Buckshot and the new Mustang Mare….each has their own following, but neither are considered a crowd favorite.
When I recently received Breyer’s latest Collectors Club special run Moondance, it was at that point I realized how similar they really are. When the Mustang Mare mold was first released via the Premier Club as Forever Saige, I knew she reminded me of Buckshot and I thought that she would make a good “mate” for him. Moondance is the first of this mold to come into my collection, and I took this opportunity to compare the new and vintage mold.
In this picture you can see they are similar in stance and color. This shows a great example of a vintage mold (Buckshot was released in 1985) verses a modern mold (Mustang Mare was released in 2015.) I did not realize how much smaller Buckshot was until I put them side-by-side! The newer molds are expected to have more details in the sculpt and sport colors with a lot of depth and detail. As the model horse industry strives to produce models that are more and more life-like, do we lose some of the artistic spirit from a simpler time?
The new Mustang Mare has already been released as four different models since it’s introduction in 2015. We have seen Buckshot 14 times since 1985, and there has been a recent resurgence of him with the 2016 BreyerFest prize model Pele and this year’s Live Show Benefit Model Reno (pictured.) Will these new releases spark something in the hearts of young collectors? It wouldn’t be a bad place to start for a new collector…one can build a Buckshot conga for less than most other Traditionals these days!
I’ve always loved the wildness of this model, but it has problems standing up, which is probably why it doesn’t sell well.
I remember when I won my Buckshot raffle model (glossy charcoal) someone in the crowd shouted out that Breyer should have picked a different mold for the raffle since this one had trouble standing. Peter Stone immediately responded that Breyer had fixed the mold. Do later versions of this mold stand better?
Well okay there are similarities but, they are different and look good one next to the other. I mean look, Breyer has many different models on the same mold some are really expensive $200.00 right out the chute and that same mold will many times come out as a different model and sell at $45 or $50. I’ve been collecting Breyer equine models for over 50 years and I just bide my time and find my favorite mold or model that say originally sold for $20.00 in 1954 is today going for over $100.00. Prices are like riding a roller coaster and value like watching the stock market – it’ll drive you up the wall! I say just wait and do not jump up and buy the first model you see when it is first introduced it could be Breyer wlll make it as a least expensive model later; like it did with “Geronimo” and “Bandera”. I like to have at least one of each mold cast and sometimes if I really like it I may have several different models of it and usually for far less than when they first were introduced.