Within the model-horse collecting hobby, there are three types of shows- postal shows, photo shows and live shows. To find out more about showing, please visit the BECF, where you can download an information sheet.
I've been to several live shows now, and although my main entries are my more serious models, there are often 'craft' classes which my Julips can enter. Here are a few photos from a couple of lives I've attended. I apologise for the quality of the photographs from some of the earlier shows- these were taken with my old digital camera, and so are not as clear as more recent pictures.
My table, showing some of my Julips with some other model horses:
The other half of my table:
Gunsmoke, my custom grey foal, won his class, and went on to be champion in the Craft section. He went through the the supreme championship, as you can see here:
Gunsmoke posing with his rosette and trophy:
A few of my other Julips placed in classes at this show, here they are with their ribbons:
New Year Fun Live, Rothersthorpe, January 2006:
Smudge meets Georgie's piebald New Forest, Moops, for the first time:
Georgie made this halter for Smudge and gave it to me at the show :-)
Tango and River wait patiently on my table for their class to start:
My three piebalds met up with Georgie's two piebalds, Moops and Chance:
Bob makes sure the dogs are behaving themselves- or is it the other way round?!
Part of my table at the show:
Wow, the Julip class was HUGE!
And the HOTY class:
I sat with Georgie at the show, here are our tables:
Before attending the show we'd planned an Appleby Fair set-up, so a few of us brought horses and props that were suitable. The models here belong to several of us, including Manda, Sue, Michelle, Georgie and myself:
At a previous show some of us had set up a line-up of Quarter Horses, so this time Manda suggested Family Horses. The horses here belong to Manda, Georgie and myself.
There were a lot of Julips at this show, so it was suggested that we should take a huge group photo of them all together! I had to take several photos going along the line to make sure I included them all, and have put them all together into one long image. Putting the image on the site would stretch the page horizontally and would make it very difficult to read, but you can click here here to see it (it will open in a new window).
A huge thank-you to Marian for running the NYFL :-D