LeeAnn's Customs Thread *Updated Feb 28

Two more finished:

This guy started out as the Safari Ltd. "Audrey on Streaming Light" Gypsy Vanner. I cut the bridle off with an exacto knife and resculpted those areas, added to the belly, and filled in a weird hole in the feathering on one leg. Then of course painted him to a red bay Vladimir Draft!

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Comparison with the original:
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Now to decide what color to do the other one in!



And this guy you've already seen, but he went tacky on me so I had to strip him, and accidently left him in too long causing the original paint on the hind leg/quarter started to come off. So I had to alter the pattern on his side, which I didn't like anyway so that works out in the end. Eyes, hooves, and touchups all had to be redone. I like him much better now anyway! After all this I'm changing his name from "Fox Calling" to "Pain in the Rear"

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Beautieful repaints again :)

LeeAnn those are so beautiful!
The gypsy looks absolutely fantastic in this color Loce her and can't wait to see the other one
That huge handsome fellow just dropped my jaw. Stunning

The Vladimir model is wonderful, so much better than the original Audrey. You should send the picture into Safari Ltd, they might feature it on their Facebook page!!

widukind wrote:

Beautieful repaints again :)

Thank you again Andreas

JonasV wrote:

LeeAnn those are so beautiful!
The gypsy looks absolutely fantastic in this color Loce her and can't wait to see the other one
That huge handsome fellow just dropped my jaw. Stunning

Thank you Jonas What color should the other one be?

I won't be able to work on that one for a little while, I want to wait until my hand heals up before I start using the exacto knife again    Until then I'm stuck with prepping, priming, and painting.

MiniZoo wrote:

The Vladimir model is wonderful, so much better than the original Audrey. You should send the picture into Safari Ltd, they might feature it on their Facebook page!!

Thanks! I thought about that, but I don't want to encourage kids to start picking up exacto knives and chopping up their animals.... I already hurt myself real bad doing that, I don't want that to happen to a little kid with much more delicate skin than myself.

Is an exacto the same as x-acto? I never liked to use this kind of tools and I hope you recover soon.
These are wonderful again and you have a special ability to choose names.

I always spell it wrong. Yes, it's an x-acto knife. Thanks, it's getting better but I still have to keep it covered. I'm glad it wasn't worse - imagine trying to explain to a doctor that you cut your hand open by chopping apart a plastic horse! I think they would prescribe some mental therapy rather than something for the cut.

I pick names that fit the horse. I enjoy naming horses that annoy me.

LeeAnn wrote:

I always spell it wrong. Yes, it's an x-acto knife. Thanks, it's getting better but I still have to keep it covered. I'm glad it wasn't worse - imagine trying to explain to a doctor that you cut your hand open by chopping apart a plastic horse! I think they would prescribe some mental therapy rather than something for the cut.

I pick names that fit the horse. I enjoy naming horses that annoy me.

Tell your doctor that this is a question of mentality! I know about X-acto because in my group of friends we use to talk about brand names that turned in words that we can find in a dictionary. That's when a product is best known by its brand name than by its name. X-acto turned definitive but some not, many years ago, Kodak in Portugal was synonymous to camera (photographic), so, regardless of the brand, every camera was called Kodak! Fortunately it changed and it hasn't turned in a Portuguese word.
It is great that you're recovering... why don't you call X-acto to your next horse?

That's interesting, I suppose I have a Canon Kodak then!

Hmm, "X-axto" or "Question of Mentailty." I like both.

LeeAnn wrote:

JonasV wrote:

LeeAnn those are so beautiful!
The gypsy looks absolutely fantastic in this color Loce her and can't wait to see the other one
That huge handsome fellow just dropped my jaw. Stunning

Thank you Jonas What color should the other one be?

I won't be able to work on that one for a little while, I want to wait until my hand heals up before I start using the exacto knife again    Until then I'm stuck with prepping, priming, and painting.

I'd suggest this
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Or this!
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Oh yes - I know how you feel - my finger is still not ok. Probably we should get armours

I like the first one!

I think I need to wrap myself up in bubble wrap.

Good luck

A few more finished...

This guy was going to be a very dark black minimal tobiano, but wanted to be a seal bay instead.
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Dark dapple grey Breyer G1 Draftie SM
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I couldn't get the glare to go away
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Nice work again :)

Thanks Andreas!

Love the gray one, LeeAnn! Also the first one has a very well made paint job Great job again
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Thanks Jonas

Very very nice!! I like this seal brown color a lot on horses!! And the grey drafter, lovely!

Thank you Shanti

Beautyful , lovely repaints

How on earth do you make that grey pattern ?
It would also be wonderful for a roan Icey in summer coat

I'm actually working on a strawberry roan sabino TWH right now Well, started it but then the sealer crazed and I had to strip and start over... so I'm almost done stripping him and can start over again

For the drafter he's primed then painted in a white basecoat, then I drew on the dapples by hand, one by one, with a grey pencil. Sealed the pencil and applied layers of gradually darker grey pastels, mixed with a tiny bit of brown pastel. Eventually when I'm satisfied he gets sealed in Dullcote and the details (eyes, hooves, mane/tail) are painted then sealed. I think that would look nice on an Icey! I've been trying to get my hands on a few Safari Iceys but I can't find any surprisingly - seems I can get any horse except that one.

Beautiful works LeeAnn, the grey one is especially beautiful. What a great work and on such small horse, wow,

Thank you Anna! I actually prefer working on the smaller horses, I think SM scale is my favorite The larger horses take too much time and pigment.

Your work is always astounding. Fantastic job!

Thanks Paige! Such kind words