Holy $h........

kathrynloch

kathrynloch

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You guys think I'm nuts with this model horse hobby? Just wait until you see this!

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Yup - you read it right, $17,600.99 as far as I know that is the record for the highest auction in the model horse hobby. Get this - it's not even Ebay but a place called Auction Barn that was opened for model horse artists when Ebay started jacking with their sellers - taking away their ability to give negatives and so on. It's not even in the mainstream market!

This resin is traditional size - 1:9 scale and 8-9 inches tall. It's a very nice model. The artist is one of the top artists in the nation. Until this one, the highest I've seen an auction go was $5600. and it was one of hers. She is absolutely brilliant. But my goodness!

Someone either has an American Express Black or they will be making time payments to the artist for the rest of their natural life. lol!

Holy cow, I've never seen such a thing!

Just had to share an historical moment from my other hobby. lol!
 
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lono

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I suddenly feel an intense desire to master painting model horses. That's pretty amazing! I mean it looks like it's been done so very well, but $17k... I'm kinda amazed by that...

Is it a model that's been made by one artist and painted by another, or is it all done by Carol Williams?

Sculpting horses could be my new career focus! ;)
 
kathrynloch

kathrynloch

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hehehe! It's done by two different artists. Carole Williams sculpted the resin and Liz Shaw did the finishwork. Carole ain't no slouch at finish work either, she's another top artist. It's an open edition model that's still readily available. So it's not like the resin itself is rare.

Liz is becoming quite famous for roaning, she paints the individual hairs. The smaller scale horses are impossible to get the hair to scale, even traditional sized you're really not in scale. However if you want to find out just how big a traditional sized model really is, try roaning it. lol! It's enough to drive folks batty and blind which is why so few people do it.
 
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SkelettetS

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i think it great that great artists getting paid for their hard work, and that horse looks lovely. thumbs up! :good:
 
me_in_japan

me_in_japan

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Good lor', but that's a chunk of change and no mistake. Like SkelS, though, I think it's good that an artist can be paid an amount that reflects the amount of time spent on creating the piece. I did a quick google of "roan" and, if I understand correctly, the artist actually paints in every single hair, alternating between white and another colour as they go? If so, wowza - that is serious dedication to detail. Very impressive.
 
kathrynloch

kathrynloch

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I think it's great too - but a part of me worries that it's too good to be true. I hope she actually get's paid that amount. For it to go that high, there had to be a massive bidding war. I just hope someone didn't get carried away and can't pay for the thing.

me_in_japan said:
Good lor', but that's a chunk of change and no mistake. Like SkelS, though, I think it's good that an artist can be paid an amount that reflects the amount of time spent on creating the piece. I did a quick google of "roan" and, if I understand correctly, the artist actually paints in every single hair, alternating between white and another colour as they go? If so, wowza - that is serious dedication to detail. Very impressive.
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Well, you're partially right. Typically we build up to the base color using pigments, oils or airbrush. That would be the dark brown of the horse's hide. Then we paint the white hairs in. Effective use of the paint brush makes it look like the base color is individual hairs but it's not. She's got a lot of gray in there too, so I'm willing to bet she painted both white hairs and gray. That horse is actually what we call a varnish roan. If you look that one up, you might get an even clearer idea of the work that went into the piece.

There are a variety of ways to do roaning, for example I use colored pencils to make the individual hairs, then I go back and do the white individual hairs in acrylic paint. On anything but a traditional sized model you're goal is to give the illusion of hair detail because of the scale issue.
 
kathrynloch

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10 ball said:
17,600! I would want the real horse for that lol
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lol! And that amount of money will get you a very nicely bred, extremely well trained, upper-tier competition horse. No back yard nag, that's for certain. No doubt the person purchased it to compete at NAN - North American Nationals. But you have to take it to a qualifying show and it has to win a first or a second place. I'm sure it would win but I'd be terrified to take it anywhere, God forbid that it got damaged or even worse, stolen. For that amount of money, I'd have it in a safety deposit box and loaded up on special insurance just for collectables.
 
kathrynloch

kathrynloch

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lol! Well if anyone is serious about checking it out, I've got a forum I'll send you to. It's very much like CMON forums only model horses. Besides, you single ,available guys would meet quite a few single, available gals. They may not understand Space Marines but they understand collecting, artistry, and having a passion for your hobby (or business as the case may be). ;)
 
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ischa

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what skelettets said, i tried my first horse a while ago(which is wierd, since i´ve been painting gw minis for 13 years) and was quiet satisfied. maybe it can be a nice hobby with some practice=)
 
wiccanpony

wiccanpony

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I painted and showed ( back in the days when you mailed photos to shows) until I bought a real horse


remember when flocking and hair mane and tails was the big jaw dropper
 
kathrynloch

kathrynloch

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ischa said:
what skelettets said, i tried my first horse a while ago(which is wierd, since i´ve been painting gw minis for 13 years) and was quiet satisfied. maybe it can be a nice hobby with some practice=)
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If anyone is serious about learning, PM me, I'm happy to help and if anyone is interested I have a friend who paints with pigments like I do and she did a how to DVD series. Heck, I know what I'm doing and even I bought them and learned some good stuff.

wiccanpony said:
I painted and showed ( back in the days when you mailed photos to shows) until I bought a real horse


remember when flocking and hair mane and tails was the big jaw dropper
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Well thanks to the internet, they still have photo shows but they're online now. And yeah, when I got my real horse, he curtailed my hobby big time. So I hear ya on that one!

Flocking is still definitely out but haired manes and tails are starting to make a comeback. The only thing that stops them from really going over the top is the transporting to live shows. It's so easy to really mess up the haired manes and tails that a lot of folks don't want to bother with them. But Faye Cohen is till hairing models and she's been in the hobby for a very long time. I don't know if she was active when you were but the possibilities are good.
 
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lono

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That's some really beautiful stuff. Clearly there's a whole other world of true masters out there painting horses. I don't think I have that kind of patience, it would drive me insane! :D
 
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