The one that started it all

I've finally been able to find the powercord to my harddrive (yay!) so I thought I'd make a post about the model that started my obsession with modelhorses.

In 2004, I was fortunate enough to be able to attend Falsterbo Horse Show*, not one day, not two days, but the entire week! I was thrilled and besides seeing many exciting competitions and interesting tack and accessories, I collected autographs from lots of great riders. And when I walked around the "shopping area" (in lack of a better word) I found this beautiful plastic horse in a yellow box. It wasn't just any horse, it was a sweet Fjordhorse gelding in a quite walk. Since my mother and I have had a fjordhorse since I was six years old, I've always adored the breed and always wanted a toyhorse or just a nice fjordhorse ornament to have on display. The horse I'd found was the Breyer regular run fjord Henry. I wanted him so bad. Unfortunately, I didn't have the funds to bring him home with me. Instead I found the schleich fjordhorse, which fitted my budget better.


Schleich Fjordhorse OF, now named Loke.

I named him Unik, after our fjordhorse (he will have his own post soon), and I started collecting schleich horses, but I just couldn't get that Breyer Henry out of my mind. I took me almost half a year before I, by chance, stumbled across a store who sold Breyers (in Sweden we didn't have very many breyer retailers by that time, and now I think there are one left) and by February I was finally able to buy him. He then "inherited" the name Unik from the Schleich fjordhorse, which instead got the name Loke.

Breyer Henry OF. Now named Viking.

During the fall of 2005 I found the Swedish Modelhorse Society and thereby the modelhorse hobby.

And a few years ago I attended a liveshow in Sweden and one model caught my eye. It was the Kristina Lucas Francis Bruno resin. A beautiful fjordhorse resin in classic size. I decided then and there that one day I would own a Bruno resin and he would be painted as a portrait of Unik. I did get a chance to by a Bruno resin and I took it.

KLF Bruno. Named Unik and will be painted as a portrait of him.

So it was pretty much that simple find of a Breyer Fjordhorse in 2004 who started what is, today, a collection of over 200 modelhorses.


*Falsterbo Horse Show is a weeklong event which consists of many different jumping and dressage competition classes and an area where you can buy pretty much anything horse-related.