I feel like I haven't really painted in ages so it was really nice to sit down and get some painting done over the last few days.
I needed to finish the roan custom that we are giving away this month on our Facebook page but I also wanted to work on getting some of my resins painted. I am getting slightly bored of the passive aggressive comments from my husband about how I never paint any my resins and how many unpainted ones I have, so I am working on making sure that several get complete!
I had a nice morning finishing these two off and listening to my audiobook. The light was good, although I have also added a new light to my study which means I can now easily paint on dark dreary days (like today for example)! I also did a bit of work on a few other models that I have been working on for a while, but these are the two that I finished.
Roan Fighting Stallion
The first model is this gorgeous roan fighting stallion. This model is Stablemate scale and is the M1 Fighting Stallion. I love these cute little shrinkie Traditional scale models and adore painting them. They always look so lovely.
When I was thinking of what model would be a great choice for the roan prize to be offered in my competition this guy just struck me as the perfect choice. As a Mustang I have real freedom of colour and roan suits him so well. He will be an easy model for his new owner to show as the colour suits the breed well.
He is painted with airbrushed acrylics, pastels and hand painted acrylic details. I started with his base coat using an airbrush to build the colours up slowly from light to dark. I then airbrushed white paint to give full roaning across the coat. I used hand painted acrylics to add some more detail to his roaning and then some pastels for a little bit of shading. His details were finished off in hand painted acrylics with gloss on his eyes and hooves.
I named this cute little guy Keep Your Eyes on me. As always he is named after a song, do you know this one?
If you want to give a home to this model then head along to our Facebook page and enter our look-a-like competition. This is open until April 30th.
Click here to see the post.
Perlino Cob
The second model is a super cute little resin cob. This is one of the Maggie Bennett micros. I have so many of these guys it is getting completely out of hand so I always feel good when I paint one!
The model is 'Offerman' and is a Pewter micro that was released as part of the club in 2019. So yes this poor guy has been sat here for nearly 6 years with no clothes! At least he is finally finished. He is a cute little bowing Cob with plenty of fluff.
I have named this more CRS Phosphorus which just seemed to suit. No shortened name, he can just be Phosphorus!
I painted him to an adorable perlino colour. I wanted to do a perlino as I actually don't have a solid custom perlino so I thought if I had full freedom of colour with a Cob I would pick a colour that I did not already have! I gave him heavy white markings as is often seen with American style Vanners.
The model is painted with airbrushed acrylics and then has been finished off with some pastelling. I used some of my new metallic pastels to give her coat a slight shimmer, something which is often seen on double cream models.
Which is your favourite out of the pair?
