Just started a tutorial on how I paint horses for those interested. Details on my blog at: http://themetalmountain.blogspot.com

Form this:



to this:



to this:



Some examples:




Single horse and fig on left are Plastics.
The neck join needs filling in future - this was a quick sample to see how the plastic figs looked when painted.

Thanks for looking.

Olddorg

Cheers. Tried this and am impressed!

Oils over acrylics, that is how I have painted my horses for as long as I can remember. Aside from the drying time it is quick and easy.

Yours look very nice as well.

Joe

thanks for a very interesting and informative post,the horses look superb much more natural than horses with large patch's of different paint,just wanted to make sure I've got it right before I try it,do you use enamal on horses and acrylics on foot figures or enamal on both.

cheers Nick

I have used something similar it uses an acrylic base coat & oil washes for the horse with the detail picked out in acrylics after that gone off. The painting time is very short but an oil wash like that can take a day or two to go off completely so you can paint acrylics over it.

I used to use poppy seed oil to thin the washes as I found it the fastest to go off & combinations of Burnt & Raw Umber & Burnt & Raw Sienna I also tended to use less colour full base coats with light to mid grey & yellowish karki being my favourites with a light chestnut brown for chestnuts. I also found base coating marines and tails differently added variety as did lightly dry brushing them with the base coat after the oil had gone off & its a trick which works on 15mm as well.

I like the look of the pictures its nice when the photo's do the painting justice

Ginger

Thanks for the positive comments. Much appreciated.

I use enamels for the foot and horses but I also use a wide variety of acrylics for the horses to give a range of tones!

Your other suggestions have been noted - thanks.

Olddorg