This poor girl was finished weeks ago but has been sat in my study waiting to have her glamour shots taken!
Elizabeth is Sallie micro resin sculpted by Maggie Bennett. Sallie was available as part of the Micro Club back in 2019. She is the resin variation. Sallie was sculpted as a Shire mare but I have decided to paint her as a non-Shire colour so she can be a nice heavy Cob instead.
I painted Elizabeth to a beautiful smokey black with no white markings. Smokey black is an unusual colour as in reality it is very hard to distinguish from a normal black horse. The key is it has a lot more shading and appears almost a bit 'duller', but in reality it is almost impossible to tell! I didn't have a smokey black horse in my collection so, as part of my project to add as many missing colours as possible, decided to paint a suitable model.
She has been painted in airbrushed acrylics with pastel shading. She has hand painted details. I left her with no white markings as I was really happy with her coat colour and it was just nice to have something without lots of white!
I wanted to give her a proper girl's name and having gone through a really long list I settled on Elizabeth, I then decided she might as well keep it as her show name as well, it just suits her. She's a proper Cob mare, nothing special or fancy, but probably a real sweetheart. So she didn't need a big fancy name, just plain Elizabeth.
I did hit a slight hiccup when I realised there is literally no space left in my china cabinet and she's actually quite big for a micro. I found a small gap next to a medallion and slotted her in, I won't be getting many more in though!
