This whole tutorial was useful! I learned a lot about painting horses and about the difference in effects of Citadel washes and Ouick Shade washes. Knowing that the Quick Shade is more of a stain that would come in handy a lot. I am looking forward to the next tutorials. Thanks for sharing them.
It's a big difference between the Quickshades and GW's Washes that I don't hear mentioned often, so I thought it'd be neat to actually demonstrate on the same miniature how they differ from one another. It helped me in a big way to figure that out and use them for different applications, as you can see!
Looks good! Recently found at a hobby store some loose/used metal minis including one horse so I've been curious about painting it. I know from my time with some black cats and a few black dogs that like the blue highlights on the black horse, their highlights are more of a dark brown.
No problem! :D If by some chance you end up with some pictures of what you're working on, I'd love to see - I've had my eye on Hail Caesar for a while, despite nobody in the area playing, and I'd be half tempted to just pick up some miniatures for the sake of painting something fun.
Excellent tutorial thanks. Nice to see that there is a technique for painting horses that doesn't take weeks! The results are very impressive indeed. Looking forward to part two!
Thank you kindly! I'm really glad to get your perspective, as I'm sure you see a great many more horses on the battlefield than I tend to. ;D By the end of it, a result of 'Yeah, that's pretty alright' suits me fine, and it takes minutes compared to some of the (admittedly fantastic) methods out there.
Goes to show how your technique is still relevant as I am still referring to it in 2020 over 2 years after it was originally posted on RU-vid...keep up the "How I Paint Things" videos. Oh, I have saved this in my "watch later" so I will always find it.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio At the end of the video you mention there was going to be a part II with painting a white horse, is there any chance for that video being done?
I have been a bit lacking in the hobby world lately. Your nearly daily vids have gotten me back into the space to get me going again. Great vids and keep up with the work and the hobby painting arena on RU-vid will be better. Many thanks from near 0 Degrees Brisbane straya. Good work my friend!
It can be hard sometimes to find that oomph to get started on a project, right? I'm glad to know these silly things help a little, at least! I've been a bit slack on the 'daily' aspect lately, but I'm still plugging away where I can. I'll swap you the heat, dude! You can keep the spiders and lizards and roos and-... actually, I'll stay put for now. ;) All the best!
I would like to know if you are going to make the videos part 2 Black horse and part 3 white Horse available? ( as well as the Rider) I am really looking forward to these videos. Also, I would like to say that your videos are very instructive, useful and entertaining where you show great and simple techniques. Keep up the great work. Cheers
Looks fine to me. I did anout 30 years of riding & Napoleonic reenactment on horseback (14th rgt. Dutch cuirasier 1812). When I see a horse even on RU-vid, I can smell it too.
Its a valise, to carfy his personal posessions and cleaning kit. The blanket thing is the shabraque and the wallets under the sheepskin is his pistol holsters.
Great videos! I'm pretty new to the hobby, so I've still tons to learn. Quick question: how do you smooth out the level difference between the small base and the actual base you've pinned the figure on?
For the most part I tend to just cover up the small parts of the miniature's integrated base with a little sand and basing material, and just hide it. I know some folks go to the lengths of cutting it away entirely and then pinning the miniature to the base, but it's so much extra work - great for centerpieces, though!
Carefully! Jokes aside, I'm still planning on doing a white horse tutorial, but the temperature and humidity here are making it all but impossible to get the finish I'd need to demonstrate with. It's one that's on the way, though!
