My horse collection

... apart from the several tons I've got packed away in my body boxes, that is. Apologies for the craptacular pics!

My bigger models. Trad scale is too big for me, but I've still managed to snag a few of my favorite molds. Classics are more manageable, but Schleich size is my favorite.
As you can see, they're all customized or waiting to be.
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Stablemate scale models are awesome too. As you can see I've resculpted a few - moved bits around, swapping legs, etc.
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And a few closeups.

Two former Safari unicorns, now Welsh sec. D mare and stallion:
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And one I'm working on right now. Hardly a drastic customs, but... see if you can guess what he was!
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Lovely collection!!! :D:D:D:D

I love your nokota horse :)
and the Other horse's course

Fantastic collection, and so many different ones, I could watch for hours !
Your custom paints ar very impressive, as I wrote in another string, - you are one more artist here , in good compagny

Wow beautiful collection Sumo!! Your custom models are fantastic, what's the model horse in the last picture, you can just see it's head on the right?

The going-to-be-painted-grey-at-some-point one? That's the Collecta warmblood stallion. I fell in love and bought three to repaint - and now, six months later, I've barely gotten around to primering one!

Sumo wrote:

The going-to-be-painted-grey-at-some-point one? That's the Collecta warmblood stallion. I fell in love and bought three to repaint - and now, six months later, I've barely gotten around to primering one!

Wow the face looks so realistic, I must get one myself!

The dark horse with new mane and tail in the last photo is the old pinto by Schleich, number 13241 :)

I want to see the collecta warmblood!!

The warmblood stallion by Collecta is the Hanoverian one? I can´t find anything searching by warmblood.

SyLoBe wrote:

The warmblood stallion by Collecta is the Hanoverian one? I can´t find anything searching by warmblood.

Yes it's a Hanoverian, here's a link [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] there's two the same, only the other is a Bay [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

HKHollinstone wrote:

SyLoBe wrote:

The warmblood stallion by Collecta is the Hanoverian one? I can´t find anything searching by warmblood.

Yes it's a Hanoverian, here's a link [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] there's two the same, only the other is a Bay [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Did I learn wrong ?
Isn`t the name of the colour of both bay
I always thought that in English a chestnut does not have black mane/tail. We call them Rød, - Red.

It has always surprised me though, cause a chestnut is not red, it is bay

The chestnut model does have a slightly darker tail, as do many real horses - but you need to look at the legs too. A bay, or bay-derived dilution, always has black legs (white markings aside). Chestnuts haev legs the same color as the body, or a lighter shade.

Nice Custom Collections!!

Sumo wrote:

The chestnut model does have a slightly darker tail, as do many real horses - but you need to look at the legs too. A bay, or bay-derived dilution, always has black legs (white markings aside). Chestnuts haev legs the same color as the body, or a lighter shade.

Ok, then the picture shows wrong, - it looks like it has black tail/mane
I know the difference between horses with eumelanine and not, Horse colours is a little hobby of mine, - but the differnet countries sometimes call them different names, - just take the name "Dun"

Some bays have very low dark black on the legs, so the white marks on the model horse could easily cover the black area :
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- mistakenly called aguti.
This horse is very young and may later have higher marks, though. But it was the best picture I could find at the moment.

Still : a chestnut is bay and a chestnut horse is "red"

SUSANNE wrote:

Sumo wrote:

The chestnut model does have a slightly darker tail, as do many real horses - but you need to look at the legs too. A bay, or bay-derived dilution, always has black legs (white markings aside). Chestnuts haev legs the same color as the body, or a lighter shade.

Ok, then the picture shows wrong, - it looks like it has black tail/mane
I know the difference between horses with eumelanine and not, Horse colours is a little hobby of mine, - but the differnet countries sometimes call them different names, - just take the name "Dun"

Some bays have very low dark black on the legs, so the white marks on the model horse could easily cover the black area :
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- mistakenly called aguti.
This horse is very young and may later have higher marks, though. But it was the best picture I could find at the moment.

Still : a chestnut is bay and a chestnut horse is "red"

In fact, chestnut horses with black or nearly black mane and tail DO occur. They are really few, but possible. A chestnut horse have always red body with pasterns of the same color. Sometimes the pigment is too dark and seems to be black, but pasterns are reddish. It´s a chestnut hose too.

The horse in this phot is a wild bay. Wild bay is caused by the Agouti gene, but it´s the wild allele, not the normal one. Wild bay is dominant over normal bay, but it´s very rare, only few breeds have this allele. Wild bay is always low, it doesn´t go up in older horses. The horse is born with low black and it dies with low black.
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Dun coats are very different. Dun coats are yellowish-geyish colors, caused by the Dun gene, and ALWAYS have lineback. Sometimes dun horses also have zebra markings or withers stripe.http://sylobe.deviantart.com/#/d30oyqp

Nice job SyLoBe!

remowshake wrote:

Nice job SyLoBe!

Thank you :)

This is my favorite part of the collecting hobby - there's an incredible amount of knowledgeable people who like to share!
Horse color bloggers abound, but I have to mention Kirsten Wellman's excellent site and Lesli Kathman's blog - the latter is also very good for anyone interested in moldmaking etc.

Sumo, I love your collection :)

I really like your Schleich customs. If you decide to sell any, let me know I really loved the one you sold to Viki on SHT.