LeeAnn's Customs Thread *Updated Feb 28

The Model Horse Blab forum has several swaps throughout the year, where you make a custom Stablemate for a partner according to their likes and preferences. Your partner doesn't know who you are and you don't know who your partner is. The person you're making a horse for is not making a horse for you. Confused yet? In the end, everyone receives a custom Stablemate.

Here's the Stablemate I made for my partner, this was a Halloween swap so I made a little pumpkin to go with my swap horse.

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She (the horse ) has a new mane, new forelock, modified tail, and added horn which was also sculpted by me. The horn decided to break four times, hopefully it won't break again!

I finished her in pastels with the eyes, hooves, horn, and snip done in acrylics. The eyes are glossed with clear varnish.

Lovely work, it's so cute and nicely made! And very funny idea of making surprise gifts!

Thank you Anna!

That's great, Leeann!
Do you know, I like the idea, maybe we can make something similar on STS. We have several members that enjoy customizing horses. Maybe it can be done with standard sized horses of major brands? Something to think about.

Lovely work LeeAnn!

Roger wrote:

maybe we can make something similar on STS. We have several members that enjoy customizing horses.  Maybe it can be done with standard sized horses of major brands? Something to think about.

Sounds nice! I would certainly join

Roger wrote:

That's great, Leeann!
Do you know, I like the idea, maybe we can make something similar on STS. We have several members that enjoy customizing horses.  Maybe it can be done with standard sized horses of major brands? Something to think about.

Thanks Roger! I had thought about making the suggestion, but the only problem is shipping costs. As most of us on Blab live in the United States, shipping cost is not an issue. However, international shipping can be expensive. If it could be worked out that each person participating ships to someone in their own country that would work, or if some people agree to ship internationally that works too. When we fill out the form for the swaps on Blab, we have to mark down if we want to ship domestic or international. If you decide to go with this idea, please let me know, I would be more than happy to help manage it.

A-J wrote:

Lovely work LeeAnn!

Thank you Anne-Joke!

Animal_Figures_4U wrote:

Roger wrote:

That's great, Leeann!
Do you know, I like the idea, maybe we can make something similar on STS. We have several members that enjoy customizing horses.  Maybe it can be done with standard sized horses of major brands? Something to think about.

Thanks Roger! I had thought about making the suggestion, but the only problem is shipping costs. As most of us on Blab live in the United States, shipping cost is not an issue. However, international shipping can be expensive. If it could be worked out that each person participating ships to someone in their own country that would work, or if some people agree to ship internationally that works too. When we fill out the form for the swaps on Blab, we have to mark down if we want to ship domestic or international. If you decide to go with this idea, please let me know, I would be more than happy to help manage it.

It depends of the interest around it. Maybe we can prevent overseas, our community is mostly composed of North American and European members. Maybe you can try to see if there are people enough interested in these two regions and surely we'll find a way to people that is out of these regions.
We don't need to be many to make it work.

Nice work

She's very beautiful little mare, LeeAnn! I love how beautifully the coat turned out Good job with it!
I read aout this in your blog! Sounds just funny Hope she's gonna get a good home
Great job!

Arrrhw ! SO cute

I am not quite sure I understand how the system works, but the end result sounds delightful !
( Yes, d.... international shipping costs )

Thanks friends!

Nice work!

i really like the idea...
But i don;t know is i could participate...
stablemates are hard to find in this country ...
and always the time to extually do it is most of the ''time'' not that mutch around here ...
grrrr

Your horse looks really nice with the horn and the new color simple but beautifull

Thanks again

Dum_my wrote:

i really like the idea...
But i don;t know is i could participate...
stablemates are hard to find in this country ...
and always the time to extually do it is most of the ''time'' not that mutch around here ...
grrrr

Your horse looks really nice with the horn and the new color simple but beautifull

If we do a swap here it wouldn't be with Stablemates as I know it is extremely difficult to find them in other countries. We would do it with major brand figures.

I'm interested of course!

Some better photos

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I love her

I'm glad you like her I hope my partner does too!

I've been in a customizing mood lately. I also cleared out the Mojo shelves of horses at Hobby Lobby.

Here's the Arabian Mare in Foal painted to a chestnut going grey by me.

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(Still waiting for my pen to arrive to sign her.)


Here with her sunburnt black friend
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I thought painting the eyes would drive me crazy but it was a lot of fun! I bought some super-fine paintbrushes and it wasn't hard at all.

I also completed the Suffolk Punch Mare.

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Here with her foal:
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Not too pleased with the result but it's better than the OF paint.

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Here with her mother:
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Very happy with this girl, I wanted to do a sunburnt black color on her to go with the chestnut going grey and I'm loving the black on her! First I did a brown basecolor, then did darker brown and black on top, with a little more brown shading on top of the black to get the shaded brown/black effect.

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Here with her chestnut going grey friend
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The shaded brown/black seems to have worked very well. It is wonderful, I love dark horses and I agree that the color goes nicely on that mare.
I think that my suggestion of an American Cream Draft color for Ana's Percheron she received from Harriet could also work nicely in Mojo's Suffolk Punch mare.

I commented in your Arabian about that Suffolk once I haven't noticed that there were more customs.
It is wonderful, Mojo horses are turning in excelent candidats to repaint, perfect sculpting, unpleasant painting, what do you great repainters want more?
Thanks for sharing, LeeAnn!

Ha, if James tell me about Mojo's increasing sales in USA I already know who is the guilty.
The grey color accentuates the very feminine design of that horse and as far as I can judge, you performed an excelent work with eyes and hairy parts. Any doubts of the beautiness of that figure or of your talent? No...