This is my first year collecting Peter Stones, and I have to say that I'm very impressed with the amount of detail put into these beauties! Everyone is doing their top purchases of the year on social media, so for my top purchases of the year, I have to say that it's probably going to be them. I'm going to share my original herd with you and give you some reasons why I purchased as well as some critics. My first Peter Stone ever was Spindrift from Equilocity 2021. His pattern was so unique that I had to have him, despite foregoing the first online Equilocity the previous year. I don't know why but Spindrift's spots reminded me of shrimp and his plume tail was a unique touch to an already wildly colored horse. I wish Stone would use this mold more often as well, as it isn't too huge compared to future Stones I've purchased, but I still love it just the same. He was limited to 20 pieces and painted by Ellen. One of my all time favorite colors is flaxen chestnut, and this gal fit what I hoped to see of a flaxen chestnut in a model to a tee. Although plain colored, she has very realistic subtle dappling and nice shading in her mane/tail. My particular model didn't have as good of hoof striping as the picture shows but she is still lovely nonetheless. She was limited to 30 pieces and painted by Julie. My first and only (up to this time) Moonlight Madness purchase was Balthazar, a sugar skull that by a stroke of luck of them making 7 copies I was able to get my hands on one, otherwise I probably would have had to fight with the masses to get a sugar skull of any kind. Since I discovered Stones, I've always wanted a sugar skull. I love the gems on their faces. While not my favorite mold or color - y'all know how much I don't care for plain bays - at least I got something and he is glossy so that makes up for the plain bay color a bit. His dapples are nice too, I love horses that are very well dappled over subtle dappling myself, but to each their own. He was painted by Dawn. They released Kringle as a gambler's choice with 15 long mane and 15 short mane. I purchased Kringle in hopes of getting the long mane version, but instead I ended up with the short mane. This guy would have looked better in gloss, I think, as lighter colors tend to "pop" more when glossed. As is, his buff buttermilk coloring barely stands out against his frosted white snowcap rear end. Also the model I was sent didn't have much nose mottling as I'd seen on social media, which I was a bit disappointed about, and I ended up with a finger print in the paint on his legs. This is probably the horse I liked the least from all the ones I purchased. Not the artist's fault, I just didn't really like how the colors blended and how his hooves are solid black like his legs. By the end of the year, my tastes have changed for Peter Stones a bit. I decided to no longer collect normal horse colors, but they must have a decorator aspect to them. This is, after all, what separates Stone from Breyer in that they put a lot of thought into their models. So it is with my last purchase of the year, RMD Balthazar (ironic that he has the same name as my sugar skull) with his dark grey incredibly fish scaled dappling - I love it! - and Christmas colored painted hooves. While it's not too over the top as far as decorators go, a mix of real and deco is what I plan to collect from here on out.
Eventually I'd like to add a bat chip, a shark body design, a brindle and the Easter bunny design if they still do it next year. Comments are closed.
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