#collecta

Today's model is a kind of Breyer, but not the typical sort. It's a Breyer by CollectA horse, so under the Breyer brand, but made by another company. It's a kind of vinyl unlike the hard plastic of typical Breyer molds. This one is model #80042, the Bowing Lusitano Mare in palomino. She came out in 2025. From what I can tell, the CollectA horse line is sculpted by Deborah McDermott. I'm not sure who sculpted all the other animals in the CollectA lines, as they have everything from livestock to dinosaurs.

It's sort of like the Safari Ltd., Papo, or Schleich collections, in that it has a lot of horses, but also a lot of other animals.

Anyway, I had wanted to get a CollectA to kind of try them out, and I decided on this one to kind of match another of my models, WIA's Vincenzo. That model is also in a bowing pose, but facing the opposite direction, so I figured they'd look good on my shelf together. I was right. Here's a non-shelf idea of what they look like: