My Breyer Stablemates: G1 Drafter and another Appaloosa

Let me update you on my latest Breyers. No horses this time, but other farm animals. They came in a Farmyard Friends box:
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It contains a cow, a chicken with young, a sheep and a pig. They give quite a different impression from the Stablemate horses. The sculpts are of less high quality, and most have some cuteness that suggests that they are targeted at children rather than older collectors. The material is also different: They seem to be made of PVC, not the cellulose acetate that the Stablemate horses are made of. 
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The centre-piece of the box is the cow:
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I don’t know what breed it is. Perhaps a Swiss Brown cow?
 
I’ll do the exact measuring for the 1/32 scale topic another time, but it’s a very large cow for this scale. Probably not quite impossible though. Here she is with some Britains cows for comparison:
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The Breyer is a decent enough cow, but the Britains are better in my opinion.
 
I like the chicken. The chicks are not so detailed, but I like the way they appear from underneath their mother.
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The chicken is clearly much too large for 1/32 scale, but then the Britains chickens are too. Here with the latest version of the Britains chickens:
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Because the goat looks cute, she looks young to me, but she can’t be, because she has an udder. 
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A pleasant looking goat, but not as mature in style as the Britains:
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I find the sheep a rather odd one. First of all, I think it is far too large. Second, the angle of the halfway-down ears looks strange to me. I don’t know what breed of sheep it is. Perhaps there are breeds with ears like that, but I have never seen any.
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Compared with some Britains, which are proper 1/32 scale:
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Finally, the pig. I like the sitting pose; quite original. 
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Again, it looks cute and therefore seems young. But in 1/32 scale it is too large to be young, as we can see when I put it next to some Britains:
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Breyer is clearly a horse model company and their Farmyard Friends don’t quite have the same appeal as their horses. Still, it’s good to have a few other farm animals, as the horses are becoming rather dominant in my collection.

Beautiful new Breyers, I love that little goat and the chicks are so sweet!

I agree they are not as nice as Britains and Stablemate horses are better than their farm friends. Though, they are quite nice and unusual. Sheep and cow are particularly different from what we are used. I can't help with their breeds but I have a Breyer stablemate swan and it is also made of pvc.

Thanks, Lilias and Rogério! Ah, I need to show you my new swan:[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

The legs are a bit strange, but apart from that, it's really nice. I got it with two other farmyard animals. One is a rooster:
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Also looks good. It sits on something (or are they just his feet) that is round at the bottom, which makes it very wobbly. It falls over easily. He has just found the rest of of his family:
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I am most pleased with my Border collie. I think Breyer also made some dog series, and it is clear that they have more experience in modelling dogs or perhaps they took them more seriously than other farm animals. It's my favourite Breyer farmyard animal.
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Thanks for showing the Breyer collie with the Britains sheepdogs in the 1:32 topic, Lilias, I may not have bought it otherwise.
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Great additions! I know very little about the stablemate line that isn't horses. That border collie is a mini version of the animal companion one, though. That's very neat!

Thanks, that may explain why the collie has a higher-quality sculpt.

Oh wow, what a wonderful group of 1:32 scale border collies! I'm glad I could help with your decision to buy it, it really is a lovely model! It looks even nicer in your photos too, maybe because it's in comparison to the Britains models, which are of course still lovely! I actually have the tricolour version, but this black and white one looks beautiful too, especially as it has that more typical splash of white along the muzzle! Really interesting to see it with the Britains pair too, as I've said before I love the sable and white version, because of its similarity to a rough collie! I'd love to know if you have a favourite dog/ collie at this scale? One of my all-time favourites is this one: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] which I don't yet have, but is beautifully made and I love the gold and white colour! I'm not sure if it's a bit bigger than 1:32 scale but it looks roughly that size!

You are right, the Kaiyodo Border collie is my favourite. There is both a black-and-white and a tan-and-white version. (Is tan a colour you use for dogs?) It's a bit smaller than the Britains and the Breyer. Probably better for 1/32 scale, because the Britains and Breyer are really the maximum size. Did you know that Britains also made a lying Border collie? It's great too. I don't have the Kaiyodos and Britains lying dog here, otherwise I'd show a photo.

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You are right, the Kaiyodo Border collie is my favourite. There is both a black-and-white and a tan-and-white version. (Is tan a colour you use for dogs?) It's a bit smaller than the Britains and the Breyer. Probably better for 1/32 scale, because the Britains and Breyer are really the maximum size. Did you know that Britains also made a lying Border collie? It's great too. I don't have the Kaiyodos and Britains lying dog here, otherwise I'd show a photo.

Very good choice! Yes, tan is used- with border collies I seem to hear gold, red or sable used more often for this colour, but tan definitely still works! Interesting that there is a black and white version, I don't see this one as often! Wow, and smaller than the Britains and Breyer, it really must be beautifully made, I thought that with the level of detail I saw in the photos that it would be bigger! I lying Briatins collie, very interesting, I vaguely remember seeing one before! I'd of course love to see a comparison photo if you ever do get this one or the Kaiyodos!

Really strange solutions for swan and rooster feet. Though, I think the swan is a figure with a lot of dignity.

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I lying Briatins collie, very interesting, I vaguely remember seeing one before! I'd of course love to see a comparison photo if you ever do get this one or the Kaiyodos! bounce

I have them, but they are not in the same place as me .

