Magnificent Minis!

Well helloooo! It's Becky again and today is the day for the Stablemate custom collection tour! Keep in mind, my collection is definitely quality over quantity! I do however have two SM CM's of some horses I know and love currently commissioned so that is really exciting!

First up is a rather familiar face, the custom bay roan Rivet I just received from Maddy! This boy doesn't have a name yet so if you have any idea please be sure to comment!

Next is Marty McFly, I will be showing him as a Pinto Sport Horse or possibly a TB with the correct documentation. 

This beauty is American Honey- until I find a name that suits her better. I plan on showing her as an American QH.

And lastly, for now, is Doc Brown. Doc is a handsome dappley grey and I plan on showing him as a Lustanio. 

I hope you enjoyed my little collection! 
-Becky

New Pony! -and a break from me not posting.

I've been slacking off of my blogging duties lately so... i'm going to remedy that with this post! On Wednesday I got a package from Maddy containing 2 things, one of which was a long awaited (and anticipated) part of a trade we did a while back.

Quite the handsome boy isn't he?

That badger face marking gives him such a personality! 



























Like anything made by Maddy, he is loaded with details! This is a lovely pasteled bay roan on the Rivet mold with amazingly detailed accent hairs done in pencil. 

I can't wait to put him in the ring!

Putting him on the shelf with his new "pasture mates" gave me an idea to do a post on my Stablemate custom collection so that will be coming up next!

Until next time. -Becky

Eye detail.

Almost Wordless Wednesday

Hello everyone! Emma here. Sorry for the lack of posts recently, it's been a very busy month so far for all of us. We should be back to the normal schedule next week.

With that, here are some photos I took of my mini customs.

RRS Strawberry Wine painted by Maddy Hinman

RRS Pimlico painted by Emily Paige Squires

RRS Ms. Congeniality painted by Emma Van Riper

RRS Gold Digger painted by Maddy Hinman

RRS Regifted etched by ?

RRS Brownie Points painted by Maddy Hinman

Again, we are very sorry for the hiatus! On a good not, both Maddy and I have Instagrams now, so go follow us! :D 

https://www.instagram.com/lazyh.customtack

https://www.instagram.com/emmasmodelhorses

Small Haul/SM Valegro Review

Hello again! Sorry for the long pause between posts. :P We've been busy with real horse shows and preparing for a model one! Anyway, yesterday I want to our local Flagship Breyer dealer to get a few things...

First is Valegro, or as I've named him 'RRS Grace Under Fire.' I love the mold. It looks - and feels more like a resin then a Breyer! He'd look fantastic in a dressage set.

Now onto the things I DON'T like about him.

The quality control is well... Less than fantastic. You can see on his off side he has a rub on his hip and about 20 pinholes. His shading is good, but I'd like him more if he was better. Hopefully mine is just a fluke and others are great! 

His blaze is pretty crisp, but the pinking  'spills over' onto his nostrils, causing some discoloration.

Just like the real horse, he is a gelding. :) His Breyer stamp is on his belly (like most stablemates), and he has the belly spot the actual Valegro has.

Size comparison. This is a really bad photo, so you can't really see, but he's much smaller than Dungaree. The pony is about the same size as him. The scale is smaller then stablemate, but not much.

I like him but will probably try to find a LSQ one. His show side isn't that bad, so I will. This new mold is lovely, and personally I think his conformation is much better then other Breyer SM warmbloods. I really hope they use him for the Breyerfest Ticket Stablemates, and I can't wait to see what people do to customize him!

The next thing I got was...

Great job, camera...

There we go. :) I got the pink Mini Whinny surprise! :D It took me a while to feel all the bags, but all I had to do was find one that had two large pieces, because the stand is separate from the horse.

I'm normally not one for pink, but this guy (girl? he? she? it?) is so cute! I've decided to name him 'RRS Neapolitan.'

The last thing I got was a stablemate single for Becky. I've already primed her, though. She'll be painted to look like the horse she rides. 

Well, that's it! Thank you for sticking with us! We also just hit 1500 views! Awesome! :D 

-Emma

Zombified

Recently I won Five Paws Studios' Fear The Walking Dead giveaway.  As I am a die-hard Walking Dead fan I was so excited! If you haven't checked out her blog, check it out here! I've met her in person once before and she's just as awesome in person! She's so generous and friendly.

Onto what I won!

The first thing I opened was this AWESOME nameplate halter! This horse actually didn't have a name, but the halter fit him and looked so nice on him that his name is now RRS Zombie Slayer. :)

Next I opened the main attraction of the box; a zombie! She's a bit creepy, but in a good way. My dad thinks she looks like something one of the kids from The Munsters would play with. ;) But seriously! How cool is this?

To quote Jackie Arns-Rossi; "I am so happy to see a zombie wearing head gear. Note that brain is still intact, people!!"

I totally agree! #mindyourmellon

But there's more! Two amazing Walking Dead pony pouches! Love them!

Even more!

Walking dead books! I've always wanted to read both of these, just never gotten around to buying them! I've already started the comic.

Last but certainly not least is a great YA book!

It's my new car book, the one I read whenever we take long trips. I've only read the first couple pages and I can't wait to read the rest!

Like a true performance shower, I just HAD to tack up everything to take a photo!

My poor Breyer guy always gets in the worst situations... ;)

Thank you so much Kristian! Seriously, if you aren't reading her blog, start! She posts regularly about some pretty awesome stuff.

-Emma

Operation "Save the Seat"

Hi everyone, Becky here! I had quite an amazing new year with my family which included buying my dream saddle. :)

This is my Barnsby Puissance. One of the huge perks of the purchase was the fact that the saddle was unused for a very long time, but in it's day it had been well cared for so it was relatively easy to revive. 

I love cleaning saddles, so this was a "labor of love." I have a strange taste for the plain flap close contact saddles, especially the forward flap for my crazy long legs. I love that I finally found a saddle with a "square" cantle, since this particular model was made with both. 

Here are some before pictures! (Spider and all!)

A good scrubbing, soaping (Don't forget all the little crevices with a toothbrush!), and a LOAD of oiling and it is looking amazing. All those scuffs? Gone! I was amazingly lucky to find such a deal!

I think an exact model replica is in order! ...in fact... maybe a replica of all of my tack...

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