The horse harness was made from metal sheet cut out with a sharp roller blade. These blades have the advantage of not pulling up the cut material and distorting it as the cutting pressure moves along the edge of a steel rule. Buckles were added from Historex spares after they had been thinned down by rubbing them onto carborundum paper. Officers' horse decorations were added from the spares box and others were made using small balls of Magic-Sculp, such as on the crupper. The decorative metal on the harness passing behind the horse's ears was a sheet of Magic-Sculp that was embossed with a very fine 'C' shaped tip of a syringe. When set the depth was carved in using a scalpel. A difficult aspect of the horse furniture to make was going to be the chain around the horse's neck leading up to the chin. I thought about using twisted wire or Duro, but really wanted something that looked like real chain . In the end I spent hours searching for some very fine chain in jewellers' shops. The gold chain I found was just about fine enough to be realistic. Once it was on the horse I tipped the horse to one side and let the chain hang off to one side and then ran some thin super glue over the links of the chain which set to appear as if it was bouncing through the air. On the horse's chest the original musculature was a little understated so I reworked with more Magic-Sculp.
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