Featured Model - 1/25/2020, Blue Roan Sabino G2 Clydesdale

Hello and welcome to another edition of Featured Model, the weekly blog event where I pick a model from my collection, give some stats on it and provide commentary about it. Long ago, long before he was banished to unicorn hell, there was...the G2 Clydesdale!



This handsome guy was the inaugural release of the G2 Clydesdale sculpted by Kathleen Moody. He's so old I don't know what his item number was, but he was an edition of 5,000 (along with the rest of the G2 Stablemates making up the 1998 JAH Stablemate Set).

This was a momentous event because it was the first time Breyer had issued new Stablemate molds since the 1970s. Exciting stuff! And these models were even more exciting, because they were issued in cellulose acetate - Breyer had started making Stablemates from styrene a few years before. This particular guy is a beautiful blue roan sabino - he was one of my favorites from the set. He's a worthy first edition in the G2 Clydesdale's lifetime!

As for the G2 Clydesdale itself, let's hope he gets some non-unicorn releases soon, because even I'm starting to get tired of seeing him as unicorn after unicorn. Maybe at Breyerfest? It's been a few years, so it's certainly possible he could show up there again. We'll have to wait and see!