#toy horse
Invoking my childhood love of My Little Ponies and Fashion Star Fillies (and my later goth sensibilities) with this one! Vespera is Breyer’s Little Bits/Paddock Pals Arabian made over into a “black rainbow” unicorn. Her black coat has subtle overlays of some of the colors found in her mane and tail (made from hand-dyed wool roving.) Pretty pleased with the result! She’s available at https://www.etsy.com/listing/1232129917/vespera-custom-rrh-black-rainbow-unicorn
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Super excited to get to customize a Hartland Regal Arabian! This one is a dark steel gray just starting to dapple, and the pictures don’t do justice to the little details. I named him Janus because when I first got him he had a nasty seam split in his face, which of course I’ve repaired. He’s available at https://www.etsy.com/listing/1216247584/janus-hartland-custom-dark-steeldapple
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The Heart of Giving: Monika Jac Jagaciak by Kristian Schuller & Jeff Stephens for Neiman Marcus’s Christmas Book 2013
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The Heart of Giving: Monika Jac Jagaciak by Kristian Schuller & Jeff Stephens for Neiman Marcus’s Christmas Book 2013
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It’s Toy Time Tuesday!
With…Fashion Star Fillies Nikki!
Well, more like the return of Nikki because she was already on here in a past TTT, but because I have just gotten her again as an upgrade, she re-appears. This is a true upgrade, about as perfect a Nikki as you can get. As you’ll note, that hair is the ‘fading posey pink’, and it is completely unfaded. Also, note the tip of the tail in perfect shape as well. (Long hair like that tends to frizz easily because kids tangle it up) The wave is still perfectly in the mane & her paint is in such excellent shape. (I do have her brush, a butterfly, but it doesn’t appear here nor do the front ankle cuffs–but she is missing a silver bow that went behind her ear)
Nikki is a polo horse from Argentina. (I guess FSF horses play polo by themselves because they are people / characters–how do they hit the ball? Maybe it’s like soccer for them) She is the youngest of all of the adult Fashion Star Fillies.
She was only released twice, both in the same pose and the only difference was the color of her brush (pink or purple) and if she had a silky-fabric name-blanket with her or if she didn’t. Later releases had the blanket. She was also only 1 of 2 original fillies who only had 2 barrettes. The silver fabric for her bow and cuffs is prone to fabric-disease where the shiny-ness erodes off of it in blotches until it is all gone. The tail wrap uses actual tinsel-foil so it never erodes.
Nikki wasn’t an original who I bought new (ever) as I never found her in stores. I got her much later. Although she is purple (my favorite color) she was not my favorite of the originals (Dara is) Because these are air brushed toys, you can find her with more & less pink on the legs.
Fashion Stars are my absolute favorite line of fantasy horses. No one has ever outdone them because they are “perfected horses”. Their sculpt is extremely realistic, but without any of the “Flaws” of horses like veins on their face/elsewhere, rough lump-patches on their upper arms, wrinkly skin areas, or junk. They are such amazing fantasy colors, they are people/characters, they have tons of fun accessories that are fitting/not stupid, the hair is SO thick and SO quality…every single thing about them seems amazing and was never out-done. They are 100% amazing.
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