Getting Ready for Breyerfest C/Y Show Pt. 5

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How To Make Breed Cards for Part-breds

Making breed cards for mixed horses is slightly different than regular breeds. Your model is a mix of two, not one, so you need both sides to be represented. 
I’m going to use my Palomino Weather girl as an example. Since she’s palomino, she can’t be a full blooded Arabian horse. So I looked up different half-Arabian crosses, and eventually came to the Arab x Welsh pony cross. 
Since this horse will be a well known mix, I mark the breed card as:

Arab x Welsh Cross

Description: A small pony with Arabian refined features
Height: 11 Hands-15 hands
Color: Any color except Appaloosa
Source: http://www.welararegistry.com/registry/registry.html#1.1

 For crosses that aren’t well known, make sure you have a picture of either a horse of that linage or two pictures of the parent breeds. When using mixes that aren’t nationally recognized , you don’t really need a description, height, color, etc of horse breeds. Crosses are fun because there are so many ideas and mixes that you can use!
Well, that’s the end of the Halter part of Breyerfest (I think), so hopefully the next installment is performance or customs!

Swipe and Do Over

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After doing some sanding, I decided to spray primer. Of course my Primer had a meltdown and decided that instead of spraying liquid out, it decided to spray out stuff that looked like the Christmas Snow. Oh back to square one.

I don’t think you can see that snowy texture on the pony, but goodness can I! 

Anyways, on a happier note, if you didn’t notice, I changed the font to the title. I think it looks more crafty and fun. :)

Can't start Until You Finish

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Even though I have a load of bodies that haven’t been started, it’s time for me to actually finish something. I think the last horse I actually finished was in October/November. So no more starting until I finish one.
This pony only needed a tail and gender parts sculpted.
So using Don’t Eat The Paint Blog’s how-to on sculpting tails, I used painter’s tape and figured out the shape of her tail.

I Super Glued it stiff.

Then I began to sculpt.
I began by rolling Apoxie Sculpt.
And here’s the end result…Can’t say I’m crazy about the tail though….

Getting Ready For BF C/Y Show PT 4-Typing Up Those Breed Cards

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In here   I mentioned that you need to make breed cards for rare breeds, rare colors, or mixes. This is a how-to on how I make breed cards. There are many other ways. Some people cut up their breed books and slide their cuttings into organized sleeves inside a binder. I do not, mostly because of some shows having strict rules on the page sizes and all. It’s just easier for me to type it up than to cut. Plus if I have an electronic copy, I can keep printing them off to my heart’s desire. With a book I only have one copy. Once that one copy is lost or messed up, that’s the end of that breed card.

How To Make Breed Cards

When searching online for breed info there are two roots you can go. You can look at the actual breed website or a list of horse breeds. Or an actual physical breed book can be used. This how-to is for internet, but it could be easily applied to physical books.
The things that you want to include in your breed card are:
  • Conformation
  • Height 
  • Color
  • Uses (if space allows) 
  • Picture (will be shown later, so don’t worry)

For conformation you don’t want all of this, it simply will not fit on a small card. I’ll show you using the Russian Don Horse. Take only the important parts. You want the bare minimum that gets the point across, so no history or vast amounts of description about your horse breed.

The important stuff is highlighted
I use Microsoft word, and make a text box.
3 X 5 sized
Then I type in the info

Next it’s time to look for pictures. When I type up the breed in Good images, I get a variety of shapes and sizes. (Howrse is still around? Wow I was one of the ‘first gen’ people when it came out in ’09). Anyways, you want to find a horse that looks like yours but follows the breed description. You don’t want the horse to look completely wrong for the breed you’re trying to portray. 
Copy and paste the picture into the document and re-size it.
I also add the source where I got the breed info from.
Next will be on mixes. :)