Full Spectrum: CM G3 Cantering Warmblood #1

Oliver would like you to know that he is donut-free, and that he greatly missed his toys, and that he does not apologize for making me late on this blog post because he suffered through eight days of restricted playtime and now requires me to play with him for hours every night as a catch-up, thank you very much.

 

In my last post about Equidae, I mentioned Rainbow Rave Live, an annual LGBTQ+ friendly show that benefits the Trevor Project. The next three posts will also feature models I got at RRL, so let me briefly talk about it.

 

My first time attending was in May 2023, less than a week after I mangled my right ankle tripping over air in my driveway. It was wonderfully swollen and appropriately fit into the rainbow theme of the show with all the bruising. I should have entered it in one of the fun classes. I'd have called it Three Severed Ligaments: A Color Study.

 

I wasn't sure I'd be able to handle the rigors of a show day, but the cause was really important to me and the hostess, Sarah, said she could put me at a table right next to the ring I was showing in the most, so I made the trek. I've been back every year since. It's a pretty awesome show, well-run with quality judges, rainbow tablecloths, callback tables for each division (best idea EVER), hilarious fun classes, and a huge raffle.

 

In 2025, I was lucky enough to win three rainbow custom Stablemates from the raffle, so that's who I'll be talking about over the next few posts. Here's the first one, a G3 Cantering Warmblood in rainbow leopard appaloosa. His spots are haloed in silver to match his hooves, which is a neat effect. The Cantering Warmblood is one of my favorite G3 molds; I have 21 original finish and four customs.

 

Funny story – Sarah (the hostess) was pulling tickets and announcing raffle item winners toward the end of the show. She announced that someone had dropped the “Keep This Ticket” halves into the cup instead of the half we were supposed to write our name on. I heard the announcement, but I was up to my eyeballs in judging a huge Breyer division and figured it wasn't me, so I ignored it.

 

I managed to make it back to my table a little while later and glanced at my raffle tickets – which didn’t say “Keep This Ticket” on them, and also had my name written on the back. I was like, oh no, did I forget to put them in?! But I couldn't find the "Keep This Ticket" sides, and I definitely remembered dropping my tickets into the cup with the rainbow Stablemates, because they were what I wanted the most. Then the light bulb went on - what if I was the ding-dong who dropped the wrong tickets in? I went over to the raffle table, where the three Stablemates were still sitting in front of their raffle cup. Sarah had taped the winning ticket to the cup, and sure enough, it was mine. Oops!

 

All's well that ends well, though, because I still got to bring home three cool handmade rainbow ponies.

Full Spectrum: Equidae

The model horse portion of today's blog entry is rather short - it was a straightforward acquisition - so to make it worth the visit, I'll share another picture of Oliver, who is, much to his dismay, still a Donut.

 

 

He has managed to extract himself from the donut twice - once on Thursday morning when I was in a work meeting, and once on Saturday morning when I was sitting right next to him on the couch. Both times, he immediately went for his surgery site and got himself all irritated, so back into the donut he went. I'm thinking it'll be another day or two until I'm fully comfortable letting him out of it.

 

He's handling it pretty well, though his digestive issues are ongoing. His poop still clears the room, it's not as firm as it should be, and he's gulping a lot before and after he eats. I'm sure the stress of the neuter and donut aren't helping, but his problems predate all that. We're going to try switching him to a Limited Ingredient, filler-free, salmon-based kibble, and see if he does better.

 

And now for the rainbow pony. 

 

 

I have loved the Wintersong mold since his original release in plastic in 2007. As a mostly Arab and Stock collector, chonky floofy drafty things really aren't my jam, but Wintersong is the exception. He will definitely be featured in an upcoming Do That Conga post; I have seventeen of them (and hopefully I will add both a matte and glossy Oseberg by the conclusion of this year's BreyerFest!) 

 

For now, here’s #1849, Equidae, a regular run from 2021-2022. The coolest thing about this guy is that I couldn't have gotten him in a more appropriate place - I won him in 2023 from the raffle at Rainbow Rave Live, an LGBTQ+ friendly show that benefits the Trevor Project.

Full Spectrum: Kaleidoscope

#711500 Kaleidoscope was a BreyerFest Limited Edition of 6500 pieces in 2021. He wasn’t a must-have at first - he looked a lot more purple in the promo photo than he ended up being. But he's blue, and you know me and blue things. The more I saw of him, the more I liked him, so I ordered one from the store.

 

The variation in paint jobs on this guy is pretty huge. Some are like mine and have more of the blue color; some are really, really rainbow. Some have large spots, some have tiny ones. I can see myself buying more over the years and ending up with a ... full spectrum.

 

See what I did there?