SUY July 2018 - wild and feral horses models

What a wonderful collection, George! Many beautiful horses! I will be happy to see all your mustangs too!
I do think that resin models belong to this topic too. I like Tibbi's Przewalski horse a lot Did you paint him?

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Ana wrote:

I like Tibbi's Przewalski horse a lot Did you paint him?

No, I bought this one already painted, he's by Gina Hall. I can't afford many painted resins, but I made an exception for this one cos of my fondness for takhis, so I bid a bit more than I'd usually have paid for a single model. I think I said on another thread, but my final college paper was on their behaviour and body language, I did lots of hand drawn diagrams for the expressions, and random colour illustrations on extra pages slipped in between the writing, just cos it was a topic I could really have fun with, and add to with an artistic side instead of it being just another dry bit of student writing.

rogerpgvg wrote:

How do you come up with all the names, what inspires them?

The names come from all kinds of sources - some are folklore inspired, others by nature or weather or seasons. A lot of them are historical references, or from books I've read. Some are just words which combine really nice together, or stand out as sounding fine and noble and dignified.
I try to stick to naming traditions for different breeds, if there's any really specific rules or convention either within the breed, or in a country or culture in general. In the UK we think it's fine to give a horse a person's name like Rosie or Tommy, and for some models I choose human names which are popular in their country - but in some countries that's never done and would be either disrespectful, or laughably weird, so you do have to check out what names are and aren't given when researching a breed.
Where the name is in a foreign language, I always try to pick a meaning which suits the horse in question, but check that it reads well to an English-speaker too - nothing overly difficult to pronounce, or which happens to sound like a swear word

For a couple of examples on this post...

The new Przewalski's horse I named Zerleg Salkhi, which means 'wild wind' in Mongolian. Tengui Cinar means 'unequalled spirit'. Takhi is simply the Mongolian word for the Przewalski's horse, because of course they already knew it and had a name for it before Nicolaj Przewalski came along from Europe!

The mustangs are named in English, but again with a theme chosen to suit their breed's natural habitat. I looked up a list of the highest mountains in Wyoming, and called them after ones with interesting names - the two in the picture are Wolf Mountain and Dunraven Hill.

The Breyer Sable Island Mare is from a tiny island out in the Atlantic. For her name, I decided something suiting that Sable Island background would be nice, so spent a while looking for names on it's map, famous people from it's history, any native flowers or birds, all yielding nothing useful, but then happened across a map of shipwrecks around the island, and from there found a list of all the ships' names to read through. One name jumped out as there'd been two different ships of the same name foundered on the sandbanks, Stella Maris. The words and meaning ('star of the sea') sounded pleasant and fitting, and looking it up a little further, Stella Maris was used by sailors since the medieval era, as a name for 'a female protector or guiding spirit at sea', which seems just perfect for a remote island herd's protective lead mare.

George wrote:

Ana wrote:

I like Tibbi's Przewalski horse a lot Did you paint him?

No, I bought this one already painted, he's by Gina Hall. I can't afford many painted resins, but I made an exception for this one cos of my fondness for takhis, so I bid a bit more than I'd usually have paid for a single model. I think I said on another thread, but my final college paper was on their behaviour and body language, I did lots of hand drawn diagrams for the expressions, and random colour illustrations on extra pages slipped in between the writing, just cos it was a topic I could really have fun with, and add to with an artistic side instead of it being just another dry bit of student writing.

I see! It's a great paintwork, looks very realistic
And wow, that sounds like an absolutely amazing subject for a final paper! And very inspiring artistically too! Equine body language fascinates me too It still a lot more to show in model horses, I think, in terms of that!

George wrote:

rogerpgvg wrote:

How do you come up with all the names, what inspires them?

The names come from all kinds of sources - some are folklore inspired, others by nature or weather or seasons. A lot of them are historical references, or from books I've read. Some are just words which combine really nice together, or stand out as sounding fine and noble and dignified.
I try to stick to naming traditions for different breeds, if there's any really specific rules or convention either within the breed, or in a country or culture in general. In the UK we think it's fine to give a horse a person's name like Rosie or Tommy, and for some models I choose human names which are popular in their country - but in some countries that's never done and would be either disrespectful, or laughably weird, so you do have to check out what names are and aren't given when researching a breed.
Where the name is in a foreign language, I always try to pick a meaning which suits the horse in question, but check that it reads well to an English-speaker too - nothing overly difficult to pronounce, or which happens to sound like a swear word

For a couple of examples on this post...

The new Przewalski's horse I named Zerleg Salkhi, which means 'wild wind' in Mongolian. Tengui Cinar means 'unequalled spirit'. Takhi is simply the Mongolian word for the Przewalski's horse, because of course they already knew it and had a name for it before Nicolaj Przewalski came along from Europe!

The mustangs are named in English, but again with a theme chosen to suit their breed's natural habitat. I looked up a list of the highest mountains in Wyoming, and called them after ones with interesting names - the two in the picture are Wolf Mountain and Dunraven Hill.

The Breyer Sable Island Mare is from a tiny island out in the Atlantic. For her name, I decided something suiting that Sable Island background would be nice, so spent a while looking for names on it's map, famous people from it's history, any native flowers or birds, all yielding nothing useful, but then happened across a map of shipwrecks around the island, and from there found a list of all the ships' names to read through. One name jumped out as there'd been two different ships of the same name foundered on the sandbanks, Stella Maris. The words and meaning ('star of the sea') sounded pleasant and fitting, and looking it up a little further, Stella Maris was used by sailors since the medieval era, as a name for 'a female protector or guiding spirit at sea', which seems just perfect for a remote island herd's protective lead mare.

Great naming system! Funny, a friend of mine also chosen Zerleg as a name for his Przewalski horse model. I think it's a good name!
And I love how well-thought those names are. Stella Maris, how cool!

Beautiful horses- and beautiful photos too, it reminds me of looking through one of those amazingly illustrated picture books!