Making Your Model Horse Show Classlist

Hello! Happy New Year! I have a show coming up, so today I'll be showing you how to make an organized model horse show classlist. This is much more time consuming than just writing on the show's version, but it's much easier to use!

Hopefully it will look something like this when you are done! The classlist shown below is from my last show.

Step one is to put on a good YouTube playlist. This is probably gonna take a while.

Next open your word processing program of choice. Whatever one you use, you need to be able to create tables in it. I'll be using pages.

First make a title! The first classlist I'll be making will be OF Breyer. 

Now create a table with 5 titles and label them like so.Having all this information is helpful in case you have to make identification for your horse fast/ write down a placing. Don't worry about how rows underneath you have yet.

Note that I don't know all the graphing terminology so hopefully you know what I mean!

After you do this, open up your show's official classlist and type in all the class names. For the purpose of this tutorial I'll just be showing you how I did the foal division.

All you have to do now is just fill in your horse's information! Add rows if needed.

Don't delete to row that you don't have horses in. It's really useful to check so you can see you have however many classes until your next horse.

It's pretty easy to do, but time consuming.

It's also good to put parents to work at shows and have them mark off classes that have already happened! ;)

Finally, just finish your entire classlist/s! I have to do one for every division... Fun! ;)

-Emma

Official Hiatus + A Tutorial

Hello everyone! Wow, we haven't posted in... Well, a LONG time. We've all been busy with real horses and preparing and going to model horse shows. :) 

One of the models at Haunted Horses in October. Loved him!

Anyway, to get back in the groove of things, I thought I'd do a tutorial! This can apply to both photo showers and live showers, and it's something many of them have trouble with. What I'm talking about is finding the show side!

Knowing and being able to find the show side of a model is very important. There are several ways to find it.

You should look at two things when trying to find the show side. Let's take a look.

First is the head. Which way is it turning? Are they looking straight ahead or at one side? If the horse is looking to one side, you've done it. That's your show side.

As you can see, these horses head's are turning to 'look' at the camera. This is the side you would want facing the camera or the judge. PC: Breyer

So your horse is looking straight ahead, not looking any direction. The next thing you want to look at is the mane. What side is it on? The shading of the mane is can be a big deal and show off the horse.

While not the best example of conformation, this is the show side of this horse. Even though he's looking straight ahead, his mane is on one side and adds to the horse's look. PC: Breyer

Another example. The mane shading enhances the look makes the rest of his shading 'pop.' PC: Breyer

Now let's look at the ideal photo show photo.

RRS Soylent Green owned by EVR, painted by Emily Paige Squires

As you can see the horse is completely parallel to the camera so you can see his whole body. He's bending towards the camera, so we know we have the right side. The background and sand is in scale and not too distracting. The lighting also shows off his mold and his shading.

Hopefully this all makes sense, add any questions in the comments below! :) We are sorry for not being around and hopefully posts will be more frequent now. 

-Emma

Hackamore Tutorial

Todays post will (hopefully) be a compete tutorial in making a Mechanical Hackamore!

Not only is this bridle easy and fun to make, but it is great for gaming entries or entries in which the rider is dismounted.

For this tutorial you will need beading pliers, and wire snippers, scissors, and some wire of the same gauge as what you use for buckles. 

We will make the cheekpieces first.

 The bottom hole should be slightly bigger than the top two.

Repeat for the other side...

Make the curb piece, to get a good length measurement lay the piece about 2 centimeters from the tip of your models nose. The rings you made on the sides should clear the sides of the horses face.

Lastly for wire pieces, make the nose piece, there is no particular measurement for this, it should fit comfortably over the bridge of the horses nose. BUT, do not bend it to fit the horses nose exactly! In real life this would be extremely painful, for model purposes it should be bent in a U shape that is loosely fitting.

Now snap it all together! Use your pliers to bend out the end of the wire in the loop, so you can slip the loop of another piece in to the ring.

(The nosepiece rings go into the second hole on the cheekpieces.)

Don't forget that curb strap!

Now for the finishing touch, wrap the nosepiece in coban or vetwrap.

Add a headstall and reins and your done!