#breyer tack

[valedalestatue]

Been getting into Breyer tack making recently :3 this is the very first one and I think it turned out pretty cute!! Modelled by my beautiful boy Weezer lol

[snakes-stables]

Actually got to making the tack/feed room of the stables XD

[j0them0971]

NIB score at local toy shop! Calista (2025 on the Giselle mold by Eberl)

I had no idea they sold brick-and-mortar specials there!!! So excited!

Right and left sides :)

Face and belly details (look at that sweet face!)

All tacked up! Right and left sides again

I have yet to name her! Any suggestions? Lmk in comments or reblogs

She's a liver chestnut blagdon (sabino/splash) Appendix Quarter Horse mare, ranch/pleasure only. This might help with name suggestions!

[windswept-stables]

quick little fleece lined halter, 1:12th scale

[lichenart]

I finished my western bridle!

[despazito]

horse people/collectors help i was looking up arabian tack and came across all these gorgeous figurines with fancy mini tack and i'd really really love to have one but i have no idea what terms to search for or where, ebay gave me nothing. also what price range would i be looking at are they gonna be insane breyer prices?? i dont give a shit about brand i just want a horsey in pretty tassles and embroidery

[breyer-horses-daily]

Today’s Breyer horse is: #1622 on the paddock pals Morgan Stallion mold sculpted by Chris Hess. Part of the “Western Games Horse and Rider Set” which included a doll and plastic western tack. Ran between 2001-2004.

[piosplayhouse]

Nendo Bingqiu update and plans:

Ok so I wasn't going to make a post about this until I get my tack for sqq but that's going to take a really long time and I just like them too much to not talk about them for that long so I'm just gonna ramble about my custom plans under a readmore

Here's a transparent horse riding maid binghe though that you can put wherever you want :-) pls have fun with him

So I think I'll paint the blank tb body I'm getting in the mail for sqq because it feels like a natural improvement on the Xiu Ya he has right now that I kind of hate (current on the left, body that I'm changing it out for on the right).

I think I'll be doing a dapple grey for him.

As for Xin Mo, I was poking around some indie sculptors' sites and managed to snag this b-grade sport horse head from Camelot Studios. It's a slightly larger scale (1:9 as opposed to 1:12) but since it is a second there could be scaling abnormalities + breyer models themselves can sometimes vary in scale even within category. So when it comes we'll see if I can Frankenstein it onto him

Here's a full reference of Xin Mo (warmblood stallion) right now:

I think the head could add a lot of personality to what I imagine would be a very difficult horse, so I'm hoping it fits. But even if it doesn't, I wouldn't be opposed to possibly buying a smaller pony traditional model like Brookside Pink Magnum to fit with it instead

[himejoshiba]

ive never cared about cowboys or the whole western aesthetic but i saw a very pretty felt cowboy hat at the tack store today where i bought my breyer. it was like a very light soft pinkish ivory. super subtle and dressy. i wont it so baddd

[valedalestatue]

More Breyer halters! Featuring my sibling's High Tide model

[snakes-stables]

More work on the little paddock/ field section for my breyers.

[short-horse]

This morning at the hotel breakfast table I heard 2 people at the next table talking about Breyerfest. They were unfamilliar with it and one of 'em was all "But they're just plastic horses!! ... this is the lamest thing I've ever heard of... fifty DOLLARS?! They're just all the same shape just in different colors!" While the other was like "Remember that Civil War diorama -name I don't remember- made? I think those horses were Breyers... He made all that tack himself.... we can find new tack... think it is in the attic..."

It was almost funny listening to both sides. Lkke one was so confused model horses that have existed for almost ut years had a huge following whe the other one seemed just a teeny bit curious. I hope they dig out the diorama and get new tack for those plastic horses. Maybe even enjoys it enough to take up the hobby?

Otherwise I left a few hours ago because my folks didn't want to leave so late in the day(4pm). I ended up having a really great time there and defiitely want to go back. Not sure if my parents want to go again though, once may have been enough since they don't really care for collecting things like I do.

