New Horse Alert: Meet One of the Lafayettes

At long last, after relentlessly stalking Breyer’s website in anticipation of Lafayette’s release and purchasing two of him, they arrived one week ago. Not bothering to read the info on Lafayette’s page when he was released, I went for two in the event a collector I knew who really wanted one would get one at cost if he sold out. Happily, Breyer accommodated everyone in the Collector’s Club with the backorder option. Lafayettes for all! Hurray! Certainly not the inky black beauty of Breyer’s promotional pictures, the silver basecoat glows from beneath the black topcoat and the silver shines...like silver where there is no black topcoat. I absolutely love how these guys look, minus the weird crappling. Well okay, even with the weird crappling I love this color. What I would love to see is this color on Georg, but dapple free. I unwrapped one Laffy but have kept the bubble wrapping on Laffy #2’s head and tail. Both of my Laffys (Laffies?) look to be about the same color wise, but Laffy #2’s right side has more prominent crapples. Neither one has the heavy gloss you expect on a glossy, but rather a thin gloss coat. Overall, I’m very happy with the Lafayettes, and hope that someday we will get a solid, thickly glossed coal black on this mold. Something like the Coal Christmas Zebra:

I tried to take some outdoor photos of Laffy #1 (Laffy #2 has been shoved back in his box). However, the wind was super wild and kept blowing him down. He tumbled over twice and landed in the grass. I should have just stuck him in the flower bed. The mud would have held him still, haha. Here he is outdoors in full sun standing on an upside down Home Depot bucket (‘cause we’re all about professionalism here):

Here are some more outdoor pictures on the shaded porch, taken on the oh-so-classy grill. And if you look carefully, on the left side in the first picture you can see a tiny Lafayette reflecting in the glass:

Notice in the photos below how much of the silver basecoat is showing on his chest and neck when compared with his head, especially in the third photo. I had to anchor him with one hand as the wind just would not let up. I was lucky to get his left and right sides (see above) before the wind went wild again.

I also took a few indoor photos:

The silver seen here is the basecoat, not straight up glare:

This is a color I would love to see Breyer use again, but without the dapples. I prefer the models to be dapple free, as more often than not the dapples end up looking weird. 

*Coal Christmas Zebra photos from Breyer’s website.*