Exception

What I like best about the model horse hobby is the realism of the sculptures and colours and as such, I'm not a huge fan of fantasy models or decorators (I like them but I generally don't want to collect them myself). That being said, there are a few models that I'd make an exception for and that was kind of the thing with my newest arrivals.

Mini Pegasus family.

I thought the big ones were amazing when they came out but I missed my chance at getting them so I was very happy when I learned that they would be released in mini scale.

Mini Seunta

That meant that I could afford the entire set!

Mini Avatar

They arrived today and they are absolutely lovely! I am very happy that I bought them and can't wait to find colours for them!

Mini Seunta

The only thing I am not looking forward to with these guys would be packing them up so I think I need to figure out a way to get them to travel safely.

Show Report: Resin Halter

The resin division was run semi-parallell to the plastic division but I like to divide the report to make

it more clear. 

As usual we started with the foals. It was quite a small championship but the horses were beautiful! My only foal in this division, Cochise (MM Flicker rep. L. Morris) took first in his class and went on to be champion reserve behind a sweet little arabian foal.

Champion Resin Foal: Nephelites. RC Very Little One rep. T. Wolmer
Champion Resin Foal Reserve: Cochise, MM Flicker rep. L. Morris

Arabians were another championship on the smaller side but with some beautiful horses. My only arabian, Sayad (Mini Khemo rep. S. Nordström) placed second in his class behind a gorgeous Adib. The followed each other claiming Champion and Reserve.

Champion Resin Arabian: KZ Khazad, RC Adib rep. P. Nilsson
Champion Resin Arabian Reserve: Sayad, RC Mini Khemo rep. S. Nordström

We went on to drafthorses after Arabians and I had 2 to show. Brego (Mini Haggis rep. T. Melin) took second in his class and Anemone (RC Mara rep. S. Tostanoski) surprisingly won her class! In the end it was the day of the Irish Cobs as both the champion and the reserve were Irish Cobs.

Champion Resin Drafthorse: Toro, AA Rearing Drafter rep. V. Crawley
Champion Resin Drafthorse Reserve: Galliano, HA Galileo rep. P. Nilsson

I only had a few horses to show in the next championship, which was ponies. My ponies If I Could Dream (HA Misty Dawn rep. A. Gustafsson) and Colibri Daughter (Pasha rep. S. Nordström) took first and second in their class which I was happily surprised by! In the end the winner of the Shetlandpony class went on to be Champion with an adorable Welsh sec A as Reserve.

Champion Resin Pony: Joker, HA Shetland rep. P. Lawson
Champion Resin Pony Reserve: Crownhill No September, HA Tirion rep. P. Nilsson

Riding- and carriagebreeds were up after the ponies and my only horse, Raphael (RC Gabriel rep. T. Melin) did absolutely great! Not only winning his class but also becoming champion reserve after a really nice morgan!

Champion Resin Riding- and Carriage Horse: Viewhill Scandinavian Trademark, RC Covenant Renewed rep. S. Nordström
Champion Resin Riding- and Carriage Horse Reserve: Raphael, RC Gabriel rep. T. Melin

Unfortunately I don't have any mini resin sporthorses ready for showing so unfortunately I had no horses to show in my favourite championship. I still got to drool over the beauties and one of my favourites were the warmblood who ended up being Champion reserve behind a really nice thoroughbred.

Champion Resin Sporthorse: Bugatti, AA Chasing Rainbows rep. P. Nilsson
Champion Resin Sporthorse Reserve: Marius Rex, Da Caprio rep. E. Ipes

I'm not really a stockhorse person but I actually brought no less than 3 stockhorses to show. Don't Call Me Nymphadora (RC Moxie rep. A. Brock) did great and got first place in her class and a champion reserve title behind another Moxie, painted as an appaloosa. It Takes Two To Tango (RC Moxie rep. T. Melin) and Shot in The Dark (RC Bat Girl rep. T. Melin) got second and third out of three in their class.

Champion Resin Stockhorse: Tiger Lily, RC Moxie rep. P. Lawson
Champion Resin Stockhorse Reserve: Don't Call Me Nymphadora, RC Moxie rep. A. Brock

The wild- and crossbreds championship was on the smaller side and I only had one horse to show, my sweet little Cheyenne (MM Sierra rep. L. Morris) took second in her class and was champion reserve after the classwinner.

Champion Resin Wild- and Crossbreds: Khezekooni, EAC Mustang rep. C. Johansson
Champion Resin Wild- and Crossbreds Reserve: Cheyenne, MM Sierra rep. L. Morris

Last for the day was the other Equus championship, which was also quite small and both the champion and the reserve was adorable mules!

