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Bite the Bullet (Custom Breyer Stablemate Thoroughbred)
The inspiration for this model came from the fact that I had bought the Stainless Steel paint on sale and wanted to see how it looked on a model. I really am creative sometimes, eh? Not that you can tell from the photos, but this little gal is actually painted mimicking a flaxen chestnut pattern […]
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Tiny Bubbles (Custom Breyer Stablemate Thoroughbred)
This little gal was part of a body lot that I bought while I was in Iowa. She was damaged in the move from Iowa to Virginia, so I ended up adding the tobiano pattern to cover the damage before I resold her. The amber champagne base coat painted by the unknown artist (signed SWP’01 […]
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Run Rainbow, Run (Custom Breyer Stablemate Thoroughbred)
One of the fun things about taking custom orders is that customers come up with challenging paint jobs that I wouldn’t have done on my own! 🙂 This was the custom order in which I learned that yellow hates green with a burning passion—or at least the Liquitex yellow hated the Liquitex light green that […]
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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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Dreamsicle Flash (Custom Breyer Stablemate Thoroughbred)
I apparently have an inability to take good photos of models with a lot of white on them. This was an earlier horse, as you can tell by the fabric backdrop and the slight blurriness (and the carpet! doh). Still, the camera was was a digital, you’d think I would have taken more photos and […]
