Comings and goings

 A new animal in the herd - no picture yet.  The consignment auction had a few Breyers - Xena's Argo, the vintage buffalo, and the white Tatanka buffalo.  I won the bidding on the vintage fellow for $35 with fees.  He's missing a horn tip, but that's fine. 

Sent two horses out to Midway for the sale case.  One is the palomino FAM that came in the lot last spring with the chalky PAS and Clydesdale mare.  I've got at least three other palomino FAMs, so this one's going out at the body price of $10, since she's well-loved.  The other is one of the pair of Belgian Wixoms that I got from Amazon about 20 years ago.  They had some Breyers at amazing prices for some reason that I can't recall - clear-out prices for stock from a brick & mortar store they bought, I think.  Anyway, they had the Belgians for $10 each, so I got two.  Not sure why.  Wixom is a big solid mold.  So, I picked the one I liked best, and the other is going out to Midway. 

And the sorting and tagging project continues. 

I found a PDF book for Libre Office's database program.  500+ pages, yikes.  It's been a long time since I worked with any kind of database, but I'd like to be able to search my collection and see, for example, how many Fjords I have, or models sculpted by a certain person.  Chalkies, shrinkies, glossies, customs, etc.  So I'll have to see if I can put this on one of the Kindles, or an iPad, and start reading.  

New horses - Vintage Club Echo & Sentinel

 The first horse of the Vintage Club is here.  Well, horses plural.  We got a stallion & foal set this year, with a split of the foal - Running Foal or Scratching Foal, with the Running Stallion.  Breyer tried out the blue roan version of the old-style red roan, and it looks pretty good.  

 

The look has been compared to monochrome - they do look very black-and-white - and Oreo cookies in milk. 

 

The first Breyerfest post of the year

 Breyer has released most of the SRs and LEs for this year's Breyerfest.  And this year, the two SRs at the top of my list are both in-person only - the red deer (Elk mold) and mule (Winnifred mold).  

 So, I've looked at past prices, added a bit for inflation, and getting Chelsea's Model Horses to pick them up for me will only cost me about $20 extra per horse. That's an estimate, since Breyer hasn't released prices yet.  But, a $115 ticket is approximately $60 per horse.  Last year the SRs ranged from $75 to $90 I believe.  So, go on the high end just for safety, and that's $150 per horse.  Pickup pre-orders are $170 each.  I'm okay with that.  

 Still gonna get my online ticket, though.  Gotta do the workshops and buy LEs and such.  And yeah, there's the second-chance sale with leftover SRs, but the non-horse molds usually sell out, and the mule is a new mold so people may want them to repaint.   

Wildlife

 I've finally accumulated most of the Wildlife molds - all except the bears, I think, in vintage colors.  I've actually had pretty good luck with the online Special Run wildlife - I've been drawn for the space-panda bears, Elsa the cow, the Disco Ram, and now the piebald Moose.  

 My Roddick Moose was delivered last week, and I love him.  I need to put him next to my vintage Moose.  

 

 I also need a better photo spot.  

Breyer Black Friday

 

 Breyer started Black Friday early for Club members.  I gave in tot he temptation and bought the Premier Club Adonis (which is still available four days later, and apparently easy to find at a better price on eBay but oh well).   This is the original-tail version, and my Breyerfest horse is the modified tail. 

 

 

 I also ordered the friendship-bracelet set with the Classic Arabian Mare, because Love molds are not to be missed.  And she's a beautiful color. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Collector Club Premiere version

 So, I went with my usual two Collector Club memberships for this year, and with the promise of a mini version of the Semi Rearing Mustang, I apparently went with Premier levels for both.  So I got two of the mini Mustang sets.  Luckily,  not duplicates, and both blue versions - Wedgwood and Copenhagen!!  More ponies for the Blue Herd.  

 

 

Thrift store score of the year

 I walked into one of my favorite thrift stores over Breyerfest weekend, and walked out with what I later discovered is probably my thrift store find of the year. 

 

 

I picked it up because I'm on a bit of a collie kick, but mostly because it's a lovely ceramic dog, in mint condition other than crazing, and it was only $1.  Came home and posted a pic on the Clinky Connection, asking about an ID.  Turns out, this is a vintage Hagen-Renaker Marmion, from the San Dimas factory.  And worth in the vicinity of $200.  

"Shocked" was an understatement.  He (she?) is absolutely beautiful.  Some crazing, no big deal.  Eartips are even intact.