Another project

I was a bit too fast posting pictures of my projects yesterday. Because a few hours after posting I started another project.

Or technically, I restarted my project. I started my first attempt at a sculpture several months ago. I made an armature (which in hind sight was quite terrible) bulked it up with some aluminum foil, put on some sculpey clay and baked it in the oven. Unfortunately (or fortunately maybe?) I was too quick when I read the instructions and turned up my oven to the temperature the package stated. A few minutes later I realized my mistake and my sculpture had pretty much turned into a black lump with wires sticking out of it. When I turned the degrees up on my oven I read the Fahrenheit temperature and since we use Celsius it went WAY to hot for the clay. No harm was done except to the sculpture, which was deemed not salvageable.

So yesterday a started a new armature. I need some more supplies before I can continue on with the sculpture but I am so much happier with this armature than the last one so hopefully I'll actually be able to do some sculpting in the next couple of days.

I won't give any details to what breed, gender and alike it will be just yet as I'm not sure I will actually get there 😊

Liveshow Prep

Long time no see. I have been very bad at keeping up with blogging the last couple of months but to be honest I have had pretty much nothing to blog about, I haven't painted anything since NaMoPaiMo, haven't bought any new horses or made any tack.

I think the only model horse related thing I have done for the last two months have been to listen to the Mares In Black podcast, which I have thoroughly enjoyed.

Anyway I am going to a liveshow later this year and since it is still a couple of months away and I finally got some motivation to do some model horse related stuff (hopefully it'll stay for awhile), I went through the class list and decided that I might want to bring some new faces to the show.

That means, quite a bit of work... 

This is my little gang. The three big ones needs quite extensive prepping, the three stablemates will be resculpted and the little resin needs an ear fixed and a little prepping.

I wonder how far I'll get in time for the show but hopefully I can at least finish some of them!

Generosity

A little over a week ago, me and my boyfriend met with a fellow hobbyist as she is doing some restoration work on a sculpture my boyfriend owns. We got to see some of her collection and it was amazing.

She gifted me a lovely CollectA Friesian customized into a unicorn. This guy is incredible, I do have a few fantasy models but they are not normally something I collect but this guy is a definite competitor for the spot favourite fantasy model of my collection!

His pattern is inspired by koi fishes and he looks absolutely incredible!

I tried really, really had to find a name for him. Since he is inspired by koi fishes I wanted him to have a Japanese name and I didn't want to be too obvious and go for Koi. So I started searching. Japanese is not an easy language as I have no idea how the grammar works or pretty much any thing to do with Japanese. But after some searching I decided on the name Kanyou, from my research I found out that it is supposed to mean forbearance, tolerance and generosity.

I found this model really inspiring and one day I would like to make him sort of a diorama with a small pond (maybe even with a koi fish or two swimming in it) and a Sakura tree.

I am very happy for this guy and I am very thankful to my fellow hobbyist who gifted him to me. I love him!