After a very hectic day at work and getting the notification from Breyer that some of the regular runs on my order are backed up until June now due to overseas container ships arriving late, I was pleasantly surprised to find Nonoma and Goldfinch waiting for me on my porch. At work, we are packaging meal boxes for the Farmers to Families food bank and the overtime has been crazy. I'm not complaining though, with the way the world is right now I'm just lucky to have a job at all, and happy to be helping a good cause. Even though I had ordered both together, Breyer again shipped them separate, but at least I got to save on shipping costs. I will start with Nonoma, who is not chalky as I had previously thought. Nope, all that white is bare plastic. However, I did end up with the one with all the war paint symbols, which is what I was hoping for, so I'm super pumped about that. He has a blue hand print, red eye circle, broken arrow, coup and raid markings. I love his blue eyes and subtle pink shading. He also has the start of a dorsal stripe, prominent leg barring and is a medicine hat as you can see in the pictures. A throwback to the Lakota Pony, I'm assuming? I'm not sure what breed the Foundation Stallion was meant to be originally (someone chime in) but he's been produced in several different breeds, however I think this guy looks good as a mustang, and it's the mustang shelf I'm going to keep him on. My second mustang is Goldfinch, the ultimate grail of just about everyone in the model horse hobby. I don't know if I'd go as far as to call him my ultimate grail but he did exceed my expectations, like I had not idea that he was chalky. Quite ironic that the horse I thought was chalky wasn't, and the other one actually ended up being the chalky. Breyer's stock photos are so deceiving. Rather than typical black buckskin legs, his legs are more of a chocolate color and he has bi-colored eyes. Being an avian lover as well as an equine enthusiast, I'm also digging the bird on the bottom of his tail. I will do video reviews of these two on Youtube over the weekend when I have more time so you guys can see them more in depth, and maybe it would be a good idea to use Goldfinch in a video telling the difference between chalky and non-chalky for those who don't know the difference, as I see this question all the time.
Anyways... Hendrik, the second release in the Stablemates Club, also came out today. He has already been bought and paid for so hopefully he'll arrive by the end of this week or next week at the latest. He is a Georgian Grande horse, which was a breed I had never heard of, but I did some research and I'm in love. How cool of Breyer to think of a breed that's a bit out of the norm! Here I thought they were tossing around random colors on random breeds like they like to do every now and then. Comments are closed.
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