Getting Ready To Paint:

I'm ready to start painting Poco and a couple other models.  I like to paint several at once and while one's drying from being sprayed and resting, I can be jumping to something else.  Also helps not to get bored or going slightly insane staring at the same piece for so long with no break. lol  

I did finish the black and tan Afghan Hound.  His name is "Duke". 

And also, I've got one of the two Valegro Stablemates ready for paint.  The laying down one.  I am going to sand that front pastern a tiny little bit I think.  Maybe. I'm planning I think to do this laying down one in a dapple grey.

The second one I'm so excited about.  This one has really been a challenge but I'm in the home stretch with it now I think.  I need to shave that hind right leg down and shape it a bit more. I need to sand and dremmel away a lot of muscle and shape things up. The right hind leg is way to stick and chunky yet, but I'm getting there.  I fitted her with two flat foot bases so she can stand on her own without a huge base, but what I think I may do is have her able to attach with sticky wax to a clear piece of stiff plastic. That was she's stable and doesn't have to have a larger base because those foot bases, although stable, they are very small and she may need more support.  Wouldn't want her falling off the show table. lol  And I have a feeling she's going to clean up at the shows. I'm thinking since I've done full passing or half passing models in dapple grey and seal bay before. I'm going to do this one in a flaming chestnut I think.  Not positive but I'm feeling chestnut and a blaze. 

More Updates:

I've got some updates on Poco and the Afghans.  I went in and had to make Poco's head a little more short.  She really has chubby jaws and it gives her more of a fatter face even though it's pretty normal as far as horses go.  I made her face a little more blunt.  I'm still working on it though. I need to sand it down a little more and buff it down in some places. 

And here's the real Poco once again. 

Here's the Afghan hounds so far.  I base coated the standing one in black and it's just the first coat.  As you can see there's a ton of little white specks where I missed some spots and the area on the tail where I held it is unpainted. But I touched him up. He's drying now so I couldn't take a new pic of him.  And the laying down one is coming along also.  I really love the black  one so far. 

Afghans, Stablemates, and Poco:

I've got Poco primed and just added some final apoxie touches in the hollows of the cannon bones where the Breyer stock horse's legs have these weird gauges in them.  Just flaws in the molding I guess.  But I filled it in and smooothed things out.  I'm buffing her down and adding primer to smooth her and get her ready for paint. 

I'm also getting these two Afghan hounds underway.  

The standing one I think will be a really pretty black and tan, and I'm not sure on the laying down one yet.  

Anyway, as I go I'm working on multiple projects at once.  I mix up apoxie and add it to three or four things at once instead of just working on one thing at a time.  So I got these two Valegra stablemates in the mail and I couldn't wait to do something to them.  One is laying down. And the other is doing a half pass, or full pass, which ever.  The front legs are crossing over one another. They're still a work in progress. I'm planning to add a post the the hind leg of the standing one so that's why the pictures are so hard to read.  It wont stand on it's own without a post and I haven't put it in the foot yet. They're still both in the roughest of stages still.