Custom Model Horses in Every Hue!
This category is reserved for those models with coat colors and patterns found in nature.
Midnight Thunder
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Shire (G2)
Color: Black Sabino
Gallery: Sabino
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
Thunder has had his face resculpted to a more roman nose and is painted in a shaded black sabino. The shadings are hard to see here, but there’s just a hint of brown and blue in the coat. Continue reading
Moonlight Dancing
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Saddlebred (G2)
Color: Black Tobiano
Gallery: Tobiano
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
This little gal has been resculpted into a light draft cross with his face thickened, feathering added, and mane and tail replaced. I wish I’d done the tail a little thicker, but overall she turned out pretty well. Continue reading
Flashdance
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Morgan Mare (G1)
Color: Bay Tobiano
Gallery: Tobiano
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
This little gal was one of my earlier customs than I ended up selling later on down the road. For a while I was building my own little show string, but quickly discovered that I had more fun hosting shows (Hampton Roads Classic) than I did participating in them. Continue reading
Nightime Blues
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Saddlebred (G2)
Color: Black Tobiano
Gallery: Tobiano
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
This little guy has been resculpted into a part-Arabian with his face dished, neck straightened, mane and tail replaced, and boy bits added. As always, there is a lot I’d improve about him if I had another chance, but for where I was at the time he’s pretty darned good. Continue reading
Billy
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Saddlebred (G2)
Color: Black
Gallery: Black
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
This little guy was a portrait horse and may be the first portrait that I painted. Until I find my notes I can’t be sure, since the other contender, Spock, was also a resculpted black Saddlebred! Continue reading
Mulligans Wild
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Thoroughbred (G2)
Color: Dark Bay
Gallery: Realistic Bay
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 2003 and Sold Aug 2003
Mulligan was painted to help round out the thoroughbred gallery and is a nice basic dark bay without any white markings. He’s been very minorly resculpted to add male bits and forelock, or (more accurately) a male bump and a forelock. Equine sex changes are a little more complicated that I had anticipated. Continue reading
Storm Rising
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Morgan (G2)
Color: Gray
Gallery: Dilutes
Medium: Acrylics and Embroidery Floss
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
Storm was my first, but not last, attempt at hairing a model using embroidery floss. As you can see, I didn’t paint the floss like I did with the unicorns, but instead tried to use the original colors. It was sort of a hit-or-miss result. Continue reading
Fading Glory
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Thoroughbred (G2)
Color: Bay Going Gray
Gallery: Dilutes
Medium: Acrylics and Prismacolor Pencils
Status: Painted 2003 and Sold March 2003
This little gal started out life as a dappled grey custom painted by an unknown artist. I got her in a body box from eBay and was planning on repainting her—then she was damaged in the move from Iowa to Virginia. Continue reading
Shadow Dancer
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Cantering Foal (G2)
Color: Dark Bay Tobiano
Gallery: Tobiano
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
Not sure if you can tell from these pictures, but this little guy is actually a very dark bay, not black! I always found it amusing that my realistic foals tended to turn out superior to the realistic adults… one of the reasons I ended up swapping to micro minis on down the line. Continue reading
Cumulus
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Scratching Foal (G2)
Color: Flaxen Chestnut Sabino Overo
Gallery: Other
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
While I’m not sure if this little guy’s coat pattern could actually appear in nature, it was a lot of fun to paint! He was order as a pair with
Butterscotch Sundae
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Saddlebred (G2)
Color: Palomino
Gallery: Dilutes
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
This little gal was one of my first customs and was painted back when I only had acrylics in the primary colors. Both her and Chocolate Thunder have the honor of being painted using just red, yellow, and blue… Something I’m not sure if I could pull off if I tried again today! Continue reading
Heza Gone Dancing
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Trotting Foal (G2)
Color: Buckskin
Gallery: Dilutes
Medium: Acrylics and Pastels
Status: Painted 2007 and Sold April 2007
This little buy was one of my later customs, as you can tell by the backdrop and the heavy pastel usage. I don’t remember if he was an Add-a-Foal or a random custom, but I do like the way he turned out! Buckskins and duns are a thousand times easier to pull off with pastels versus straight acrylics. Continue reading
Skyfire Splash
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Saddlebred (G2)
Color: Bay Sabino Roan (Red Roan)
Gallery: Dilutes
Medium: Acrylics, Prismacolor Pencils
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
This little gal is one of my earlier customs, as you can tell by the heavy use of prismacolor pencils in the roaning. I was primarily a 2D artist before starting customizing model horses, so I was more inclined towards a multimedia approach in the beginning.
Although I moved into straight acrylics, I’m gradually moving back into a similar methodology now… Continue reading
Magics Promise
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Morgan (G2)
Color: Dark Bay
Gallery: Bay
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 2003 and Sold July 2003
I’m sure there’s a perfectly good reason why I took sales photos of this guy without having his eyes finished… but darned if I can think of what is was. *pokes horse* Continue reading
Down Time
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Thoroughbred Mare (G1)
Color: Dark Gray Tobiano
Gallery: Tobiano
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
This little gal was a custom I bought off eBay in a body lot that I planned on ‘updating’ and reselling. I’m not sure who the original artist was, but I’m hoping I can find my notes and see if there was a signature on her anywhere. Continue reading
Bandit
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Trotting Foal (G2)
Color: Chestnut Tovero (Overo + Tobiano) ((+ Sabino?))
