Zaccai and Model Mongol Horseman
Zaccai's home-school history lesson now is about the days of Genghis Khan and his Asiatic horsemen which conquered so much of Asia in the ninth century AD.
We thought it would be interesting to make a miniature rider and horse in the costume of the Mongol horsemen.
We are trying flour and salt clay instead of our usual papier mache for the model--it seems better for small work and fine details--well, we'll see.
We made an iron-wire (construction wire) armature and covered it with the "clay". To save baking electricity we are experimenting with sun-dried "salt-flour clay". Usually these little creations take at least several hours of oven baking at 250 degrees--but that's pretty pricy for school work--which doesn't have to last forever!
We thought it would be interesting to make a miniature rider and horse in the costume of the Mongol horsemen.
We are trying flour and salt clay instead of our usual papier mache for the model--it seems better for small work and fine details--well, we'll see.
We made an iron-wire (construction wire) armature and covered it with the "clay". To save baking electricity we are experimenting with sun-dried "salt-flour clay". Usually these little creations take at least several hours of oven baking at 250 degrees--but that's pretty pricy for school work--which doesn't have to last forever!
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