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Little Miss Margins (Custom Breyer Stablemate Thoroughbred)
The meeting is dragging on, people are trapped in a loop rehashing old topics and you… you’re stuck doodling in the margins. Or playing Angry Birds—but I think they’d sue me if I started slapping beaks on the horses. This little gal first appeared here and has come a long way since. As you can […]
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Sudden Digression (Custom Breyer Stablemate Thoroughbred)
This little gal is one of my favorites (in name and in color) and one of the horses I really wish I hadn’t sold. In theory, I could paint her again, but I’m oddly reluctant to try. Sudden Digression is a customized Breyer Stablemate G2 Thoroughbred. She’s had her logo removed and seams sanded, but […]
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Mulligans Wild (Custom Breyer Stablemate Thoroughbred)
Mulligan was painted to help round out the thoroughbred gallery and is a nice basic dark bay without any white markings. He’s been very minorly resculpted to add male bits and forelock, or (more accurately) a male bump and a forelock. Equine sex changes are a little more complicated that I had anticipated. Interestingly he […]
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Fading Glory (Custom Breyer Stablemate Thoroughbred)
This little gal started out life as a dappled grey custom painted by an unknown artist. I got her in a body box from eBay and was planning on repainting her—then she was damaged in the move from Iowa to Virginia. I figured the easiest way to salvage her was to change the dappled grey […]
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Kentucky Rose (Custom Breyer Stablemate Thoroughbred)
Rose is painted in Venetian Rose only, with the dark points in the ‘from the tube; color and the light points from a mixture with white gesso. Even though there isn’t as much contrast to the shading as you’d find in a real chestnut, I love the variations I was able to pull out of […]
