Show Us Yours December: CONGAS!

It's time for SUY December. This month we show to other users our congas. I'm very happy with this topic. First of all, because it was my first "win" in a SUY. And also because I really enjoy looking for different paintings for models I already have.

What is a "conga"? For us, collectors, conga is a picture of different figurines which have the same mould but with different coats.

I will start! I know that Congas must include a huge number of animals but, as I'm only collecting horses, it isn't easy to find more than two or three different coats for the same model. So I add pictures of "little" congas of just two models.

One of my last congas: the rearing horse from Schleich. Here you can see the four different models Schleich did: the grey (white) and the black horses are regular ones. They were in the catalogue for many years. The red horse is a Special Edition made in 2014 celebrating the "Chinese horse year". And the last one, the pinto, is a Special Edition made for Muller.

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Other conga and other Muller edition: the lusitano horse.

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One of my favourite models is the hanno stallion. I'm very lucky because Schleich used this model to make new figurines. Here, the regular one (first) the bay model, which comes with the shower set and, finally, other Special Edition for Muller.

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Moooore mustangs! (sorry, not the car ) For some years, Schleich offers Advent Calendars. In 2016, horse edition, came with a special version for regular mustang mare. The first one is the regular model, in bay coat. On the right, the Advent Calendar edition with grey coat.

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The mustang mare in the Advent Calendar arrived, as logical, with her foal. The regular model is bay (as his mother) but the Special Edition was made in black coat (maybe this little guy is grey but, as he is young, he is still in black phase)

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Schleich doesn't only give us congas in Special Editions. Sometimes, old models were re-used for new figurines. Here, for example, you can see the same tinker horse in different colours. There is an other figurine, a Muller Special Edition, that I don't have.

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Schleich horse magazine always has a special figurine. I have only two. One of them is the Andalusian foal with bay coat.

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There was a time when Schleich didn't abuse of Special Editions, different colour models or sets. Here you can see one of the fist models that was re-painted for a set: the little shetland pony. The regular model was the pinto one; and the palomino was made for a carriage set.

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More Muller: the bay TWM

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In the very first years from Schleich, it was very usual to use one model for different figurines. Here, the hannoverian mare.

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But this strategy wasn't only used in the past... Here, two more modern models: two regular ponies with different coats.

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Few lines before I talked about Magazine foals. Here you can see the other one I have: the trakehner foal. I have also an other edition of this little guy: the one which is in the (VERY EXPENSIVE) stable set.

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Muller time again: one edition which I have to admit isn't the best: quarter horse stallion.

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The arabian mare (new) is one of the ugliest models, I think. But Schleich seems to have different opinion and used this model for a Muller edition and also in 2015 Advent Calendar.

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In 2015, Advent Calendar had also a foal; and, obviously, it was the arabian foal!

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One of the first Schleich mould was the Darley arabian one. Schleich used it for three models (I only have two)

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I think I wrote it several times: one of my favourite moulds is the knabstrupper mare. Schleich did one of its best special edition, in my opinion, with her: Marbacher edition. I have also the foal, but I don't have a picture with the regular model (so no conga is possible at this moment)

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I want to show you one of my "special" conga. Few months ago I found a replica of the horse of one rider set. But the problem was the copy wasn't made  using the model of the model, they used an other mould of a regular horse (one pinto horse) So I have a very special conga. Here you can see the copy with the pinto and also with the model which should be similar.

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Last Schleich little conga: other Advent Calendar model. Here you can see the andalusian mare

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But not all in our lifes is Schleich. I have one little conga from Safari.

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And other from McDonalds...

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I have more (for example, the old lipizzan mare; the old icelandic pony, the pinto mare... but I don't have pictures of them )

So, now, what are your congas?

You have a lovely collection of Congas and you have given us a very nice presentation. Thank you for showing them.

WOW !!! Songbird, this is fantastsic

Breyer `Pony of the Americas' Conga
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Some of my conga's i do have more, but nothing that special haha
I do not love conga's i rahter have 5 different models in the same color
then having 5 the same models in a different coat color
BUT nothing i can do about that haha. sow here a few of them;

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My one conga of the "major brands" - Schleich shetland pony
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And one of my Breyer congas, G4 Rivet SM. I have all of the models ever released on this mold plus one custom (far right).
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I have several more Breyer congas I need to get pics of

These are amazing !!!

Here now Schleich 13291 Clydesdale mare and special model from scenery pack 72003.

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They are great, Yvette

I just discovered I have a small conga-line of Safari's Brahma-bulls  

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The model is marked 2006. The first years it was grey, and the last year or two, it was brown.
The beauty to the left is a repaint made by Harriet Knips

Some mojo Congas  
The 2017-painting to the left

Cluydesdales :
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Leopards ( can leopards be black ?) :
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An ta-daa ! Four Iberian lynxes          
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Very cool to see all these congas and you have all lynxes with a ghost. :)

Roger wrote:

Very cool to see all these congas and you have all lynxes with a ghost. :)

...and guess who helped me get the glorious ghost ? ( tip : Somebody from Portugal )

There are some models I have never seen before! Cool!

Three Safari T-rexes

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The mould is from 1996, and the two to the left have item no 278929, the kaki green one was launched in 2019 and has item no 100423

Nice triplets!

Mange tak, Tove

Thankyou

Unusual conga, Susanne! It is great to see these three together!

Roger wrote:

Unusual conga, Susanne! It is great to see these three together!

Yes, I love them
And there is even a brown, larger one, from the Great Dinos series :

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Lovely trio T-rex singers Susanne

costicuba wrote:

Lovely trio T-rex singers Susanne

I wonder what they sing ?

SUSANNE wrote:

I wonder what they sing ?

"Bang a Gong (Get It On)" by T.Rex I guess...

spacelab wrote:

SUSANNE wrote:

I wonder what they sing ?

"Bang a Gong (Get It On)" by T.Rex I guess...    

Of course !!

Three more from Safari

The Texas Longhorn bull went from spotted  to unicoloured  and revived with spots again  
The last one is a good example of one of Kosta's wise words : Animal fur is never completly white !!!
It really looks amateurish compared to the oldest one  

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I just HAD TO take a picture of these two together because I love that Watusi so much   
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Oh yes, I also already love that Watusi very much
And here I see a competition ... who has bigger horns ..
Mr. Watusi says : Me ofcourse !
But the old Texas-ians : Noo way, tree of us - together, win the price ! At the and of the day, our name is ``Longhorn`` right ?!?