Mid MO Model Maniacs 2017

Shock of shocks - two live shows in less than a year.  I didn't buy anything (forgot to grab cash before we left), but that only really hurt when I was looking at the Copperfox Ambassador's display and that grey Percival is yummy.  Finnegan is nice in person, can't really see the supposed hoof issue.  The Exmoor still doesn't do anything for me, and I'm iffy on the Connemara so far. 

Different judges, so the Paso that got Reserve last fall got nothing this time.  But the other Paso got a Reserve. 

My only resin, a buckskin Yesteryear, NAN'd again, but no ribbon this time.

I did get a Reserve Light Breed with a CollectA Morgan - the ribbon may have cost more than he did. 

Pictures from AHL 2009

Pictures from American Heartland Live 2009 (most of the horses aren't mine):


A lovely UVM Yesteryear (I've got an unpainted Yesteryear)

The OF Cleveland Bay class - lots of Joes!





Lake Platte!

A resin - Knightly Cadence, I think.

Performance entry

Diana Parker's Standing Ovation, the Overall Grand Champ in the AR division.




My CM Foxtrotter, the only horse I've NAN'd twice (both times in small classes)

Diana Parker's Sir Winsalot, a Thompson's Cleveland Bay, painted by Chris Nandell.

Some of the Pony Division winners. The Stone Pony is mine, he (she? can't remember) was Pony Division champ.

Crunch time

I've got just over a week to get ready for a live show that I'm attending. Got the entry sent and a hotel room booked. Just have to get the horses found - the down side of having most everything in boxes. :(

Home from the show

We got home from Ozark Mountain Live last night, tuckered out. It's the one live show a year that's close enough for me to attend, although I may make it to the show near KC this fall.

Anyway, I sold two horses (Duke and a TH Silver) and came home with four - a repainted H-R Quarter Horse Stallion, a bay Clover china, an old red-chestnut SM Morgan Mare, and the new pinto G3 SM Mustang that I got as a door prize. I was tempted by Cindy's Lakeshore's, as usual, and a couple of PS Chips. I resisted the temptation, so far. The Chips are nice-looking, as far as that goes, but they're tiny and the prices that the new ones go for seems out of line for the size. Especially if it's true that they're now made of the same rubbery stuff that Schleich horses are made of.

As far as show results: I took about 50 horses and came home with 19 ribbons and 8 NAN cards. I missed the class for my Silver Lining resin, darn it, and one SM class. My SMs seemed to do better than the Trads, for whatever reason. I got firsts with my Rubicon and two SM G2 stock horses. My HR Mini Morgans both took seconds, along with 3 other horses. I took half a dozen Palouses, but only one placed - Echo got 3rd. Very strange. My one artist resin got a 3rd, but my only good CM plastic only got a 3rd in a 3-horse class. (I'll admit, though, the other two horses were stunners. This same horse got the Gaited Champ or Reserve Champ a few years ago. I guess he's out-dated or something.)

But, by my calculations, 40% of my horses got ribbons, and 16% NAN'd, so it's not a bad trip.

My pipe dream is to show a bit of performance, enough to get a NAMHSA Merit award for one of my horses. But, with one show a year, and a slightly limited budget, I don't see it happening any time soon. Oh well.

Pictures to come later.

New (and not so new) horses

Another box in the mail today - a Ruffian and Nokota that someone picked up for me at the Tuesday Morning sale. My local TM had Breyers, but not those two.

Then I unboxed almost a dozen horses that I bought over the holidays. I was hoping to take a few of them to the show this month, but I found more issues than I expected. I opened a beautiful Madison Avenue, only to find a nasty box rub on her non-showing side. My Blue Gold and Cloud's Legacy sets also had paint issues, mostly from rubbing against other horses in the set. Luz de Luna is gorgeous, on the other hand. Too bad the mold doesn't live-show well, but I love it anyway. I also opened up an Ethereal - Earth (heavy 2-piece base!) and Harmonie, who was perfect except for one tiny paint flaw.