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General Hobby Information:
- Basic Equine Color Genetics - good information on what colors when bred together produce what results from Color Field Stables.
- Breed Assignment and Mold Information - helpful hints on how to assign a breed to your Breyer model horse when you're ready to show or register it with a club.
- Getting Started with Model Horse Showing - lots of useful information from Rio Rondo Enterprises.
- Haynet - the largest and oldest email list dedicated to the discussion of all things model horse.
- Model Horse Blab - A very popular forum where everything model horse is regularly discussed. Basic membership is free, or you can pay $18 per year for full services. Includes a sales section.
- Model Horse Gallery - They claim to be the largest model horse gallery in the world, and I have no reason to doubt it. There are over 14,000 photos, 200 galleries and 1700 pages to take a virtual walk through, featuring thousands of models and information on all of the major model horse manufacturers.
- Model Horse Photo Showers Information Pages - provided to promote the model horse photo showing hobby.
- Organizing Chaos - a guide to traveling with, packing and shipping model horses.
- Semper FAS - an altogether too amusing site, featuring a look at Breyer's much-maligned Family Arabian Stallion as well as the truly scary Gallery of Disturbing Equines.
Hobby Magazines:
- Just About Horses - Published by Breyer, this bimonthly magazine offers for sale and trade classified ads. Ads are chosen for publication pretty much at random, but it never hurts to give it a try. Subscriptions cost $20 U.S. and $30 to foreign addresses. Mail to: Reeves International, 14 Industrial Rd., Pequannock, NJ 07440-1920. You can also pay by credit card by calling (973) 694-5006.
Model Horse Resource - A new magazine formed in April 2008 by Jacquie Fernandez, long time model horse hobbyist.
Repainting, Remaking, and Customizing How-To:
Adventures in Heating (and gluing, and shaping, and everything else) - by Catherine Petersen
Braiding a Stablemate Mane and Tail - by Elaine Lindelef
Equine Sculpture Sculpting and Customizing Articles - by Mel Miller
Model Horse Customizing How-To's - by Sue Sudekum
Pastel Tutorial - by Carolyn Smith
Sculpting Manes, Tails, and Ears - by Elaine Lindelef
Repairs and Restoration:
Dawn Shaw's Model Restoration and Sales - For Breyer, porcelain, ceramic or resin cast horses that are in need of repair.
Mystic River Studio's Restoration - respected hobbyist Nan Wagner offers restoration services.
Check them out. When you're thinking of buying a model horse from someone you don't know, you can always check their reputation on the Model Horse Hobby References group (MHHR) on Yahoo. Joining the group is free, and once you do so you can search the message board for good service ("Green Light") and bad service ("Red Light") reports from other collectors. You can also post a query about the business or person you're thinking of buying from. It's not perfect, but it's a good way to get a general impression of someone before you hand them your money.
Tack
Rio Rondo Enterprises - "From Bits to Saddle Kits, Corner Plates to Stirrups, we offer a wide selection of supplies you can use to make miniature saddles, bridles and other horse tack. Our products are sized to fit scale model horses such as Peter Stone, Breyers and other similar sized brands."
Borderland Studio by Alia
Idaho Outback Ranch - Jeannie Myers - Realistic English and Western tack custom made to your specifications.
The Unicorn Woman - Melody D. Snow - LSQ tack, tack kits, instructional materials, tack making supplies, and leather lace/lacing.
Ziyadiah Studios - Veronica Hatton - Offering a wide variety of tack and obstacles, both custom made-to-order and product available via online auction.
Repainting/Remaking - artists who work with existing models
Custom Models - artists offering their own sculptures for sale
Beau Cheveaux Creations by Chris Nandell.
Borderland Studio by Alia
Gallery of Horses by Deborah McDermott
Idaho Outback Ranch - Jeannie Myers
Rose Studios by Sarah Rose
Animal Rights - if you love animals, act to protect them!
Farm Sanctuary - Founded in 1986 to combat the abuses of industrialized farming and to encourage a new awareness and understanding about "farm animals."
Humane Society - Get the facts on horse slaughter and other equine issues.
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - ASPCA - Founded in 1866 as the first humane organization in the Western Hemisphere. It was the sight of a carthorse brutally beaten by his driver that spurred Henry Bergh to found the ASPCA, and they've since made horse protection an important focus of their work.
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