BreyerFest Fun Week 2024

Just think, this time next week we'll either be sunning ourselves in Kentucky or sat in rainy England staring at a computer screen. It's the later for me. I really need to quit teaching, it's my sole aim, leave teaching = go to BreyerFest. Anyway...

As always we are running our ever popular BreyerFest Fun Week to celebrate. We have a whole week of competitions and events for you to take part in so even if you cannot attend you can still get into the spirit and enjoy the fun.

Below is a full round-up of everything we are doing this year. Remember, as always, if you have some ideas for things we can do in future please just let us know! We are always open to feedback and new ideas :D

Daily Competitions

All competitions will be run jointly on our Facebook and Instagram pages. You can enter on both so double your chances this year!

The prize for all our competitions this year will be a £10 Chestnut Ridge e-voucher. If you win a competition you will receive a message on either Facebook or Instagram (depending on where you have entered) with your voucher code. This can be used against any of the products we have for sale.

Monday 8th July 2024

🙀 Guess the Surprise Model 🙀

This is always one of our favourite BreyerFest fun week competitions and this year you can have two guesses (one on Facebook & one on Instagram)! To enter all you will have to do is lookout for the competition post (posted around 8.30am BST each morning) and comment underneath which mould you think the surprise model will be on.

Tuesday 9th July 2024

🤔 It's Quiz Time 🤔 

This year we are doing a super fun ten question quiz, testing your BreyerFest 2024 knowledge (and maybe a few other fun questions as well). You'll complete and submit the quiz on a Google form and the winner will be chosen from all those that get 10/10 (or the highest score achieved). Good luck!

Wednesday 10th July 2024

🕵️‍♀️ Find Crackers 🕵️‍♀️ 

That naughty Crackers has been on the run again! It's your job to find him hidden somewhere on the Chestnut Ridge website. Simply find him and answer the question in the comments section of the Facebook or Instagram post for your chance to win.

Thursday 11th July 2024

💸 Auction Model Sale Price 💸 

I always love this competition. We will be giving you a BreyerFest 2024 Auction Model and you will just have to guess how much it will sell for. Again you get double guesses this year as you'll be able to enter on both Facebook and Instagram!

Friday 12th July 2024

❤️ Favourite BreyerFest 2024 Model ❤️

A nice simple one for the first day of BreyerFest. All you'll have to do is comment on the post and let me know who your favourite BreyerFest 2024 model is.

Saturday 13th July 2024

🔑 Wordsearch 🔑 

I love a good word search! Also in making this I discovered the app I use allows you to do fancy shapes and how did I never know that??!?!? IT'S AMAZING! So enjoy your round word search! All you'll have to do is find the name of the workshop that isn't listed and then comment it below the post.

Sunday 14th July 2024

🖼️ Photo Contest 🖼️

We are finishing strong with the ever popular photo contest. I am announcing the theme here so you've got all week to get your photograph prepared ready to be entered next Sunday

2024 Theme: Power Ballad 

Submit your photograph under the Facebook post or on Instagram with #CRBFFunWeek2024Day7

2024 Colouring Page

Have a little creative fun this BreyerFest with our 2024 colouring page. Download it below and don't forget to share your completed pictures, we'd love to see them

2024 Summer Photo Show

That's right! The Summer photo show is back and this year we are launching it during BreyerFest. To celebrate this we are doing a special show for Breyer models only this year.

As always it can be found on OMHPS - if you are not used to using OMHPS we have some amazing guides on this Blog but will also be more than happy to answer any questions you may have.

2024 BreyerFest Horse Roundup

 How can it be July and this be my first post of 2024? I think that pretty much sums up what this year has been like. Well it is July and we are posting which can only mean one thing, IT'S BREYERFEST! I cannot believe how close it is my brain honestly still thinks it is like March and certainly isn't coping with us being half way through 2024 already.

