The good news... Equidae is here! I've spent the weekend packaging him up so the orders that will be going out will be shipped out starting tomorrow. He is phenomenal! Definitely one of the best rainbow horses yet in my opinion. From what I can see, doesn't look like he has the quality issues that Spectrum had last year, and all the boxes arrived in decent shape as well. The bad news... I did not receive my entire order, as has been the norm this year. So I'm shipping these guys first come, first serve. Those who pre-ordered him who will be receiving a model from this shipment will be sent tracking numbers soon and should get him by the end of next week. If you don't receive a tracking number, your model(s) will be part of my next shipment of Equidaes. I'm hopeful that the rest will arrive by Christmas. Some old news... my second Dahlia (finally) arrived and I ended up with the blue. I was hoping for either the blue or champagne for my second gal so she'll be kept. I do want to track down that champagne eventually though. I love the blue, it glitters like the ocean, and is also hard to photograph for that reason. She makes a good mini me for my blue Lancelot. She actually was "helping" me while I packaged up my Equidae orders today :) Now for some new news... I went to the flagship dealer in my area where I bought Livingston from earlier this year in search of Steele. Of course they didn't have him. They have been doing this quite a few times of late, like with some of the Tractor Supply models and Hwin, but I had no idea of a chalky Stingray until I went to the KHP. Let me tell you, I love the chalky coloring a lot better than the regular! Her chalky version is a lot less red (one reason I hesitated about adding her to my permanent collection was because her model looked nothing like the real horse... she looked almost silver bay) and much more tan. The chalky version appears much lighter, almost a sooty palomino color.
Above is a comparison of the chalky version (left) with a Stingray I received with my first order many months ago (right). If you looked closely at the chalky you could see on her white areas the chipped painted basecoat showing underneath. Although I don't know how many were made chalky, there have to be others floating around out there somewhere. I didn't get any with my own first shipment, but of course I haven't ordered any more Stingrays in a while due to Breyer being out of stock. Comments are closed.
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