Regiments of Horse

[Radar]

Thanks Antioch.

Now formulated a plan to solve the plumbing problem. Fingers crossed

[Smoking gun]

Isolation valves are a godsend, I fitted quite a few when we moved into our current house. Good luck with sorting the shower plumbing.

The troop of horse looks great.

Best wishes,

Martin Buck

[Radar]

Thanks Martin

[Radar]

And, there's more... Lord Spencer's RoH. Usual stuff at https://www.keepyourpowderdry.co.uk/2020/03/lord-spencers-regiment-of-horse.html

And a taster

[Colonel Kilgore]

Careful Radar - you'll be wearing Martin's moulds out at this rate, and he'll need to sculpt new masters for replacements.

Now, there's an idea... 

[Radar]

I think I might be responsible for a fair few Range 20 moulds becoming worn out (certainly vertical pike open hand has taken a battering due to my orders, I think I should be presented with it at Salute 2021 with a great fanfare from massed Tudor trumpet players)

Now if only someone would wear out lowland pike for me...

[Colonel Kilgore]

I think I might be responsible for a fair few Range 20 moulds becoming worn out. Now if only someone would wear out lowland pike for me...

I think maybe if you order up a few thousand, that should do the trick?

[Radar]

I think I might be responsible for a fair few Range 20 moulds becoming worn out. Now if only someone would wear out lowland pike for me...

I think maybe if you order up a few thousand, that should do the trick?

I'm certainly not drilling that many hands out!

[Radar]

Something a little different for you all today, not-harquebusiers™. The Marquis of Argyll's lifeguard. Special thanks to Leman for swapping olden days Piggy cuirassiers for some wrong-civil-war zouaves.
Usual bumf (from the C17th term for loo roll, 'bum fodder'), more pics, etc at

https://www.keepyourpowderdry.co.uk/2020/04/marquis-of-argylls-lifeguard-troop-of.html

[Antioch (Bob)]

Another great unit....and yes who doesn't like a fully armoured sqn indeed..

And here we thought you were focused on household plumbing..😀

Bob

[Radar]

Thanks. Plumbing almost complete. Tile cutting today. Assuming it stops raining so I can play outside with the angle grinder.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Nah, it's going to rain all day - I'd just crack on with another unit if I were you 

Nice armour!

Simon

[Radar]

Thanks Colonel.

Alas no more units to paint at the moment (Napoleonics don't count), nor will there be until I get some work once the great contagion is over.

Tiles have been cut and fitted. Just needs to dry and the shower mixer valve can be fitted.

[mellis1644]

Love your bit's of white on the horses. I always struggle with that, to make it look realistic at least.

[Radar]

Thanks Mellis.

When I paint horses I put them on the painting strips with the same poses together. I then try and randomise  horse colours (this sometimes involves dice). I generally have 4 body colours - bay, roan, chestnut and the other brown one that I can't remember. Very occasionally I'll do a grey, white or black (all of which are tricky to do well). Horses get finished, then riders attached (if not 1 piece castings) then washed. When dry I do white bits.

Face white bits can be big or small, most of my horses have white face markings. Makes them look horsey in my book.

Then I look at legs.  I believe that white bits on legs are usually in pairs: so either front half or back half, or leftside or rightside. Never opposite corners. All four is possible, a single or three are rarer.  I try not to have too many horses with identical white leg bits. Having same poses together helps. Eagle eyed may have spotted that the running very fast horse (the one with all four legs curled up under it's body) tend not to have white legs as a) they are a b*gger to get a paint brush into, and b) anything for an easy life. I probably try and give a third to a half of horses white leg bits. Probably more than is found in real life, but i think they make them look more horsey.

I apologise in advance to horse experts, who will no doubt need a jolly good lie down due to the  absence of technical terms such as sock, blaze and star.