I also ended up getting auite a few compliments on the Minni Whinny earring I put together. And one on a shirt I wore on Saturday. It was my shirt that said "I don't want to adult today. I don't want to human today. I just want to horse." It got a chuckle from one of the owners at the meet-and-greet stalls from the guests that brought their horses.

I got a pretty decent haul as well. Lots of stablemates and most in molds I like to collect. If I can find my camera I'll post photos. No Mestenos and very few Running Shetlands that I was pretty sure I already owned so I didn't get them.

I GOT TO PET SO MANY HORSES! I had no idea that owners were cool enough to let us pet their horses who like the attention. Other attendees seemed pretty nice, too. The only bad part was the confusion on the first day. We needed these bracelets to indicate we already bought tickets sobwe could come and go as needed in and out of the fest. Someone decided that said bracelets needed to be passed out at the model pick up tents?? Like why wren't those handed out at the door when we got our QR codes scanned or bought tickets in person? It was kind of crappy especially waiting in LOOONG lines in the heat. The solution for people who needed to leave before they got bracelets was a stamp on their hand? Isn't that the same concept as the bracelet? If they can stamp hands someone can pass out bracelets. I didn't even have a problem with digital tickets since literally every big convention I've ever been to has always had digital tickets since like... 07 or 08? I was more surprised Breyer was still sending physical tickets in the mail until just this year.

[windswept-stables]

traditional scale pack saddle wip. gotta add the “nails” yet

[incomprehensiblelentils]

Former horse girl moment: so Breyer, I guess, does models every so often that are “brick and mortar specials” which means you can only get them from official suppliers, and this is Picante, a Quarter Horse/Arabian mare who was this year’s edition. I don’t buy the big ones much anymore but I fell in love immediately when she was announced two months ago and called multiple toy stores and tack shops trying to find one that could order one for me. I found one, but I didn’t hear from them for a few weeks and then I got my new job and kinda forgot to follow up. BUT they called yesterday and said they finally got them in and here she is!!!!! It’s hard to see in these pics but she’s a bay roan, which on actual horses is a bay coat with white hairs mixed in and on her is a slight grey sheen on top of her dark brown coat. She has such a sweet little face and I love her sooooo much.

[anamelessfool]

Since you were asking about my Breyers... I'm here to tell you all about them.

So to start, here's all my traditional scale Breyers. And a lot of them I gave them new names (a lot of them are models of real horses but the figures are like fictional characters to me so i just rename them) so from left to right:

Dice, California, Apollo, Delilah, Hamilton, Aspen, Titan, Prince, Frost, Lone Star, Misty, Cow, Willow, and Nevaeh

I have a few favorites but I guess Prince is my most favorite since his model is of Cortes C (my favorite famous horse)

And then secondly, California and Apollo because I basically ship them like characters

I started out with classics scale but switched to traditional since it's the main scale, but here's my classics:

Some of them don't have names but the ones that do are (starting from the first palomino) Summer, Champion, Fiona, Hercules, Jasmine, Shadow, and then the last two are customs I painted

My favorite is probably Shadow because his mold and paint job are really nice for a classic (sorry for the blurry pic it was hard to get)

And then my stablemates! Tiny!

Some of them do have names but it's been so long I can't remember them... but my first one was a Tennessee Walking horse(?) chestnut I customized to be a paint I randomly named Casper.

!!! This is so cool! Thanks so much for the extensive tour. I used to have so many as a kid. I didn't even ride horses for very long but I got this magazine that had all the horse tack and accessories in it and I'd read it and just pretend. They even had a section of just Breyer horses. My grandma would take me to the toy store on special occasions when i was in elementary school and I'd pick one out. I kept my favorite ones. I have more than what I'm showing but they are at my workplace right now. (A white cantering horse with red show ribbons, Secretariat, and the same black and white appaloosa you have) They are very beautiful sculptures.

