Singles Bar: The Letter F

We’re up to the letter F in my Singles Bar series.

 

This little guy, #9 Joy, a Family Arabian Foal (FAF), got his turn in the spotlight back in January’s Sentimental Journey post, where I talked about models my dad picked up for me at his friend’s antique store. This is still my only FAF.

 

 

I’m typically not big on the Christmas Day releases; #10209 Tannenbaum, the Christmas Day release from 2024 on the Fell Pony mold, is the exception. I love all three of the regular colors and intend to have them all eventually. (I have no interest in paying through the nose for a Coal.) When mine arrived, I was secretly hoping for red, since red is my favorite color, and that’s what I got!

 

 

#712402 Leti & Addie were released through the Stablemates Club in 2021. Leti is a glossy bay draft foal; you’ll see her when we get to the Singles Bar P post, unless I pick up another one between now and then. The glossy palomino appy is Addie, on the Frisky Foal mold. There have been nine total releases on this mold; seven of the nine have been unicorns, and the only other non-unicorn besides Addie was also issued through the Stablemates Club. If that pattern continues, Addie will remain my only one on this mold for awhile.

 

 

Like big sister Tannenbaum, #711606 Bretzel is my only one on the miniaturized M1 Fell Pony. She was a single-day Stablemate from BreyerFest 2022, and the reason I have her is because my friend Nina is an awesome person. She came to my room at some point during BreyerFest that year while we were open for room sales, dropped the box of all four single-day Stablemates on the bed, said, “Here you go!” and booked it out of the room before I could say anything. I messaged her like hey, I need to pay you for those! She said, “No you don’t.”

 

This handsome chap is a CollectA #88439 Friesian Stallion. He was first produced in 2010 and is still in the lineup today. I bought mine in December 2017 as part of the Collector Club Appreciation sale. He goes to shows on occasion. I named him Maximus Decimus Meridius after the main character in Gladiator.

Other Makes: CollectA Animals

Sorry for the shorter post today - as usual, I am running up against post time, made worse by the rapidly-increasing encroachment of work into my non-work hours. It’s go time on our health record transfer, so I expect to have less free time than usual until at least December, unfortunately.

Back in January's Singles Bar post, when I talked about Diwali, I mentioned my love of cows. I definitely don’t go crazy with collecting model cows like I do model horses, and thank goodness for that - they’d have to live with my floorses, and what the heck would I call floor cows? “Flows” with a short o?

 

 

These are CollectA cows, #88482 Friesian Bull, #88481 Friesian Cow, and #88483 Friesian Calf. They happened to already be sitting in my cart when it came time for the BreyerFest Second Chance sale in 2023. Stuff sells out quick during the Second Chance sales, so once I chucked my Speos and Stagecoach Surprise in my cart and went to check out, and saw they were already there, I didn’t bother taking the time to remove them.

 

They are my only other cow models besides Diwali.

 

 

I don't think anyone will be shocked by this one appearing in my collection. It's got quite the issue name, #88491 Three-Colour House Cat Stretching. I ordered it from Breyer in May 2022 so my web special Kingfisher would be double-boxed.

 

Funnily enough, I almost forgot about the cat for this post. At 4:52, I frantically ran upstairs to grab it for a picture. My boyfriend wanted to ask me something, but I said, "Gotta get this photographed and written and published before 5:00 or I'm in trouble!" He goes, "What, is your publisher going to fire you?" I said, "Well, I'm both the author and the publisher, so I guess I'd have to fire myself!" 

Fantastic Finds: A Good Day for Vintage Painters

Today’s models weren’t a “find” in the strictest sense - they were purchased in room sales at the CHIN during BreyerFest in 2014. They were right there on the shelf for anyone to notice. I'm putting them in the Finds series because, given that I stopped dead in the hallway once I saw these models out of the corner of my eye, I’m kinda shocked no one else picked them up sooner.

They’re #151 Bows and #141 Grazing Mare in bay. Both of those releases had extremely long runs, Bows from 1965-1981 and the Grazing Mare from 1965-1980. There are thousands and thousands and thousands of them out there. I run across them often when antiquing, especially the foal. I’ve had several of both the mare and foal in my collection over the years, but none as nice as these two.

 

 

The mare is who caused me to abruptly about-face in the hallway and go back to the room. Look at that shading! She’s even more gorgeous in person. She’s about as common as they come from a run standpoint, but sometimes painters took a little extra time with a model or just had a really good day in the booth, and she's the beneficiary of that. She is lovely.

 

 

Bows isn’t quite as outstanding a copy as her mom, but she’s still the nicest bay I’ve had in my collection to date. And you know me - I don’t separate sets. They were standing together on the shelf and I was absolutely buying the mare, so I had to buy the foal as well.

The best part? Both of them together were only $25.