Offers on LSQ Proven CM Bluegrass Bandit

Up for offers on Model Horse $ales Pages!

Show winner & Reserve Champion in Breed - this girl has even won against resins in Workmanship and placed against them in CM/AR divisions at another show - definately proving herself a tough girl against the big guns!

Her MH$P Advert: http://www.modelhorsesalespages.com/sales/view_details.asp?id=703662

I know I'm advertising in US dollars which is a pain in the butt - but if you want to put an offer in in AU dollars, I'll work out the conversion and put it up as well, just let me know, or check out this site to help you:
http://www.xe.com/ucc





Contact me through the MH$P advert!

Cheers guys

Up for sale;

I've offered this guy on my Yahoo Group to my mailing list members first, so if you are interested in him, then please head on over to: DMD Yahoo Group and join up to be apart of that offer.

If no-one from my group takes him home, then he'll be heading to MH$P in 48 hours, but I'll update the blog on that as well.

I will also update with some major pics from Melbourne Live which I attended over the weekend - still need to grab my camera and upload them all, but I will update you soon!

~Sam

I need to learn to update this more often!

Wow has it really being 4 months since my last update?!?! That's horrendeous! Well a LOT has happened - so I'll just stick to the model-related stuff as not to over load you all.

Live in the West 2009 was on and was a raging success - we even had an eastern-states visitor which was fantastic to see! Of course, a huge congrates has to be given to all the Champion & Reserve winners, and the Overall Grand Champion who was owned by Shannon Farn who made the journey over from Victoria.

I had new and old faces - all of them done well, everyone placed and I believe everyone apart from one or two actually won a class between them, so I was super pleased. Some the new faces include these guys:

"Makhpia-Sha" - CM Nokota into a bay roan, shown as a Quarter Horse





"Midnight Marathon" - CM Stone Pebbles, shown as an Appendix





"Renata" - Danzante resin fresh back from America and placing highly against some stiff competition; she was also my Overall Supreme Exhibit from last year's LITW show





"Flash 4 Cash" - CM Flash into a buckskin, shown as an American Sport Pony. This guy also was shown at a Live Show in QLD for a first and a second, seems he likes those two places!





"Rayne on Me" - Rayne resin into a dappled grey, shown as a Thoroughbred. He also went to Vic for Mini Mania and picked up a 2nd and 5th.





"Manhattan Mistress" - CM Bluegrass Bandit into a bay roan sabino, shown as a Tennesse Walking Horse, also got a Reserve Champion in the Custom division





"Hehewuti" - Calamity Jane resin into a blue roan, shown as a Mustang. This girl picked me up a Reserve Champion and a Champion in the Artist Resin and Workmanship Divisions





Phew - what an update huh? Have to say I'm very proud of those guys and how they done!

Another new face which will be following me to Melbourne Live in just 19 days (ACK!) is this new face, a customised Huckleberry Bey body into a high stepping Hackney Horse - he's had quite a bit of rescuplting done which has made some very subtle but striking changes to this guy. And yes, that is a Gem Twist tail he is sporting.

"Kenhurst Kilimanjaro"





Like him? I am taking pre-sale offers on this guy through my Yahoo Group, so if you are a member, all the details will be posted up there shortly.

Other than that - working on comissions, new works and other such things - also putting together a full performance set up in memory of the late "Theodore O'Connor" which has being in the works for around 9 months now - there are a lot of artists involved in this one, which is very exciting. And yes, the full setup will be for sale once I've had a chance to show it off! LOL More information will come soon I promise.

Stay safe all!
~Sam

Valiant on ebay;

Just a quick note while I'm in the house and steering clear of the insane heat and humidity we are having, to say that I have painted the newly released "Valiant" medallion into a gorgeous dappled buckskin! I had a heap of fun painting this guy!



He is also on ebay currently - feel free to check him out here:

http://tinyurl.com/azpds6

Stay safe everyone!

~Sam

Shows, Sales & Showjumping (well the beginning again!)

Slowly keeping with New Year Resolutions - I am back riding, and I feel as if the lacking in tone I've suffered from having two years out of the saddle is beginning to tone back up again! I have two in work at the moment with a greenly broken mare ready on the sidelines; the two in work are Jerry and Wog (yes, he was named 'Wog' because his brand reads W0G and he was nameless when I picked him up from one of those backyard sales where the meat man lurks), both he and Jerry came from there.

Although 'coming back' hasn't being without it's challenges. Both Jerry and Wog got themselves some nice cuts in the new paddock (goodness knows how they done it, you know what horse's are like) - but their fine, and of course, the stallion wanted more attention than he was getting and obviously kicked out in his yard, got caught and has done something to his hock and leg. It's being blown up something cruel for a good three weeks now, he's walking on it though, so that's the best sign.

Back to studio news though - I heard wonderful news about a show in QLD over the weekend as I was proxying two horse's there. The new Flash repaint: "Flash 4 Cash" done me proud:

CM/AR American Pony Breed - 1st
CM/AR Buckskin Color - 2nd

And my Nokota custom ("Tashunke Witko") who is being paid off by his happy owner, done me proud as well:

CM/AR Other Breed - 1st
Champion 'Other Breed'

Looks like he missed his color class as well which was a shame, but he would have being the only one in the Cremello class, so it wasn't a huge loss that he wasn't in the class.

