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This is the very unusual horse I promised. Over the years I’ve certainly researched a lot of really odd horses, but it’s rare that the really wild stuff ever makes it onto a model. So he’s a bit of an exception.
I worked on him during the coldest part of winter, so maybe it was my wish for sun that made me try a sunburned black. (He does get his name from the song, “All I was for Christmas is a real good tan”!) That was what I was shooting for, but I think he looks a bit more like an aged black silver with the dark streaks in his nearly flaxen mane. Then I added a few patterns – first splash to give him a very white face and blue eyes, and then sabino to lace the edges of his markings. But his most unusual pattern is only really visible from above, where he sports reticulated spots, sometimes called “lacing” or “giraffe markings”. (You can learn more about lacing here.) All in all, it makes Chesney a rather exotic fellow and probably not much like any other Hadrian out there.$260