Really beautiful stuff

Nice additions,I too have this set and would agree that the sculpts aren't as good as the horses,except perhaps the cow.To me the cow looks a bit like a Shorthorn.There is also Friesian version of the cow.Like you my little rooster is very wobbly!
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Bonnie wrote:

I lying Briatins collie, very interesting, I vaguely remember seeing one before! I'd of course love to see a comparison photo if you ever do get this one or the Kaiyodos! bounce

I have them, but they are not in the same place as me .

Oh wow, even better! So many tiny collies!

I've got two of these border collies, along with a small mix of other animals which doesn't seem to fully match ANY of the farm/ranch type sets they've released, there's odd ones and twos from various sets - they've come to me in mixed second-hand lots I bought for the horses but quite liked the extras too. Here's the collies.

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The black and white - his markings seem different to yours, rogerpgvg, so he could have come from a different set, but perhaps that's just the difficulty of applying paint to something so small - maybe they're all quite varied with just a rough 'aim at the same places on each one' instruction for the production line painters, rather than a perfect masked template applied!

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And here's the one with the tricolour paintjob, his shading is really nicely done for something so tiny, but his white bits are rather blobby

Taylor: Thanks, it looks like it may indeed be a shorthorn.

George: The Breyer farm animals may be painted manually, so the markings may differ for each figure. Lilias's tricolour collie looks slightly different from yours too: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

About two weeks ago, Kelly (pipsxlch) sent me a gigantic box of figures that I'd collected in the US, mostly Breyers. I am still in 7th heaven, admiring my new additions, thank you very much, Kelly! There are lots of them, hopefully I'll be able to show them here over the next few weeks. Let's start with the Breyer vet that was a gift from Kelly. Or perhaps from her daughter, as it used to be hers. She kept her in a very good condition:
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I have quite a few other humans, mainly Britains farm people, horse riders and zoo keepers, but my animals aren't too keen on humans that try to control them. A vet is much more appreciated, she can actually do something useful for them!
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She is 5.8 cm tall, which is 186 cm in 1/32 scale. A bit taller than the Britains people, who are normally 5.4 cm.
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She is very nicely detailed and painted. I haven't been able to find out from which set she is. All the Breyer vets I see have pink clothes under her gown. 

More to come soon ...

Your vet in green scrubs is from the little Pocket Barn vet set, rather than the bigger Deluxe Animal Hospital one

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There's two versions, because the horse was originally a G1 Saddlebred but that was the year Breyer lost the rights to use the Hagen Renaker moulds, and they had to swap the model in this set for their own G2 Saddlebred mould, painted in the same colour and pattern.

With humans scales are much easier to understand, a woman 186 cm tall is really tall but quite plausible. You also know that Breyer works with slightly larger sizes than Britains and there's the burger's effect, you can't compare the size of a modern American woman with an old British man.
I like the figure, it has some dignity and the head is not large as we find in similar Schleich or Bullyland models. Wonderful gift from Kelly's daughter, looking forward to see what you have to show from that gigantic box.

George wrote:

Your vet in green scrubs is from the little Pocket Barn vet set, rather than the bigger Deluxe Animal Hospital one

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There's two versions, because the horse was originally a G1 Saddlebred but that was the year Breyer lost the rights to use the Hagen Renaker moulds, and they had to swap the model in this set for their own G2 Saddlebred mould, painted in the same colour and pattern.

Thanks, George, that makes the information in my database complete!

Wikipedia says that the tallest woman was 2.54 m, so I am quite happy to accept the vet as 1/32 scale .

Let me introduce the first horse from Kelly's parcel, a Friesian from the "Gentle Giants" set (2015-17). The original mould is from 2006.
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Friesians remind me of an annual coach and carriage ride that passed our house when I was a teenager. Most of the horses were Friesians. The Breyer Friesian is quite common and easy to find in the UK, but Friesians are almost always black (very rarely bay), so I really wanted a black Friesian, not any random, impossible colour. I thought I would probably never find it in the UK, so I bought one in the US.
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It shows off the typical Friesian gait (or what is the proper horse term?) very nicely.
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I am sure that gait has a name. Frisian are wonderful horses I forgot to suggest this breed to [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] since it is not exactly like a Shire neither like an Andalusian. Also, they are black, magnificent and usual presence in historical movies.
By the way, if you accept women with such huge sizes, you must reconsider which models fit to your collection.

I don't know, I usually accept animals in my 1/32 reserve or farm as long as they are within the maximum size they can reach, so I suppose if I were consistent (I am not), I'd have to include a 2.5 m lady too.

A few other Stablemates came with the Friesian. I wasn’t really looking for these, but it doesn’t do any harm to have them . One is a “Standing thoroughbred” from the “Super Sporty” set made between 2015 and 2017. It is another new sculpt in my Breyer collection.
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“Identify your Breyer” says that it is bay, but it is a kind of grey bay, quite an interesting colour.
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It’s very similar in style to the “Trotting warmblood”. Perhaps that’s why Breyer sometimes uses this warmblood as a thoroughbred, for example in the grey colour that I have.
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Stunning stablemates, the Friesian is beautiful!

Lovely additions,congrats!!!The Friesian in the UK is used by Harrods to pull their coaches and also by many funeral companies as well as they are easy to match as they are all black!

It is very beautiful but I agree it looks like a warmblood”. I have no idea about the color, I know silver bay exists but it is completely different.