Lancer’s Saddle
The saddle cloth (sheepskin) has been given a number of dilute washes of white. I added a minute bit of yellow to some of the washes to give a little colour variation and to prevent the Lancer’s saddle from looking too flat. For me, Vallejo acrylics are the easiest paints to use and control). It is important to use very dilute paint otherwise the detail of the saddlecloth would be lost.
As I am painting the Lancer as a Lancer and not as a Trumpeter, the saddle cloth is white with red saw tooth trim.
The stirrups were then painted silver, the stirrup straps and the straps around the saddle were done in brown.
Finally a thin strip of lead was painted brown, glued to the right hand side of the saddle and then bent over the top of the saddle to represent the girth.
Now the saddle is resting on the pole. For reference, the undercoated French Lancer has been temporarily placed next to it.
