Unbridled Perspective

Big Boss still remains my favourite custom paint job so far.

You see, Big Boss isn’t a Breyer model. In fact, he’s a cheap toy that has a beautiful body but a horrid face. One nostril is twice the size of the other. I found two of these vintage plastic toys at a thrift store. They were dressed up in broken harnesses. I brought them home and ripped the harness off the first horse and used it to fix the harness on the second.

At this point I decided that perhaps I could paint the first horse. Just because it wasn’t a GOOD model doesn’t mean I couldn’t try to make it beautiful.

Unfortunately, when I removed the harness I discovered the glue they had used had actually RUINED the plastic! So I got a piece of sandpaper and got down to business.

Bonus: See the little ribbon? It was completely hidden by the collar!

After I had sanded him down as good as I could, it was time to paint him a base white.

I ended up mixing a beautiful, rich dark brown to make this horse a bay. I got right into painting him.

Before long, I had finished painting the brown bay.

Now, I don’t really know any Clydesdales personally, so I turned to Google to find a suitable model. I fashioned Big Boss after the below picture, but the name Big Boss is my own.

Once I had finished the black points, I moved on to the white stockings. The white points on this horse is what makes me ever so happy. I am extremely satisfied with the stockings and blaze on Big Boss.

Here is the finished model.