Headless horseman

So after a lot of deliberation I decided to scrap my horse armature and start again with stronger wire so I didn't need anything else supporting it for it to be able to reer. I'm quite happy with the armature that I have made. 

I drilled some holes big enough for the wire to fit in and used seal site glue to secure my armature in place. Then it was time to pack my horse out with tinfoil, I have a few different designs for my headless horseman, but first I wanted my model to atleast replicate a horse.

After adding a lot of packing and sculpey and attaching my armature for the headless horseman, I sat and looked at my horse for about three hours and just totally wasn't happy with it , so on I went to stripping it down back to the wire frame, at this point feeling defeated and deflated ha ha ! 

Feeling better already now my horse is a skinny wire frame again I decided that the more realistic I tried to make my model that the worse it was looking , so back to the drawing board and back to my designs. 

I think my horse and horseman both look good slender and long and creepy, after all they are both dead! I think I need some more sections of chipboard for my graveyard setting. But first my horse needed finishing once and for all.

After sitting back and looking at my horse and research and designs for another hour I realised it was the head I wasn't happy with this time so off it went, it's a shame it couldn't of been a headless horse with a headed man 

Already feeling a lot happier with the shape of my horses head, now it was time to sort out my horsemans arms and hands as with wrapping the wire around and around to attach his hands I had given him really fat wrists which really isn't an option so off with the hands and more detail for my horse too . 

Closer detail of the hands I am a lot happier now, now I need to add some detail and finish off my horse I will upload a photo of the raw finished horseman before I paint and add finishing touches soon.