Post by george on Jun 12, 2014 0:38:31 GMT
My new arrival was just asking to be decked out in proper old-fashioned red leather donkey tack, so I went to the local doll's house shop where I remembered seeing some red in their craft-supplies corner, only it turned out to be the super-thick kind, and took me about four hours to shave and file down to a useable thickness and saddlesoap it to remove the ragged edges - never again! I was thinking of making her a full harness but with how long it took me just to get this much for bridle straps she's not getting anything else in red 
But she does look good in it, so I can consider it time well-wasted, lol
The brass clencher browband was done with gold metallic Fimo, which turned out to be disappointingly not very metallic at all, I think at some point I'll have to get gold paint and make them a bit shinier
I left the noseband blank so I can add her name later once I've made up my mind which it is, hopefully I can paint it neatly enough as both options are quite short
The reins are knotted, cos I remember in the riding school years the smallest ponies always had the problem of the reins being majorly over-long and the easiest solution was to put a knot in the end to keep them out of the way - donkeys being little short-necked things are likely to have the same issue if kitted out with a 'pony' sized pair
With Rufus again, and one more cos they're just too adorable together :
But she does look good in it, so I can consider it time well-wasted, lol
The brass clencher browband was done with gold metallic Fimo, which turned out to be disappointingly not very metallic at all, I think at some point I'll have to get gold paint and make them a bit shinier
I left the noseband blank so I can add her name later once I've made up my mind which it is, hopefully I can paint it neatly enough as both options are quite short
The reins are knotted, cos I remember in the riding school years the smallest ponies always had the problem of the reins being majorly over-long and the easiest solution was to put a knot in the end to keep them out of the way - donkeys being little short-necked things are likely to have the same issue if kitted out with a 'pony' sized pair
With Rufus again, and one more cos they're just too adorable together :
