It’s a good time to be a nerd, but so help me, if anyone spoils the series finale of Picard for me, there will be heck to pay…
Not understanding why Paramount isn’t doing an IMAX screening in the Detroit area: are they completely unaware of the fact that some of the earliest Trek Cons were held here, and that Detroit was literally one of the first major media market to broadcast Star Trek reruns in the country?
(Frakes and Spiner are going to be at Motor City Comic Con this year; I suppose this will marginally make up for the slight.)
We make a lot of jokes about hobbyists being distracted by shiny objects, but my current distraction is not a horse, but a vintage camper sitting in a neighbor’s driveway with a “For Sale” sign in the window. It’s always been a bit of a dream of mine to restore an old house, but in lieu of that, a vintage camper will also work. It’s a tiny, portable house!
Alas, this one priced very optimistically, so it really is just a distraction, and not a project in my very near future. That’s something that is both literally and figuratively a bit down the road for me anyway, unless a free or super cheap one ends up on my doorstep somehow.
(This is not an invitation for you to point me in the direction of one. If only because there is no room for one in the garage, which is now full of horses and packaging materials, much to my family’s chagrin.)
I feel that I am obligated to give you a shiny equine object, and I think Poncho Rex, the 1999 West Coast Jamboree Horse will do quite nicely:
In spite of the mold’s popularity and longevity, it didn’t officially appear in a Pinto paint job until 1992’s Limited Edition release Chaparral. Reeves quickly made up for lost time: between 1998 and 2000 there were five production run Pintos, with Poncho Rex here being my favorite of that group.
Not coincidentally, two of those pintos, including the 1998 BreyerFest Volunteer one, also happened to use the same painting mask of Chaparral. This was back when paint masks were still made by hand, which often limited Breyer’s ability to offer non-solid paint jobs: they were expensive and time consuming to make! After all that time and effort, they were not going to let it just sit there and collect dust...
The Volunteer Model also happened to represent the Fighting Stallion’s first appearance (not including Test Colors) in a factory Gloss finish since the Palomino and Charcoal were discontinued in the early 1970s.
There have been a considerable number of spotted, dotted and freckled Fighters since then, with the most recent being the 70th Anniversary Assortment in Chestnut Sabino, in both Matte and Gloss.
4 comments:
Campers fascinate me. Years ago, shortly before I departed for Japan, I feel inexplicably in love with a tiny teardrop-style camper parked in front of a warehouse complex with a "For Sale" sign in the window. I didn't buy it, of course -- I was about to move to another country, my car couldn't possibly tow it, and, as a friend pointed out, "it probably smells like fish inside."
I still think they're awesome, though.
I share your feelings about Picard spoilers. I had to avoid Facebook for a few days when Avengers: Endgame came out, because spoilers were everywhere.
Poncho is gorgeous!
Someone was selling Hartland masks on Ebay a few years ago. I understand the concept of a mask or stencil, but there was something about the way these metal masks looked that made my brain hurt. I guess the masks Breyer uses now just peel right off?
I love Poncho Rex and Chaparral! I love the old style Breyer pintos.
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