Sorry for the long hiatus, chaps, but I do have progress to report.
Hope everyone had a good Christmas with lots of mogelling pressies from Santa?
After the primer I added the various straps and buckles to the French horse.
I forgot to mention earlier that I added a tongue to his mouth. Interestingly, in my research online about how the bit was arranged I never found any pics of a horse with its mouth open, so
Airfix’s sculptor used a bit of license there. But this poor horse IS in an extreme situation and probably would be bellowing in pain or at least gasping for breath.
I added Historex buckles to the valise.
Then I started work on the bit and reigns. I’m using a Historex one which comes with buckles and a couple of other things I can’t identify.
Does anybody know where these should go?? this isn't the one I used, as you'll see below, but the mystery parts seem to be the same on all Historex bits.
I drilled the backs of the bit and inserted a wire-
maybe that’s what the twisty thing is, but I couldn’t see how it fitted together, and why isn’t it symmetrical?
I attached the reigns from toothpaste tube foil with their buckles but I decided to leave them off for painting, as they need to be lying around as if loosely dropped
And that, my friends, apart from a few straps and belts on the Cuirassier himself, is that!
Bring on the wet stuff!
cheers and thanks for looking
Neil