It’s the Fourth of July, and while I wish this country were worth celebrating right now, at least it’s kinda cool that the fourth part of my ISH conga will be presented on the fourth? Today I’ll talk about the short-mane-long-tail version, which is arguably the most used of the non-custom bodies and also arguably my favorite.
I ordered this Design-A-Horse on January 3, 2020. Because of the pandemic, he took a full six months to get to me. [Ironic that that’s now become the minimum DAH wait time for Stone - and sometimes they take even longer. As of mid-June, there were still folks waiting on DAHs from last September!]
Though I’m not usually a fan of loudly-patterned horses, I was perusing the albums one day on the Facebook DAH Colors & Patterns group and saw a mid-2010s extreme tobiano with a dark head and thought, wow, that looks really awesome. I am a person who prefers solid dark heads on both real and plastic horses - give me maybe a small star or a thin stripe and that’s about it. I especially like roans and duns, whose dark heads contrast with their lighter bodies.
Though I’m not usually a fan of loudly-patterned horses, I was perusing the albums one day on the Facebook DAH Colors & Patterns group and saw a mid-2010s extreme tobiano with a dark head and thought, wow, that looks really awesome. I am a person who prefers solid dark heads on both real and plastic horses - give me maybe a small star or a thin stripe and that’s about it. I especially like roans and duns, whose dark heads contrast with their lighter bodies.
Stone made a new extreme tobiano DAH pattern for 2019 and continued it into 2020, so I finally ordered one. In gloss, of course. Despite not being factory customized, he holds his own in the show ring against much fancier paint horses. His show name is Ibiza Bar.
This is #IS17022 Cutter, a regular run in 2002. I bought him in May 2023 from my friend Mandy and picked him up from her a couple months later at BreyerFest to save on shipping. He doesn’t show all that much, but when he does, I kept the name Mandy gave him - Cooper.
This lovely shaded flaxen thing is Bellame, the Quarter Horse Congress model in 2007. She came in both matte and glossy, and both have been on my want list for a long time. I purchased this matte gal from a seller in Australia in January 2024. Her show name is La Mia Bella, but she’s temporarily retired until I fix an eartip rub.
I never intended to buy this ISH, #9982 All I Can Bee, a dealer special run of 50 glossed models in 2002. Like, he wasn't on my radar at all. I was arranging to buy a few other ISHs from a seller in New York in early March 2024, and she tossed in a picture of All I Can Bee. He looked like a Shiny Bay Thing (though he’s actually dark chestnut) so I said sure, why not, and tossed him into my “cart” as well. He's rather pretty in gloss.
I talked about #9980 Lapis Lazuli back in my Winter Blues series - he was my last room sales purchase during BreyerFest 2025.
This ISH, #964 Bessie Girl Micia, a run of 200 from 2001, has a funny story.
Last July, not too long after we got back from BreyerFest, my friend Heather B. stumbled across a Facebook marketplace ad for a Breyer collection just a couple miles up the road from me. She messaged the seller and arranged to purchase all the Traditionals in the lot; there were a bunch of Classics as well, and I agreed to buy those. The seller sent grainy pictures of the horses as a large group, taken from mostly overhead. As such, it was not easy to tell what all of them were.
At the bottom of one of the pictures (so viewed almost completely from overhead) was a traditional-sized chestnut stock horse that Heather and I were stumped over. We were all over IDYB, trying to see what sculpt it could possibly be, and tossed around a whole bunch of ideas. An eternity (at least 10 minutes) later, finally, this happened:
Heather: I just can’t think of any trad that looks like that.
Me: Me neither. I’m totally stumped.
Heather: OH
Heather: IT’S AN ISH
Me: OMG
Me: REVOKE MY COLLECTOR’S LICENSE RIGHT NOW
Me: HOW COULD I NOT RECOGNIZE AN ISH
It was the only Stone in the entire collection, so I wasn't thinking about Stones, but with 29 ISHs in my collection, I definitely should have recognized it. Heather doesn't collect Stones, so I ended up with Bessie Girl Micia. She’s not in showable condition at the moment, but if I ever get her touched up, her show name will be Can't See for Lookin'.
Last July, not too long after we got back from BreyerFest, my friend Heather B. stumbled across a Facebook marketplace ad for a Breyer collection just a couple miles up the road from me. She messaged the seller and arranged to purchase all the Traditionals in the lot; there were a bunch of Classics as well, and I agreed to buy those. The seller sent grainy pictures of the horses as a large group, taken from mostly overhead. As such, it was not easy to tell what all of them were.
At the bottom of one of the pictures (so viewed almost completely from overhead) was a traditional-sized chestnut stock horse that Heather and I were stumped over. We were all over IDYB, trying to see what sculpt it could possibly be, and tossed around a whole bunch of ideas. An eternity (at least 10 minutes) later, finally, this happened:
Heather: I just can’t think of any trad that looks like that.
Me: Me neither. I’m totally stumped.
Heather: OH
Heather: IT’S AN ISH
Me: OMG
Me: REVOKE MY COLLECTOR’S LICENSE RIGHT NOW
Me: HOW COULD I NOT RECOGNIZE AN ISH
It was the only Stone in the entire collection, so I wasn't thinking about Stones, but with 29 ISHs in my collection, I definitely should have recognized it. Heather doesn't collect Stones, so I ended up with Bessie Girl Micia. She’s not in showable condition at the moment, but if I ever get her touched up, her show name will be Can't See for Lookin'.
There are 20 short-mane-long-tail ISHs on my wish list - with glossy Bellame at the top, of course.
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