First up is Wailua - Second release in the America the Beautiful Series, all designed by Sommer Prosser:
My only (tiny) quibble with him is that it’s yet another flavor of Gray. It is in keeping with the theme of the series – his mane is like a waterfall, and the dapples like water bubbles – but darn it, it’s still left me pining for a nice Dark Dappled Bay or Pinto!
On the plus side, the appearance of a relatively low-quantity piece run does suggest that more Legionarios may be in our future. The last widely available Legionario release (excluding the Exclusive Event Excalibur in 2014) was 2009’s Spanish Flamenco Set.
If there’s a Legionario SR at BreyerFest – Surprise or not – I am all in. I’ve entered every day for Wailua, too, but I haven’t been picked for a Web SR since Astru, so I am not hopeful.
Second, another previously unknown In-Between Mare has appeared on eBay. Needless to say, I won’t be participating in that exercise of financial futility.
It appears to have surfaced in the Chicago area, which is in keeping with the history we think we know about it: that a small test batch was made, whatever was made was mostly destroyed/reground when they did not pass muster, with a handful of survivors circulating locally.
The slow drip-drip of IBMs into the marketplace is just more fuel for the fire that that understanding of its history is wrong, or incomplete. (I still favor the notion that whatever was made was not destroyed, but simply mixed into the earliest distributed batches of the “new” Family Arabian Mare.)
Third, there’s the news that this year’s NAN has been cancelled.
In this house, whenever things get real quiet, it usually means that Vita has been up to some serious no-good – stripping the guest bedroom bed, eating an umbrella, or picking your coat pocket for cough drops and candy wrappers.
Just a couple of weeks ago I was thinking the same thing about NAN and NAMHSA.
I can’t say that I necessarily saw it coming, but it is also not a surprise, given the lack of meaningful communication and what recent changes and announcements have been made (like the switch to a one-judge system, and keeping the event in Kentucky for multiple successive years).
I don’t know if I’ll attend the event that they have planned for the Thursday before BreyerFest, since Thursday is already the busiest day of that week for me. I might just to attend the Open Meeting, but like the last time there was a serious controversy, I think by then it will be too late, with opinions too calcified for any progress to be made.
3 comments:
I need to go dig through my old hobby magazines, but I remember that in one hobbiest profile in one of the smaller ones (not THHN or JAH), someone said that their first Breyer was the IBM. I have the impression that it was bought from a store by her parents, but I haven't read the article for probably 20 years or more. I know it stands out as this was the first time I had ever heard of the mold, and it was well before the internet so I had no way of finding out more.
It's a little disappointing to hear criticism of NAMHSA when the hard-working volunteers are doing their best to make the organization viable. Keep the discussion to the models, please.
Kelly W.
Last I checked, voicing one's opinion is perfectly legal, at least here in the USA.
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