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Offline skypurr

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A Thestral for Hogwarts
« on: February 20, 2012, 01:57:16 »
For my Hogwarts display at Knaresborough I wanted to make a thestral to use in the display.
As a thestral is a skeletal winged horse I decided that the recently released Pegasus was the nearest thing I could use to make one.
It's not quite as scary looking as the thestral in the films, but people seemed to recognise it for what it was supposed to be.

I used the golden coloured pegasus, spray painted it black, then following an illustration of a thestral, I painted in the skeletal markings using a pale grey paint that had a slightly pearlescent finish.
Here's the result...











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Re: A Thestral for Hogwarts
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2012, 02:39:41 »
 :o :o :o wow totally cool
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Re: A Thestral for Hogwarts
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2012, 03:27:21 »
Love it!! Thanks for sharing the pics.

Great use of the new Pegasus, and the custom paint job is very well done. It will be a nice addition to your display (can't wait to see the pictures for this year)  ;D.

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Re: A Thestral for Hogwarts
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2012, 06:09:50 »
Most excellent! What a great looking figure, you did a superb job!
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Re: A Thestral for Hogwarts
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2012, 06:59:55 »
Superbly excellent Elaine!!!! Very well done!!! :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
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Re: A Thestral for Hogwarts
« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2012, 08:54:45 »
I don't know the original (not into Harry Potter), but love the horsy :love:

A black pegasus... uhm...
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Re: A Thestral for Hogwarts
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2012, 10:01:59 »
Excellent custom work, Elaine.   :wave:
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Re: A Thestral for Hogwarts
« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2012, 13:06:02 »
I don't know much about the story, but that looks cool! Nice job.
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Re: A Thestral for Hogwarts
« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2012, 13:15:19 »
Great work, really does look like a thestral.
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Re: A Thestral for Hogwarts
« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2012, 14:07:19 »
of course the fact that we can even SEE it, means we've all seen death  :'( :'( :o
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