Dorotea's repainted horses

Excellent work on the grey!

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Wow!  I love them both! Lovely colors and beautiful manes&tails! Great job!    

BEAUTIFUL!!!   One is Spirit!!     

First a no-flash image of the previous two:
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A special little project of mine - Eohippus (The Dawn Horse) i.e. Hyracotherium:
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The color was a mixure of this one:
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and an extreme dun factor
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This was kind of a shape reference, but the neck of my "eo" is a bit too long - I'm happy with him anyway
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Evolution image:
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Often they show different "stages" like e.g. Mio- or Mesohippus; Plio- or Dinohippus etc.

It's so good! Small and very cute  Great job!

YESSS !!!!   
Safari Ltd, - Look here to see what you need to make as evolution-set ?   

Dorotea, you did a fantastic job ! A wonderful Eohippo , - super sculpt and lovely, lovely paintwork   
Thankyou also very much for the info ! I never heard about extreme dun-factor before   

Very nice work     

Oh, what a lovely customs you've made the past weeks
I especially like your lippizaner descendent line. Very interesting and also beautiful customs. I've never really read into lippizaner ancestors. I do know about the thoroughbred "founding fathers" as I have pedigreed some thoroughbred model horses.     
Anyway, I guess your local schleich distributor must be running out of schleich lippizan molds   

Your little Eohippus is a very charming little guy again you've thought us some more history about horses. And you've done great research too   Can't wait to see more

Thank you

Last Saturday I've visited my first Model Horse Live Show in Bensheim, Germany (as a visitor only).
I think I've gotten an idea of what does live-show-quality LSQ mean
plus I've seen a lot of very nice horses and colors and tack  
I'm into lipizzaners so this is a lipizzaner-summary of the show:
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Some other photos:
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I've bought some bodies:
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A new horse, can't decide if he/she is finished or do I need to add some dirt/imperfections:
PBA, Harlequin's Tear
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Great purchases!

I hope someday I'll be in one of these shows

That looks like it was a huge show! Is that ring 12??

I can tell you like the ARs the best.


Another great horse, and I can't wait to see your new purchases get new colors!

I hope you had great time there!
Those are some beautiful lipizzaners - specially the schleich mare
And yay - I'm super excited to see those bodies with new color etc beautiful arab

Beautiful Eohippus! Congratulations!!!

And thank you for sharing photos from the show! Many beautiful models I can see there!
Is this show every year? It would be so much fun to go and see it!

tnx

Animal_Figures_4U wrote:

That looks like it was a huge show! Is that ring 12??

Yes that was ring 12
Since this was the first model horse show I visited, I have no feeling for its size...

Ana wrote:

Is this show every year? It would be so much fun to go and see it!

Yes it is every year, this was the 14th one in Bensheim.
It was, so it seems, a bit more Breyer-oriented, since it was organized by a german Breyer store.
They seem to have a lot of such "Live Shows" in Germany, this is what I managed to figure out at the MPV forum:
13.09.2014 LS Bonn                  
20.09.2014 Stuttgarter Live-Schau
04.10.2014 Hannover Classics
11.10.2014 2. Aachener Round UP
25.10.2014 2. LS Magdeburg        
01.11.2014 Model Horse Lübeck        

I have no idea about the size or content of these shows...

Your customs and repaints are absolutely amazing.
I really love the dappled grey Lipizzaner, he's gorgeous.

tnx

A little horse-intermezzo, since it's so cold  

This is a custom of "Carneval Ride" in a croatian region of Slavonia.
Its roots are historical: horsemen used to patrol the borders of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and guard it against the turkish intrusions.
On the way to and from the border they were passing through villages singing songs
and sometimes the villagers would offer them some food and drinks.
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This event transformed into the todays carneval rides and is being held in many villages during February up to March. The best looking horse, and also the rider is chosen
The horse is a traditional slavonian "peasant's" horse - the lipizzaner.
Slavonia (not to be confused with Slovenia) has the largest number of lipizzan horses owned by private breeders in the world.


Most of the horses are breed typical greys.
However, there is also a large number of dark horses - bays and blacks.
Croatian Folk songs mostly praise the dark horses.
In them bays or blacks are usually referd to as a "treasure"
(I guess it was indeed much easier for a peasant to take care of a dark horse)  
Today, many people also especially treasure the dark lipizzans.
As an example, a price of a nicely paired carriage couple of black lipizzans is enormous when compared with a gray pair.

Many of the gray horses are fleabitten grays - this is almost a sure indicator that a horse is a heterozygous gray so Gg not GG.
This means that there is a 25% chance of getting a dark horse when two Gg horses breed, and explains their large numbers.

The live show must have been so much fun to go to. All those lovely customs! Eye candies everywhere
I am, like every one else, very curios to see what you'll make of your newly achieved bodies. The last custom is also very nice! I don't see anything you should change.

Your little intermezzo about the treasures is very nice and interesting too. I like your informative parts a lot, and wouldn't mind if you do that more often Soon everyone on STS will be a lipizzaner expert

tnx

Neapolitano Noblessa
dappled bay E/- A/-
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Neapolitano Perletta
homozygous pearl on bay? E/- A/- prl/prl
or "dark" perlino E/- A/- Cr/Cr (skin is a bit to dark for this though... )
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Some stunning colors! That's so nice you're doing so many same looking like horses with different color! Congrats they're just great

Very wonderful works and events! I love specially your prehistoric horse project!

tnx jonesee and Roger :)

Convesrano Gratia and Conversano Capriola
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and there they are: Lipizzan "foundation stallions"
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Siglavy, what a beauty. Those mane and tale, love the spotties :3 <3

Oh, I love the gray one! Wonderful work And the darker has such a beautiful color

I've only just scrolled through your whole post for the first time, what amazing horses you have! My favourites are definitely your various Arabian repaints-they are just stunning