I’m a little short on time today (the past 24 hours – I
can’t even, right now) so I can’t comment on the six new Warehouse Finds
released today as a group. But this one piece though, I cannot let pass:
Technically, she’s a Reissue of the #761 American Quarter
Horse Mare from 1999-2000:
…but with a somewhat different paint job. To put it
modestly!
The Dapple Gray on the original #761 is quite realistically
rendered, with smaller and finer dapples and extensive gray body shading. The
“reissue” is more like the 1996 BreyerFest Volunteer Special Run Merlin – the
Rearing Mustang, not the Resin Dragon Horse thing – in a form of Dapple Gray
most of us would now classify as something in the “Decorator” family:
While Stock Horse Mare doesn’t have a huge fan base within
the hobby, she does pretty well with the general public looking for a sweet,
pleasant-looking Stock Mare. It’s no coincidence that she’s been featured in a
number of Special Run Sets and Play Sets targeted toward those consumers, and
always in strictly realistic colors.
Until today. It seems hard to believe, but this is the first
intentionally non-realistic color on the Hess Stock Horse Mare.
And I love her so much. It’s like she’s covered in bubbles!
You have no idea how much I needed to see her today.
It was pretty tough not to buy her on sight, but budget says I better wait until the Stablemates Club piece gets released so I can save a couple of bucks on shipping. And maybe toss in the Black Bluegrass Bandit too, if that one is still available.
4 comments:
Does her head and body look chalky to you? She's lovely, either way.
OMG WANT.
I'm a huge Stock Horse Mare fan. Yes, I know--conformational disaster and frog eyes and all. I have 761 but I love these dapples!
Darn you. I just ordered her and the liver chestnut Justin Morgan. Fingers crossed she actually is as dapply as she looks (although if she's even slightly different than my original 761, I'll keep her).
Totally on board for those marbled looking dapples! BRING IT BREYER!
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