The Deluxe Collector Club SM finally arrived yesterday. I got lucky, my box wasn't smashed like many of them were (seriously, Breyer, go back to those sturdy brown boxes, not these flimsy things).
He's not as yellow as he looks in this picture, and I need to get a picture of him with my vintage palomino Fighting Stallions. And the charcoal pairs, too.
Well, I've got an unfulfilled order number on my Breyer account now - my Deluxe CC "Prince" will be here someday soon. Still no updates on the Vintage Club SM, which I think is a gold Northern Dancer this year, meant to be a mini Secretariat.
The stupid pandemic has put the squash on my usual weekly round of thrift stores and estate sales, but the local consignment auction is all online, and I've had a bit of luck there. Last week, it was a trio of DVD/CD/media shelves (made by Sauder, circa 1996). About 3.5 feet high, just under a foot wide, 6 inches deep. Perfect for SMs, along with the Schleich/Safari/CollectA brigade.
These models are black inside, although at least one of mine is woodgrain interior. Since the black turns them into a black hole, I lined them partially with white paper, from an end-roll of statement paper from Husband's work. The shelves got a lining of assorted scrapbook paper in a variety of patterns. (To paraphrase Adam Savage - This is the rainy day you were saving that thing for!).
I didn't line both sides with paper, because the shelves are a tight fit and wedging them in makes the paper wrinkle. So, white on the back and one side it is. And it does make a difference, as you can see.
At the spacing for SM sizes, I could fit at least two more shelves into each unit, but Sauder doesn't seem to sell replacement shelves, or at least won't tell me how much they cost without my providing a lot number that I don't have. So, for now, I'm on the lookout for 1/2-inch plywood or board of some kind. Michaels may have something close, but they seem to be closed temporarily at t he moment (probably because of the stupid pandemic).
The Christmas Day surprise this year was the Fjord in clearware - clear, red, or blue-green. Not sure how blue-green fits the Christmas theme, pure green would be better, but that's okay. I got online at the right time, and bought one, hoping for the blue-green to add to the Blue Horse Herd.
The first horse (okay, first in-hand, not first paid-for) is here. Columbia's three Walmarts each seemed to only get 2 boxes of the Series 3 unicorns, and I never found the purple Warmblood, so I paid $25 for one on Facebook. And he arrived early, too! The silver on one hoof is a little sloppy, but that's an easy fix if I want to touch it up - it's not like he'll be a show horse anyway.
Now he needs an appropriately grapey name.
