Extreme Breyer Horse Makeover Cure
by Tamra and Jennifer

Materials Needed:
Hand held hacksaw
Dremel drill
Several Breyer Stablemates models
Aves Apoxie (or similar 2-part epoxy)
Magic marker
White sandable primer
Candle

**CAUTION: Kids ask your parents for help with this extreme makeover.

Lose the fear of remaking your Breyer Horse models by taking things to the extreme. You can loosen up the creative juices and lose your fear of remaking by chopping things up and reattaching them. This is certainly the fun way to go about it!

We recommend starting off with several of the Breyer Stablemates model horses. Your imagination and creativity will run wild with the more heads, bodies and legs that you have to work with. You can find body box sales online and at live shows. Even if horses are beat up or broken you can still use something from that mold. Ebay is another good venue to find inexpensive lots of Breyer horses to makeover.

Your next step is looking for good horse reference material or to put your art skills into good use and draw out your idea. For this project, Jennifer used a few Breyer Stablemates models to create one jumping Breyer Horse.

Once you have the idea, start looking at your group of Breyer Horse models. Pick and choose the body, the legs and the head to complete the project for your Breyer Horse makeover. Now you can start chopping these parts off with a hand held hacksaw. Lay out all the model horse parts and extra pieces after they are all removed and study them. You want to make sure your idea will work with the pieces you've chosen. Group them together and put the extras on the side for another day. Begin sanding down the pieces you've chosen as the rough edges need to be smooth.

When the Breyer Horse pieces are smooth, you can start melting the plastic. It's really easy to do with the flame from a candle. When the plastic melts, you will have about half a minute to attach the piece to any part of the body. Some of the Breyer Horse model pieces may turn black when it is heating or if a piece is placed in the wrong spot. You can always gently break it off and reheat it to attach correctly.

Keep in mind that the pieces don't need to fit on the body perfectly. There will most likely be gaps and burns. Your main object is to get the limb in the proper placement. Filling the gaps and making muscle corrections will happen at a later stage of the extreme Breyer Horse makeover when you use epoxy.

Once all the pieces are attached to your Breyer horse remake, examine the model horse carefully. Sand down any excess bumps or molten plastic that may have been created during the attachment stage. Apply your epoxy to all areas and slowly rebuild your model horse's muscles. At this stage, you need to really pay attention to your reference material and to horse anatomy.

After the epoxy has dried, re-examine the horse. If things look strange, take a magic marker and mark off areas of the Breyer model horse that need to be resanded or resculpted. Give yourself this visual so you can correct mistakes. Add more epoxy as needed.

Prime the entire Breyer model horse lightly. At this stage you will see seams, lumps and dings. It is time to correct all the mistakes.

Once all issues have been fixed, re-prime carefully and let the primer dry for 24 hours. When the primer is dry, you'll be ready to paint!

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