Hair sculpting with Amanda Brock

Saturday at BreyerWest is workshop day. I signed up for two classes, the first was 1:9 Scale Leather Tooling with Erin Corbett. The second was Hair Sculpting with Amanda Brock.

This time I shared a table with Missy Shaw, Kylee Parks and Lindsay Diamond who was observing only.

photo by Lindsay Diamond

The supplies for this workshop included a classic scale Breyer, masking tape, scissors, baking soda, super glue, two part epoxy, paint brushes and a variety of sculpting tools.

The first step was to position the model's tail using a heat gun. I chose to swish mine to the left. This turned out to be a very popular choice.

Next we were instructed to attach masking tape to the tail bone and used it to build an armature of sorts. 

Once the tail was the right general size and shape, we stiffened it with baking soda and super glue.

Here's Kylee's horse in the backing soda/super glue stage.

After that, it was time to start layering on the epoxy. I didn't take pictures of this stage, but here's Kylee's horse, my horse and Missy's horse with epoxy. Three left side tail swishes!

Amanda checked in periodically to see how we were doing and answer our questions.

Other people stopped by, too. This is Bobbie Allen...

and this is Kenzie Williamson.

Both their horses had tails swished to the left. So did Angelo Žunić's...

and Lisa Smalley's.

One thing led to another and we started gathering left swishes for group pictures.

The conga grew...

and grew!

It was so fun to see all the similar but completely different horses created in this class.

The Left Swish Club.

I still can't sculpt hair like Amanda - or Kylee - but boy, did I have fun trying! The workshops at BreyerWest were really great this year. My only regret is that it was impossible to attend all of them.