The eight different unsaddled, unbridled 3D printed horses from CreepyHero Studios
If you’re building an Old West town, you’re going to need some horses to occupy your stables and corrals.
And I was shocked to discover that it’s quite difficult to find reasonably priced 28mm bareback horses — minus saddles, blankets, reins and bridles.
Even when you find them, the number of poses are typically very limited. Call me picky, but I’d rather not have all the horses in my corral standing in exactly the same pose.
Heck, at one point, I grabbed a tube of toy unicorns from my lobby Hobby Lobby, snipped off the horns, scrubbed off the glitter and painted them up, only to discover they were a bit too large for 28mm.
That’s why I was so happy to stumble across 3D printed bareback horses from CreepyHero studios on Etsy earlier this year, especially during a 30 percent off sale.
They have eight varieties of bareback horses at a regular price of $3.80 per, which is still about half what I’ve paid for metal bareback horses.
Here you can see how large the original bases are on the CreeyHero horses
I was a bit disappointed about that at first. Then I grabbed my trusty Xacto saw (not the knife) and went to work. And was pleased at how easily I could trim them down, narrow enough that they’d fit in a stall, wide enough that I wouldn’t have to add another base.
Now, I typically include painting guides in these blogs. But in this case, I painted most of the horses using the paint schemes provided in Painting War Vol. 10, Wild West and Painting War Vol. 11: The French and Indian War.
I’ve also found that Citadel Contrast paints are also a wonderfully useful tool when painting horses, especially when diluted with contrast medium (I usually use a 6-1 ratio of medium to paint).
You can use that as a wash for darker colored horses to help blend the colors more evenly. Or as a base coat for white, gray or lighter brown horses. I usually use Snakebite Leather for lighter brown horses and Nuln Oil or Black Templar for white/gray horses.
