My Halloween horses arrived from Breyer today, my Ratsputin and Spooky Stablemates both series 1 and 2. I'll start with Ratsputin. He is, what I'd call, a regular bay... not too light and not too dark. Weirdly he doesn't have black legs, only shaded legs. His markings are nice and crisp. The gold iridescent sheen is so subtle that you can't even really tell it's there, so those who were afraid he'd look more deco than realistic can rest assured he's not. I actually like him better than Salem, mostly because I don't like horses with a ton of white. I do, however, wish they would've given Ratsputin blue eyes like they did with Salem. He also came with a hang tag around his neck. For my Spooky Stablemates, by some miracle I ended up with my favorites. I did get duplicate Bats in the Belfrey in my two series 1 bags but I'm planning on trading for a mini Ichabod, my other favorite. I didn't really like Calavera. I also received my two favorites from the series 2 stablemates: Twilight Terror and Poltergeist. Twilight Terror is actually a clearware and Poltergeist glows in the dark. Honestly I like series 2 far better than series 1. Oddly, both series of horses came in the same exact packaging so at first I thought they gave me all series 1 until I opened the bags. Speaking of Halloween horses, I'm officially done with my Halloween customs for this year, however because I've just come into a lot of stablemate bodies, I've decided to start on a Christmas series, which I will talk about at a later date. A sneak peek into my upcoming 2021 Halloween series will be called "Hauntings Across America" and will portray some of the most haunted locations in the country. I foresee this series going into next year as well because there are way too many haunted places in America to put them all in one year. The first few I've already started on: "Witch Hunt" will portray the Salem witch trials, "Voodoo" will be for the New Orleans celebration and "Sleepy Hollow" will represent the small town in New York where the legend of the headless horseman was invented.
I'm also going to make a Sleepy Hollow Classics horse for this year that I haven't decided upon a name yet but he's in the planning period. He will be a little sample of what's to come next year. Since the bigger the horse, the more detail required, as I hand paint all of my horses with bristle brushes (not air brushed) while adding details using a quill feather from my geese after they molt instead of colored pencils or acrylic pens, and considering that I'm back to working full time now five days a week outside the home, due to limited time I probably won't have him done until closer to October. 9/23/2020 11:34:17 pm
If you like to label your horses genetically accurate color wise, Ratsputin would pass for a Wild Bay - which is a Bay horse with his black points (term taken from cats) starting at the fetlocks down, instead of the normal knees and hocks.
Heather
9/23/2020 11:49:10 pm
Ditto on the blue eyes, though I'm considering painting mine with one blue and one brown eye! Comments are closed.
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