
This master class will tell you how to create souvenirs with your own hands - horse figurines
A horse made of iron is created strong and gracefula stallion with a shimmering iron mane and strong horseshoes. You can't help but admire him! Even a master won't be able to get rid of the idea of making him a horseman friend and a powerful cart or carriage. But, however, first of all, he needs to be made. And the following materials will be needed for the work:
- pipe with a width of 15 mm;
- 200mm nails - 4 pcs.;
- in the work a small bar is used, an arbitrary piece of sheet iron and a sawn piece resembling a horse's head with a width of 10 mm;
- small carnations.
The horse's body will be a piece of pipe 8 cm long. A 1.2 mm wide threaded disc will be used.
Using an iron sledgehammer, you need to flatten the tube at the edges so that the body has a rounded belly.
The stallion's muzzle is no longer than 4.5 cm. The proportions of the iron piece on the horse's head are built according to the volume of the body. The outline of the head is drawn on it.
It is then sawed out and ground with a grinder. The triangular cutout forms the animal's ears.
The finished head shape.
The neck of the future mustang is made of ironbar. The length at the edges is 2.5 and 2 cm. The edges of the neck are sawn at an angle to attach to the head. The neck and head together are no more than five centimeters.
Another piece of metal depicts a horse's mane, oriented according to the size of the neck.
Using a grinder and a cutting disc, you need to make cuts that look like curls.
After this, you need to try on the parts in order to adjust them if necessary.
The tail is made in a similar way: first a sketch is made, then longitudinal cuts are made, located close to each other, so that it resembles iron hairs-cuts.
As an interim result – fitting of parts.
Before you start welding, each of them needs to becompletely cleaned with a grinder with a 6 mm grinding disc. This is necessary for better attachment of them to each other. Only after this can you proceed to the next step - welding the head and neck.
Then the mane is tried on and added to the welded parts.
To eliminate the holes along the edges of the body, a small nail is needed, which is applied and secured with welding. Only first the tail is welded.
Intermediate result of work. For convenience of further work it is necessary to cool the hot workpiece in water.
The hole on the horse's chest is also closed with the same piece of nail.
The most interesting and difficult moment ismaking legs from nails, because it is important to make their proportions correctly. The length of the limbs is 8 cm. To bend a nail, you need to clamp it in a vice, leaving an edge of 3.5 cm and hit it from the side with a hammer.
The welding of the horse's front "legs" is also done with the help of a vice.
The hind limbs are welded in exactly the same way. When the first solderings are done, you can weld, holding the work in your hands or placing it comfortably on the table.
The craft is almost ready.
All that remains is to put it on its feet by bending them with pliers.
Brown spray paint will do for painting, or maybe any other color. The result will be even more interesting.
Time to dry off!
Now it's time to pose for the newborn mustang!