Meghan R.

Model Horse Nonsense She/Her/Hers

[meghanr]

I started this little custom during the @maresinblack Zoom call last week, and was finally able to put in some more time on her today. She's a SM Silky Sullivan, and one of my first custom attempts as a kid; I tried to hair her and it went... Badly. But I love these old #MaureenLove pieces, so I decided to salvage her. I gave her a Greyson tail, new mane, shortened neck, and turned head. Her head/neck still needs some work, and I need to refine her tail, but I like the direction she's going. The last two photos were from the first sculpting session, before I trimmed her mane and neck. #CustomModelHorse #CustomBreyern#BreyerCustom #stablemate #BreyerResculpt https://www.instagram.com/p/CVhzuI0FQIG/?utm_medium=tumblr

[meghanr]

This #ModelHorseMonday is about this lovely girl I found at an antique shop. She's a #HagenRenaker mini Percheron (tail down). I believe this particular girl is from the later end of the run in the mid-1960s, from the San Dimas factory, but I'm not 100% sure. She was only produced by HR in two colors, white and a rare dapple gray, and then a limited run was produced in black by #HagenRenakerTennessee for the collector's club in 2019. She was sculpted and designed by #MaureenLove She's one of the molds that #Breyer licensed from HR, and produced in plastic in various colors from the mid-1970s until 2009, and then again from 2014-2017. My girl also brought some friends home with her. The dinosaurs are bone china, made in Japan, but I can't find anything about when, or who the company was. I know they made a few more species though. I found a photo of a matching Triceratops, Stegosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus Rex. The horse is less than 3 inches tall, so the dinosaurs are maybe an inch and a half. . . . . . #ClinkyHorse #PorcelainHorse #ChinaHorse #ChinaModelHorse #ClinkyModelHorse https://www.instagram.com/p/CTgWcO0LWna/?utm_medium=tumblr

[meghanr]

I have less than 15 hours left to get this boy painted and photographed if he's gonna make it into the #ResinFuturity show. Gotta take a nap then focus on that mane and his eye. #ArtistResinModelHorse #ArtistResin #ModelHorseCustom #ModelHorseMedallion https://www.instagram.com/p/CTcLw7-nZNp/?utm_medium=tumblr

[meghanr]

I've got 3 slots left in the Resin Futurity show. Currently trying to get these two done in time. Base colors are pretty much done on both, now it's just markings and hair and details. #WIP #ArtistResin #ArtistResinHorse #KathleenMoody #RayvinMaddock #ModelHorseCustom #ModelHorseMedallion #MyCustoms #MyArt #ResinFuturity https://www.instagram.com/p/CTKskaOpy-y/?utm_medium=tumblr

[meghanr]

Put one of @khrysalis_studios clearware horns on a #Wia Sharif. He's mostly prepped, so now I gotta choose a color. #WiaEberl #WiaSharif #ModelHorseCustom #CustomModelHorse #ModelHorseRepaint https://www.instagram.com/p/CSCb6LBFFW8/?utm_medium=tumblr

[meghanr]

And she's finished! 1:9 scale eohippus resin, sculpted by Mike Eischen. Painted with PanPastels and acrylics. #ResinHorse #CustomModelHorse #megafauna #ResinDinosaur #DinosaurResin #ArtistResinHorse #eohippus https://www.instagram.com/p/CSBE2vgL6pB/?utm_medium=tumblr

[meghanr]

This #ModelHorseMonday we're featuring Fireheart! He's such a big, handsome boy, and I can't wait to see him in a million colors. Though it's hard to go wrong with the nice palomino for his debut. Mine has nice shading and subtle dapples. Other than a bit of overspray on his mane, he's really nice. He's meant to be a mustang, but he looks like he'll work as a number of different crossbreeds, which is exciting for both color and performance options. Fingers crossed that @breyermodelhorsesofficial makes him into a unicorn and/or Christmas horse. It's almost a certainty that mini Fireheart will get the unicorn treatment. That's right, mini Fireheart is the bonus Stablemate for the Premier Club! Embarrassment of riches this year. #BreyerHorses #ModelHorse #PremierClub #BreyerPremierClub #Fireheart #BreyerFireheart #RayvinMaddock https://www.instagram.com/p/CRiHXqhLM9D/?utm_medium=tumblr

[meghanr]

Oh my God, I am so tired. How I am so tired? I didn't even have to travel. How do the rest of you model horse people do this in person every year?

Totally worth it though.

[studiorat]

Little joys : Marengo & Irish Setter

Halter by High Calibur Tack. Terrain pieces (what little ended up in the frame as I had to flee mosquitos 😅) was sculpted & painted by me.

[meghanr]

This #ModelHorseMonday is for the horse ancestors. This little #eohippus resin I'm painting is Traditional scale, but that means he's the same size as a Stablemate. So small and cute! #InstagramInProgress #PrehistoricHorse #ExtinctAnimals #MikeEischen #PaleoSculpture #Paleoart https://www.instagram.com/p/CROm034LqGg/?utm_medium=tumblr

[frisullka]

Reflections… Just thing I did while I was bored waiting for sun xD

[meghanr]

PS: No, I did not get anywhere on the Best Customs project, what was I thinking? Oh right, insomnia. I clearly wasn’t thinking at all!

[meghanr]

Step-by-step Valkyrie painting progress, shown backwards from finish to beginning. I painted her in PanPastels with acrylic details and accents. Lots of pearl in both the paint and the pastels. Also, even though you can’t see it, lots of purple layers. Pearly purple is PanPastel magic for helping transition from the mac-and-cheese orange to a nice golden bay.

I still have mixed feelings about how her wing gradient turned out. Her color scheme is inspired by MCU Valkyrie’s uniform, so I wanted the wings to be dark blue at the end. But I also really liked the contrast of the pearly quills against the blue feathering from a few steps back. 

I’m pretty proud of her eye though. I painted it multiple times, and it was always so dark it got lost in the shadow of her eyelashes, until I went over it in gold.

[meghanr]

Second session #MedallionMadnessMonth #ArtistResinModelHorse #ResinHorse #ReliefScuplture #CustomModelHorse #CustomMedallion #PanPastels https://www.instagram.com/p/CP6Nl_5loM2/?utm_medium=tumblr

[meghanr]

I submit myself as proof that insomnia makes you do the whacky; why else would I decide to enter the Best Customs Contest at 3:00 AM, two weeks before the deadline?