The Last Unicorn

And there are Lady Amalthea’s five looks!!

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- “Listen. No, don’t listen to me, listen! You can find the others if you are brave. They passed down all the roads long ago, and the Red Bull ran close behind them and covered their footprints” - —–

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I have had this set in mind for a very long time, and only recently did I really have the concept firm enough to bring it to reality! I wanted to create an homage to one of my favorite books, Peter S. Beagle’s “The Last Unicorn”. While I did take a small amount of inspiration from the 1982 Rankin/Bass film, I mostly drew directly from the book itself, where the unicorn is described as “the color of snow falling on a moonlit night.” The Red Bull himself is written to be “the color of blood, not the springing blood of the heart but the blood that stirs under an old wound that never really healed. A terrible light poured from him…His horns were as pale as scars.” The Unicorn (Amalthea) began as a Breyer Stablemate rearing Arabian. I removed her horse tail and stallion bits and added a lion-style classic unicorn tail. I sculpted her a horn and fringes at her fetlocks. She’s been painted white with a frosting of pale blue here and there, inspired by how moonlight looks on snow drifts. She measures 4" tall. The Red Bull began as a Breyer traditional-scale Spanish Fighting Bull. I detached his tail from his flank and carved the excess plastic from his mouth. I sculpted flames along his back and at the end of his tail. He is painted in a deep blood red with flames beneath the surface like lava flowing up into the fire on his back; his legs and hooves are black as though he has been trampling through cinders. His eyes are painted to show that, as in the book, he is blind. He measures 8 ½" tall and 15" long.