Ashton!

 I finally got my Ashton! You may remember the last time I ordered him, yeah, it was a disaster. My TSC didn't have him in again until a couple weeks ago, and I finally went out there today. I ended up bringing him home, even though he does have a couple little flaws. I was worried I'd never get another chance! I'm very happy with him. :) He has nice dappling, and his shading is really good. I took a photo of his left side, but it was blurry, so I will have to retake it later this week.

I am showing him as an Australian Stock Horse. You can see his OMHPS profile here: SDS Sugar Daddy - OMHPS :)

SDS Sugar Daddy, Barn Name of Ransom, Australian Stock Horse Gelding.

Ashton

View out of my studio window to promote nice thoughts of happy little trees before you start reading this sad blog post about poor little flawed models

Sorry for the short absence, my local fair is going on this week and I am very involved in it. It's been dominating all my time (even eating/sleeping). I might do a post on it at a later date. Right now, I'm pretty "faired" out. 😂

Last week, I went against my own advice and purchased Ashton off the TSC website. I took a safety precaution, and ordered two. My plan was to choose the best one and return the other. I picked them up on Friday. Unfortunately, both of them have MAJOR flaws. I will be returning both.

The flaws look like someone splattered watercolor pink paint all over them. I slit one of the boxes and reached in with a wet cotton swab to see if the splats would lift, but they did not. Outside of the flaws, they are gorgeous. I love him, and I'm looking forward to finding a good one. Zeke and Jolene are in at my local store, so hopefully Ashton will be as well when I go to return these two.

Photos of the flaws are below, I circled them. My camera downplays the splats, you'll probably have to blow the image up to see them. They are crystal clear irl. These photos are from one model, the other one is just as bad.

Cringe. There were even more that didn't show up at all so I couldn't circle them.

On the bright side, notice his soft shading, neck dapples, and leg barring! And his snip is adorable.

They're Here! They're Here!

 Yay! It's been a ridiculously bad week, but the bright spot appeared yesterday! Jolene and Zeke arrived, and they are FLAWLESS. Jolene's box was destroyed in shipping, but she was okay- thank goodness.

Not happy, TSC.

Aargh! What did they do, sit on it??

SDS Mental Peanut Butter (Dunalino QH Mare)

Her m/t almost look chalky. Not sure though. I'll ask around when there are more out there.

Excellent masking.

She'd look great with a star, but I like the solid face just as well. :)

Really well done eel stripe (or dorsal stripe, depending on your preferred term)

So happy that the leg barring continues on the inside of her legs! Sometimes Breyer "forgets" that part.

Patient mare moment. I love the expression in LP's eyes.

SDS Painting Shadows (Black Overo Paint Stallion)

His right side is my favorite.

Look at those eyes!

Doesn't he look sweet in that shade of purple? :)

Ashton is on the website!

 He's out officially! His color is a little different than I was expecting, but I like him anyway. He is on the TSC website right now, but not available to purchase (at least not for me). Looking forward to picking mine in-person!

Better quality image on the website

The classic family and the American Dream and foal are up too. The American Dream has some pretty significant flaws in the promo photo. Lets hope that's not an ill foreboding for the rest of the run. The classic set has Harper, Proud Arabian, and Morgan Foal.

Blue and the Blue ornament are out, he is not solid blue as we thought, he is textured. Now it makes sense why they gave a whole section of the BF archive tour to the denim models lol. Good subconscious advertising Breyer! This post is getting long with photos, so I'll just post links to their pages.   Big Blue    Little Blue 

TSC SRs: The Sequel

Shockingly, two of the three Traditional TSC SRs popped up on the TSC website this morning. I would not have known about them if it wasn't for equiden posting on her blog (thank you equiden!). I didn't plan on starting to look for the next 2-3 weeks or so.

The ones available at the time of this writing are "Zeke" (the Zippo) and "Jolene" (the Lady Phase). As some of you may recall from my previous post, I was not originally planning on buying Zeke. I usually don't like Breyer's black paints. However, Zeke's stock image surpassed my expectations and I found him in my cart along with Jolene.

I am blessed enough to have a location that will ship both of them to my store for pick-up, so I don't even have to pay shipping! There are some Zeke's and Jolene's in-person at a store 2+hrs from me, but I wasn't looking for a drive this week. Thankfully my estimated wait time is 10-15 days, so it's not a horrible wait. :) Now, fingers crossed I get nice ones. 🤞

Hopefully "Ashton" (the Latigo) shows up at my local store. I prefer to choose my shade of grey on him.

Jolene (Better image on the TSC website, blogger is giving me fits about URL uploading today. Same thing goes for Zeke's picture.)

Breyer's 2022 TSC SR Reveals!

 

Photo Credit To Brittany's Breyers

They're announced! And they are stunning! I love all of them this year, except the deco Geronimo. And I don't dislike him, he's just not my thing. 🙂 I'll definitely be buying a scrumptious Latigo, and a yummy LP, and probably a delicious bay American Dream!

I would like one of those Harpers in the set, but I can't tell who the other adult model is, and odds are I won't buy a full set for just one model. Shelf space is too valuable for that. 😉 I'm crazy curious as to who the second adult is, does anybody know? I'll be researching on IDYB, but there is too much glare for me to be able to tell right off the bat. Please comment if you know or have a guess!

The Zippo looks fabulous, but I typically don't love Breyer's black pintos in person. Too flat imho. Plus Zippo takes up a lot of space on shelving, so I will probably pass. If he is a good price on Black Friday I may snag one though. We'll see.

The deco FFA Geronimo appears to be a blue bay? I can't tell, he may have a design on his side. I don't collect decos, so he's an easy pass for me. It does seem strange that they would choose that mold though, what with the Mixer series in full swing.

So, who's your favorite?