Re: My WEBSITE! Check it out!

Benjamin [inactive]

My website: http://www.sylvanian-families.co.uk

Yes, it's about collecting Sylvanian Families and Calico Critters. I've been rather bad at updating it over the past year though.

Benjamin [inactive] · Re: My WEBSITE! Check it out!

Loic

And you're travelling incognito through Vietnam at the present moment?

Porthos

Benjamin [inactive]

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Uriel

So these Calico Critters are small flocked animal figures? I've never seen them before. Cute.

I myself collect Breyer model horses. I say that I use 'em for references for drawings, but really I hardly ever do. (Mostly I work from photographs instead.) But here's a picture that I really did use them in:

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Benjamin [inactive]

Wow! There's actually a contingent of Breyer collectors on my forum; they seem to borrow a thread in the 'Other Collectibles' section.

Pauline

Uriel,

this is an unicorn, not horse :

Uriel

Yes, I know that's a unicorn. But Breyer routinely uses the same molds over and over, simply changling colors and tail length and other attributes from year to year. That particular mold has also been offered as a plain horse:

And several others have been made over as unicorns or as Pegasus.

The thing I like about Breyer is not only the quality of the sculpting, but the fact that they often make historical, literary, and popular models -- Napoleon's Marengo, Alexander's Bucephalus, Black Beauty, My Friend Flicka, Hidalgo -- as well as basing them off of real animals like famous racehorses, rodeo horses, and riding school horses. There was even a TV documentary that followed the life of an unusual wild cremello (almost white -- actually a very dilute palomino) mustang from birth on, named Cloud:

and he too is immortalized in plastic:

I used to collect them as a child; that's why I like them now.

Deborah

Uriel

I only caught one episode -- the one where a stallion from another herd killed a defective newborn foal by picking it up and throwing it, over and over. Disturbing. I didn't know horses did that. Neither did the film crew, from the commentary!

I also like Hagen-Renaker porcelain miniatures. When I was little girl, they were just the right scale to make good pets for the very elaborate dollhouse that my parents made me (which was sadly lost in a move). H-R makes lots of unusual animals, as well as "cute" things, many of them extremely tiny (my mouse was literally the size of a pencil eraser!):

Deborah

Julian

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Can someone change the title of this thread, please?

Uriel

I think Porthos thought better of a few of his posts (including the title) and went back and edited them. Which isn't fair, really....