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Making the Armature, Page One of Three.
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The horse is drawn out on paper with one inch squares which is mounted on a piece of stiff board. The height is determined by the scale of the horse. In this case, the Shire horse was required to finish as 17.2 hands to the withers (each hand is 4 inches = 70 inches) at eighth scale. Allow 10% for shrinkage. (The calculation is 70 + 7 = 77/8 = 9.625 inches.) I allowed 10 inches. Purpose made transparencies were projected onto the squared paper and adjusted until the correct height was achieved. The outline was then drawn in with a felt-tip. The same process was followed with the front and rear views. The top view came from having ridden horses and observed their shapes from the saddle. |
| From these dimensions a base-board could be cut and drilled with holes for the armature wires (orange lines.) This picture shows the nearside leg wires inserted into the baseboard. The offside wires are placed approximately in place on the front and rear views. | Critical joints were lined up: elbow, shoulder, knee, hip and pelvis (blue lines), named, highlighted with pink lines. |
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