New photos

My boyfriend and I recently decided to treat ourselves and buy a light tent to take photos in. I don't have to many good opportunities to take the models out for photographs (and not that many great spots to use for photos either) and my boyfriend wants to be able to photographs and put up scenes with his 1/6 scale collection. So it happened. So far I have had quite a bit of use for it.

I have photographed every single (painted) traditional scale model in my collection. I don't have a fitting background for the smaller scales yet, but when I do, they will be next!

This post will showcase a couple of my favourite pictures.

Acuatico, Breyer Tr. Blue Suede Shoes OF

Amber, Breyer Tr. Protocol OF

Attack, Breyer Tr. Voyeur OF

Belize, RC Genoveva rep. S. Nordström

Casanova, Breyer Tr. Catch Me OF

Chester VS, RC Caitano rep. S. Nordström

El Salvaje, RC Verrochio rep. L. Lawrynovicz

Firenze, Breyer Tr. Totilas rep. D. Brown

Fuego, Breyer Tr. Hidalgo OF

Lexus, Breyer Tr. Totilas rep. J. Ward

Lost All Hope, RC Kitty Did It rep. L. Lawrynovicz

Luthién, Breyer Tr. Premier Club Rhian OF

Moonlight Shadow, RC Primula rr. ?/D. Brown

Nahele, RC El Embosco rep. J. Hall

Nimbus, RC Oscar rr. E. Zarzecka

R. Peppermint, PS Weanling rr S. Nordström

Sahale J, RC El Embosco rep. E. Gonzales

Sato's Surprise, Breyer Tr. Sato OF

Vivaldi, Breyer Tr. Web SR Acadia OF

Grail and update

It has been a while since my last post and unfortunately there might not be too many more posts for the rest of the year. The last month or so has been busy, my boyfriend has had to work overtime everyday of the week since coming back to work after summer vacation, which means that I have had to do most of the chores around the apartment. I have also had a busy time at work and on top of it all, we are buying a house!

So I have barely done anything model related for the last month. And as we will be moving in the beginning of December we will be quite busy packing stuff up, sorting stuff that we won't bring with us and buying new furniture. That means that I might not be able to do much model related stuff over the next few months (but I hope to make up for it after the move as we will have a designated craft room and a designated room for horse shelves and collector's stuff! I have never, ever, had that before! So excited!) I do however hope to have time for a couple of posts before the move as I entered ICCE this year! But more on that and onto the real reason for this post!

I kind of shouldn't by unpainted resins at the moment. My shelves are kind of full of unpainted beauties begging for paint. I really don't need to add to that.

But sometimes you get a chance to buy something you have wanted for a long, long time and never thought that you would actually own. I recently found that. Back in August a picture was published on the Brigitte Eberl Appreciation Force facebook page. It was a picture of a whole lot of resins standing on a floor. It was announced that there were Hermiones in the picture and that she was available again.

For those of you who might not be that familiar with Brigitte's sculptures, Hermione is an older sculpt by Eberl, of a Fjord mare. I am quite sure that there were very few of her in existence and I have only seen a handful during my 16 years in the hobby. Therefore I was quite sure that my shelves would never be graced by this beautiful sculpture, who I think is one of the best Fjord sculpts out there. 

I emailed Brigitte the same moment I saw what sculpt it was and I read it was available. And a few days ago she arrived. She is not as rough as I thought she would be and I am so, SO happy to be able to add her to my collection, even though I really don't need anymore unpainted resins.

I need NaMoPaiMo to kick me in the butt and get at least one of these beauties painted, but who to chose?!

Gorgeousness!

I have done quite a bit of model horse shopping the last few weeks and I was not supposed to buy anymore horses for a while. And then Oscar came up for sale.

I have enjoyed the works from Ela at MetalFishArt for quite a while and currently have a horse with her for a commissioned paintjob. However I have tried to acquire a piece by her for a while and when I saw Oscar, who is sculpted by one of my absolute favourite sculptresses I didn't want to pass the chance up.

I was so happy when I got the email that my bid had won! Then the wait started. Fortunately I didn't have to pay any duties on this model and the shipping was quite fast. Unfortunately the package was supposed to be delivered to my door on a day I wasn't home so the post office took the package back to the sorting place and the next day, drove it out to my pickup place. That meant I had to wait an extra day to get my horse. Normally I am quite okay with that but, I don't like to wait, but I can accept it. This time I was a bit more impatient as I really, really was looking forward to this model.

Anyway, the box he came in was BIG and he was VERY well packed. I was very careful unwrapping him from layers and layers and layers of bubblewrap but at the same time I kind of wanted to rip it all up and free my new, beautiful horse.

When I got him out, I gasped and was at a loss of words. I could do nothing but look at this beautiful model and appreciate the hug amount of work that has been put into him. Words can not describe how beautiful this model is and my pictures does NOT do him justice, at all! Link to Ela's photos that does him far more justice!

I couldn't stop looking at him! But I had worked late and had to go to bed so I had to wait until the next day to drool some more over him. No details was spared on this guy, whether it was details in the paintjob, like striped hooves and hair detailing in the markings.

Amazingly painted undersides of hooves.

The smoothest paintjob I think I have EVER felt and probably one of the best prep jobs I've ever seen.

His mane and tail is resculpted, among some other parts. He has veins sculpted, wrinkles in the right places, whisker bumps. Anyone who has ever had an unprepped Eberl model in their hands can probably testify that there can be quite a bit of prepping involved before they are ready for paint and I can only imagine how many hours and hours of resculpting and prepping that has been put into this piece!

There is not an imperfection anywhere near this horse! Ela has really, really put a lot of time, hard work and heart into this gorgeous piece.

I am so happy to finally have a piece done by her in my collection and I can't wait to have my commissioned model done by her (even though I know great work takes time and I will patiently wait for as long as she needs for him to be finished but seeing her work in person for the first time makes me want him even more!)

But until my commissioned model arrives I will enjoy this beauty (and maybe try to get my hands on some other models by her 😉) 

I had a hard time to pick a breed for this guy but as he will come with me to a show tomorrow I kind of needed to make a bit of a quick decision. It stood between KWPN and Standardbred as I think he would look absolutely lovely as both! But for now I decided on him being a KWPN and I decided to call him Nimbus.

It will be fun to show him and I will enter him in both workmanship and halter but no matter how he will do tomorrow I couldn't be happier with my new addition!

This horse is so photogenic and beautiful and has definitely climbed high up the list of favourites in my collection!