Model Forum / General / Railroads / November 2004

I don't know if it's available, but if I were to make any figure for HO, I'd
start by working beeswax. It's firm but soft enough to work with tools, and not
as brittle as candle wax.

Jay

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Phil English wrote:
Looking for HO scale cows skull, the type with horns that symbolized the
"end of the trail" in the old western desert.
Is this available commercialy? If not, any recommendations for a process
to make one?
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Musket Miniatures might have something like that:

http://www.musketminiatures.com/

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Phil,
   I don't know of any but I guess you could use clay to make one. I have
or should say had one that I made to mount on my On30 Porter out of an O
scale plastic cow. Then lost it so I have to make another one sooner or
later. I drilled out the eyes and nostrils, carved out as much as possible
then cut off the head and finished carving. I painted it a flat white with a
touch of yellow then gave it a wash of black. This could surely be done with
a HO cow but might be a little more difficult because of the small size. If
you do this you might want to have several cows. I screwed up three cows
before I got a skull that looked alright. Bruce