Craft House Corporation kit horses

 I went down a memory rabbit-hole a while back, regarding the Craft House Corporation's "Woodlike Collector Carvings" horses.  Back in junior or senior high, I had the Quarter Horse kit (probably bought at Walmart in Eldon), and was painting it for the art class that year.  Can't remember if I ever finished it or where it is now, but hopefully it'll turn up in the basement. 

These kits were a partially hollow horse made of some kind of plastic.  They came with an instruction sheet, paintbrush, bit of sponge for texturing, and a set of paints and one color of wood stain, in case you wanted to make them look like a sculpture.  According to the box, they're a "reproduction of a wood carving by the nationally known wildlife sculptor Ed Dietz" - Googling for Ed Dietz is still ongoing.  

The Quarter Horse box mentioned three other molds: Arabian, Thoroughbred, and Clydesdale, if memory serves.  I happened to find and buy an Arabian kit on eBay a month or so ago, and set up a search email for any others.  

 

  

 The Arabian, with molded-on halter.  Looks not bad.

 

I usually get notices of the duck decoy and bird kits from the same series, but last week another horse finally popped up on eBay.  And, surprise, it was not one of the four I already knew about.  This one is a Shetland Pony (not the refined type, either). 

 

 

 

Shetland Pony.  Looks a little plain around the head, but I've seen worse.  

The other three shown on the Pony's box are a Quarter Horse colt, POA, and a Unicorn.  

 

Oddly, the Arabian was fastened to the box with a flat-head screw (note: box knife blades are not acceptable screwdrivers, and now I need a new box knife).  The Pony was more problematic, we had to find a small socket wrench to take that screw out.  Why they used something that not everyone will have in the house, for a kit marketed (presumably) to the general non-mechanical public, is another question for the ages.