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The Dreamcatching Stables Showstring and Collection


Hello visitors. This is a list of my custom and resin model collection. I will have some pictures up soon as I work on this site, thanks to my new digital camera! Eventually, I'm going to divide this page into customs and resins separately - and I may use frames if I can figure them out :-) Also, depending on what models I buy this summer at BreyerFest, I might add OF show models as well. The page is quite graphics-intensive, so be patient - the pictures are worth it! Thanks a bunch for visiting.

Resin Model Horses
Violently Happy - Sarah Rose's Ahab mini resin, painted by Sheri Rhodes to a STUNNING soft dapple grey with black points. This was my very first resin, who I defintely made a big fuss over getting! But I am so glad he did, even if he doesn't show very well, I adore him! Isn't he breathtaking? Picture by Sheri

Mousefeathers - D'Arry Jone Frank's adorable Piccolo resin. I've wanted him FOREVER, I finally got this resin in December 1999. One of my very favorite artists, Melanie Miller, painted him in a WOW of a warm silvery grulla with a lacy, spotless blanket, stripe and four socks. Was done by one of my very favorite artists, Melanie Miller. This is another not-so-good shower who I love to death - he has a very permanent home at Dreamcatching Stables!

Venus As a Boy - Kathleen Moody's Off Broadway resin, another painted by Sheri Rhodes in a gorgeous dark liver chestnut with a flaxen mane and tail, slight metallic sheen, tri-eyes, hind stockings, coronet band and snip. He placed 4th out of 30 Arabs at his first live show! Another resin I wanted forever, I am thrilled to own this beautiful example of the mold. Picture by Sheri

Roxy Music - Animal Artistry trotting Welsh Sec. C mini resin, my 3rd piece by Sheri Rhodes. He looks just awesome in a dark dappled palomino with BLUE eyes! He also has a splashy blaze and 3 socks. This was the first model in my showstring to NAN-qualify (in a class of 22 resin ponies!), and he also received at that first and only show, a 6th place out of 32 resin stallions. Even though I never really thought anything about the mold when I saw him on the AA website, when I saw him in person at BreyerFest I simply HAD to have him! There is something about his plain, handsome head and overall sweet look that is just irresistible. Picture by Sheri

Jupiter's Moon - I finally got him! This is my D'Arry Jone Frank large SM scale Saddlebred gelding resin, Bolero, painted by the amazing oil painter, Ruth Lenz. This boy is a lovely metallic black chestnut with rich, realistic coloring and dapples, and a golden-red mane and tail. He also has a slim blaze, chin spot, ermine spots, painted shoes, and amazing tri-eyes. He is just incredible, I have never seen such detail and effort put into a simple solid color! I have really high hopes for this one in shows! At Greater Pittsburgh, he just missed the card with a yellow ribbon in Saddlebreds (behind two other Boleros! I personally think he was painted better.) Ruth took this fine picture of him.

Yet Unnamed - I was lucky enough to trade my painting services for a long-desired Simplicity resin. However, she came with a most icky paint job - a sort of orangey bay with very rough and unrealistic pinto markings. So...I stripped and repainted her. She is now absolutely gorgeous, one of my best paint jobs by far! She's a deep, firey red chestnut Dutch Warmblood mare, with a beautifully shaded mane and tail, a checkboard pattern on her rump, extensive sabino markings, painted shoes, striped hooves, and amazingly expressive eyes. She is a model I love, am very proud of, and I doubt I'll part with her anytime in the near future.

Custom Model Horses

Gimli - An old mold SM drafter resculpted with a new neck, ears, mane, tail, and chin fur and feathers added. Painted a LOVELY dappled red bay tobiano, all work is by Melanie Miller! I love her work, and Gimli, though older from 1997, is a great example. Huge thanks to my good friend Sarah for trading her to me when I fell in love! I recently did some minor touch-ups - just going over the yellow white markings and fixing the rubbed hoof color, and she now looks so much brighter and more refreshed. She has NAN-qualified several times (2 or 3) in very small classes, but she still did defeat other nices horses :)

Maxwell Demon - Max is the HR Seabiscuit repainted to a YUMMY light starry dappled bay tobiano by Laurie Jo Jensen (body color) and Sarah Minkiewicz (markings/details)! He is quite amazing, his color is lucsciously shaded with starry dapples, he has added veining, and the details are typical perfect Sarah. I am so pleased to be able to own a horse of such high quality. Sadly, though, he'd been damaged when I bought him, and the repair job wasn't quite up to par. But, while he's now just a shelf horse, I really still love him - what a cutie! Picture by previous owner Jessica Boyd

Tinkerbell - This sweet, fat, Hagen-Renaker Morgan mare was gotten for free at a tack shop because of a chipped ear! So I handed her over to Beth Hoffert to work some of her "roan magic" on her in her choice of roan color with a facial stripe. She is now an adorable, fluffy-looking buckskin just starting to go grey. Such a cutie! Looking forward to showing her. Picture by Beth

Prince of Chocolate - Breyer Saddlebred Weanling extensively reworked by Rick Clark, painted a silky smooth chocolate bay tobiano. He is SO CUTE! He is also NAN-qualified for 2001-2002! His picture is terrible, he's really so much nicer!

What A Dream - A perfect name for this filly, as she is an accomplishment of one of my longtime hobby dreams. Ever since seeing Elizabeth Bouras's fabulous collection of Sarah Minkiewicz-Breunig's work, I have wanted a Hagen-Renaker mini painted by that artist. Sarah is one of the hobby's best and incredibly talented. I was very happy when she recently released a saleslist of mini customs and resins - the main focus of my collection! And I was very lucky to get my second choice from the list. What A Dream is the H-R trotting draft filly repainted to a flaxen caramel chestnut tobiano, with a stripe and burgundy and silver halter. I'm thrilled to have bought her, and I absolutely cannot wait to pick her up at BreyerFest. Picture by Sarah

Synthetic Beats - This is a SM Standardbred I won at the Cow Country Live auction for a very nice low price ;-) He is a simple dark bay repaint by Beth Hoffert with a metallic sheen, tiny star and coronet band. His eyes, raised hooves, and nostrils are carved. Always places in his classes at live shows. The pic is terrible, he is not nearly so flat.

Vintage - I wanted this horse the moment I saw him on the artist's website, but he was sold by the time I emailed. However, the artist eventually bought him back and offered him to me, hurray! My third horse (or fifth, if you count unpainted resins) by Melanie Miller, he is the Stablemate Warmblood with a new braided mane, loose, flippy tail, and new ears. He is painted a rich, mahogany bay with high whites and a blaze. I named him after a Warmblood who belongs to a friend of mine and who I'm painting a portrait of - I just love the name! Picture by Melanie

Coming Soon!