Sarah Hartman Made This

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I like making things (especially miniatures). Unrepentant horse girl. || PFP: Tumlinson Catalina, painted by me with halter by me Site: https://models.sarah-hartman.com

A resin model horse (Lopin Leggs by Liesl Dalpe), painted chestnut by me. It is wearing a halter.
A chestnut resin model horse. Its eyes haven't been painted, but its white markings and hooves are getting more detailed.
A chestnut model horse with three very streaky, first layer socks
A model horse in the process of being painted chestnut
A resin model horse. Its body is chestnut, but its head and tail are still pink/multicolored
A lovely resin model horse with an incredibly streaky hot pink, yellow, and blue basecoat
A model horse pulling a model Santa in his sleigh across a mantel. Santa's sleigh is full of tiny toys (including tiny model horses!), and the horse is wearing reindeer antlers and a red "nose".
A very grouchy chestnut sabino model horse standing on a workbench. She looks like she's ready to kick the camera.
A resin model pony with a trace clip and fluffy mane cantering across a workbench. There's a big calendar in the background that's a month out of date, because sometimes it's like that, you know?
An extremely tiny black model horse (with two wee little socks) in a flying trot. It's about 35mm long at its longest, which you can tell from the cutting mat it's standing on and the ruler next to it.
A glossy chestnut Friesian model horse walking along a workbench.
A photo of a red dun overo pinto model horse walking across a (productively!) messy workbench.
A model horse that has had some repositioning work done and its tail removed. It is very much in progress!
Several pen-and-ink drawings of steps for a model horse tackmaking project. They're a little vague, but that's because there's lots of write-up they're illustrating!
A silver bay model horse (with a very shiny and silvery mane and tail) prancing on a workbench
A pale dun model pony trotting across a workbench. It looks like it's leaning forward.
A very simple miniature leather saddlebag. This is what I'll be teaching!
A cantering buckskin pinto model horse on a fairly messy workbench.
A photo of an in-progress set of miniature saddlebags on a blue cutting mat. The parts are tooled with a Sheridan pattern, and there's an Exacto knife next to them.
A diorama of P S Spacetoaster (Breyer 2022-25 MorganQuest Native Sun) pulling a modified Kulp meadowbrook cart in a driven dressage competition.
A very large and elaborately arranged board game with a horse theme. There are ranches, there are unique horse cards, there are horse-shaped meeples.
A chestnut splash pinto model horse cantering across a workbench. I'm not lucky and rarely get drawn, so... if you've ever shopped Breyer's Black Friday sale the minute you get the email and been like "who is so fast on the draw that that model is already sold out!?" it's me. I'm that person. I like to think it's karma.
A grey room with a large, floor-to-ceiling white glass-front cabinet. The cabinet has glass shelves and lighting and is full of lots and lots of model horses (and animals, and vehicles). The bottom has drawers (which are full of model horses); on the wall kitty-corner is my best-ever antiquing find, a vintage Breyer sign.
A medium palomino model pony standing on a workbench.
What was once a perfectly nice model of a racehorse with a jockey, but its head and neck was removed, leg wraps sanded off, and jockey and saddle removed and sanded off. It has a new head (Breyer Classic Arabian Stallion) on a wire armature that's sort of positioned into its shoulders, but because the artist (me) is anxious about how long its neck should be, nothing is actually secured. All four of its hooves are different sizes. Its barrel looks like the surface of Mars. However, it's standing on a pretty nice-looking wooden base with a brass plaque that says "Corleone". (And it's back on my workbench, so maybe that's a good sign.)
A bay pinto model horse with one blue eye on a workbench.
A picture looking out a window at a beautiful pink, orange, and yellow sunset over a body of water. In the foreground, there's a small dock and float.
A black model horse standing on a workbench.
A model horse wearing an elaborate set of miniature Japanese horse tack. There's lots of red fringe, miniature bells, and colorful cloth drapes.
A bay pinto model horse, bay appaloosa model horse, and bay model foal standing together on a workbench.
A pinto model horse in a Chicago hot dog costume. It is standing on a workbench.
A chestnut model horse standing on a workbench. It's wearing a halter and there's a big calendar in the background.
A small palomino model horse wearing a western-themed brown vinyl pack. The pack is sized so that it would have once held a comb, toothbrush, etc. I guess the pitch here was that this would convince small horse-crazy children to participate in basic personal hygiene activities because toy horses were involved??? It was a better idea than the Breyer Money Manager, I'll give it that
Four model horses on a grey background, all different colors of the same Arabian mare sculpture
Two glossy model horses, one grey and one dun pinto, galloping across a workbench.
A dark bay model horse with a braided mane and tail standing on a workbench.
A large unpainted model clydesdale horse, galloping at full tilt across a workbench!
Screenshot of a Breyer collector club ad, featuring three "gamblers' choice" model horses
A pinto model horse running across a workbench.
A big stack of books about braiding horse tack, with Susan Bensema Young's seminal "Guide to Making Model Horse Tack" sitting on top, sitting on a workbench. I have bought all of those other books because of the guide and am still not very good at braiding model horse tack, haha. Arguably, everything else on that workbench is also there because of the guide!
A grulla appaloosa model horse and chestnut model horse making their ways across a workbench.
A whole crew of Breyer model horses standing on a workbench. From left to right: 1993-95 Just Justin POA, 2010 ELCR Benefit Lady Phase, 2022 Vintage Club Cooper Appaloosa Performance Horse, 2023 Bravour Trakehner, and 2000-02 Thoroughbred/Nursing Mare
An unpainted resin model horse stands next to a wild appaloosa model horse on a workbench.
A chestnut model horse standing on a workbench
A beautiful, undamaged, unscarred, blue cutting mat sitting on a desk. It won't look like that for long.
A bay model mule with high white socks walking across a workbench.
Two unpainted model horses standing on a workbench.
A very grouchy unpainted resin model horse that's getting ready to kick
A collection of small model horses on a workbench.
A photo of a black fewspot appaloosa model horse standing on a workbench. It is wearing a green rope halter.
A shiny china appaloosa model horse stands on a workbench next to a matte palomino lying-down china foal.
A photo of a page out of a notebook with a sketch of a saddle done in blue ballpoint pen.
Shot of the off side of a miniature parade saddle, which features a forest-and-lake scene.
Close up of a model horse in a saddleseat-style double bridle. It has green inset lizard skin on the noseband and browband.
Close up of grey model horse in celtic knot saddle set, showing off the breastplate and bridle.
Close up of bridle and reins on model horse.
A red dun model horse (Peter Stone Thoroughbred, 2011 DAH) models a working western saddle tooled with oak leaves and acorns. The backdrop: sheer chaos.
A screenshot of a work desk with various tools (including pliers, wire cutters, scissors, and a dapping block) and supplies (like miniature conchos and silver microbeads) on top of a cutting mat. In the middle are a couple of pattern pieces, one of which is labeled "L ear".