In Progess!

Here are the projects I've been working on lately :) Most of them still have a long way to go...

This is a Stone Chip Arab with his mane/tail resculpted and his head and neck moved to the right. His tail is not complete in this picture.

 This is a sassy foal with resculpted neck and tail. I still had to do his ears and mane in this pic.

This cutie pie is a stablemate running foal that I remade into a lying down filly. She has new neck, mane, tail and some legs resculpted. I also gave her proper 'mare parts' :P

 Another Stone Chips Arab with his mane and tail removed. I repositioned his head and neck slightly downwards. His tail needs to be sculpted on the dock still :)

 And loooooads of Apoxie later, they are now almost finished :)

 The black Arab has his tail finished. I now only need to prep him and then he can be painted.

 The other Arab now has a tail made of apoxie blobs. Still need to work on that after the base dried.

 The lying foal has had some prepping and a first layer of grey primer.

 The other foal has his neck completed and his mane/tail sculpted. I also started on his ears, but they need a little more refinement.

 Now this is a project I've been working on for a few months. He's a drastic Milton to a horse in extended trot. I might move his head and neck into a more relaxed position, as he looks sort of stiff now. His back legs need some more work as well. And obviously his tail too :P

So, that's it for now. I will post more pics of the finished stablemates before they're sold or painted :)

~Amy

Tackmaking

I've recently been very much into making Arabian halters, so I wanted to show you some of the results :D
Now keep in mind that these are my first native style halters. They're not super detailed or anything, but they do make the Arabs in my collection look more colourful :)

This one is for my traditional scale Arabs. It looks simple, but it took me about 3 days to make it!

Modelled on my very lovely PAM custom :)

This purple one is for my traditional scale foals. It is unfinished still. I will be adding light purple tassles and some shiny beads. Perhaps also some extra chain for the 'noseband' :P

This halter was modelled on my custom classic warmblood foal. Now I don't understand 2 things about this mold: 1. Why do they call it classic scale while the foal is pretty much traditional scale? And 2. This is not a warmblood... It's more an Arab or at least an Arab cross.

Anyways, I customized this girl's tail to make her more Arab-ish :) And then painted her completely in acrylics (a daunting task!)

 

I know, I know...Not really about customizing, but at least I got to show you two of my favourite customs :) And also my new addicion - tackmaking!

 

Recently finished

Fresh from the workbench are these two Arabian ladies :)

This is Kalilah, an Egyptian Arab mare customized from the Breyer G1 stablemate Arab mare. She now has a new mane and tail, and some more facial details :)
I am also in love with her pedigree, as her sire, Abu Ali (r) is a son of Ibn Hafiza, my favourite Egyptian Arab sire! On top of that, she is an outcross to Nazeer (to whom 75% of al Egypt Arabs trace their lines nowadays).

 Her other side :) I used a rather strange filter for this picture... It came out too red, but I like the effect that it has... Like it was taken years ago.

 This lovely girl is Saheeba, a very pretty Crabbet Arabian mare. She is VERY TINY! She's about mini whinny, but she has so much detail! She used to be the Souvenir mini resin by Linda York. I believe that Souvenir was originally intended as a pony mare? But I resculpted her face, ears, mane, tail and backlegs, and after that painted her a light dapple grey.

I must say I'm VERY pleased with Saheeba's paintjob :D I don't usually paint anything other than stablemates as I am not the best painter (hehe). In fact, this is the first resin I ever painted :) So I'm very proud of myself that her paintjob came out so well.

Both these ladies are for my personal collection, so they will be displayed on my collection website as well.

Oh, and just on a side note, I have MANY awesome customs coming up! So stay tuned and I'll post some tomorrow :)

~Amy

Dapples!

Here is a new project of mine, a lightly customized Breyer stablemate warmblood (I believe a G3?) with new mane and tail, an ear flicked back and her left hindhoof corrected :)

 

Please excuse the bad pictures (in my living room hehe), I will take better ones tomorrow :)

Also, I have many exciting customs coming up that I will soon make a post about ;)

New studio

Ok, let me introduce myself: my name is Amy, and I create, sculpt and customize model horses. My passion for horses started a long time ago when I was very young, and since that day I have tried to capture the true essence of the horse both on paper and in 3D on model horses.
Late 2012 I set up my own 'studio' called Hadiyyah Equine Art. The word 'hadiyyah' is Arabic and means 'gift' or 'gifted'.

I will be posting customs in progress here as well as new projects and other exciting model horse stuff :) I also hope to post some tips and tricks about sculpting and customizing the model horse, as I would love to contribute to your general knowledge of customizing.

The last thing you would have to know about me is that I am a crazy pedigree person :P I really enjoy pedigree assignment for my models, and sometimes you might find the odd article about PA here too.

Thank you for visiting my blog! I will soon post some more :)

~Amy