W is for World of Horses

I thought it must be about ten years since Phidal first featured here as an unknown, but a quick look at the Tag list reveals it was 2018, so, seven years to the month, in that time I've had cause to use the Tag some 44 times, and they have featured as 'likely'/'possibly' in many donation and show report posts. Over those years, I would say that A) we've managed to track down and cover most of the sets worth commenting on, and a few which aren't!

 

While I think it's also fair to say, that while the odd new set does still come out, they have lost momentum on the Busy Books specifically, and moved the concentrative efforts of their core product to other areas, but I've found a few recently, which we're going to look at today, a couple briefly and one in more depth.

These are pretty much 54mm compatible, and apart from being great for 'farm kids' where it's probably always been a bigger 'hobby' or childhood theme - our farming cousins hardly had a toy soldier between them, but their Britains farm, with a smattering of old hollow-cast and the odd bit of Corgi/Dinky, inhabited a huge wooden farmyard in one of the sheds - they will also prove useful for modellers/figure painters looking for breed-specific mounts.

Going on the accompanying book, those breeds are (clockwise from the top left), I think; Pinto, Shire (white, in the reflection, and possibly the poorest sculpt?), Percheron, Appaloosa, Mustang, Icelandic, Shetland (or Shetland/Icelandic; whoever has the smaller one!), Thoroughbred, Arabian, Friesian? You can see it's one of the newer ten-figure/item sets. They went straight to storage, so we'll look at them again in a future horse post/page I'm sure.