Manda's (Amachan) Order of Heimdallr

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Paint Scheme part 2, Horsing about.

July 7, 2019

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Horses come in a variety of colours as many of you may know. And I kind of wanted to know what kind of colours of horses where used around Scandinavia around 12th/13th century. I couldn’t find it for exactly that area and era, but I found something that will give me quite a good idea and that will do. I found this paper online with a nice chart that helped me figure out what colour horses I want to use.

Source: Spotted phenotypes in horses lost attractiveness in the Middle Ages

So I don’t want all horses to be the same and thus I make a chart for rolling a D12 to select what colour I want to make the horse.

1-2-3-4 Chestnut
5-6-7 Black
8-9 Leopard
10-11 Tobiano
12 Bay

I think this will give me a balanced variety of horse colours.

Chestnut

For the chestnut I want to use a base of Vallejo Game Color Bronze Fleshtone (72.036) and shade it using a wash made with Scale 75 Scalecolor Inktense Wood (SC-80), I will use the same for the manes and the tail.

As for the trim I am going to use Vallejo Model Air White Grey (71.119) & a 50/50 mix of Vallejo Model Color Black Grey (70.862) & Vallejo Glaze Medium (70.596).

Black

For the black horses I will use a base of Vallejo Model Color Black Grey (70.862) and shade it using a wash made with Scale 75 Scalecolor Inktense Wood (SC-80). I will use the same for the manes and tail.

For the trim I will use Vallejo Model Air White Grey (71.119).