But I did, amongst all the brain fog and general uselessness that has plagued this year remember to buy BreyerFest tickets, which is something, because I honestly nearly forgot. But we have them and we have even remembered to send in our special run preferences. As always stupid teaching job and stupid English term times mean I cannot attend in person but I will happily be spending the weekend watching performances, crafting and generally refusing to engage with society (that's actually a lie I have a dog show to attend on the Saturday at which every year something awful has happened so we are really looking forward to that).

With all that in mind let's do a roundup of the 2024 BreyerFest horses with my, as always, incredible hot takes. I mean it wouldn't be BreyerFest without my slightly unhinged commentary would it?

Special Runs

Can't Hold Us Down

I'm actually now regretting not putting this guy higher on my choice list. The colour is just beautiful on her and although I'm not an Indian Pony fan I love how creative and unusual this girl is. 8/10

Miss Independent

If I get picked for this thing I'll cry. Urgh. 0/10

Sorry Not Sorry

I actually don't really have any words for this one. Just meh. Unusual colour good, glossy good, but very white so less good. Also all Salineros lose 20 points because of that flipping stand. 3/10

This is My Fight Song

I know this is a popular one but I am still not 100 per cent sold on the mould (yes my five key is still broken and no I refuse to get a new computer or fix it). Colour is nice, he looks different. 5/10

SURPRISE

I thought it would be Croi but she's an auction model so that's my guessing done with.

The Edge of Glory

I love this guy, so annoyed he isn't available online! He looks like he's going to have a really lovely colour. Also bonus points for gloss. 8/10.

Fighter & Survivor

I put this pair second on my preferences just because the foal is cute. I really am not a fan of the mare but her colour is really nice. Hoping they do a glossy split, can you imagine her in glossy? That would get the score right up! 7/10

I Will Survive

Why do they keep making the other equine in person only *cries in donkey tears*. I love this guy so much. I need him. I treasure him. I adore him. I wants him. 10/10

Better Than Revenge

This is going to shock everyone but...I don't like the decorator. I know it's a zebra. I know it has pretty coloured stripes. I know I should like it. But I don't. I just don't. Went lower down on my preferences list and caused me to have a small existential crisis. 4/10

Limited Editions

Always Chipper

Like the mould, colour is a bit standard but can see him as a treasured pony club pony so gets a mark for that. 5/10

Alan a Days Work

I. AM. IN. LOVE. THIS IS MY GOAL. THIS IS MY LIFE. THIS IS MY DREAM. Last year I saw a spotted mule for sale like 30 minutes from my house and I think the biggest regret of my life will now always be not buying him. Mules are perfection. Spots are perfect. This is perfection. I need at least 50. 100/10

Gascon the Great

No one makes slightly dull looking models like Gascon. 2/10

Blue Zeus

Nice colour but that mould is SO THIN. It's like someone has squashed it with a steam roller. Too thin. Needs to eat more Greggs and become a chonk. 4/10

Just Like Fire

I much prefer the colour on this decorator, I like that his feat are blue and he isn't just ooo fire orange. It adds personality. Mould choice is perfection. 6/10

Fortitude

There's a crystal Breyer stuck in a box in my duck shed that I can't get to. Fun fact. 5/10

Best of BreyerFest - Series 5

I didn't get last year's set because it sold out before I got home. Maybe this year I'll have to resort to buying my horses in a lay-by near Gloucester again. I love the glossy chestnut and the Irish Draught not too bothered by the rest 7/10

Wild Things

Am bored of this mould 2/10

Percy

By default all plush get 10/10 even if they have weird eye brows

Other Stuff

2024 Celebration Horse - Athenian Lady

Genuinely love this model. I am really falling in love with the Dundee mould and this gorgeous chestnut is just perfect. I love her cute little wonky stripe, it is most adorbs. 10/10

Single Day Stablemates that are not single day Stablemates but my brain can't handle change and we are just going with it.

