Nightmare Series Update! He's getting closer:

He's coming along. "The Walking Dead" is getting nastier.



Dancing Marwari Stallion:

He's available. He's listed in Ebay.

MH$P Ad for Ebay link

New dancing Marwari Update:

Here's the new dancing Marwari update.  I did him l,ike this photo.

I still have a lot of antiquing to do and I haven't finished the tail yet.  The tail's just got the base color on it. I'll finish him up tonight and find a name for him.

Show News!:

AWSOME NEWS!
I got some news on three of my past horses.  According to the owner of LS Phantom Of The Opera, and Allens Tuxedo Joe, they did really well at the Bay State Live show.

Tuxedo Joe took 3rd Place Breed, and 4th Place Workmanship, while Phantom Of The Opera took 2nd Place Breed and Nan'd.  I also found out that Prom King, (owned by someone else) took 1st Place Workmanship and Champion in Custom Workmanship in Gaited Breeds, and Nan'd also.

Thanks...Brenda for sharing the pictures of everyone with their ribbons and cards.



Progress on the "Walking Dead" and Purple Power Update:

First up, new progress shots of "The Walking Dead"  The new Nightmare horse for this Halloween.

And next up, a Purple Power Update.  I went down to look at the horse soaking in the Purple Power bath the same time tonight as yesterday when I first put him in to soak and he had a layer of black slime all over him where the paint layer had bubbled up and slid off of him leaving a fresh new layer of paint that appears a bit more faded.  You can see in the second picture the reminents of the slime layer on his side.

Purple Power...Let's see if it works:

Bought some Purple Power finally.  Got the big jug at Advance Auto. It came to a total of $14.00 and change with tax.  I got a container with a lid at Walmart and dumped all the Purple stuff in, then added an old Breyer body I had that needed stripping.  Let's see.  

 I left the horse in there for about an hour and a half or more and took this next picture.  You can see the side that was down in the purple stuff has now got bubbled up paint that feels like slime all over the areas that were submerged.  The horse floats unfortunately and I didn't have anything to weight it down with so I'm just going to count the areas that stayed in the liquid.  It works pretty good so far, and one good thing is the purple power feels really nice on your hands, though I wouldn't recommend keeping your hands in it for too long. It's strong stuff.  It feels like mild slick soapy fluid that smells pleasant.  At least I thought so anyway. Anything is better than the smell of nail polish remover.  I'll come back tomorrow and see what the horse looks like. 

But here it is after a short time. 

Marwari's have Diamonds... Who knew?:

Wanna hear something weird?  Marwari's have diamonds.  lol  It's the strangest thing. I noticed something odd while doing reference photo searching on Marwaris in google.  I noticed a pattern showing up in the Marwari color conformation.  Diamond facial markings. I was seeing this pattern appaering more and more in the face markings of Marwaris, and it kept getting more noticable to me.  The Marwari horses that have face markings are more prone to diamond shaped markings on their face than other horses do, or rather more prone to it than anything else. There are Marwaris that have snips and streaks, of course, they do.  BUT I've been noticing that there is a specific facial marking characteristic to the Marwari and it's showing up a lot.  You know how Thoroughbreds and other breeds can have anything on their faces like narrow streaks to medium blazes, to stars alone, or snips and streaks.  Just random markings. On Marwaris when I looked them up, I kept seeing all these faces and so many of them had one thing in common. The facial markings start out at the top with a diamond shape.  The blaze starts out as a wider diamond up top then it either runs down to a streak, stays as a straight blaze, or just remains the big diamond shaped star but in all of these cases, the pattern on their faces looks similar, like it's a particular facial markings characteristic TO that specific breed.
This is what I'm talking about.  Look at the posted photos and look at the basic shape of all the blazes or stars. 

They all seem to be a similar "version" in some shape, or form of this particular shaped marking.  (I probably could have just lead with that last sentence instead of rambling so much...)

 Step back from the computer screen a bit and just focus on the facial markings and look at the similarities of the basic shape pattern.  

No matter what it does at the bottom, whether it tapers to a point to be a streak or if it goes wide at the mouth or stays like a star, it always seems to start off like a wide diamond then it goes in towards the center of the face. Just look at the face markings on these.  It almost looks like there is a typical classic Marwari 'style' blaze.

Sael and Quiet Cat getting new paintjobs:

Well, it sucks, but when they don't go to new homes, they have to get new paintjobs.  'Sael" and "Quiet cat" are both going to get new updated paintjobs.  I'm pretty sure Cat's going to go dapple grey now and Sael's probably going the same route.  I hate it when they don't sell, but I'm not listing them and listing them and listing them and they don't meet reserves. Sooooo.....back to the painting table.
I loved Sael as a black bay though.. sigh,  oh well,...  Kiss em goodbye ladies and gentlemen!