Goody bag

This year I've been entering a few giveaways hosted by different hobby people and I have been really lucky.

At the end of July, Chestnut Ridge hosted a week of offers, treasure hunt and competitions on their Facebook page as a celebration of Breyerfest. I entered both the treasure hunt and competitions as I thought it was a really nice idea.

I wasn't expecting to win anything so I was really surprised and happy to see my name was drawn among the correct answers in a word search puzzle. I was one of those who found the name of the auction model (Spirit) and found his sale price ($1800).

So I won a goody bag. 

It was that goody bag that was in the envelope so I decided to open it first.

I got a Breyer pen and pencil.

A paintbrush, a painting sponge and a bottle of gold acrylic colour. I was in need of gold acrylics so that was great!

I also got a Breyer G3 Pony ready for paint. I think this model is super cute and I can't wait to paint it. I'm thinking silver bay or silver black, maybe a palomino or tobiano, We'll see what happens.

Thank you so much to Chestnut Ridge for hosting this week of fun, I had a blast. And thank you for the goody bag! :)

Almost Like Christmas

This pile of goodies was waiting for me when I got home to my father. I haven't been there for a while so that's why it's such a big pile. It felt almost like Christmas opening all these boxes and envelopes.

Above is the entire pile!

I got 6 boxes. 5 of them where model horse related and for me. The sixth box was a present for my boyfriend who celebrated his birthday yesterday.

There were three envelopes, 1 was model horse related but two were for me and the third another present for my boyfriend.

4 of the boxes had contents that deserves their own posts and so does the model horse related envelope.

The fifth box was semi-model horse related but not interesting enough to earn it's own post.

It contained four cans of  Testors Dullcote that I use to seal the models that I paint so now I can start with the pastel painting again :)

Stay tuned for the posts about my other boxes, they contained a whole lot of awesome stuff!

Wordless Wednesday Jumps and Obstacles

For those of you who loves to see (or make) model sized jumps I took a few pictures for inspiration :)

Water obstacle

Driving obstacle

Driving obstacle

Obstacle in the combined jumping/cross country class

Obstacle in the combined jumping/cross country class

Obstacle in the combined jumping/cross country class

Some time off

As the title says I'll have some time off the next week and a half, off of work that is. So except for a trip home to visit my dear animals (and unpack the quite large amount of packages that awaits me at home *hinthint* blog posts coming up!) my only plan is to get along painting several of my model horses!

I thought I should share some pictures of the current state of my works in progress so that I (and you) can hopefully see the difference when I post about them next.

This braided Warmblood has been in the works for a while and at the moment he is getting some slight shading. I had just sprayed him with dullcote before this picture, that's why he looks glossy.

This Britain's horse is planned to be a dark bay Ardennais but at the moment I'm quite tempted to just shade it a bit more and keep it as a blonde Belgian horse.

This is Black Glitter N. He just needs his details and maybe some markings done before being finished. I really like the slight brown shadings in his coat. 

 Dimma also needs her details done before being finished, she too has some slight brown shading.

This is Lubra or Highland Lass for my Silver Brumby Project and she needs her details done before being finished.

This little toyhorse (I think she's a Britain's too) will be a Fjord and even though she looks pretty much white in this picture, she is actually a nice creamy base colour.

The same goes for this litte filly foal. She will also be a Fjord and although she doesn't look quite as white as the above, she has the same nice cream base colour.

Dino, my Hjalmar portrait is coming along great and I think I have captured his slight brown shading quite well. He will need a base or acrylic pegs to stand correctly and his details done to be finished but I really like him so far!

This girl will be a chocolate lab and is currently sporting her base coat with no shading what so ever but hopefully that will change soon :)

I still have a lot of models in my body box but hopefully, after this week, all of them will, at least, be primed and ready for paint!

Wordless Wednesday Driving Harnesses and Carriages

For those of you interested in tack (and also for personal, future, use) I took a few pictures of the tack and carriages from the driving class at Falsterbo Horse Show.

The next post will be the last of the Falsterbo Horse Show posts and will show you some pictures of the obstacles in some of the jumping classes but also the obstacles from the driving class.

Wordless Wednesday Driving

This year there was a new addition to the Wednesday program. Cross country driving. I've never seen a driving competition live although I've tried driving horses myself and it's a lot of fun so I was looking forward to see the horses.

There were only 5 entries in this class and colourwise it was quite varied, two chestnuts, one bay, one grey and one dark bay. 4 of the entered horses were warmbloods and one was a riding pony.

The pony was quite fast.

And maneuvered the obstacles really well.

The bay was really fast.

This chestnut probably was my favourite of the day, such a beauty!

And the carriage had pink details!

Next post will give you some closer pictures of the tack and carriages from the driving class.

Priming

I had high hopes of having some fun progress pictures to show you after this weekend. Unfortunately I don't. A nasty cold and really, really rainy weather prevented me from doing much.

Above you can see the horses that are drying from paint/sealer or need another coat of primer.

The horses above are ready to paint.

Pardon the bad picture! This horses are standing here waiting for a coat of dullcote to seal the last layer of pastels.

Hopefully I can get some horses painted in the near future so that I can actually show you some finished models! :)

Wordless Wednesday Dressage

The second post from Falsterbo Horse Show. I didn't see a whole lot of dressage as it was raining quite a lot. This year they had changed the program a bit, so instead of dressage for 6 year old horses it was pony kür. I only watched them in the warm-up ring as we were going back to the jumping arena.

There were a few more colours than bay and grey at the dressage arena, for example this chestnut.

Or this really golden palomino.

He had a really nice colour!

This horse was not competing at the day.

Next up will be driving!