the armoured bit on mongol guard cavalry horses...

[Simon Davey]

Dear All

Anyone know what the armoured head piece on mongol half-armoured horses is made of? The rest of the horse armour appears to be hide / scale type stuff, but on the Essex horses that I have, the top and front of the horses' heads are covered with what looks like a metal plate.

Is it brass?

Is it iron?

Is it felt?

24 waiting to be painted tonight...

Many thanks

Simon

[Roland Fricke]

All the McBride illustrations I've seen in the Osprey book and the Warlords book show the headpiece as iron, and the horse body armor as lameller - usually dark grey-brown or even blackish. The horse body armor is full in all these illustrations however and not just the front.

PS-to add some pose variety I've added some Khazar HC from Essex. I think some of the other Essex Steppe heavy can figures might work to add variety as well.

[ September 16, 2004, 08:49: Message edited by: Roland Fricke ]

[Simon Davey]

Ah Roland you perfect gent. Iron it is, as I read late yesterday evening... In fact in a rare spurt of time and energy last night after that, I got 12 of the 24 horses' iron bits done and gritted the 12 bases of LH.... Progress!

Simon