Champion Resin Other Equus: Ellie, RC Miss Ellie Mae rep. P. Lawson
Champion Resin Other Equus Reserve: Frank, RC Frank rep. P. Lawson

Best in Show was awarded to Toro, the beautiful Irish Cob who was crowned champion drafthorse and Best in Show reserve was awarded to one of my favourite's of the day, KZ Khazad, the gorgeously painted Adib who claimed the champion arabian title. Unfortunately I didn't manage to get any pictures of the Best in Shows and their prices.

Show Report: Plastic Halter

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to go to a live show. This time it was a mini show with resin and plastic division, held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Swedish Model Horse Society and a Novice Show.

The show started of with the plastic foal championship. I showed no less than four foals in two different classes and they did very well. Troublemaker (Sm. Scrambling Foal rr. T. Wolmer) and Bellamie (Sm. Scrambling Foal rep. A. Gustafsson) took first and second in their class. Dixi (CollectA Donkey rep. T. Melin) and Tess (Schliech Trakhener Foal rep. T. Wolmer) took second and fifth. There were many great foals but in the end the champion title went to an Appaloosa Sporthorse Foal that we have seen quite a few times before and the reserve title went to an adorable arabian foal who was a new face to me.

Champion Plastic Foal: Busta Move, Sm. Prancing Foal rep. K. Caldwell
Champion Plastic Foal Reserve: Olimpia, Sm. G3 Standing Foal cm. P. Lawson

Arabians were up after the foals and there were many nice models! I brought Pharao (Sm. G2 Rearing Arabian OF) mostly to have an Arabian to show but I didn't expect him to do anything and he recieved a fifth out of five in his class, as expected. To beautiful, bay arabians were voted champion and champion reserve.

Champion Plastic Arabian: KZ Khili, Sm. Arabian Stallion cm P. Nilsson
Champion Plastic Arabian Reserve: KZ Nienna, Sm. TB cm P. Nilsson

Drafthorses were up next and it was a very diverse championship. I showed two models, Dunbar Prince (Sm. G2 Drafter rr S.Nordström) and Atlas (CollectA Irish Cob OF) and they took third and first in their respective classes. I wasn't expecting Atlas to do so good as I mostly brought him because he is quite cute but he is actually quite a good example of the breed. There were actually 2 fjordhorse classes in this championship and I really want to finish some of mine so that I can show some Fjords too! And will talking about Fjords, the Champion title went to a Fjord horse with the reserve being a North Swedish Horse.

Champion Plastic Drafthorse: Eros, CollectA Fjord rep. P. Lawson
Champion Plastic Drafthorse Reserve: Trollvind, Sm. G3 Pony cm P. Nilsson

Ponies were next and I had 3 to show. Neptune (Sm. G2 WB rep. T. Melin) went into other ponies and got second. Mirabelle (Sm. Swaps rr. T. Melin) and Bailey (Sm. G3 Jumper rep. T. Melin) showed in the same class and took first and second. It didn't stop there as Mirabelle was voted champion reserve behind a stunning shetland pony.

Champion Plastic Pony: Wolverine, Schleich Shetland cm E. Rönnberg
Champion Plastic Pony Reserve: Mirabelle, Sm. Swaps rr T. Melin

Sporthorses, my favourite championship! And the championship were I showed the most horses. I had no less than 7 models to show. Ice Baby, Ice (Sm. G2 TB rr C. Johansson) and Royal's Mexican Heat (Sm. G2 TB rr S. Nordström) took first and third in their class. Third place in the warmblood stallion and gelding breyer stablemate class went to Bailando (Sm. G2 Andalusian rr. T. Melin). Avatar (CollectA Hanoverian rep. T. Melin) took fourth out of four in a tough class. Amorina (WIA Bella Rose OF) was second in her class while Symphony D (Sm. G3 WB rr S. Nordström) got first in hers and Dakota (Bella Rose rep. T. Melin) got fifth in the same class. In the end the winner of Avatar's class went on to be voted champion, with my own Symphony D as reserve.

Champion Plastic Sporthorse: Tristan CH, CollectA Hanoverian rep P. Nilsson
Champion Plastic Sporthorse Reserve: Symphony D, Sm. G3 Warmblood rr S. Nordström

Riding- and carriagebreeds was quite diverse but I only had 3 horses to show. Aragorn (CollectA Friesian OF) took third out of three in the friesian class. Madonna (Sm. G2 ASB rep. C. Johansson) and Since You Don't Love Me (Sm. G2 ASB rep. A. Gustafsson) took first and second in their class. The callback table was an array of beautiful horses and in the end, a beautiful morgan was voted Champion with an intricately painted knabstrup as reserve.

