Horses and A Day in the Life

As I have been progressing throughout my model horse world, I have been working on customizing and painting my  model horses. I did get a rotary tool for Christmas so pretty soon I will go to drastic customizing. Smarty Jones to an eventing horse anyone? Anyways, I haven't gotten that far yet, but I am planning on doing something like that some year. Meanwhile, I have been busy painting, and I recently did a custom Latigo Dun It (I also have a breyer Bandera in progress. Gloss finish, everybody!). Here he is in all of his finished glory. I use nail polish for the gloss. I know that it's not the "in" thing to do anymore, but, hey, it works! I really have no idea what to do with the bottom of  hooves. Maybe I should look up reference pictures... I was pretty pleased with the end results. The silver mane was originally on the mold. The dark coat was achieved with an acrylic chocolate brown paint layer with pastels as shading. Eyes ...

One of my favorite things to do when I am editing my Breyer photos is to play with the colors. While clarity is key, I find that color is the second most important thing that I look for in my photos. The more color I can get the better. Below are some pictures of a before and after editing. Note how much more beautiful they are when they are more vibrant. Latigo Dun It is my new Breyer and I love him! His dappling is so beautiful, especially with his silver-colored mane and tail. He is soooo photogenic with his stunning coloring! While the two pictures above aren't exactly the same, they are the same horse taken at the same time of day with the same camera and with almost the same angle. As you can tell, the bottom one is much more edited. He can still use a little work as the light around the face is a little too much and is washing it out and reducing the clarity. The image could use a little straightening and cropping, but you can tell how editing can affect the qual...