I'm happy to announce that my Breyerfest loot is finally here! A little late but I'm pretty sure Breyer was shipping out smaller orders first before the big orders, and my order was on the biggish side which was why it took so long. I ended up purchasing all the store specials except the plushy (most were pre-orders that will be shipping out tomorrow) so seeing them all in person is a real treat, especially since we couldn't see them in person at Breyerfest before we bought them this year. Here is a picture of everything all together: I will be keeping Benelli, Topgun, the stablemate set, Oak, Epona, Brighid and Beltane for my personal collection. I will do individual reviews of each horse for my Youtube channel, but in the meantime here are some actual pictures of each horse starting with one of the top favorites: Oak. In my opinion this color looks so much nicer on him than the original sealy bay he was released on. I also like that his white areas aren't bare plastic but have a creamy basecoat. Breyer needs to do more varnish roan appys in future! Epona didn't seem too popular, probably because of her tippy mold, but I absolutely love her! This color is so stunning. It has beautiful dark shading with bold dappling, but well blended and not fish scaley. Her white pinto markings are nice and crisp. Though she stands pretty good for this mold, she'll still be put on my "tipsy" shelf with her tippy sisters, Weather Girl and Celeste. Thankfully I have Nokotas on each side to prevent those ornery ladies from playing dominoes. Brighid and Beltane were another huge hit this year, and I'm surprised I got them at all. As with Oak, these colors look much better than the original PC coloring on this pair. I think I ended up with a variation on Brighid, as her mane is supposed to be as flaxen as her tail and mine is not. Her mane is as dark as her body. I wasn't sure if I'd like Benelli in gloss or matte. In fact, I'm still not sure. I thought since he was grey I'd like him better matte, but when he came today, I was a bit underwhelmed by his matte coloring. Maybe it's how light his coloring is. I still like him though, just still can't figure out which I like better. Unfortunately I didn't order the glossy one so I won't know, but here is his matte butt: After seeing Cheezy in matte and how much bare plastic he has on him, I'm glad I bought a glossy of him. Now Topgun I much prefer in matte for sure. He's got generous shading and kind of scaley dappling. I really don't mind scaley dappling as long as it blends with the horse's body color, it's when the dappling looks like chicken wire dappling that I don't like much. The brown eyes on this guy adds to his detail. Finally my surprise models... I ended up with two red roans and three leopard appys out of the five I was picked for. I did get one glossy in each of the two colors so that was a bonus since the glossies typically run in smaller numbers (and the child in me was screaming that I finally got something in glossy) although honestly I figured if I'd ever get a glossy surprise, it'd be on this mold, since the only horses I have on this mold - Teton and GG Valentine - are ironically both glossy. I'm going to keep one of the matte roans since I like the matte coloring more than the glossy. In honor of this event, I've already concluded that my five surprise models are going to be named Refresh, Out of Stock, Migraine, Login Loop and Snatched Away. I think all those are fitting LOL! The appy is honestly the kind of leopard appy I've always wanted Breyer to do. It looks very similar to the Roxy in the live auction, whom I adored, and the white actually isn't bare plastic... she's chalky white. I can tell because the glossy one has a flaw on her face where you can see the bare plastic underneath the white coat. For now I think I'm going to keep the glossy appy since the prices never go down on the glossies should I decide to sell later. Besides the unpainted area on the glossy leopard's cheek, I didn't see any major flaws on any of them, which was great. My "unboxing" video is up on Youtube and I will be posting my surprise model unboxing video later today, though it was filmed long before this post was even written. I'm happy with everything, and I'm hoping next year will be just as successful!
P.S. I wasn't willing to pre-order surprise models since I had no idea which one I'd end up with. The duplicate surprises will be available for sale on MH$P later today. 7/25/2020 02:03:01 am
My Brighid and Beltane arrived today and I noticed that my Brighid's mane and tail coloring is the same variation as yours. I wonder if Breyer planned it or if there are other variations - like either all flaxen or all chestnut. I do know that in real life, Chestnuts can have a dark mane and a light tail or the opposite. Here's an example of a QH with a light mane and a body colored tail: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/27092035245665508/ Comments are closed.
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