Make It Pop Like Champagne

0/10 - ugly mould, ugly colour, ugly horse

Blue Jeans

1/10 blue is nice

Waiting for that Green Light

3/10 because the shade of green is nice. But also we can't get angry at me for stupidly long model horse names now.

Suddenly I was Lilac Sky

This one is definitely the nicest colour of the bunch and this mould is kinda growing on me. It suits the decorator colour. 8/10

If you've got this far well done! I'll do an Auction Horses round up once they're all released (there are some real beauties so far). Have a fun Tuesday, I'm off to see if that mysterious box in the duck shed actually is a crystal (and by I'm what I means is I'm going to make Brendon climb over a tonne of boxes and through a rat nest to investigate whilst I stand and watch)

Vail

Every year Breyer release a new decorator model as a Christmas special run for Club Members. This model is a web special and only available to Collector's Club members.

He will be priced at $185 and is limited to 1,000 pieces.

To get him you will need to login to your Collector's Club account at www.breyerhorses.com 

Once you are logged in then you need to go to the 'Club Home' and click on the image of Vail. You can then use the signup form to enter for him.

Those who are lucky enough to get him will receive an email to notify them after the deadline of the 9th of November 2023.

Vail is a dark blue filigree on the Totilas mould

I am not a fan of the Totilas mould at all but I adore this colour. I still haven't got a model in this colourway but I do think there are nicer options that this one. Also I am trying very hard to avoid any more plastic disk models because I'm down to like one disk and they can't all share!

2024 Collector's Club

The 2024 Collector's Club is now open! I am absolutely in love with the Collector's Club special and Deluxe Stablemate combination. It is so cool that there is a little mini Othello now and even cooler that they are like a little me and mini me but also subtly different.

The 2024 Collector's Club exclusive is Heath, a lovely roan on the Othello mould

 If you want to sign up for the Deluxe Club you get a little baby version in the form of this adorable little STABLEMATE Othello named Horatio! Look how ickle and cute he is

O you also get a little pin badge as well. 

Prices:

International Deluxe: $70

USA Deluxe: $65

Standard: $30

You can sign up now on the Breyer website www.breyerhorses.com 

The Benefits of Tommy Art Mineral Paint

I am absolutely in love with the mineral paints from Tommy Art. I started to use these gorgeous paints a couple of years ago as a more cost effective alternative to the Citadel colours. I now use a mixture of both as standard for all my customs.

The paints come in 140ml containers for just £7.43 each which makes them really cost effective. They also have a proper lid that you can unscrew and remove without it flicking onto you, not closing properly etc. This means they are clean and easy to use and won't dry out quickly. They also have a brilliant range of rich mineral colours that allow for you to create all kinds of gorgeous horse colours.

The other thing I love about them is that they can be used for both hand painting and airbrushing. A few years ago I did a video review where you can clearly see them being used for a variety of techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL4HXzqJI1Y

If the video looks a bit weird click the link to watch!

One of my favourite colours is definitely the pink I've used in this video. It is so bright and vibrant and looks gorgeous on completed pieces. This cute necklace features in the video and looked adorable when finished:

You can see that it gives you a really nice matte finish, something I love to see in my customs rather than an over the top shiny finish (that's for OFs only in my illogical brain).

If you are interested in trying the paints out you can view the full range here: https://www.chestnutridge.co.uk/store/p890/Tommy_Art_-_Colour.html#/

Funday Answers

Did you have fun doing our scavenger hunt? If you didn't do it through the online link you are probably desperate to know whether you got them all correct!

Here are all the answers:

💛 Bay

💛 Tennessee Walking Horse

💛 G2 Andalusian

💛 Snaffle

💛 Esprit

💛 Julie

Did you get them all correct? Well done if you did! Get yourself a piece of cake and have a lovely evening :)

Clue #6

 It's time for clue number six!

Remember you can complete the whole puzzle now at: https://puzzel.org/en/scavenger-hunt/play?p=-NgEfmNRs8DexRnfAyS-

Clue Six

What is the name of the donkey that lives on Crackers' yard?