Friday, May 22, 2026

Populating my farmstead model - Geese


Wishing to add some character to my Flemish farmstead model, I set off sculpting the masters of a farm servant girl (who has casually appeared in some previous posts and will be featured in a future one) and of a couple of geese. 

Sculpting the beautiful, elegant waterfowl has been quite easy, and painting them a simple enough task.  

The first epoxy putty master and a painted resin casting

A simple conversion yielded a second pose

The European domestic goose is derived from the wild Eurasian grey, or graylag, goose (Anser anser), which was domesticated back in the Bronze Age, or perhaps earlier. 

Occasionally, stranded wild geese may be adopted in a domestic flock, so I painted one of my geese as a graylag…














 

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