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Re: The SNOT strikes back!
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Sun, 4 Apr 2004 22:10:39 GMT
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In lugnet.build.schleim, Jason J. Railton wrote:
> Here's another picture then:¬
Thanks for that! Quite a bit BIGGER than the molded horses... if they are say,
15 hands, I make your Dobster to be 20 hands a least. That's what I thought even
before you provided the reference.
> Belgian?
When I posted I thought that was a breed of large draft horse, but shortly
afterwards I was told by my daughter(0) that it's rather a smaller breed. My
mistake.
http://www.the-horse-site.com/horsebreeds/
reveals that Belgians range to 16-18 hands or so and can get to 200 stone(1).
http://horses.about.com/breeds/a_f/belgianprofile/
But they don't have the large white feet you modeled. So I sought out other
breeds... a favorite of US beer drinkers, Clysdales, also have the white
longhaired leg/feetstockings (feathers) but they too aren't much over 18 hands
according to their writeup on the same site.
> Is this some kind of wind-up?¬
I dunno,.. what are you asking? Did you figure out how to make Dobbin
mechanised?? What are you getting at, Jason?? I can never figure out what you're
getting on about.
> <http://www.imh.org/imh/bw/shire.html>¬
> <http://www.shire-horse.org.uk/>¬
Those aren't very big either, at 16-17 hands
http://www.shirehorse.org/Information/BreedStandard/
See also
http://horses.about.com/breeds/draft/
So I think either Dobbin is too big, or the molded horses are some sort of 12
hand ponies or something. Just think, all the Kings carriages have been pulled
by toy horses all along. But I really do like Dobbin a lot. (as a horse, mind
you, and as a model)
++Lar
0 - Who knows rather a lot about horses, or so she happily pointed out.(2)
1 - If I did my maths right. 2800 pounds anyway.
2 - Certainly knows more than ME about them, (3) but just because she can ride
them and I can't doesn't prove much.
3 - except for the part about how to pay for their(4) keep, that part she's not
too keen on explaining.
4 - Note the plural... We just got another of the cursed things while I was in
Switzerland...
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| (...) Because everything of British origin I build you seem eager to immediately ascribe to somewhere else in Europe! It's 'Eurotrash' horses now is it? Have a look at 'Yeoman' some way down this page - over 18 hands tall. (That's six feet to the (...) (20 years ago, 5-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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| (...) Here's another picture then: (URL) Belgian? Is this some kind of wind-up? (2 URLs) They're as English as Her Majesty, patron of the society. Mind you, the royals are all Greeks and Germans... Hmmm... Jason Railton (20 years ago, 4-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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