Austrian Supply Wagon
I put together an Austrian supply wagon from a couple of Pendraken limber horses, a Pendraken Austrian engineer, and an Irregular First World War wagon – the pieces seen on my worktop in the last post. I decapitated one of the limber horses to create a new head position. One of its legs was in a sorry state, missing its foot – since there was already a bit of modelling to do I thought I’d go a step further and cut off and reposition the leg. The engineer figure was holding a spade which I removed together with the right arm and left hand. I
chopped off the right
leg and bent back the
left a little.
Then all I had to do was
to putty all the pieces
together. I only had to
fill the gaps on the
horse, model a little
mane, remedy the
reigns, and create a
hoof.
With the engineer, I had
to model the right thigh, right
arm, and both hands. Nothing
particularly taxing but I failed yet
again to provide an armature –
this time to help with the
engineer’s right arm – resulting
in the usual difficulties in
sculpting unsupported putty.
The Irregular wagon (TWM2) is a
single-piece casting. The only
thing I did to it was to file away
the fixings at the end of the pole
because otherwise the pole
would have appeared too short.
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