Farah

My Farah arrived last week, along with a Warehouse Pacer that I added in.

Farah

She's lovely, overall.  Still with the splay foot, and either from age or overzealous mold cleaning, or just lost-in-the-whiteness, she's lost a lot of her mold detail.  I put her next to an old glossy alabaster PAM that I got earlier this year.  The older mare has more detailing on the cannon bones, and lots more around the head - facial veins, forelock, that kind of thing.

But, Farah is a gorgeous shade of caramelly palomino, with a pinto pattern almost identical to Yellow Mount (extra leg white on Farah, mainly).  And her eyes aremuch, MUCH better than most of my other Vintage Club  horses so far.  They're not perfect, but they aren't the pale grey ghost-eyes, either.

It's time to renew for the Vintage Club, and I need to decide whether to go for another year or not.  Next year's molds are:

• Man O'War in a glossy charcoal with Stud Spider's Appaloosa pattern
• Lady Phase and the Action Stock Foal in old-style red roan (my favorite color, possibly)
• Western Prancer in a glossy black or grey dapple
• Cantering Welsh Pony, gambler's choice of 3 colors that look like alabaster, honey bay, and palomino from the original Family Arabians

I'm probably going to go for another year; Man o'War is the only one I'm not crazy about, but I love the red roan, and the Prancer, and the CWP in FAS colors could be amazing.   I haven't sold any of my VC horses, or any Breyers at all to speak of, but as soon as the Shelf Project is finished, I may be parting with a few more.  And a couple of VCs that I'm not in love with could be moving on.

Or not.  I'm not joking when I compare my collection to a black hole. 

There goes the wagon

I haven't bought many Breyers lately, but I just fell off the wagon and it's heading away from me. 

First, there was the Vintage Club Sailor last week.  Right after he gets here, with a pair of new SMs, Murphy is ready to order, and I managed to add a SM set and the 4th of July grab bag to that order. 

Now I get the email that Tallulah is ready to pay for; if I'd held off paying for Murphy, I could have combined the shipping.  Oh well.  Then I just won a couple of auctions online - one for a pair of foals, one for a mixed lot of Breyers, Schleiches, and random goofy chinas.  And Back in the Saddle had the Esprit Xmas horse for $19.99.  Put it in my cart two days ago and decided to hold off.  They emailed me today, free shipping if I order now.  So Xmas Esprit is on the way, along with the Spirit of the West set, also $19.99.

Good grief.

New guy - the original Longhorn

Just bought this guy in an online auction. 

He's a good deal, I think.  My first (and only, so far) with an original blue ribbon sticker!  He's in pretty good condition; there is a scratch/rub on his other side, right over the ribs, in a really obvious place, but otherwise, not bad for his age.  Someone at the factory did get carried away a bit when cleaning mold lines, though.  Poor guy has a weird grind mark on his scrotum. ;)

An idea

I've been buying oldies lately, and it's got me wondering.  I just added the black appy Running Stallion and Laying Foal to the herd, already had the Scratching Foal in the same color.  Breyer should really do a mare (Running Mare!) in the same color.  Not sure anything to match the family exists.