Custom Mini Model Horses

Posting from my phone again... NAN 2018 was a lovely way to spend the day today with OF performance and CM and resin breed and workmanship. The small crowd was friendly and supportive and the judges did a great job. Two of my babies won top five and top nine rosettes. In The Spotlight  And other showers were putting some serious competition in the rings with their own minis.

New crop of foals available at Breyerfest Swap Meet July 13th

I’m going to try and post from my phone... fingers are crossed. I had a lovely tour over at Old Friends at Dream Chase Farm this morning. Alphabet Soup and his mini donkey companion Gorgeous George 

A little while back I posted a photo of my new Pan Pastel colors. I've gotten a chance to use them, and have found them quite handy.      First, these colors are all useful—which is not something I say about many of the Pan Pastel colors because they are not all well suited for horses. The orange shade looks a little odd at first, but once it's part of the coat it softens to a nice, bright addition to chestnuts, palominos, buckskins and bays. I think of is as more of a golden tone than orange when the model is finished.      Second, they are easy to use—no sandpaper palette needed, no huge-jar-o-dust waiting to spill. The pans work with both paintbrushes and Microbrush applicators for small details like leg bars and dorsal stripes.     Third, the colors work well together and blend well. For example, on this model I used the Burnt Sienna Extra Dark to deepen a few areas I had dusted with the Burnt Sienna Shade. So... thes...

Breyer Custom Minis completed with Rust-Oleum Products, Pastels, and acrylic paint. Rust-Oleum has been one of my go-to brands of supplies over the years. I use the 2X Ultra Cover white primer on almost every model I customize, plus one of my favorite sprays—Testors Dullcoat —is made by Rust-Oleum. So I thought I'd do a little experiment and try some other Rust-Oleum products for two different phases of pastelling customs: first, for the basecoat color under the pastels, and second for the fixative spray between the layers and/or final coat. The two basecoat colors I chose were Satin Ivory Silk and Satin Fossil. PROS: The paint can be applied directly to a well-sanded, prepped Breyer or over primer. I think the colors of these paints were lovely places to start a horsey-toned paint job. The Ivory Silk color seems like it would be great for buckskins, palominos, sorrels and bays, whereas the Fossil was less warm/yellow and more of a neutral brown for grullas and...

Custom Minis WIPs

Top: 280.3 Orange Shade and 740.3 Burnt Sienna Shade (a duplicate I didn’t need if anyone wants it) Bottom row: Black, 380.1 Red Iron Oxide Exra Dark, and 740.1 Burnt Sienna Extra Dark

The second Vintage Custom Model Equine Congress in Battle Creek, Michigan was like going back in time to a model horse show of yesteryear—a small, friendly group of showers with some serious competition... custom models sporting soft mohair manes (or RRH as we might have called them.) Many were traditional Lady Phases, Stock Horse Stallions and Trakehner molds, but the minis were inspiring! Here are a few: MN Borg, 1995 Fjord by Michelle Belisle from the G1 Morgan mare and stallion molds. A splashy sorrel pony owned by Tracy Phillips A 1988 thoroughbred by Sarah Minkiewicz-Breunig in dapple gray, most likely from Swaps. Flip the Switch, a 1980's TWH mare by Leslie Kathman owned by Deb Carlson. A vintage Seabiscuit CM to a zebra hybrid owned by Shannon Rodgers with it's World Champion ribbon. MN Zuka is another Seabiscuit CM to an exotic. He is a 1994 Grevy's Zebra by Michelle Belisle. This sweet Arabian, LL Desert Rose, was customized in ...