Gallery: Other
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold
This little gal was a custom portrait horse, part of a set of three as I remember, and I think she turned out rather well. There isn’t much shading, but there also isn’t a lot of chestnut, so I think it was a happy compromise between pattern and color. (The photos are yellow-tinged, but I think the white was also just flat painted, without pinking.) Continue reading
Pouca Sombra
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Paso Fino (G2)
Color: Dark Grey (Black Going Grey)
Gallery: Dilutes
Medium: Acrylics and Other Artist
Painted/Status: 200? and Sold 200?
‘Pouca Sombra’ means ‘Little Shade’ in Portuguese, which follows the general Babelfish-themed naming patterns for the Paso Fino mold. Someday I will learn to resist romance languages… but not quite yet. Continue reading
Splatterpaint
Make: Unknown
Scale: Stablemate-ish
Mold: Shetland Pony Foal
Color: Black Tovero
Gallery: Other
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
This little guy is an unknown soft plastic mold (he came in a set with Shenandoah) and was my first attempt at prepping a non-Breyer mold. As you can see, it was a pretty rough learning curve! Continue reading
Shenandoah
Make: Unknown
Scale: Stablemate-ish
Mold: Shetland Mare
Color: Chestnut Tobiano
Gallery: Tobiano
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
This little gal came in a set with Splatterpaint and signals the point at which I gave up on oil painting. She’s a horse of a lot of firsts and I don’t think she came out too badly in retrospect. Continue reading
Keep It Golden
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Quarter Horse (G2)
Color: Buckskin
Gallery: Dilutes
Medium: Acrylics and Pastels
Painted/Status: Mid 200? and Sold 200?
This little guy was gone towards the end of my customizing run, as you can tell by the background and head shot. I’d started working heavily with the pastels at this point, both Golden and Round Tuit were attempts at a pastels over a acrylic basecoat. Continue reading
Alternative Polka
Make: Black Horse Ranch
Scale: Traditional
Mold: Shetland
Color: Blue (Black) Roan Tobiano
Gallery: Tobiano
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
This little guy is the only Traditional scale model horse that I have completed to date and the only Black Horse Ranch resin to boot! I have two other BHRs in the closet, both with missing legs… so it will be a while before he has company in either category. Continue reading
Azuralee
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Scrambling Foal (G2)
Color: Blue-bay Minimal Sabino
Gallery: Solid Colors
Medium: Acrylics, Liquitex Phthalocyanine Blue
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
This little gal was painted as an Add-a-Foal to go with Pacific Angel. Not much to say here, other than the shading looked better in person (as the the wont of phthalocyanine blue). Continue reading
Grey Twilight
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Saddlebred (G2)
Color: Grey Tobiano
Gallery: Tobiano
Medium: Etching and a tiny bit of Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
I had always wanted to try my hand at etching and this little gal was my first (and last) attempt. While it was an interesting challenge, it just wasn’t interesting enough to make up for the fact that it takes forever. This method of customizing is not for folks with short attention spans… Continue reading
Blood Money
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Warmblood (G2)
Color: Blood Bay
Gallery: Realistic Bay
Medium: Acrylics and Prismacolor pencils
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
This little guy was in my tiny live showstring along with Easy Does It and Stone Sister. He also went to Midwest Minis Live! in 2001, but I can’t find his show results– Most likely he didn’t win anything, most of my little guys were wildly outclassed. Continue reading
Heza Jim Dandy
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Scratching Foal (G2)
Color: Palomino
Gallery: Dilutes
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
There are some old customs that I just wince to look over… and this little guy is one of them. Continue reading
Friedland's Son
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Saddlebred (G2)
Color: Black
Gallery: Realistic Black
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
This handsome fellow was a custom order and my first attempt at finding a good balance point for turning this mold into an ornament. I ended up making a harness that I used to get the balance just right before I set the screw and it seems to have turned out rather well.
I’d love to know how well he actually worked on a tree! Continue reading
Jumpin' Jehosaphat
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Scrambling Foal (G2)
Color: Bay Tobiano
Gallery: Tobiano
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
This little gal was the first of the Scrambling Foal molds that I turned into a bucking bronco– but certainly not the last!
This mold absolutely refused to stand upright without some sort of base and I really got tired of customizing them because of it. I had some luck gluing Hell’s Little Angel to her base, but I wanted to see what else I could do with the mold. Continue reading
Angel's Kiss
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Thoroughbred (G2)
Color: Buckskin Tobiano
Gallery: Tobiano
Medium: Acrylics
Painted/Sold: Painted and Sold February 2004
This little gal was painted in a pair with Pure Malarkey. The custom order was for a dappled smutty buckskin tobiano and I wasn’t sure how well I’d pull it off so I painted one one smutty and one plain.
I personally liked Malarkey more, but in the end Angel went home with the customer and Malarkey cantered off to eBay. Continue reading
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