BCC Fantasy

I wish I had the time, resources and energy to feature every single one of the BreyerFest Best Customs Contest individually on this blog. That would be as wonderful as it is impossible, so instead, here's a sampling of entries from the Fantasy category. 

First up is Canadian artist, Janine Haq's glorious "Katannilik." 

Janine writes: Katannilik started life as a classic scale rearing mustang by Maggie Bennett and was customized to a leaping up kirin with a tree for a horn. I pushed myself on this one to practice hair sculpting (I am a mohair person) and also water sculpting. I learned so much! 

You can see more of Janine's work on Facebook, Instagram and her website.

This striking clearware model was created by Aimee Skee.

Aimee writes: This is "Just Like Fyre". He started out as the Pink Ribbon Andalusian Stallion. 

He has a set of sculpted (clear) ribs and a skull that glow in the dark too!

Cameryn Oswald's two headed stallion also glows.

She describes her entry this way: This is Radium and RadonMeet Radium (head down) and Radon (head up)! He is an irradiated wild stallion with two heads, six legs, and ten toes! Because of the nuclear waste he glows (my favorite thing about him!) Radium’s head and tiny hooves were entirely sculpted by me digitally! There’s virtually nothing showing of what he was and he weighs a whopping two and a half pounds! 

Continuing with the glowing theme, this is Hannah Moeding's, "The Great Equinopteryx".

Hannah writes: This is my love letter to two things I love and that inspire my art everyday. Breyer and my favorite movie of all time, Avatar. Without these two things my art wouldn’t be where It is today. I designed this creature to showcase both elements together in harmony, and I believe I succeeded. This guy was a huge learning curve for me, especially since I only started sculpting three years ago! He is definitely a labor of love and not a picture of perfection but he holds a special place in my heart and I couldn’t be happier with him. 

I don't know if he actually glows or is just extremely well photographed. Either way, he's outstanding.

Moving on to non-glowing horses, here's Kristy Thiessen's Zombie forest unicorn,

Jodie Havens' Wintersong...

and Cheryl Farren's Merfoal. She is shown resting in a tidal pool decorated with real and porcelain shells, sea glass and sea pottery from Scottish beaches, polished stones from Lake Superior, model train greenery, and misc embellishments.

Sara Davie's horse also has an oceanic theme.

She writes: The seahorse is a portrait of Northern Atlantic coastal sea life. Sculpted features include: sea and bay scallops, oysters, sand dollars, seaweed, a horseshoe crab, barnacles, ribbed muscles, knobbed whelks,  a detachable bullnose sting ray, a blue crab, a detachable rare blue lobster and a lady crab.

At first glance, Monika West's  Sleipnir almost looks like an entry in the Most Extreme category.

Then you see the legs... All eight of them!

So cool, so complicated!

Finally, we have Kristen Cermele's stupendous "Quetzal".

Kristen writes: The original challenge was to create a Pegasus taking flight, without use of a clear rod or stand. 

Trial and error, three falls, one wing and tail break, wondering why I chose to do this knowing I'm not great at engineering, and two years later, I could not be more proud seeing him through from beginning to end. 

Congratulations, Janine, Aimee, Cameryn, Hannah, Kristy, Jodie, Cheryl, Sara, Monika and Kristen on a job well done. All of your entries are fantastic. Good luck at BreyerFest!