Long time no see

Yes, I've been very bad at updating this blog, again, but I have some posts in the making and I hope to post them soon.

I've made some changes to the blog layout and also to my homepage. I wasn't really fond of the layout on any of them, they where very impersonal and felt too cold somehow. And I am also the kind of girl who likes to update and change designs and layouts so it was expected ;-)

The camera is still working, the powercord is found and my new computer can read the memory card from my camera, which means that I have absolutely no reason not to post lots and lots of modelhorsie pictures :-)

Performance beginnings

So it took me just over a month to write a new, real, post... I still haven't found the powercord to my harddrive but during this time atleast we got the old car working and me and my father have been working on my car and finally got it finished last week so hopefully it will keep working :) My camera is almost working so I've snapped a few new pictures today. And as I'm writing this post I'm also working on my performance props :)

I have so many ideas that I would like to try my hand at, especially in the larger scales but I decided to begin in smaller scales. Mostly because most of the materials I had on hands worked well for stablemate scale and also because I find it to be quiet manageable to make props in that scale. And it's definately great training before I'll move on to traditional size, which will probably be as soon as I'll get my hands on some new performance models.

All pictures were taken at my kitchen table since I don't have a place set up for taking photos yet...

The first thing I thought of when I wanted to start making props for performance was a piece of a racingtrack. Ever since I won a stablemate Sonador racing set at a liveshow raffle I've wanted to show them in performance but the thought of showing two racingequipped horses with no racingtrack bothered me a bit. Especially since they're stablemates, I want to give them that little extra to get noticed on the showtable. I still think something is missing so if you have any tips or ideas to improve the track it would be greatly appreciated :)

Next up, I got the idea to make a whole scene of a three-year-old test for Swedish Warmbloods. Since it will require quite a bit of work to make all the little details and the fact that i need a base that will be a mini version of an 20x40m arena I haven't done a whole lot but here's a picture of a jump :) I'm actually quite proud of the jump cups, they gave me some trouble, but they look quiet good in photos :)

And the tobacco box in the background is great to store my paint tubes and paintbrushes in :)

And last, but probably not least, the one I'm most proud of, and the one I would love to do in traditional scale one day:

I apologize for the paintbrush handle sticking out. The jump is not yet connected to the base so it needed a little support so Caranto (Sm. G3 British Breeds Jumper OF) wouldn't fall into the none-watery-water jump :)

A cross-country jump, inspired by a Rolex water jump. I'm waiting for my local hobby retailer to re-stock on solid water so I can continue.

There are still things to work on on all props but I couldn't wait to show it off :)

Just For Fun

 Found this test and thought I'd try it out :)

you are seagreen #2E8B57

Your dominant hues are cyan and green.  Although you definately strive to be logical you care about people and know there's a time and place for thinking emotionally.  Your head rules most things but your heart rules others, and getting them to meet in the middle takes a lot of your energy some days. Your saturation level is higher than average - You know what you want, but sometimes know not to tell everyone.  You value accomplishments and know you can get the job done, so don't be afraid to run out and make things happen. Your outlook on life can be bright or dark, depending on the situation.  You are flexible and see things objectively.

the spacefem.com html color quiz

Actually think this was a quite fitting result since I recognize myself in pretty much every line :)

And don't worry, I've got a modelhorsie post in the works and it will be up in a few days :)

Introducing the collection

I'm sorry I haven't posted sooner. I have great ideas for performance and some of my favorite models I'd love to share but unfortunately I've lost the power cord to my external hard drive and of course, all my pictures are on that hard drive... And to top it all of, my camera isn't working and two nights ago my car broke down... Hopefully we can get the old car we have, standing around, working at the end of the week so I don't have to worry about how I'm going to get to work. And then I'll try to find the cord and a working camera so that I can give you some fresh pictures :)

But until then, I found some old pictures of my collection which I thought I could share. These pictures were taken in 2007, so I'd been collecting for almost 2 years by then.

Top shelf, showing of all my stablemates. I'm not sure how they got so many, since I am mainly into the bigger ones :)

Second shelf, showing of a nice blend of a little older molds and some newer.

 

Third shelf, showing of my wild rearing ones and my longer, stretching out models that are a bit too long for the shelves :)

Fourth shelf, showing of some of my favorites and some of my first Breyerhorses

 

 Fifth shelf, mostly classic models and babies.

Sixth shelf, showing of some of my first models and also my very first Breyer horse, Henry, the Fjord.

 The only models not shown in the pictures are my Schleich horses 

Today, almost five years later, my collection consists of well over two hundred modelhorses (some dogs and cats too) varying from Breyer horses to Peter Stones, Schleich, CollectA, customs and resin casts. So I the collection has definitely expanded.

Hopefully I can post new pictures of my collection very soon and I'll also start introducing you to some of my favorites in the collection :)

My First Post

Yay! My first post on this blog. I thought I'd present a little bit more information about me, my hobby and the purpose of this blog.

First of all. Hi, my name is Tina, I'm soon to be twenty years old and I live in Sweden. I've always been very fond of horses (cats and dogs too, but mostly horses) and I've been riding since I was about five or six years old and my mother and I have a sweet little fjord gelding named Unik, who we've owned for 14 years by now. Nowadays it's mostly my mother who rides him since I'm now taking care of a Swedish warmblood gelding named Poppes. We've also recently added a new member to our family, a cute little crossbred dog named Slash. But enough about me and onto what this blog will be about.

I started collecting model horses around 2004 and it began with the Schleich fjord gelding. In 2005 I found, and joined, the Swedish Modelhorse Society, which opened a lot of new doors in the hobby. Today my collection consists of over 200 model horses ranging from Schleich, to Breyers, resin casts and Peter Stones, with Breyers being the majority. I'm mostly into original finish plastics or custom paintd resins. Still I've made a few attempts at repainting, with various results. I've also recently started into propmaking and very lightly in tackmaking but I will definately keep trying.

And now to the purpose of this blog. I really enjoy reading other people's blogs and felt inspired and wanted to share my own pictures of my collection, the stories behind those holy grails, showcase my newest acquisitions, show my progress in customs, tackmaking and propmaking, but perhaps the most important, I want to inspire others as I've been inspired.

And to end this ramble I want to apologize for any grammar and spelling mistakes, English is not my first language but I want to write the entries of this blog in English in order to maintain and expand my English knowledge and vocabulary, and of course to make it understandable to a bigger crowd :)

That's all for my first blog post. Thank you for reading and feel free to comment if there is anything you would like to know or read about.