Good things come in small packages. It's a cliche, but it's also true, especially in the case of Stephanie Blaylock's 2026 BreyerFest Best Customs Contest Excellence in Finish Work entry. Feast your eyes on this tiny, perfect mare!
Material Girl
by Stephanie Blaylock
This year I went small.
I’ve never submitted a stablemate scale piece but this mold deserves her chance!
I started out years ago - we won’t talk about how many! - painting the G1 stablemate molds and dreaming they would shrink this mare down to stablemate scale. And now, with the help of Hagen Renaker Tennessee, they have. She is just so special to me.
She’s hard to photograph with my phone because of her small size. She was created in Pan Pastels, Conte a Paris pencils, acrylic paints, and blending gel. She was painted from a reference in a breed book… very much how I started out painting. I would thumb through pages and pages of horse photographs in library books and sketch and paint them.
I’ve included a few of her sketches here.
It was important that the Finishwork pay homage to her heritage as a vintage sculpt.
And because I am of a particular age.. I had to name her with a nod to Breyer’s first release name for her after a Madonna pop song.
So, without further ado… Material Girl.
Congratulations, Stephanie. Material Girl is stunning. What a wonderful tribute to Maureen Love's past and present contributions to our hobby. I doubt you'll need it, but good luck at BreyerFest.
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This is fantastic!!
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