Infinity in bay
Customized by Lynn Von Mayr in 1998; shown as "Night Manuevers" photo provided by Ildze Ekmanis

Infinity
Unpainted resin. Image provided by Elizabeth Hinterkeuser.

Kathleen about the second version: Somewhere the idea came up that Infinity would be really neat as a chariot horse- if only he had a partner. Well, "2 Infinity" became that partner. And there are so many ways to do a horse at a dead run, I thought it would be fun to try another version. (There is also an Arab version that is still on the shelves..) Oh and the name is "2 Infinity" as in "2 Infinity and Beyond...!"

Some resins have a "pink" band around the belly: There was a period in the history of that horse when we tried using a molder overseas. The castings came back smooth as silk- in fact, the polishing made the horses look like endurance candidates as they seemed to have lost a good hundred pounds-! (they wanted to "please me" by getting the surface "perfect"-! )

The horses are cast differently overseas. They have lots of people to employ so they do things we might consider "the hard way"- by casting the horse in pieces- thus the two halves. This gives more people work and as they are not paid much, they can afford to hire lots of hands. I asked about this practice and was told it's so they can see inside the horse and make sure the horse is the same thickness all the way around. They then glue the two halves together. The "pink" you see is actually Bondo- A type of resin used to repair cars in this country (!) It is very soft and easy to sand into oblivion. The inside layer is fiberglass which makes the Bondo strong but unflexable. Needless to say, bent legs stay bent. ( Hope yours are correct. )

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