Tack, Props and Miniatures by Nichelle
This week's project was another set of western saddlebags. It's been about 3 years since I've last made these, and I wanted to find ways to improve them this time around. One of those improvements was figuring out how to make them fully lined. This eliminated a lot of the work that goes into these … Continue reading Saddlebag Experiments
This week was, once again, kind of crazy, so I haven't made much tack progress. My town got it's first snow of the season, (more like wet, heavy slop than snow) and it's caused major power outages and broken trees everywhere. I lost power again today because of high wind gusts. It's kind of hard … Continue reading One Piece at a Time
This has been one of those weeks where I had a bunch of things going on all at once. It's all good, but I didn't have much time for hobby stuff. I've started working on the cutback/saddleseat saddle for Hamilton, and so far it's been slow going. The perfectionist in me wants to make sure … Continue reading Busy
When looking through my saddleseat reference photos, I noticed that some horses wore boots around their front hooves. I later learned that these are quarter boots from digging around old threads on Model Horse Blab. (sidenote, I can't access the site anymore, is it gone?) I wanted to try making a pair for Hamilton and … Continue reading Quarter Boots
This week I finished up a Bronc style halter to fit Stein: He's... not a tack friendly model, so the halter is held in place with sticky wax. I had to make the noseband three times before I was happy with it. I used a sample of some goat tooling leather Rio Rondo sent with … Continue reading Third Time’s a Charm
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