Tiny, tinier, tiniest

In the last post I talked about my new Mindy resin. I really love this sculpture, so I tried making tack in stablemate scale (which I'd never done before).

I can't say that it came out spectacularly well, since I used selfmade hardware for this project. 

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It looks kind of cool on Mindy though, and I'm sure that with some practise...

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(and good hardware)...

...my mini tack could improve a lot.

The bridle and boot (yes, I was too lazy to make the other boot) have fixed buckles

And the tack needs to be sticky-waxed in place.

The bridle is cut at one side of the crownpiece, so it can be slipped on and then sticky-waxed. This prevents ear rubs and it's a really easy method to use. Credit for coming up with this method is Anna Kirby of Dreamflite Design - thank you Anna for sharing your tackmaking secrets! 

I need to muster the courage to try making a saddle in this scale (heck, I don't even really make saddles in Trad or Classic scale, let alone stablemate!). So far making tack in SM scale is *difficult*! But I like it and I hope to improve my techniques in the near future :) I have looooooads of minis that need tack, so enough projects for practise.

Teeny tiny tack

Yesterday the mailman brought 3 packages for me that I'd been waiting for for a few weeks.

They contained three beautiful resins

This is the Sarah Rose classic Rasam resin, customised into a cantering Arabian mare

She has a gorgeous paintjob by Liesl Dalpe! I can't wait to start making a tack set for this girl

And here is a shot of her with another new Sarah Rose mini resin, Mindy

She was not signed, so I don't know who painted her, but she did come with a NAN card

Sarah puts so much detail in her mini sculptures, it's unbelievable!

Some might think that plain black is a boring color, but I find that it really suits Mindy, and black TWHs are so elegant.

She will need a show bridle soon too - a new challenge! I don't have much experience in making stablemate sized tack, so this will be...interesting?

She has very pretty minimal sabino markings too

Another shot of the two Rose resins together

In the last package was Michelle Platt's Wee Wyakin resin. She needs stripping and a new coat. This is my first curio sized resin. This girl will most likely be a blue roan extreme sabino, but I'm not sure about that yet. 

With these new minis, tack making will take on whole different forms! I'm quite excited to start making teeny tiny tack pieces :)