Vintage Club Overload

 Covid must be messing with the shipping (still) - we've gotten two of the four Vintage Club models in one month.  

At the beginning of the month, Cooper the Appy Performance Horse showed up, with his vintage-style bareback pad and bridle.   He also has, instead of the normal Vintage Club belly stamp, the stamp for an upcoming Bird Series horse, Kingfisher.  Can't wait to see what the real Kingfisher looks like, and if it's on the same mold as Cooper here.

 

 

Then, just a few weeks later, Breyer released Sandman for purchase, Smoky the Cowhorse in a really nice red dun pinto with gloss.  And both eyes are looking in the same direction. 

 

 

 

 

 

 Other recent Breyer things:  My NaMoPaiMo horse for the year did get done before the deadline.  This year I painted a SM Iron Metal Chief as a nice buckskin.  I tried to blend the leg markings more, but it needs a little work. 

 

 

 

 

 

And I found two of these at the grocery store, one sort of light blue, the other fuschia.  They poop little tiny candy.

And Honeybear, the Collector's Club horse.  Gorgeous pinto, glossy, and chunky

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. 

Decisions

First off, my Friesian was delivered on Monday. Gorgeous little guy, and the repaired ear looks better than the photos of it. Should be easy enough to finish fixing it.

Now I'm trying to decide what to do about the JCPenney Christmas SRs, since the Journeyman/Bouncer set is available to backorder. I want the Stablemates set and the 2-horse set. I just need to decide whether to order them together, get free shipping, and wait until November for the SMs, or order separately and pay $6 to get the SMs faster. Oh, and decide whether to take my chances on one of each set, or order two each in case of flaws (since there are a lot of reports about lousy paint jobs and such).

Decisions, decisions.

More shopping

I just bought this guy, a North Light Friesian, on MHSP last night.


He's got a repaired ear that needs a bit of work, but he's also got some NAN cards, and the price was pretty good.

I'm apparently a bit of a Friesian junkie. I've got, at last count, 2 Schleich Friesians, 2 of the porcelain ornaments that Breyer did a few years ago, Goffert, JB Andrew, and Sheryl Leisure's Thor resin. I've been lusting after a NL Friesian for a few years now, and got lucky last night. I was browsing through the newest MHSP ads, since DH was watching more political convention fun on TV, and ran across the ad.