Champion Plastic Riding- and Carriagebreeds: Penell's Mood, CollectA Morgan cm P. Nilsson
Champion Plastic Riding- and Carriagebreeds Reserve: Merrilinn J, Sm. G2 WB cm A. Zaharenkova

Stockhorses were one of the three championships were I had no horses to show. It was a rather small championship, but no less competitive and the champion voting was just as tough as the others. The champion vote settled on an appaloosa and reserve went to a paint.

Champion Plastic Stockhorse: Cool Girl, Sm. G3 QH rep. A-K Uhlén
Champion Plastic Stockhorse Reserve: TO Purring Magic, PS Chips CM P. Lawson

Wild- and crossbreds was another smaller championship and I showed no horses in it. The champion title went to a crossbred akhal-teke x Swedish Warmblood and the reserve was a mustang.

Champion Plastic Wild- and crossbreds: Grochod, Sm. G2 WB rep. O. Kuks
Champion Plastic Wild- and crossbreds Reserve: Nacho, Sm. G4 Mustang rep. P. Lawson

Other Equus was the smallest championship in the division with only one class. So the champion title went to the winner of the class and the reserve title went to the second place model. It was two adorable donkeys who claimed the titles.

Champion Plastic Other Equus: Evina, Safari donkey cm S. Nordström/ret P. Lawson
Champion Plastic Other Equus Reserve: Smörblomma, Schleich Donkey OF

The callback table for the Best in Show voting was really tough but in the end the cuteness that was the Shetland pony from the pony championship won the Best in Show title with the morgan from the Riding- and carriage breeds championship as Best in Show Reserve

Best in Show Plastic: Wolverine
Best in Show Plastic Reserve: Penell's Mood

Next up will be the resin halter.

Akhal-Teke bridle

My akhal-teke bridle is almost done. All of the tiny decorations took quite some time and even more patience to finish but I'm quite happy with it!

I still have the decorative stones to put on the round plates of the bridle put I'm still figuring out what colour they'll be and how to make them. 

Next step will be to make the neck collars but it might be a while before I start them as my patience needs to recover.

And I do have a few projects I'll try to finish before starting any new ones.

So for now, I'll just enjoy how the bridle looks on Nazar.

National Model Tack Month?

I had big plans for this years National Model Tack Month. Unfortunately my NMTM ended before it even began.

Due to some new fees put on packages from outside the EU the Swedish Postal system now takes 1½ to 2 weeks longer than normal to process and deliver a package from non-EU countries. Due to this my Rio Rondo order didn't arrive until April 18 and on the 19th I went a way for a course for work and wasn't home until late on the 22. The next week I was quite tired as I had worked an entire work week, then went on the course and then work another work week before getting a weekend off. So I was quite tired and had no motivation to work on my NMTM project.

Today, however, I had a day off work due to working on yesterday's public holiday and felt like making a start.

I managed to finish the very simple base of the bridle for my Akhal-Teke. According to the info I have found some Akhal-Teke bridles are not adjustable more than a buckle on the throatlatch so that's what I was aiming for (following my reference picture). 

I will hopefully start decorating it this weekend and then add the reins but so far I think it's an okay start considering it's my second bridle ever.

Tadpole

I've been wanting a Tadpole ever since I found out he would be made. I participated in all three of the lotteries for him (which I find is a very fair way to make the sales considering time zones and such) but I was never lucky enough to be drawn to buy one.

As it happens I was on MHSP on my break at work and saw a newly posted ad for a Tadpole for sale. I typed up an email and sent it as fast as I could, hoping that no one would've beat me to it.

No one did beat me to it so Tadpole was mine. The seller was super nice and it was a perfect transaction. I picked him up before work on Friday and as I had to work late I couldn't open him up until late in the night. I was supposed to go to bed when I got home but I was just too excited to not open him!

I just love his packaging! It's so beautiful! And since green is my favourite colour I am bit extra excited!

And the model itself is also SO BEAUTIFUL! He is super detailed and absolutely lovely.

I can't wait for him to get some clothes and enter the showring! I just don't know what colour I want him in! And who to paint him! So many hard decisions!

NMTM 2018

I can't believe April is here already! March passed by in a big haze for me and I can only hope April will be a better month for me.

Anyway, April means National Model Tack Month! Last year I made a Western Saddle set from Rio Rondo's awesome kit and this year I wanted to make something for my NaMoPaiMo model.

Since he is an akhal-teke it felt only fair to make him an akhal-teke tack set. I aim to make a saddle, bridle, breastcollar and neck collars with lots of small decorations! This is quite the ambitious project for me as I've only made very few tack items before and considering the fact that I am not the most patient person!

I can't wait for my package from Rio Rondo to arrive and to get started!