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Stablemate Photography
I’ve been meaning to translate my Facebook Gallery about Model Horse Photography Basics into a proper blog post for a while now… marry that up to my vow of finishing draft posts and here it is! This post is about the various settings I use to photograph model horses in 1:32 (Breyer Stalemate) scale and…
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Twenty Fourteen Theme Tweaking (aka Death to Whitespace!)
WordPress upgraded the other day and with 4.1 came upgrades to the themes. …And like a dummy I forgot I hadn’t made my changes in a childtheme, so I upgraded without making a backup of Stylesheet (style.css) and lost all my tweaks. So I had to go back and hunt down the changes I made,…
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How to Make Aged or Stained Model Fencing
This is a continuation of the previous post on how to make Model Horse Fencing, which itself was a continuation of how to make Model Horse Display Bases. I think I’m starting a theme here! 😉 You would think with all the scale model hobbies out there that finding instructions on how to age scale…
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How to make 1:32 Scale Model Horse Fencing
In the last ‘Let’s Build Something!’ post I showed you how to make and repair grass bases for your Stablemate (1:32) scale models. Now it’s time to add some model horse fencing to that setup. This post will cover how to make multiple kinds of wooden and faux-PVC fencing. I’ll have another post up in…
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Building a Stablemate Grass Display Base
This is the companion page to the Model Horse Bases listings I’ve now got up on on the shop. This post covers the basics of creating (and repairing!) the simple grass bases. I’ll do some other ones later that cover making the fencing and doing more complex ground cover (sand, shrubs, water, sawdust, mud, etc.)…