What material do you use for making your own mane and tails? It looks amazing and I would like to give it a go... Do you have another blog that shows the procedure in detail?

Jerry,

First, if I may join the others in offering my condolences regarding your dog.
A friend once told me "life without a dog is not impossible, just a bit pointless". Truly "best friends".
Glad you have another and a cat...

Good work on the ambulance. Looks spot-on to me.

Appreciate the comments regarding the quality/accuracy of the various horses, too. Now if only someone would do an accurate Norman cow....

A quick repeated question if I may.... still no-one is interested in producing your limber commercially?

Cheers,

Sean

Hi Sean,

what's wrong with MK35's vache normande??? http://www.mk35.com/fr/12-animaux

And the cheval de trait would also go nicely with any waggon!

Cheers

Romain

Jerry,

Thanks for the limber info. You'd sell at least two (to me). Not sure if that's commercially viable, though...

Romain,
They're OK but they're not right. I don't want to become a "cow-nerd" but there is a stocky, weather-proof look to the cows here. And they should be chocolate-brown and white.... but that's not the issue.

Cheers,

Sean

Ron,Paul and Alan,
I appreciate your condolences. Means a lot to me. As for being quite,well....not so much. We still have a dog and a cat and two early twenty somethings here so quite....no way!!
I still look for Roxy every morning though to give her the morning treat and "constitutional" time outside on the grass.
I miss the dog,but not her pain.


As to more mundane matters. Al,I really like these Dragon horses. The proportions look good after my initial perusal and the idea of choices for the heads is very nice. The manes are molded separately which really works for me as I like to make my own. Then there is the nice set of PE with parts that make sense to be made in PE and not just "fret fillers' like some I've seen.
I am stoked to do another scene including the equine branch of the armed forces.
J

Hi Jerry,

In the past I have done some work on a few books about cattle races. Thus I have collected some literature which I with all pleasure would scan for you.
A wonderfull source for you to repaint the available resin cows from MK35 would be the book "Cattle, races from the whole world" by Mrs. Marleen Felius. An absolute international expert on cow races. Certainly available in a libery I guess.

The MK35 cows come close to the race definition of La race Normande. But geographically correct would also be the Breton Pie Noire (look-a-likes of the Frysian cows) or Armoricaine. And the red coloured Maine-Anjou do look like Frysians as well. For the last two ones you could use the cows from the MBLtd sets.
Here, a complete collection of Britains and Schleicher cows are standing around, all well sculpted but way out of scale ( approx 1: 29 or even 1:24 since Schleicher doesn't keep an all over scale for their farm animals.) and thus of no use for your fine dio.
If you like I could send you a scanned copy of the Felius book to your email address to avoid copy right issues.

Looking forward to see your cattle walking by!
Here I am still working for 1 year on a Ukranian farm with cattle. Too little to show yet. The only one who had some looks at my livestock was Romain!

P.

Various gauges of lead wire,gold/brass wire for rings,etc and of course,my trusty lead foil from wine bottles.

Hi m8!

your dead horse looks terrific! And that harness......Jerry at his best!!

Do you intend to portray a coarser pelt...if so you might maybe consider adding coarser hair down on the lowest part of the legs as well!

And I'm presently suffering from the fact that wine is not easily combined with my medication cocktail!


Amazing show Sir!! Congratulations!!

Cheers

Romain

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What material do you use for making your own mane and tails? It looks amazing and I would like to give it a go... Do you have another blog that shows the procedure in detail?

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Thanks for the kind words buddy.
There isn't much to making the mane or tail. I use embroidery thread that I unravel and straighten. It is available in about a million different colors and inexpensive. The mane I just white glue onto the neck while the tail I construct like a real horse tail,making a short nub out of thicker solder and attaching that to a hole in the rear regions of the horse. I then attach the thread to the nub. It takes a bit of trial and error but I like it best so far out of all methods I've tried or seen.
Thanks for looking in,
J