Thursday, June 9, 2011

The Trouble with Earth

My trouble with earth is not global warming, pollution, melting ice caps, or possible alien invasions. Rather, it's how to customize an Ethereal Earth body. He was one of my very first brand new traditional Breyers, and was also the horse with which I learned not to do a photoshoot on a windy day on rocks. (This picture was taken just moments before he became a body). I now have a new Earth, leaving this one available for cming. But what should I do with it? I don't want to do something too extreme - I was originally thinking of giving him a braided mane and tail until I saw the recent article in JAH that showed exactly that! I could straighten out his head, but that would include major neck work, which I'm not very skilled at yet. Currently I'm leaning towards a simple short mane with a short-ish tail. Something like this; http://www.best-horse-photos.com/images/Wild_Quarter_Horse.jpg
My last idea was to transform him into a doing a sliding stop. I'd just need to figure out if that would take major hip work - I don't want to ruin such a beautiful model!
Any opinions and ideas would be greatly appreciated!