Parcel day

[astudyinscarlet]

Last friday was a very exciting parcel day. These were all models I acquired by trading some of my vintage Julips.

The most glaringly brick-orange Arab Champion I've ever seen (is way more ORANGE!!! in reality than the pics show, the same colour I think as the catalogue farm cob Flash who was brighter than other catalogue chestnuts). Is probably going to be rehaired once I can find where I hid my stash of hair and find a hair colour that doesn't badly clash with the body colour.



An apparently very sun-tanned Tosca with a yearling who I suspect could be older than her but they do fit together pretty well. Tosca has discoloured, her socks are very yellowed and she's more or less evenly gone much more golden-brown-toned than Tosca was supposed to be (there's a slightly paler area on her rump but it is mostly even). She's actually a closer match though like this to my buckskin Mustang so maybe they're related. 



A Thoroughbred who is going to be modified to some degree but is a fairly close match to a model that was on my wants list



This lovely speckled red roan old mould Arab stallion. He needs his lower legs replacing (they are all completely misshapen and squishy) as well as paint touch ups and a new tail. Theoretically I was trying to cut down on vintage models (I didn't actually have that many left anyway) but I don't mind having ones that are already badly damaged in some way and need me to do some work on them. 



And possibly most exciting despite being in the poorest condition, a Cleveland! i.e. one of the very few vintage moulds I still really really wanted. Despite that overbent headset we (his previous owner and me) are sure he is a Cleveland. His neck has basically totally collapsed. 



This is slightly closer to what he should look like



though at the moment you have to force his head up and it will just collapse back again when it's not held there. I think he's going to end up with a plaited mane because I reckon trying to get his neck back into the right position and leave a deep enough neck slot for a loose mane is going to be almost impossible. I also intend to paint him bay, the speckled iron grey is pretty but I really do want an actually bay Cleveland and anyway there's no way I can salvage anything of his original paint job, he's going to have to be totally repainted anyway. 

Also this is Champ the dalmatian who was my model of the month championship prize. He has leg and tail wires so he is slightly poseable.

[samantha]

Congratulations what a lovely lot of ponies, and the doggie is great!

[juliporiginals]

I'm so pleased you liked your prize, looking forward to seeing the Cleveland once he's all mended 

[astudyinscarlet]

I've finished making over the TB and have rehaired the violently brick orange AC now. After discarding multiple different colours of mohair none of which worked I eventually managed to find a synthetic hair blend in my stash that didn't clash with the AC's colour. I would have preferred mohair really as it trims and hangs better but I looked through so many shades of chestnut and brown and orange mohair online and couldn't find a single one the shade I wanted and I'm really not wanting to get into the hassle of trying to dye it myself so synthetic will have to do. She's acquired the name Ginger Snaps partly because of the colour and partly after a Ukrainian band that I like.



And then some years back on here there was a colouring competition and I chose the TB outline to colour in. For my entry I did a light but slightly sooty chestnut mare named Bunny and I've always wanted to get an actual Julip model of her so a lightish (not bright red) chestnut TB was one of the few specific models on my wants list; surprisingly I got offered this lightish orange TB when I traded and though the colour wasn't perfect it was very close. I've had to, uh, remove certain bits to make the mould look less male and I've very slightly toned down the body colour. Her hair colour was also something of a pain though easier to sort than Ginger Snaps' was - I had to mix up 4 different colours of mohair to give her the slightly sooty mane and tail (it's peach flaxen, some sort of auburn and 2 different shades of grey). I've left the legs original; the leg markings don't match my original illustration but I didn't really want to be altering the legs too much as that's the part most likely to crack if any new paint is added, and I decided as Bunny was totally made up that it doesn't really matter that the leg markings are different. But she did have a blaze in my illustration with 'kissy spots' which was something I did want to keep on the model and so since this TB did have a blaze anyway I just added the little spots to her nose, as well as adding the white spot on her side. I am pleased with how she turned out and that I've finally got my Bunny model.