Some Horses (1 Viewer)

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The heads have been added.

 

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Some minor WIP on the galloping horses.

 

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I finally added a shiny nice new brass plate to my Versailles Ladies piece. Final pics taken showing the indifference both ladies are showing toward each other. Hope this captures the mood of the imaginary scene here.

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Hi All,

I was watching the tv series Versailles on Netflix and it featured the infamous poisoning scandal during Louis XIV's period.
A ref to this incident can be found on this site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affair_of_the_Poisons

The article mentions Michel Tellier, the Marquis of Louvois who was featured in the series and reported the scandal to the king. Tellier is the husband of Anne de Souvree, featured in my model. Although I can't find any reference to her, it is very likely that she would have accompanied her husband's sojourn at Versailles.

The article also mentions the Duchess of Boullion who is featured my model. She was banished by Louis XIV because of this scandal.

Hence these two ladies were very likely to have met at Versailles, probably not as bosom buddies...

Rgds Victor

 

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just going thru my unfinished projects. came across qe2 and decided to take it further. painted with oils and i changed the horse to black burma. it started as a w britains figure but i switched a historex horse for the queen. ill hv to wait for the paint to dry to fill in the obviou gap on the shoulder.

 

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I've spent some time getting these horses prepped for cavalry figures. Note the amount of filling and cleanup work required with putty.


Large horses with some conversions but without manes.
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Medium horses.
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medium horses with extensive work and sculpted manes.
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historex sized horses with some conversions and sculpted manes.
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Remember those large metal horse parts that I had assembled some years back? I took out 5 of them to look for suitable poses for my Duke of Cumberland piece. One of them represents a unicorn! Strange choice but they were made episodically by an old French company and I managed to buy a bundle then from a German dealer.