Featured Model - 8/16/2020, Glossy Dunalino Nayati

 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. This week's model is...the glossy dunalino Nayati! 

This guy was my favorite of the three colors, so I had to pick him. He's item #712344 on the Rearing Mustang/American Dream mold sculpted by Maggie Bennett. 

Dunalino just looks so good on this mold! He's deliciously shiny and has tons of great shading. He has all the details you'd expect for a dun, like leg barring and a dorsal stripe, but I love how much shading he has in his mane and tail. He's just gorgeous! 

American Dream seems to be a fairly popular new Classics mold, so I wonder where he'll pop up in the future. He makes a great replacement for the Breyer-Wahoo-That-Never-Was-Because-Stone-Got-There-First. Maybe he'll get another RR release? Barring that, I wouldn't be surprised if he gets some kind of decorator release at Breyerfest next year - maybe a glossy rainbow pinto like Prism? Ooh, that would be great! 

Nayati models and a new Classic unicorn!

Greetings, everyone! Good news - my Nayati models came! I had fun unboxing them all - here are some photos for your enjoyment. First, the three boxes...

The suspense was killing me. What if I got three of the same color, like the three blue Othellocorns? What a headache. I thought maybe I'd get lucky and only two of them would be the same color.

Hmm, I see some spots in there, and some not-spots. Could it be? Did I hit the trifecta?

SCORE!!! I got all three colors! Time to go buy a lottery ticket!

While I like all three colors, I think the dunalino is my favorite, followed by the bay pinto. Not to say I don't like the leopard - the color is definitely growing on me. I think the pinto would have been spectacular if he was also glossy, but they probably did that for the people who don't like gloss.

It's hard to see, but the pinto does have a blue eye (along with some weird paint issues on his chest/shoulder). A lot of people think Breyer's blue eyes look weird, but I like them most of the time.

Like I said, the leopard is growing on me too. If I could only get my hands on a Jackpot, this guy would have a twin! Oh well.



I love the shading on the dunalino...and I don't even like palomino models that much! This guy would make a nice companion for Cheveyo, or a glossy Cheveyo if I had one of those. Maybe someday! In the meantime, this guy has a very appealing color. I hope we see it again sometime!

In other news, there's a new Classic-size unicorn showing up at Walmart. I don't have a photo I can use yet, but it's a white unicorn with rainbow mane/tail on the American Quarter Horse Stallion mold by Moody, and his name is Sugar. Nothing I need to buy (the mold has always looked weird and awkward to me), but he's definitely pretty!

Nayati...or "Neigh"-ati! I know, I crack myself up...

Just when I think I'm safe from buying any more stuff from Breyer...



...they come out with something irresistible! From the website:

With his head tossed to the sky and a name that means “wrestler,” this proud stallion is ready to defend his herd.

So this is the next release on the super-popular new American Dream mold! These colors are all really nice - the dunalino and the appaloosa are glossy, but I kinda wish all three of them were - that pinto is spectacular. And the appaloosa is pretty much a mini version of Jackpot, but way more attainable! Wins all around. I ordered one on all three of our accounts, because I naturally need to get all three. I guess now I get to hope I don't get three of the same color...

In other news, the next single-day Stablemate has been revealed! Say hello to Orkney!

 

Okay, so he's a pinto version of this. He looks pretty nice, and I'll pick him up, but I still think they could have picked a different mold. Oh well...hopefully I can get my hands on a 4-pack before they sell out!