Horse figure of the day: Breyer #751104 Spirit and Rain's Foal

Breyer Neopolitan

Spirit & Rain Breyer Figures. I didn't plan on getting these versions, but they happened to be in a lot of cheap Breyer figures I was eyeing. I like them a lot more now that I'm seeing them in person 💕

Pleasantly surprised Breyer's new premium release refers to the breed as just the Vanner and says Irish and Romani Travellers! Hopefully this pushes the renaming movement further

It's been the better part of two years since I made my last real-wing pegasus, so this one's well overdue! Not only does this Breyer Gem Twist have a flashy new pinto paint job and mohair mane and tail, but he sports real pasture-raised chicken wings. He's available at https://www.etsy.com/listing/1513075083/aerus-custom-breyer-gem-twist-to

He's soooooo beautiful I'm constantly in awe since taking him out of the box

Very quick photos of my horses..!

Inspired by @horsefigureoftheday , it's really nice and validating to see more people being devoted to horse shaped treasures 😙✨🧡

Hehehe, just got some exciting pony mail! A whole bunch of oldies, some older than others! 🐴

Some random meme I saw on slowrobot.com

Breyer Traditional Warmblood Stallion Brunello 2016-2017 mid-year release

These are great

Tabitha

The 2022 Freedom Halloween Decorator Breyer

Was happy they brought back the remaining stock for last year's Halloween decorator. She's a lovely color and a really neat witch theme, too!

Here's her stable page!

Horse figure of the day: Breyer #751104 Andalusian Rain

Breyer has a new line. Sea horses and sea unicorns made of recycled plastic called Seahearts. Pretty cute tbh.

Went thrifting today 💖

Niche fandom happenings to take your mind after whatever stuffs happening in your fandom:

So as you can probably deduce, the model horse collecting hobby is made up mostly of older people. The hobby has been well established since the dawn of the Internet and I've talked a few times about how it's difficult to find some older resources about it/its history because of how every other link you click on which used to lead to a hobbyist artist's angelfire blog now is just a dead link or worse, bought out by some ad company sitting on the URL. Up until recently, a huge portion of hobby talk still relied on now-defunct Yahoo groups; now most have moved to either forums like Model Horse Blab or private Facebook groups. Individually most of these are pretty decentralized, but since model collecting by nature is a hobby that requires a significant amount of financial interaction (buying, trading, selling, commissioning, etc.), there has to be some kind of centralized marketplace for people to pitch their goods to as many corners of the hobby as possible.

Enter Model Horse Sales Pages (MH$P), a, well, site where people can post sales pages for model horses and accessories. It's an old fashioned sales pages site from the 2000s with a somewhat shitty layout but unparalleled detailed search functions-- to order things from a seller, you'd have to personally email them to negotiate for their listing. Though this seems somewhat inconvenient to our modern senses used to one click payments and speedy delivery, MH$P is undoubtedly a pillar of the model horse community.

... So that's why people are scrambling as it's allegedly been hacked and taken down for the foreseeable future. Worrying about personal information aside, now fans are left to wonder: what's the alternative? Well, the first one is of course eBay, which many hobbyists already use. However, eBay is obviously less catered to model horse hobbyists and is therefore a bit harder to search if you're deep in the hobby and can't be assed to look through 4000 "plastic horse" titled listings to find the 2008 SR glossy xX Devilish Girlfriend++ Thoroughbred you want. MH$P occupied a specific niche for long time fans looking for grails.

So what are our alternatives for people in the hobby looking to buy from others in the hobby? Well, there's a few decentralized official dealers like Chelsea's Model Horses or Triple Mountain who you can consign older models to, but going through a middleman takes time and you have much less freedom in your personal listings. Alternatively, you could go grassroots and post listings in Facebook groups and on forums, but those have reaches limited to the members of those specific, often small, groups, and it can be hard to move stock that way. So now people are looking for a backup marketplace platform, both for the current situation and longtime health of the hobby. But imagine my surprise when I went on Model Horse Blab and saw people suggesting an alternative site kickstarted by

STAR STABLE ONLINE YOUTUBER DENIS/DENISE WISESTORM. Denis has been a controversial figure in the SSO fandom (though there's pretty much no uncontroversial ssotubers especially on ssoblr because clickbaiting and weird reactionary takes are like the bread and butter of that side of the fandom) who's been called out for having some alt-right homophobic views in the past, as well as for his abject and unproductive negativity towards improvements made on the game. He's a lps customizer and pretty prolific breyer collector, though, so his drive to create a model trading and selling platform makes sense at least. But still! Why him!!!!!!

I don't do a ton of fantasy customs any more, but the Breyer Classic Quarter Horse Foal just makes such a great unicorn! Wisp has been made over into an old-style unicorn with the lion type tail and cloven hooves, and I just really think she's a lovely little thing. 

She is available at https://www.etsy.com/listing/1620794424/wisp-custom-white-unicorn-foal-from