In-Progress – Page 19 – Kristian Beverly

Getting a New 'Do

April 8, 2013December 28, 2024Kristian BeverlyLeave a comment

Have you ever had a custom that orignally seemed like a good idea but turns out to be a drag? Well this guy sure enough did. Ugh.

*Cringes*

During the weekend, I traded a gigantic airplane book for a jumbo sized book about the history of Thoroughbred Racing in America. This book is full of wonderful pictures of race horses.

This is such a pretty copy! :)

Which got me thinking about other positions that Satan could be in, which is an attentive standing weanling/yearling going to auction.

The most important part of customizing is research. The more research you do, the better your chance of making a realistic model. I purposely chose a horse where I didn’t have to move every. single. leg. Once I figured it out, I marked where I needed to cut.

Then using my trusty heat gun, I heated up the plastic enough to where I could cut chunks of my plastic off.Once I did that, here came the heating and changing of position.

I also closed gator mouth. Doesn’t he look so much more friendly?

Well, the next part is sculpting!

Tooling It

January 1, 2013Kristian Beverly2 Comments

Today I tooled my very first piece of saddle leather. After looking on line for how-tos I used a fellow hobbyer’s blog, Riversong Musings, and used her how-to on tooling leather to help. Then I used the extra sheet in Rio Rondo’s western saddle kit for the pattern. All in all I’d call it a pretty good first try!

Also, Happy New Year!

Western Tree

December 29, 2012Kristian BeverlyLeave a comment

Today I made a western tree from Carrie Olguin’s Western Saddle Trees book.

Here’s the product.

I found that the directions in the book were very easy to understand and it included clear pictures of what to do. I’m happy with the tree and can’t wait to finish the saddle!

The Body Dilemma

December 27, 2012Kristian Beverly2 Comments

I have a problem.
I have this horrible habit of starting projects and never finishing them. Model horses allow for me to continue this bad habit. Of all of the customs that I’ve made, I can count on my hands the number I’ve finished. It would take my toes included and probably some other body parts to count the number of models I’ve started and not finished.
Normally what happens is that I have a vision. I get excited about said project and literally just dive in without researching the amount I need to.
Since the idea was based on merely an inkling, the fire quickly burns out and the started model meets the graveyard of burned out horses.
Here are the main “project” horses. Some of them just need to be prepped. But some of them need alot of help. *cough-cough-Silver-cough* and others just need minor re-sculpting *cough-cough-Saddlebred Yearling-cough* Since I’m on Christmas break, I’m hoping to take down the number in project horses and at least have some of them be prepped at least.