Ebay puts Stone in their place.

The most interesting gossip of the last few days is the Peter Stone Company's auction and store being pulled from ebay due to violations. The most asked question being why? In my opinion? Karma! This is for all the crap they produce, and then expect consumers to pay full price for. What goes around, comes around. Make good high quality models, that actually make hobbyist happy without having to pester the company about fixing their sub-standard models, and good things will come to them. Make crap, that hobbyists have to return for repairs time after time, and get crap in return. Maybe they will learn from this experience, that contrary to popular belief, they are NOT the end all, be all, omnipotence that they seem to think they are. Though I won't hold my breath. This is not to say that they don't make some nice horses, but they seem to be fewer and father between. As it stands the prices they are expecting are exorbitant and out of the range of most hobbyist . This is one case where price SHOULD equate quality, but has been falling short in far to many cases. Hairs, fingerprints, scratches, gouges and blisters are unacceptable in my book and do not constitute quality when most if not all can be avoided. Hairs I can see happening on occasion, sometime no matter how hard you try they show up, I know this from experience, but come on this is becoming a common occurrence with them. And fingerprints! Give me a break, simple fix, WEAR GLOVES and gee don't touch wet paint, who would have though. People shouldn't be expected to pay full price for models with these kind of problems, yet that's just what Stone has been getting away with. Right now there are a couple of Stone's that I would love to be able to add to my collection, but since Stone no longer sees the need to produce regular runs for those hobbyists like myself who don't have unlimited wealth, they are well beyond my means, and don't even get me started on all the supposedly LE's, show specials, FCM's and EFCM's that abound. I'm sorry but I'll stick with my Breyers where I know I can get a quality model for the hard earned money I'm paying.

Long time, no blog

I guess that's a good thing, it means I've been busy. Got a commission Albronozo done, the golden buckskin one, painted my copy a yummy buttercream buckskin sabino and have finished the drastic CM commission that I've been working on, though I haven't got him photographed yet for finial customer approval. After the big ebay disappointment I had the opportunity to get a total steal of a deal on a mini Haggis in need of stripping, this not so little guy is so cool, I can't wait to have the time to get him stripped, though I'm not really in any hurry, since I don't know what color I want to paint him yet. I've contracted two more commissions for a total of six horses between them, mostly SMs, which is nice, because they don't take nearly as long as trads and make for a nice vacation from the big guys. On the down side I had found a trad Haggis in my price range and was keeping a eye on, when of course, at the last minuet his price skyrocketed through the roof, making it so I couldn't afford him. Sometimes life sucks :(

ARGHHHHHHHH

I suddenly remember why I HATE ebay. I was bidding on a lot of horses, was the high bidder right up till I refreshed at 10 seconds to finish, and somehow I was out bid! I've been babysitting this auction all day and literally watching it for the last 15 minuets. No more. I'm done. from now on I'll stick to private sale on MHSP. Down with ebay!

She's DONE!!!!

Finally my "Fabulouse Fake" is done!

While I had originally intended to keep "Fabu" in my personal collection, the more I look at her the more I realize that she would be wasted on me. Not only do I not have the display room for her, but I'm not in love with her to the point I can't live without her, so I guess she will be going to MHSP soon. Next up in my "Fake" series is "Velvet Impostor" AKA "Velour" a CM version of "Blue Velvet"

New Nashville Star

Oh My God!
A reality show finially got it right! I so love Melissa Lawson's voice and can't wait for her single to hit the local radio stations, and I have no doubt that Gabe will have a contract soon. I still can't figure out how Shawn Mayer got into the final 3 and was glad to see her go first, and couldn't belive that she had the nerve to compair herself to Miranda Lambert after butchering Gunpowder and Lead. I sat through the whole show trying to figure out who would have been a better choice in the number 3 spot, but there was no one, Melissa and Gabe where the only two who had the IT factor that I think is nessary to make it in the country music industry. This was one reality show that I am proud to say that I watched, GO Melissa!

Progress, or lack there of.

No work for the last two days. Got nothing done yesterday because I played Frankenstein a little to hard on Thursday while working on the deconstruction phase on the new commission and totally killed my hand. And nothing got done today because of severe storms, like using the emergency alert system bad. Hail, lighting, thunder, torrential rains, you know, the fun stuff. Electric was spotty for most of the day, and we realized why it had been so quiet call wise, the storms killed our phone, thank god for cable Internet, and the phone company doesn't know when they can get out to find the problem. Oh, and did I mention that they are going to charge us? HELLO? Do they think we killed the phone on purpose? So it's looking like the cell phones are going to get a workout over the next few days.

The only bright spots of the last couple days was that I finally got some decent pics of the NL mare and foal I finished the other day. I'll be posting them to MHSP soon for sale, so keep your eyes open for them. I also got another repair/update job, this is a horse I painted last summer who had a run in with a kitty and now needs some TLC and his owner want some cool mini sabino marking and the best part is she's trading me a Gyspy II resin for the work! I love all LJJ drafters, this will bring my total up to, 1 Norman I, 2 Norman II's, 1 Gyspy I, 1 Gyspy II and 2 PS ornaments. Now just to find time to get paint on the ones who need it. And last but certainly not least, I got a e-mail this morning saying I won a contest I had entered on FL to decide what color a Nitros(sp?) should be painted and I'm getting a mini resin! I can't wait.