Any Model Horse Artists in the PYO Windstone World Yet??

Anyone….Anyone??? I *did* notice that Heather Tarr’s name was mentioned in a few threads but I haven’t noticed anyone else. Anyone know if she is a member on the forum?? Just curious. 😀

Anyway..I’m a fairly new collector within the world of Windstone. I’ve been collecting not even a year yet! I found out about PYO’s a few months ago while browsing eBay and I’m pretty excited about getting some in for me to paint.

I paint and sell model horses (like Breyer and artist resin sculptures), and was just curious to see if there were any other model horse artists (and model horse collectors) on here yet.

If anyone out there *is* into custom model horses, have you tried showing any of the Windstone equine type creatures yet? Just wondering how they were doing in the showring if so. With the new fantasy classes being able to NAN quality in workmanship, I’m hoping that Windstone will give us a PYO Unicorn, Pegasus and/or Hippogriff! (if you’re not into model horses I apologize as that previous statement will make zero sense to you). The PYO’s are so affordably priced compared to artist resins and no one in our hobby has really come out with a great fantasy-equid resin yet.

Glad to have found this forum! I’ve been browsing it some inbetween the coats of paint on my custom model horses (I stay up all night and paint). 😛 I hope to get to know some of you collectors more, you all seem so friendly and your PYO’s are so lovely!! It kills me how well some of you handpaint!

Smiles,
Jeanette 😉

Thanks for the welcome ski ands starbreeze, much appreciated. Glad that you got Heather’s Ki-Rin ski. I thought he looked really nice but was bummed about the fact that it was zebra-esque as I had that same idea in my head when I ordered mine. So now it’s gonna look like I copied if I decide to paint it that way!! 😥

LadyBrooklyn’s stuff is really nice, thanks for that link! I checked out some of her past ebay auctions. I liked that Nakota! The three newbie Breyer molds are such a blast to paint I think.

Nice to see some other breyer/model horse artists into windstones too. 😀

OMG that pony is somethin’ naaassstttyyy. (but in a good, artistic way) 😉 Sometimes it takes a lot of talent to make something look so very bad, hehe.

I love the custom my little ponies, but the inability to rehair keeps me away from getting into it myself. One day I’d like to have some Harry Potter ponies made, like Gryffindor and Slytherin themed. 😀

Awesome! SO GLAD to hear that a PYO Unicorn is in progress! *happy dance!* 😛

Thanks for your compliments on the work, I really do appreciate it. 🙂 Yep, I put the hippogriff up for sale in the sales forum. Hoping to find a buyer before I have to resort to FeeBay. I like the frolic foals but my favorite mold out right now is the new warmblood called Keltec Salinero. Mostly because of who sculpted him. It is from a german artist named Brigette Eberl and just luv her horse sculptures. 😉

Hey bluepony…yep same here. I would like 40% of my income comes from painting customs and artist resins. The rest is a mix of flat work, various other commissions of an artistic nature (like logo designs and such) and murals. 😛

Yeah in my region there was a lady who used to enter her windstone unicorn and pegasus in the fantasy divisions and she would win it almost all the time. But I have not seen her in probably two years. She was the only one in my region who’d pop in a windstone now and then. One of the things that sort of frustrates me though is that even though the fantasy pieces can start NANing now, very few shows in my region offer workmanship divisions. I’m hoping that maybe next year they will start getting more common here. There are only like 2 or 3 shows a year that offer those classes from what I can remember.

Oh and yes Watergazer painting the breyers and resin is definantly in a whole other spectrum. I don’t know any artist that hand paints with acrylics. The ones that hand paint use oils or crushed pastels. Because so many people compete in live showing with the horses it is all pretty competitive IMO. And of course for so many artists it is actually how they make a living. People take it very, very seriously. Not a bad thing, just different. 😉

I think if more model horse artists got into painting the windstones it would be awesome because of all the different talents and artistic renditions you’d see, but at the same time the prices on them would probably go up drastically just depending on who painted it.