Returning to Arthur's Horse

 Any good model maker has a number of projects on the go. I'm not a good model maker but I still have a few projects on the go. One of those projects is my Arthur Morgan miniature from the game "Red Dead Redemption 2" I revisit this project between major projects as a kind of  'pallet cleanser'. I havent painted a figure of this nature before so it's all a learning curve for me. 

I left the project primed and base coated and now I had to paint definition. The horse needed muscles and colouring. This was all new to me so I used the airbrush to paint black against the low level definitions and then followed up on that with a darker brown on top, finishing up with a few highlights in the relevant areas. 

I was actually rather surprised how it turned out. The paintwork really showed off  the horse's definition. Apart from a few issues with my airbrush, when do I NOT have airbrush issues? The colouring turned out really well. 

Please be aware that only the main body of the horse was painted, the main and tail were just low light painted, ready to receive brushwork. Hope you like the results so far. 

 Not sure what breed of horse this is but I'm sure someone could let me know.

Completed Shelby Mustang GT 350 H

 I left off last time with just a few final painting details to be completed. This time, I just have to put everything together. First of all I wanted to add a little more detail to the engine. Therefore I purchased a few different types of scale cables from Heroboy, especially scaled ignition cables. They are coloured scale cables that you can bend into position to add ignition cables to your models and they look great! While very fiddly they really added something to my engine. 

Those of you who watched my Twitch stream when I put the engine into the car itself will know that I had managed to put the exhaust manifolds in the wrong place. The position was not detailed very well in the instructions and, while they seemed to fit perfectly where I originally had them, they didn't seem to even fit properly in the location they were supposed to go in. A little bit of swearing to say the least occurred while trying to refit them, bit of a bad point to Revell there. 

I had also painted the chrome window surrounds and fitted the windows into the body work. Just adding that chrome and the windows to the body work really started to make the entire model come together. It started to really look like a finished, actual car. 

  Once I put the engine into the chassis I had to marry the bodywork to it as well. This was when the second issue occurred. The chassis didn't quite fit perfectly and took a little grinding and jiggling to fit. Another down point for Revell. That being said, it's not uncommon to have a few issues with fitting parts so overall, it has to be said, this was a pretty good kit overall. 

The interior, chassis, wheels and details added, the car was completed! 

I am very pleased with how this model turned out and really enjoyed building it and adding my own, extra details such as the Hood clips, engine cables, battery connectors. Even with a few little issues, including not including actual number plates, so I had to make my own to fit the decals provided. I am proud of the glossy finish and this has to be one of my favourite builds. 

I put a little video together to showcase the build progress over the time of building the model. 

I was proud of the result and happy to have this to be the first model I built and completed on my Twitch Channel I look forward to broadcasting even more. Thank you for following me and coming with me on this journey, may there be many more.