I am happy to report that my Box of Mysteries has arrived:
Everyone else, on the other hand, is bored with that already and has moved on to the Stablemates Club Gambler’s Choice Alborozo swap-and-sale-athon. I haven’t even ordered mine yet – not a lack of money or interest, simply a matter of priorities – and as I’ve stated before, I’ll be okay with literally any of them, so selling/swapping is not a concern.
Even the funky teal and purple Pintaloosa Unicorn: now that I’ve seen in-hand pictures of it, I actually think he is really neat! (He kind of reminds me of a quilt I finished recently, color-wise.)
Photos of the first release for next year’s Stablemates Club have been posted, and it’s the shrinkified Clydesdale Stallion with a new haircut, named Atticus:
The paint job is pretty, and I’m sure he’ll be lovely in person, but my very first thought upon seeing him was “Wait a minute, is this a Custom?”
He reminds me a lot of vintage customs of the Traditional Clydesdale Stallion: dark dappled Bay Sabinos with loose (usually haired) manes and tails were a fairly common sight in the showring in the 1980s.
Along with Grulla Overo Lady Phases with lowered/turned heads, Indian Ponies in “fancy” (more realistic) Appaloosa paint jobs, Dapple Gray or Bay Proud Arabian Stallions in exaggerated park trots, and Dilute Pinto Adioses sporting way too much mohair.
(I tended, even then, to stick to weirder and more experimental stuff, but I’ll dig out photos of my early customizing attempts another day.)
I am somewhat cool to the final release of this year’s club, Maggie Jenner-Bennett’s Walking Stock Horse Mare Cassidy:
It’s either the photograph or the color/pattern combo that’s throwing me off here, because I usually really like Maggie’s stuff in person. Her hooves are striped and I like the pose – it’s similar to a drawing I did a million years ago (high school, maybe?) that I once fantasized about sending to Breyer as a proposal for a Traditional-scale performance friendly stock horse. So I’m sure it will also be perfectly lovely in person.
It also appears that they’ll be offering up the optional “Bonus” Stablemate Duke (the Gloss Dapple Gray Clydesdale) at the same time as Cassidy in early December, which is a nice gesture and an acknowledgement that a lot of us wait to the last possible moment to order in case something else comes up by the order deadline, because it so often does.
Which is also a reason why I am in no hurry to order my Gambler’s Choice mini Alborozo.
5 comments:
I am meh on both of these. Would much rather have the mini-me glossy grey dappled Clyde, these look like mini-whinnies to me.
I'm laughing: I won a R/H QHY in a contest in 1989. What color did I choose? Grulla, of course! Solid, not pinto, but, yeah--grulla was very "in" in those days.
I wish the hair on the Clyde stallion was less bulky. I don't mind the idea of Breyer doing over older models but so far the done-over ones all look like they're wearing bad wigs.
I want to like Cassidy but I'm waiting to see her in person to decide. The photos so far all make her look a bit bloated.
I did not recognize the Clydesdale with his hair down...yeah, the mane does seem a bit like a toupé but I couldn’t say exactly why.
Breyer's product photos are usually pretty crappy, so I'm optimistic that Cassidy will look nicer in person.
Hmm. Slightly ineffectual shrink job from a Traditional-sized sculpt? Just a guess.
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