Painting guide- Brown horse

[Carlo Antonio]

Hello friends !!!

I prepared a little "painting guide". I chose an French horse (Zvezda).A figure very well detailed


This is a list of the colors that I used:
Vallejo Game Color
Black............................72051
Off White......................72101
White...........................72001
Cold Grey......................72050
Charred Brown...............72045
Beasty Brown................72043
Gold Yellow....................72007
Glorious Gold.................72056
Polished Gold.................72 ...
Chainmail Silver..............72053

Gameworkshop
Black Wash
Bleached Bone

Lifecolor
Matt French Blue FS 35044

Step 1-Basecoat. Using black spray Gameworkshop.
Foto 1

Step 2- I begin to paint the horse with Charred Brown(72045),the saddle blanket with
French Blue (FS 35044) and the hooves with Cold Grey(72050)
Foto 2

Step 3-A total washing with the black ink !!!
Foto 3

Step 4- Hightlight the horse with Charred Brown(72045),the saddle blanket with
a mixture of French Blue (FS 35044) and Off White(72101) (5 / 1).the hooves with
Beasty Brown(72043)
Foto 4

Step 5- Hightlight the horse with a mixture Charred Brown and Gold Yellow(5 / 1).
the saddle blanket with a mixture of French Blue (FS 35044) and Off White(72101) (5 / 3).
the hooves with a mixture Beasty Brown(72043) Bleached Bone () (5/2)
Foto 5

Step 6-Hightlight the saddle blanket with a mixture of French Blue (FS 35044)
and Off White(72101) (5/4).
Paint the horse's socks (I think it is called so) and the muzzle with Off White(72101),
paint them doing so many dashes. Apply the coat of black ink on the hooves
Foto 6

Foto 7

Foto 8

Step 7-Painting the edges of the saddle blanket with Glorious Gold(72056).
Painting the upper deck in the same way that you painted the blanket of the saddle.
Foto 9

Step 7-Shading the edges of the saddle blanket with black ink and Hightlight with
Polished Gold .
Hightlight the tail and mane of the horse with a mixture Black(72051) and
Cold Grey(72050) (5/1) .
Painting all metal part with Chainmail Silver(72053)and shade them with black ink
Foto 10/11/12/13




Step 10-For painting the base you can see this link
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=7629
Foto 14/15/16/17





Well, finally, this knight has his horse!!!! I hope you like this tutorial
Foto 19

[SamSagace]

and
Thanks Carlo!
I don't think I'll use all the steps: too complicate for me ...
But I'll try with some steps!!
(using ink for example...)

[Peter]

Thanks for sharing this with us Carlo

[Ben90]

An outstanding work! Thanks for sharing!

[Cuchulainn]

Very helpful. Thanks a million!

[leifkarl1112]

Thanks Carlo!

It's great to see the differences between what you do, compared to mine!

Karl.

[Toma]

A nice tutorial and very helpful

[bilsonius]

An absolute Masterclass, Carlo!

I see that you left the holes in the side of the horse - did you actually manage to get the pegs on the rider to fit?

Mike

[Carlo Antonio]

Many thanks friends !!! I am glad that you like this

The next tutorial will be on how to make a white horse of Napoleon and German tanks ww2 !! Is there some tutorial that you want me to do?

@bilsonius....Yes, I just cut the pegs on the rider

[Dad's Army]

Just speechless...
Perfect work, and a tutorial about German tanks, hmmm could come out handy for my Marder

[edchew]

Thanks Carlos this is certainly in the nick of time. Always was trying to paint a horse. With the Florian Geyer coming from Waterloo, I can now follow your tutorial.

[tedo]

great tutorial
as a novice any tips are welcome.
keep up the good work
tedo

[Von Roon]

Magnificent. Your shading and highlighting approaches the luminous quality of flats painters. Thanks for the tutorial.

[dirk]

Thanks for your tutorial. It´s really good and help me by my next horse-painting !

[Victorious Secret]

EXCELLENT work Brother Carlo!

Horses are very difficult to do when it comes the muscles. I study the photograph of horses when I paint and try to find a balance between photo and artistic creativity. It is not an easy task.

What is your take on the horse's eyes? I often debate with my modeler and forum friends on this topic (Sasha, you wanna take this one? )

You did a great job and thank you very much for sharing with us.

VS

[Zed1]

What is your take on the horse's eyes? I often debate with my modeler and forum friends on this topic (Sasha, you wanna take this one? )

Well - he left them black. I don't know if he did that for security or just because it's the easiest way. I usually put a very small anthrazit reflex point into the eyes plus a bit white in the corners, when it's a horse under extreme stress. So in this case, I would consider Carlos' solution being the best possible compromise.

But this horse here looks a bit like the shiny pictures that uniform postcard painters painted of parading cavalrymen back in the beginning of the 19th century. It's too clean and crisp, too much of a 'theoretical' horse. I especially dislike the sheer amount of wrinkles and those flabby folls in the breast area - it gives the model a somewhat unnatural appearance. Especially, because the muscles in the frontleg region are looking like they went completely out of the natural proportions - with the result that this horse model reminds me of a Shar Pei...
Especially because Carlo brings a high rate of contrast into this miniature.

[Von Schlepp]

Great tutorial! I love this set from Zvesda. They're among the very best.

[Arbogastiz]

Hi!
Quick n' nice technique. Thanxx

[Fenton]

If I could make a quick suggestion, and I do paint the horse brown then wash with black ink, but I find you get a better effect if you try and paint the highlight on just before it drys...I have to admit the sometimes it dosntwork so I have to do it again, but you do gt a nice loking horse especially in those areasa which are quite large like its rump which can be hard o get right at times

[Martin]

I like this tutorial very much.
Could you do a tutorial for white /grey horses?