Arabian mare in foal (repainted) and other horses by Anna

Hello,
here is my first mojö horse, lovely Arabian mare in foal. I bought her together with some Stablemates from MPV (as she is not available in czech stores) in march, but haven't took photos until now. It's unique model, I have never seen pregnant figure before, so a kind of must have despite the bad paintjob.

I really love the sculpt, with nice arabian profile and small eyes which give her nice calm expression. And that belly  

It's such a shame, they gave her this strange orange colour, with no shadings. I was also surprised that the plastic is white and she is painted to orange (I've excepted she's made from an orange material). So she has small rubs allready from package. And also her right fore leg is a bit bent, so it isn't touching a ground. But those are just minor flaws, and she is very nice addition to every horse lover's collection.


After half a year of having her, and after I got used to her paintwork, another Arabian beauty came into my collection. So I've decided to get the mojö one repainted so she fits more to my other Arabian mares. I asked the artist to repaint her to a flea bitten grey. On 1st of February, she came back (sadly with broken ear, I had to fixed it):

I must say I've expected her to be more white, and less..well orange.

I've expected less and bigger spots (maybe hand-painted, not with an airbrush). In real she is rather ochre, and in person and in closer view you can see her spots better...

I love the shading around eyes and muzzle, and on her beautiful head she has less of spots and more of white. And again: precisely hand-painted eyes, giving her curious, real and kinda wise expression.


And the task was to fit her better to the other Arabians, as you can see, the mission is complete, they look great together:


This figure is really unique, I guess in any colour. She is very special to me

I like best the first picture. Very nice - great figure made by Anna.

75senta75 wrote:

I like best the first picture. Very nice - great figure made by Anna.

Thank you, and also thanks to Anna for this figure

It is indeed a magnificent model, - quite unique

I know that many have made re-paints, and in those we see how absolutely amazing she is

Thankyou for the wonderful photos, and congratulations to have joined the fan-club

Congrats

Thank you Susanne and Andreas.
I'm thinking about getting her repainted...but on the other hand, I got used to her as she is.

Wonderful

Those are very beautiful pictures! I find it nice that you're more focused in the positive aspects of that figure than in some manufacturing flaws. The concept and idea are excellent, the sculpt is magnificent, surely Mojö needs some more manufacturing maturity but that's just a question of time.

Roger wrote:

Those are very beautiful pictures! I find it nice that you're more focused in the positive aspects of that figure than in some manufacturing flaws. The concept and idea are excellent, the sculpt is magnificent, surely Mojö needs some more manufacturing maturity but that's just a question of time.

Thank you, Roger. Well, it's not always easy, but I'm trying to focused more on positive things in general. I agree about the concept and sculpt, and I'm really curious what progress in manufacturing will Mojö make in future.

Hi there, I've just add some photos of the mare after the repaint...

Congrats! She looks lovely in fleabitten grey Too bad she's not what you expected, did you tell the artist she doesn't match the picture in your head?

I think the repaint is beautiful. Congratulations.

Thank you LeeAnn and normal fox :-)
When the artist sent me pictures of her, she apologized that the mare turned out darker. And I wanted to wait with final judgement for having her in person. I was more shocked because of broken ear, the package was allright from outside, but it must have fallen or something. Lucklily the ear-tip was there so it could be glued together. And after that, I realize I still love her despite not being what I've expected and that she really fits to the others. So it wasn't neccesary to complain to the artist. Next time, I will send her more reference pictures and I should look properly how she makes the specific colours. She paints flea-bitten with an airbrush, so I should tell her to handpaint the spots.

That's good, at least she's growing on you! She is lovely even if she is a bit darker than what you wanted

I like this repaint very much!
I think this colour suits her well. I painted mine also in flea-bitten grey

LeeAnn wrote:

That's good, at least she's growing on you! She is lovely even if she is a bit darker than what you wanted

Absolutely she is very lovely

Ana wrote:

I like this repaint very much!
I think this colour suits her well. I painted mine also in flea-bitten grey

I'm happy you like the repaint
I remember your repaint of her to flea-bitten grey, it's marvellous. And it's also rather darker, isn't it?

onatello wrote:

Ana wrote:

I like this repaint very much!
I think this colour suits her well. I painted mine also in flea-bitten grey

I'm happy you like the repaint
I remember your repaint of her to flea-bitten grey, it's marvellous. And it's also rather darker, isn't it?

