I found another good example of how using things meant for 18 inch dolls sometimes works better than using the things meant for my dolls' actual size (12 inch/Barbie/1:6). I've mentioned this before, most recently in my review of the Hogwarts Express playset.
Image from Internet.
According to this and my clumsy math, a regular Barbie-scale horse is technically a pony.
The average (using measurements on Angus and Khan) height of a Barbie horse, to scale, is only 12 hands. I don't take issue with my dolls having ponies instead of horses. It's just an interesting point.
Both Angus (hairy feet) and Khan (funny tail) are based on real horse breeds. Angus should be 17 to 19 hands. Gage should have of trouble looking over his spine! Khan is smaller, about 14 hands, but his spine still should be chest high on Gage. Remember, I'm using my own math skills here, so estimates and bad calculation are both possible.
Bullet: thanks for giving up your spot for me.
Khan: Jeanie made me.
Like Khan before him, Bullet jumped into my hands at a local flea market. He fit all my criteria for a doll horse: reasonably realistic eyes and a dynamic pose. He is a horse, not a pony, on my scale. Roughly fifteen hands.
Bullet was heftier even before I noticed his long legs. Turns out, he is a Our Generation horse. Our Generation are 18 inch dolls similar to American Girl dolls. Thus this blog post.
Some of you may remember I had a few more horses. All but Angus went in the post-soap-opera purge, for various reasons. One of them wasn't walking or anything, just standing there, and originally had human looking eyes that I tried to fix. Most of them were too small to be anything but babies.
When I found Khan a few weeks ago, he had some kind of wiggly stirrup thing that was meant for the doll to (I assume) stand while riding. It stuck out of his belly and was purple to match his saddle and bridle. I sawed most of it off and used black nail polish to hide the rest.
Bullet needed a scrubbing and a brushing. My friend suggested naming him Silver Bullet. Once cleaned up, he isn't as silver as we thought, so he's just Bullet.
Angus fits nicely in the horse trailer.
Khan also fits nicely in the horse trailer. He is skinny enough to share the space, but neither of his buddies are!
Bullet looks like he can step over with just a little effort. While we're at it, let's try on the tack!
Khan's saddle and bridle almost fit Bullet.
Pink set does not even come close.
Pink saddle number two almost fits.
Angus's saddle has been repaired with elastic so I didn't even try to wiggle it over Bullet's big ole hips. Ignore the water. He forgot to stand on his head for proper drainage after his bath.
Not sure where this came from, but it will fit with a bit of effort. Most of my barn stuff came from thrift store assortment bags and I think this was in one of them.
Too small.
Khan can wear it. Almost.
Angus is not amused.
Angus can share this one with Bullet. Khan prefers his purple halter with the gold reins.
My other barn stuff, usually stored in either the horse trailer or the sleigh. The lanterns and signs were Christmas tree ornaments. The buckets were probably in the previously mentioned assortment bags. I did get a rooster once but he had a speaker and the speaker holes looked like violence had occurred.
Everything together to be put away. Eventually. My excuse this time? Gotta let Bullet stand on his head for a while and drain that bathwater. That fashionista bag used to hold the tack... but now I have too much tack...
