2016 Clydesdale Mare

Yep, mommy moved in too!

2016 Clydesdale Mare

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Her head is on the big side, with very small beady eyes.

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She is not as slender as her hubby, but has the same long neck.

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Her head reminds me a little of that of her brother in law xD

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Again with the braids schleich...

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Quite the sturdy model

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Her belly spots.

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Nice too :)

widukind wrote:

Nice too :)

Merci!

Very consistent with Schleich style. Neck and head of a larger horse and body of a smaller horse, it seems to be a design formula, not any kind of talent from the sculptor. I like that white markings are abundant to turn it more distinctive from a Shire.

Roger wrote:

Very consistent with Schleich style. Neck and head of a larger horse and body of a smaller horse, it seems to be a design formula, not any kind of talent from the sculptor. I like that white markings are abundant to turn it more distinctive from a Shire.

Her marks are nice and grey around the edges which makes it seem more real.

Again thanks for the walkaround
She is cute

Carola wrote:

Again thanks for the walkaround
She is cute

Thank you very much!

Great review! I thought about picking this one up because I ordinarily love Schleich's draft horses, but they seemed to have dropped the ball with this one and my critiques are very similar to yours. I agree that the eyes on her look particularly soulless. I'm not sure why that is, but it makes it hard to notice her better features such as the more naturalistic paint job.

I also don't like the braids on this horse as well as many of their others. What's interesting is that most girls who love horses (myself as a child included) actually prefer stallions over mares and like tough and natural-looking horses. Schleich seems to have missed the market on some of their more recent offerings.

barracudacat wrote:

Great review!  I thought about picking this one up because I ordinarily love Schleich's draft horses, but they seemed to have dropped the ball with this one and my critiques are very similar to yours.  I agree that the eyes on her look particularly soulless.  I'm not sure why that is, but it makes it hard to notice her better features such as the more naturalistic paint job.

I also don't like the braids on this horse as well as many of their others.  What's interesting is that most girls who love horses (myself as a child included) actually prefer stallions over mares and like tough and natural-looking horses.  Schleich seems to have missed the market on some of their more recent offerings.

The thing that actually bothers me are her ears, they are waaaay big