Yes, she is quite dark. I used photos of Bandola in her late years (27?) as a reference, and she had so many lovely freckles then I tried to make a similar effect on my model

Here I have a photo of my mare (I hope you don't mind?)


And Bandola, a legendary mare, and a queen of old type Polish Arabians A LOT of small dots on her fur

I definitely don't mind your repaint is really gorgeous, and the photo is gorgeous! Love the background, it fits very well to your beautiful horses.
The legendary mare is also very nice, and wow, she has more spots than white. I didn't know much about flea-bitten grey effect, just after my mare came, I googled some informations. It's very interesting that at first they lost their colour and become white at very young age, but later, the whitenning factor becomes unactive and their colour begins to appear as freckles.

Very well made, the figurine and the color you gave her! Nice!!

onatello wrote:

I definitely don't mind your repaint is really gorgeous, and the photo is gorgeous! Love the background, it fits very well to your beautiful horses.
The legendary mare is also very nice, and wow, she has more spots than white. I didn't know much about flea-bitten grey effect, just after my mare came, I googled some informations. It's very interesting that at first they lost their colour and become white at very young age, but later, the whitenning factor becomes unactive and their colour begins to appear as freckles.

Thank you so much!
About Bandola, perhaps she is less known outside Poland than her full brother, stallion Bask, he was later sold to the USA.

Yes, flea-bitten grey is a lovely colour and interesting too (grey is such a dynamic colour in horses, every year different ). Sometimes horses of this colour can get so called bloody markings, basically a lot of dots together creating a bigger "island" of pigment. I find it very pretty. Here a mare Panika with blood marking on her face

Shanti wrote:

Very well made, the figurine and the color you gave her! Nice!!

Thank you! I didn't give her the colour literally (by myself), I've commissioned it.

Ana wrote:

onatello wrote:

I definitely don't mind your repaint is really gorgeous, and the photo is gorgeous! Love the background, it fits very well to your beautiful horses.
The legendary mare is also very nice, and wow, she has more spots than white. I didn't know much about flea-bitten grey effect, just after my mare came, I googled some informations. It's very interesting that at first they lost their colour and become white at very young age, but later, the whitenning factor becomes unactive and their colour begins to appear as freckles.

Thank you so much!
About Bandola, perhaps she is less known outside Poland than her full brother, stallion Bask, he was later sold to the USA.

Yes, flea-bitten grey is a lovely colour and interesting too (grey is such a dynamic colour in horses, every year different ). Sometimes horses of this colour can get so called bloody markings, basically a lot of dots together creating a bigger "island" of pigment. I find it very pretty. Here a mare Panika with blood marking on her face

Those bloody marking are also interesting. Panika is beautiful, so is her foal.
I saw mojö catalogue for this year and it seems they've changed the paintwork of this model a bit, she has no white markings and the colour itself looks more brown than previous orange. But they've painted horsehoes on her. Anyway, it's nice to see they're trying to improve it.

onatello wrote:

Those bloody marking are also interesting. Panika is beautiful, so is her foal.
I saw mojö catalogue for this year and it seems they've changed the paintwork of this model a bit, she has no white markings and the colour itself looks more brown than previous orange. But they've painted horsehoes on her. Anyway, it's nice to see they're trying to improve it.

Yes, I noticed that change in colour of Mojo one also. I agree this is good to see they try to improve OF work. I hoped they could paint her in flea-bitten grey since the beginning but they didn't like the idea . But, good, now we can see some wonderful repaints like this one from your collection

Ana wrote:

onatello wrote:

Those bloody marking are also interesting. Panika is beautiful, so is her foal.
I saw mojö catalogue for this year and it seems they've changed the paintwork of this model a bit, she has no white markings and the colour itself looks more brown than previous orange. But they've painted horsehoes on her. Anyway, it's nice to see they're trying to improve it.  

Yes, I noticed that change in colour of Mojo one also. I agree this is good to see they try to improve OF work. I hoped they could paint her in flea-bitten grey since the beginning but they didn't like the idea . But, good, now we can see some wonderful repaints like this one from your collection

It's interesting they didn't want to paint her in flea-bitten. Question is if they were able to make it look real. But as you wrote, luckily we can have repaints like mine and yours