Just peachy...

There's just something about the Breyer Highland Pony Stablemate that I find very appealing. Not only is it cute, but it is a Highland Pony and they come in some terrific colors. The reference photos I am using are of Noah of Meggernie and they refer to him as a cream dun. My color mix came out a bit more peachy than the reference photos, but I like it anyway. If anyone is interested, the color is based on Wildlife Colors "Mars Brown". I added a generous amount of Wicked Detail White and modified it to be a bit more golden by adding a bit of Wicked Detail Yellow Ochre. These are all airbrush paints.

This fella is the second "victim" that came in answer to my plea for bodies to try out the new paints and some new techniques on. The "new" paints are the Tamiya acrylics in jars and the new technique is doing a fairly dark dappled gray using the light-over-dark method. It will be a back-and-forth method whereby I airbrush on the dark base, add the white dapples, then go back to the base color to refine and fix the dapples. Then I'll come back with the white to work on the dapples again, do some more base color plus go darker in a few areas, switch to white again for dapple refinement, yadda yadda yadda.

I am still a bit intimidated by the Tamiya paints - they are so darn OPAQUE. I am so used to working with thin, transparent mixes that take forever to build up the color (like the two peachy guys above) that when this stuff hits the model and BOOM! it is there, I kind of freak out. But if you need to get a model painted pronto, then these are the paints to use.

And just for grins, here is a photo of this old lady, hard at work airbrushing dapples on something very small......