Every Day Kinda Thing

I don't know if ya'll were on Ebay a few mornings ago, but I'm the one who the $7 Peterstone Ideal Stock Horse body. Happy Dance! I rather like his current color and his horn and hooves, so the only thing that will be changing is his mane and tail. Am I the mastermind who will give him a fantastic new 'do? No, obviously, I'm hoping for Sue Kern; she's budget friendly, just in general friendly, and does amazing work. If she has time this summer, I'll ship him out there. The quick turn around is nice, too; waiting for months on end to receive your repaired/re-painted model could get old; Given I am Master Impatience. Back to what I was planning on talking about, to prove I'm not a total bluff, the new Stablemates from Breyer.

I am disappointed in the amount of new Stablemates this year. There's no 12 piece assortment of awesome new horsies, and gift sets galore; just 13 new models, randomized with everything from mare and foal sets to a portrait model. I like the new Mare and Foal sets (shown  below), but it's unclear how popular they are in general yet, as they are still listed as 'coming soon' on the Breyer website. My favorite is the grullo mare with the white scratching foal; the shading on the foal is really awesome, and grullo is one of my favorite colors. As much as I'd like to have one of those grullo AQHA models, a small grullo stablemate might suit my want just fine;

  

My second favorite is the appaloosa thoroughbred and the cantering foal; I really like the paint job on that mare. It reminds me of the Appaloosa Driving horse Stablemate they had a few years back, that came in 'formal' and 'messy' spot variations. I wonder if this model will have the same variations...?

  I do like the Bay mare and lying foal, too. I've been wanting a nice Para Dressage example, and she's it. And that cute little foal can't be beat, either. As for the white saddlebred and chestnut foal, I really don't care much for the Stablemate Saddlebred mold. Unfortunately, I love the standing stock foal mold. SIGH. Just another list of things to look around for.

 And I'm sorry if that got boring real quick, I still haven't figured out an entertaining formula for reviews, yet; flying monkeys soaring across the screen maybe? Circus-Pop music in the background? Exasperated enthusiasm and girl screams? Reviews are interesting, because they really shouldn't mean anything to us. What another person thinks about a certain model shouldn't effect how we feel about it. But it does. Sometimes we want to know about the details or the quality and I get that. But when no one even has the model yet and knows nothing of the details and quality of it, and is just saying that they like the color bay and the mold, why bother? Yes, I'm dissing my own reviews because it's true. I like bay and grullo and I'll tell you all about it, but my opinion shouldn't change how you feel about it... that was a rant... Anyway, on to something that everybody's excited about, the Valegro stablemate;

 

Gah, that paint job is rechid. I could have done that, and I am far from an advanced customizer, more or less a Breyer factory painter. The mold is rather obviously a revamped Andalusian from the look of the photos; so I'll be curious to hold the original Andalusian next to his redone brother.  I don't mean to anger all of the millions of people that love him, but he really doesn't look that well done in the photos. Perhaps it's because his Traditional twin is so flattering and incredible, but perhaps it's because of the messy paint and weird eyes. Yes, I love the idea of Stablemate Scale portraits, but American Pharoah was so much better executed... I shouldn't be passing judgement, because I haven't seen one in person yet, and he could be a heck of a lot better. So I take back what I said. Just think about it for a while. 

Something I'm slightly more excited about is the 'Competing at the Games' Stablemates set, featuring a few of my favorite molds;

Yes they are all 'boring'; solid colors with hardly any markings at all, and plain does come to mine, but I like them. I'm congaing the Warmblood Stallion, and I've a recent fondness for the Thoroughbred so those are benefiting factors. But they're also simplistic, well done models. We'll see how they sell; I will be snagging up a set as soon as time calls for it, which, unfortunately, might not be for a while.