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Post by Mordred »

Ok I have a serious problem. I have recently painted this model from freebooter miniatures :

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as you might notice, he has a shield. I lost his shield. I don't know where or when I did, but it got lost somewhere and I really can't find it. Now I have a fully painted model standing here without a shield, and I feel pretty retarded, especially because it is one of my best models as of yet. I want to take it to painting competitions but it's still wip without the shield.

So here is my question: can any one of you sculpt me a hobby-horse to attach to the empty hand?
kinda like this :

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he also has one lying on his precast base, but I didn't use that. I attached the hand in such a way that the strap to hold the shield is vertical, so it would be like the hobby horse is hanging from it.

Of course I will pay for this, and packaging, and posting. It's not very urgent, but if someone here who is more gifted with the green stuff could squeeze it in their schedual I would be most grateful.

cheers,

Jasper
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Post by MiSiU »

Don't wanna scare you but I think this is one pretty simple thing to do it yourself - just cut out the horse head out of piece of plasticard and attach it to a metal rod. I simply think, that you coul do it very well, without the necessit of "outsourcing" (a very popular word lately :P).
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Post by Demi_morgana »

maybe it would be much easier to scratch-build another wooden shield?
I mean two small pieces of wood + paper clip should work just fine :roll:
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making it myself just out of plasticard is gonna look pretty ugly :/ and it wouldn't do the model justice imho. I really want a horsehead with some volume to it.
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understood, I was just curious; sorry that can't help You
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Post by Trovarion »

so you want something closer to the thing thats on the base than the wodden one you showed in your example pic....? (because you said "more volume" )
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yeah indeed, I put the example picture in there because I thought nobody would know what a hobby horse is :)
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here is the model as I painted it btw :

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please keep in mind that this is an extreme close-up, the model is as big as a piece of 10 eurocents. as you can see the arm is positioned in such a way that a hobby horse could be hanging from the strap in her right hand. ( yeah I believe it's a little girl, I call her jeanne d'arc jr.)
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ok the difficult part will be getting scale right though :shock:
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Post by Mordred »

I can always give the measurements of the horsey on the base
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