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The auctions for the Akhal Teke and Single-Footed Stallions and the TWH colt foal are ending tonight!  Don't miss them.  The Teke and Single-Footed have met their reserves and will sell.  The TWH foal has yet to meet his reserve.  Go to Ebay and bid.

Also, Randi Brazil is offering some of her resins for sale including this little guy I painted, so grab him while you can.  Go to Mh$p and search for vendor R.Brazil

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Snow Bizzness: Single-Footed Stallion

Finished the big guy. 

The single-footed stallion is getting under way, and the TWH foal is primed and ready for paint.

Base coating!

I've got the Akhal Teke's first layer of color going.  It's a mixture of white and pearl champagne.  It's the first time I've used this particular color mix and it's the coolest for Tekes since they're metallic.

The next guy up getting color is the Single-Footed stallion.
He's got another layer to do tomorrow.
Well on his way to being white.

The Throughbred mare is almost finished.  Still working on the neck, the tail is next. Joint work and such still needed. But she's looking good.  She's going to have a Heartbreaker Foal with her as a set.  Still sanding down and playing with that left hind knee a little.

The TWH foal is almost ready for primer.  He got new cannons today and his hooves refined and shaped. His fetlock joints were shaped and buffed down.

The adios is getting a new layer of neck in place.

I re-primed the wound on the Mare giving birth set but didn't photograph her yet. I'll wait til I get her first layer of base coat one.
A commission TWH stallion was primed today.

The cow is going through a transformation also.

Ready for paint!

My single-footed boy is primed and rebuffed and ready for paint.

The TWH foal is almost ready. He's got new finished ears now and a completed mane.  He's got some more tweaking to do to his legs and hooves but he's in the home stretch.

The cow has gone through some interesting changes.  lol
Remind me NEVER to do this again.

The Teke stallion looks amazing now  (if I do say so myself)

Tragedy in the studio today.  The mare giving birth set I just primed and was setting her up to dry.  I had to clamp her tail in the vice grip to hold her in place.  I didn't want to tighten it too much for fear her tail would snap.  I'd rather the tail go than what happened.  I turned around to look at the thoroughbred mare's progress, and heard something hit the floor. It was the set. The mare's head broke clean off.  Luckily the break was easy to repair. So she's mending. Tomorrow I'll resand her down and reprime the neck.

The thoroughbred mare is coming along better than expected now.

 
I've started another project now also. I wanted to do him as a portrait model of a particular Quarter Horse I've seen, but after I got him, I think he's just going to be too bulky and chubby for the horse I want him to be.  So I've got coming now a Breyer Ideal Quarter Horse to use.  That looks better.  So thi sguy i think I will turn into a paint.  But this is how so many customs get started.

Cupid's still waiting on antlers.  I'm working on them......AGAIN.

Single-footed and exstatic!

The single-footed stallion is done! He's got to get sanded and buffed and primed and resanded and rebuffed and....well it's a rinse, lather, repeat kind of thing.
But his mane and tail are done and he's got a footpeg. (I hate those things)

The thoroughbred mare is looking better.  Although I hate it when I'm working on something and just leave it for the night looking unfinished.  She's desperately got to have her left hind leg reshaped and sanded on the underside because right now it's too fat and wide, but the right side looks pretty good so far.

I think he neck still needs to be longer.  Still there's only so much I can do with the apoxie at one time.  There are gaping holes that need to be filled but they have to set up or else the apoxie will just sink into the model and you'll never get it filled without loading it full of apoxie.  

The TWH foal has got what's going to be new ears since they needed to be bigger.  He's now got a full fluffy tail, and I've been shaping the cannon bones in the legs.  The hooves need more work. The face has been bulked up some. I have to wait til he hardens so I can shave down and shape his ears better. Tweaked his croup a little but it's still not right yet.

And the teke.  After looking at him some more, I decided his neck was still not long enough.  So it's been lengthened. He's got a new shoulder now to match his newly moved leg.

I still need to sand him and probably add a touch more apoxie to the new neck gap.   Til next time.