Other Makes: WIA

In 2021, a friend of mine posted a link in our group chat to the modellpferdeversand website in Denmark, where they had WIA models for sale. WIA is a German company producing models in a hard, rubbery plastic similar to CollectA and Schleich, but more rigid. They were pretty cool, but I wasn’t keen enough on them initially to pay the cost of international shipping. Then, in 2022, they put out a Vincenzo, and all of us in the group chat went in on a large order and split the shipping cost. Win-win!

 

 

This is #WIA BE10006, Lancelot, a run of 2500 pieces released in 2021. They had me at “dramatically-shaded dappled bay sporty thing.” He’s got a pretty bad scuff on one side so I haven’t ever shown him.

 

 

This is #WIA BE10003, Sharif, also a run of 2500 pieces released in 2021. The dapples are quite stark, but all the ones I’ve seen have been like that.

 

 

This is #WIA BE10010 Vincenzo, a run of 2500 pieces released in 2022.

I’ve been madly in love with the Vincenzo sculpt since I saw this lovely bone China sooty dapple buckskin for sale on a website sometime around 2006 or 2007:

 

The above guy belongs to a friend and I get to drool over him occasionally when she brings him out to shows. She even offered to sell him to me, but I Break All Breakable Things, so that’s a nope for sure. I will just admire him from afar.

When the relatively unbreakable mini version of Vincenzo came out in 2022 through WIA, I of course had to have one. I need to buy a stand for him - that front leg is really taking a beating from his weight distribution and should definitely not be at that angle. I've straightened it a couple times, but mean old Mr. Gravity ends up flattening it back out again. Triple Mountain sells stands; perhaps it’s time I wander over to that site to buy one ... and see if there are any other WIA models they can tempt me with.