Looking for good horses

[Wathi]

I'm hoping this is the right place to post this question : )

I'm looking for some nice horses for use in Old West, I had an idea of making my character a horsehandler. As it turns out, nice horses WITHOUT saddles are pretty hard to come by.

Anyone know where I can find some?
I've been looking at ebob but his saddle-less horses come with a licence at £60 each and though they are lovely I'm not really prepared to pay that kind of prize as I was hoping to have somewhere around 9 horses.
Unfortunately he could not sell them much cheaper license-free as it has to do with production costs.

Plastic horses with saddles could be an option though, depending on what the saddle looks like, as saddles and tack could be carved off more easily from a plastic horse (I think I will refrain from doing that on metallic horses to spare my sanity).

Any help or tips is appreciated : )

[Col.Stone]

maybe these then?
http://www.conquest-games.co.uk/index.php?cPath=22_28_29

[Wathi]

Hm.. those could work, though I was hoping to find some with more varied poses : /

[Euthanasor]

You can find "Eureka miniatures" ones. (picture at the end of this topic of my blog: )

http://euthanasor-wargamesetmodelisme.blogspot.com/search/label/LOTOW?updated-max=2011-04-18T17%3A48%3A00%2B02%3A00&max-results=20

They are very thin and a little bit "flat". I use them for my wild herd (indians).

They is a real magnificient one at Mirliton:

http://www.mirliton.it/index.php?cName=medieval-accessories

[joroas]

Ebob has a gorgeous one:

[voltan]

There's this confederate un from the Perrys

http://www.perry-miniatures.com/product_info.php?products_id=1402

or the union version

http://www.perry-miniatures.com/product_info.php?products_id=1401

[joroas]

These all have saddles.........

[Svennn]

Bridles and reins but no saddles
http://www.frontrank.com/lev4_2_11_0_Napoleonic_Horses.asp

[voltan]

These all have saddles.........

Bugger, I must learn to read properly.

[joroas]

That's okay, I posted the Ebob link and then realised that he had been there already........... 

[Wathi]

That's okay, I posted the Ebob link and then realised that he had been there already........... 

She though ; )

I would prefer the Ebob ones since they're gorgeous, but I would like somewhere around 9 horses and Ebob only has like 3 different ones without saddles, except the licenced ones. I asked him if they could be bought cheaper with no license but he wasn't sure he could do that, has to do with production costs etc.

The Napoleonic ones look really nice though, are those in metal? I can't find any info on the material, maybe I'm just blind.
Might be able to remove the tack from them though, good prize on them too so I can have a respectable herd : )

[Svennn]

The Front Rank ones are metal. I only chose Napoleonic by chance the other periods will be saddle-less too.

Essex mould saddles onto riders also
http://www.essexminiatures.co.uk/frames25horses.html

[voltan]

It's a shame E-bob retired the old horse packs he used to do, they were damn useful

[Wathi]

Shame Essex had the saddle straps sculpted onto the horse though : /

[Doomsdave]

Have you tried railroad models?

K-line has these for $10-$12 at most sites.

There are also toy horses in close scale, such as the Safari toys brand "horse toob".  Yes Tube is spelled Toob on the product.  Neither have tack or saddles.

These would be a very cheap alternative if you just want to make a herd.  You could vary the simlar poses by painting different color patterns.