As far as sales, I currently have my first dappled grey on eBay Australia on the Peter Stone Cantering Pebbles (I believe he's a WB/TB/Hunter type of horse) - any critques on this guy are more than welcome, I love hearing feedback!

See the eBay Australia auction here



Hope you all have a great weekend once Friday is over!

~Sam

Happy Holidays!

Well Christmas is over, so I must wish you all a late, but very Merry Christmas, and of course, a Happy New Year for everyone!! I hope it was a great tick over to 2009 - and look out, it will be 2010 before you know it! I'm actually, honestly scared.



In the studio front - finished a simple custom on Breyer's Flash model, he was listed for sale, but I'm taking down the advert today as he's currently being express shipped to NSW for a show on Saturday, and then will journey to a friend in QLD for a show there on the 25th/26th - so two shows, 5 events each (the custom Nokota is with him as well that I done early in 2008); so we'll see how they both go.

I've got a few projects in the studio at the moment;

*Simple Huck Reposition into a Hackney Horse
*Drastic PS Arabian rescuplt - being in the works for a few months now, but he's getting there slowly
*PS TB Comission - rescuplt & paint; currently working on the reposition side of things
*Ideal repaint Comission
*Boss 302 paint comission (nearly completed)
*PAM paint comission
*Las Vegas Live Donation (doing some serious work on him today during the New year break, expect photo's soon)
*Bailador resin - rescuplting his mane & tail for more detail presently

For anyone interested - Live in the West will be 25th April 2009 in Mundaring, WA. I can proxy again this year for anyone who can't make it physically, but we'd love to have you come along if you can book your flights early enough - the sooner the cheaper, you know how it is with flights.

Until next time - Happy New Year!!

Oh... my New Year's Resolution? Since we got the shed mostly built the poor old horse crate in there (shed makes the monstrous thing look small which is shocking), my resolution is to get back into Showjumping, full swing, leg pain/knee pain or no pain - we're doing it, 2009 is my come-back year!

~Sam

First Live Show *phew*

Well "Live in the West 2008" was a huge success, and a huge congrates, pat on the back and job well done must go to show holder Mel Boynes - no doubt she is already being re-flooded with suggestions, help, ideas and everyone not just beginning for LITW 2009, but two Perth Live Shows next year! I know I'm all for it, we've all being bitten hard by the showing bug and now we're show hungry!

There were SO many beautiful horse's there, and not just home grown painted horses, but also some international names in the artist line up, including Deborah Brown from the UK and Kathy McKenzie, Tia Lurie, Sue Kern, Jessica McCune, Dani Schacht, Valerie Martinez and a few others whose names escape me, all from the US.

We had four people showing with all their horses, and six proxy people who sent entries to each of us (I personally proxied for Shannon Farn, and I can say, there are two definate horse's in her herd that she sent that I would take home with me in a heart beat - including that Palomino Daffyd, remember seeing him on MH$P? Oh yeah, he's just as stunning in person than in those photos).

The crew that I painted done the following:

TASHUNKE WITKO - CM "Nokota" Model (Owned by Rondel Sorenson)
1st. Unmounted Western
3rd. Naughtiest Horse
2nd. CM/AR Other Breeds
7th. CM/AR Dilutes

IMA GOLD SEEKA - Painted "Bullionare" Resin (Owned by Shannon Farn)
4th. Quietest Horse/Pony
4th. CM/AR Stock Breeds
6th. CM/AR Dilutes

CREME DELA CREME - CM "BHR Percheron" Resin (owned by Alexandra SoLurdo)
2nd. Quietest Horse/Pony
3rd. Other Performance
1st. CM/AR Dilutes
2nd. CM/AR Draft Breeds

RENATA - Painted "Danzante" Resin (Owned by moi)
1st. Naughtiest Horse/Pony (4)
Champion Novelty
Grand Champion Novelty/Performance
1st. CM/AR Stock Breeds (6)
1st. CM/AR Pinto (11)
Reserve Champion Color
Supreme Exhibit

And here is a picture of my pride and joy (Renata that is);



As you can imagine, I am happy with everyone, but pleasantly surprised and just over the moon at how Renata performed for me. Especially considering she was a last minute finish and entrant in the show. She's currently en route to Florida to show at "South Florida Live" and possibly another event in March/April if I decide to keep her over there for that long, so I'll inform you to how she fairs against the rest of the US.

If you want to see the photo's I personally took, they are at: http://s190.photobucket.com/albums/z285/dreammerchantdesigns/LiveintheWest2008/

Obviously most of them are mine and Shannon's horses (wanted to make sure she had a photo of each of horse's on the table with their ribbons), with the expection of the Performance Class "Hunter/Jumpers" and some of the Champion classes.

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So what's next in the studio? Well, comissions to be finished before the end of year, naturally... and a few projects of my own and some sales projects.

But I'll be nice and tell you two of them:

~ "Ruffian" in a simple custom, turning into a tobiano/overo (haven't decided the pattern yet) buckskin and;
~ "Alborozo" in a simple custom, turning into a buckskin andalusian/lusitano with a few subtle markings