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Magpie Summer
Make: Breyer Scale: Stablemate Mold: Saddlebred (G1) Color: Dark Bay Gallery: Realistic Bay Medium: Acrylics Status: Painted and Sold Jan 2005 This little lady was my first shot at painting this older mold. You’d think by the time I got to her that I would have done one already… but I always feel odd customizing […]
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Splashdown (Custom Breyer Stablemate Thoroughbred)
What did I do before pastels? No, seriously… this is one of the later horses, as you can tell by the photos, and one of my favorites. The basecoat for this model was the light yellow that still peeks through in places. All of the rest was very slow, very careful layering of tans and […]
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Portrait Horse: Sierra
Make: Breyer Scale: Stablemate Mold: Morgan (G2) Color: Bay Tobiano Gallery: Tobiano Medium: Acrylics Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200? This was a custom ordered portrait horse, one of the few I’ve done. I’ve always been very nervous about doing portraits since I know it’s very easy for folks to pick out the flaws in […]
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Bit o’ Blue (Breyer Stablemate)
This little guy was a more recent paint job and one I did just for fun. I’m really rather fond of the old standing foal mold, although Breyer has since come out with several new Stablemate litte’uns. From what I remember, I painted this guy as a test piece for the technique used on later […]
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Florentine Flip
Make: Breyer Scale: Stablemate Mold: Morgan (G2) Color: Faux-decorator Gold Florentine (Gold and White) Gallery: Other Medium: Acrylics Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200? This horse was painted for an article I wrote on how to paint faux-decorators for The Model Horse Magazine. At some point I’ll dig it up and post it here– but […]
