My BreyerFest Posters

 

I don't know why I didn't think of this before!  So many things are obvious in hindsight,... The TSII doesn't put up that many posters at BreyerFest, but there are a couple of new ones this year.  This blog would be a perfect place to "try out" and also "preserve" them.   Speaking of preserving it has long been a secret pleasure of mine to run around very late the last Saturday night of BFest and make off with posters that particularly caught my eye --- they were all going to be thrown away anyway.  Maybe some day I'll post on those,...  For now, I'm including a couple of pix taken in 2019.  These were shot very early in the BFest process, when only a few posters were up.  Let them, now, stand for the potential of future hotels.  Here is another attempt at a short blog post,... to which we can only say, Hah!

 Here is my main poster for 2026, what I'm calling the Big Three.  The three are, of course, my two books.  Written by hand in the middle, not seen here, are the words View a printed copy in Rm 612.

 The back cover to the Abaft is much nicer than the front, I think:

 I have been slowly hatching wishes to "fix up" the Abaft's front cover.  When I have time (again, hah!).  The horse doesn't match the braided borders or the bosal.  My excuse, such as it is, is that the cover was created at the tail end of 3 years of work, when I was really pushing to finish, and it perhaps didn't receive quite the attention it deserved.  It appears to break one of my own rules about model  entries, which is an equal level of detail for all parts.

But it'll do for now. 

Here is a more typical poster, just the kind of thing you'd see rafts of in the halls of the Clarion.  I am planning on hanging up only a few of these, as they are not horses greatly in demand (except for the Blue Note).  [The Wapasha is an etch, no paint markings.]  But this is their tiny bid for glory.

 

The "Rm 612" will be written in the border.

Taken pretty early in 2019

Here is the poster with my personal collecting desires.  Again, I plan on hanging only a few.  It's a stab into the dark, both the idea and the price.  But I've spent many months working up this desire, and my wish has stood the test of time.  

Photo credits:  Stone, K Gino, E Stayner

One of the methods I use to survive BreyerFest is to really concentrate on only a few horses.  Only 1 or 2 will be on my deeply-desired, actively-hunting list.  Last year it was a palomino Stone ASB.  Also, last year was my [second] Stone Half Arab Mare.  One year it was a Breyer appaloosa POA!  Out of tens of thousands of models!?  This year my eye will be tuned for that reaching right forefoot, the ragged-ended tail and the warm color.  No Pony tails need apply!, nor do I want Remi's smooth long mane.  This mold was inaugurated in 2021.  Five years is enough time for him to accumulate to sufficient numbers to filter down to us garden variety collectors (I almost said bottom feeders).  

The Stone Half Arab mare was the same way for me:  2019 to 2024, 5 years, before I bought one [Sassy].  Similar applied with my Stone Irish Draft, 8 years (2018 to 2026).  The foal took longer.  I want more foals now, fortunately.  Yes, I could order a Remington from the DAH.  But thanks to Sassy, I'm choosing not to wait the 5 to 8 months,...  I'm more than ever clinging to my maxim No Stone But in the Hand.

To round out the offerings of Room 612, there will be other model horses, books, 7 Mink pins and a variety of oddments for sale.

"Horses are Cheaper on the Second Floor!!" 

I'll see you there.