Hello and welcome to another edition of Featured Model, the weekly blog event where I pick a model I don't own but has an interesting story behind it, give some stats on it and provide commentary about it. This week's model is...the Prism Smarty Jones auction model!
This model was one of the lots in the Breyerfest 2006 Live Auction. He was produced on the Smarty Jones mold sculpted by Sue Sifton.
I wanted to talk about this model because he's one of the first (maybe only?) examples of a Breyer factory OF holographic paint job. After the holographic Uffington was released last year, I remember seeing a Facebook post from Karen Williams (former prototype designer for Breyer) saying that she remembered producing this holographic prototype for Breyer when she worked for them, but they could only make one because the paint was too expensive. Of course I can't find that post now, but I swear it was there at some point. So I wonder if we'll see other holographic models in the future? The cost of the paint must have come down some (presumably) if they were able to produce 200 of them for Breyerfest. Something to hope for in the future, I guess.
Smarty Jones has been a fairly popular mold since his release in 2004, with many releases over the years. His most recent release was the glossy 70th Anniversary chase piece as part of the Collector Club Appreciation event last year, but he's had a lot of releases over the years, so it's anyone's guess where he'll show up next. He hasn't had a web special release for a while, so maybe as part of the Birds of a Feather series, as a really fast bird or something? Falcons are pretty fast - I suggest a Gyrfalcon. He'd also make a decent Holiday Horse, but they seem to be using newer molds for that nowadays, so probably not.
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