gifts to my girlfriend...for horse lovers

Hi all--you know, normally, it's all I can do to build the armor kits that I want on my shelf and to find time to complete them all (there's never enough time!), but occasionally I've taken a sharp tangent from my usual panzer obsession to build some surprises for my girlfriend. I thought I'd share them, as they're a little unique and not something you'd see everyday. I hope you like them!

The first is a 1/32 little viginette called "Breaking Free", and includes three Historex horses, painted freehand in acrylics and oils. The fence is made of balsa wood, and the groundwork from celluclay and grass from the railroad aisle of my LHS. The flowers are also railroad stock landscaping stuff. The horse in the front is painted as "Axel", my girlfriend's horse who had to be put down...

The second scene was built inside of a  model car display case, and has to do with that old Michael Martin-Murphy song "Wildfire"--you know, about the pony that "busted down his stall...in a blizzard he was lost..she ran callin' 'Wildfire!'" My girlfriend loves this song, so I wanted to do a hypothetical answer to the question of why that pony ran off...well, wouldn't you too for a "hot blond"?!
     The unicorn "Epona" is a Historex horse again, with a horn added of plastic rod, filed into a spiral horn. The bridles were carefully filed off, and oils were used to paint. "Wildfire" is a Tamiya horse. The photo on the rear wall was taken from my deer stand, and the snow is talcum powder.

The Two walk in a frozen stream--a channel was built, filled with epoxy, and a sheet of clear plastic cut into "ice" covering the bed. This was cut to look shattered, and epoxy and talcum used to simulate the water dripping from the hooves and the snow on the ice. The wild rose bush of "blooming love" (all together now--AWWWW!!! ) is a small piece of steel wool with a crushed tissue paper "rose".

I presented these to my girlfreind for both Christmas and Valentines Day, respectively. The hardest part was building them in complete secrecy! It was a bit unusual to build something and not keep it, but WELL worth it!

 Comments or questions welcomed!