2025 model year in review

This has been a quiet year on the hobby front, with a greater emphasis on selling than buying. Still, there have been a handful of significant additions to my collection. These include two Olive portraits. The first is a beautiful medallion sculpted and painted by my fellow Coloradan and mustang owner, Beatrice Rudolph.

The second is a micro mini Volo, sculpted by Maggie Bennett and painted in Olive's likeness by Jaime Castleman. 

I also added an original finish Stone Horses portrait model of one of "my" other real-life mustangs, Winslow, to the herd.

That was my only new factory model for the year, unless you count tiny Yellow Mount. I both do and don't.

As far as painted artist resins go, I have a new cat...

and a very new mule, both painted by Lauren Hoeffer.

I also bought a couple unpainted resins,

a few saddle pads from Maire Lanzafane...

and some random miniatures, most of which came plastic balls.

Like I said, it wasn't a big year for acquisitions.

On the artistic side, I finished two painted resin horses, one during NaMoPaiMo...

and one not, 

one cow, 

one goat...

and one capybara.

I only made two pieces of tack, both of which were bridles.

This one was completed on Darcy's last day, which is probably the reason it was the last. Hopefully I can get past that in 2026.

I didn't attend enter or attend any live model horse shows, but I did host another successful NaMoPaiMo. We painted over four hundred models this year!

It was also a really good year for this blog with over one million pageviews, the most ever in a single year.

Thanks for the reads, friends. Here's looking forward to a better 2026, with less real life drama and more time for the little plastic horses!