat is a high gloss and slick. I like maxing my own colors and have taken to adding powdered metallic pigments to the gloss and it really actually comes out very nice. Lots of shimmer and depth.
I didn’t do any body changes on this fellow she just wanted a new mane.tail,feathers and horn as well as color. That body is fairly old it was a “Hartland” brand horse pretty banged up and perfect for my re-modeling. Oh yea’ I did pin his ears back,
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