They're next to my grandma's 95 year old Shirley Temple doll and some play line rainbow high/shadow high dolls I collected.

Do you make tack for them? I like watching YouTubers make tack and accessories for their horses. My favorite has to be DaisyStalls. She's so talented in how meticulous her environments are. I wish the rider dolls that came with these beautiful horses were as carefully made as the horses themselves.

[bnomiko]

Figure collecting: Pharaoh Atem 1:6 resin by Aftershock Studio (expanded review)

MFC is no longer allowing articles on unlicensed figures, so I'm posting the full text review here (along with a few extra photos that didn't make it into my original Tumblr post), since I don't want the article to go to waste.

Oddly both this unlicensed Atem on horseback resin AND this licensed one (by Fantastic Territory) came up for order at around the same time. Unless you're a massive Atem fan I can't see getting both so I had to choose one. The Fantastic Territory one was appealing since obviously it's licensed, and the base a lot smaller and less fussy (my preference), but I thought the horse on this statue looked much nicer and I generally prefer figures to have closed mouth expressions, so Aftershock's version won out and I placed my order. But… was it worth it?

Box and Packaging

Big shipping box: 62.8 x 30.8 x 63.5 cm and 27 lb ship weight. Actual figure box was snug inside, so no extra buffer padding.

The figure box is very basic - one big close up of Atem in the front, Sennen Puzzle in the back, content text on top and sides.

I was happy to find the foam inside held together with velcroed straps (MUCH better than tape which some companies use), and the foam was properly custom cut to fit each individual piece and layered in a sensible manner - main base pieces, horse and Atem's body in one layer, smaller things that went on sides and top in second layer. So it was very easy to unpack and assemble one layer at a time. And most importantly, no major breakages, even after I accidentally knocked the entire box over while dragging it to my display area for assembly. 1 minor breakage on the tip of a strand of the horse's mane but I located the damaged piece so it should glue together without issue.

Figures

Atem's face is great, exactly what I was hoping for. His earrings are even hinged which was a nice surprise, so depending on how you slot in the head they can fall into different spots. Good musculature on the body (nice thighs!) Biggest nitpick with the body is the blue flap of his skirt in the back isn't magnetized and the slot's a bit too big for it to sit securely, so I've already knocked it out of place twice.

The horse looks good. Came as a single piece except for the tail, so no issues with visible seams. Pose is dynamic and it feels stable even though it attaches to the base via the 2 back hooves with a bit of weight resting on a dust wisp that goes between the horse's legs. I mean if I'm going to nitpick it's way too hairy for the desert environment its supposed to be from and I doubt the tack's accurate to any era (certainly isn't tack that would be used in modern riding). Tack is much more minimal than the horse in the licensed statue for sure! But it's still a pretty and powerful looking horse.

I do have to add that I don't think this is really 1:6; it's probably closer to 1:7. I know Atem is short but unless this is a pony and not a horse, this is not a 1:6 horse. Breyer Traditionals (for those familiar with them) are 1:9, this horse is a bit larger but not by [i]that[/i] much.

Overall paint and finish are fine on both. Minimal shading overall. A few rougher patches but nothing egregious. I'm not a nitpicker though.

Base & Extras

The base is unfortunately quite large with a lot of dust cloud effects, though given how horizontal the entire piece is I think it was unavoidable having a longer base to counterbalance the weight of the horse. There's a mini temple at the back to give the impression that Atem is galloping away from the city or whatnot.

Overall paint and finish are slightly rougher on the base than the figures, but a lot of it gets obscured by all the dust attachments and who really looks at the base anyhow?

Bottom of the base has felt circles plus an additional padded vinyl(?) layer with a drawing of Atem and the number of the figure as well.

There's also an additional gold bracer / AE duel disk that looks like it should slot somewhere in the base, but doesn't shrug I already packed it away because it looks weird just sitting there as a separate piece that doesn't scale with the statue.