Contests

Makeover Challenge!!
Deadline: March 1, 2025
Prize: Winner chooses either a $100 Blick’s Gift Card or a $100 Hobby Lobby Gift Card

Makeover a Traditional scale Breyer Morganglanz any way you want, with some customization when compared to the original mold. It can be minimum, like a mane and tail or head position change, or a drastic custom – it’s up to you!  A few bodies may be available to live show proven artists, please inquire.  Otherwise, artists must provide their own body. Get the body soon, so you have plenty of time to work!

Tack Making Contest
Deadline: April 1, 2025
Prize: TBA

MEPSA is holding a tack making contest as a MEPSA benefit. This contest is open to Traditional, Classic or Stablemate size tack. The winner will be decided by popular vote, and everyone is encouraged to enter. This is a great way to get your work shown to a large audience, win a great prize, and help MEPSA.

1. Your identity, as maker, should be kept under wraps until the voting is over. Please don’t tell anyone which entry is yours. Guessing is part of the fun!
2. All finished tack needs to have a clear digital or scanned photo of each side, with a model to show scale sent in to MEPSA, Alice A Carpenter aaldridge1334@gmail.com –
   Alice can take the photographs for you, if needed, when the model is received.
3. All entered tack become property of MEPSA to raise funds or use as Championship show awards. This is a MEPSA Benefit contest. Maker must send the finished tack to MEPSA upon completion to Alice A Carpenter, PO Box 1334, Petal, MS 39465 at their own expense. There is no other fee to enter.
4. The contest will be publicized on Facebook and in model horse groups. Please help spread the word!
5. Deadline for completing your makeover is April 1, 2025. Voting will take place during May.
6. Please email Alice A Carpenter at aaldridge1334@gmail.com with an intent-to enter-statement as soon as you determine that you will enter.

Stay tuned for the details of the awesome prize!

Mini Customs
Deadline: June 26, 2021
Prize: Winner’s choice of 2 mini unpainted resins (Mustang, PDL)

Rules for contest:

1. Artist provides the model to be customized. The model must fit the criteria of the contest it was meant to be entered into – in this case a Stablemate/Chips or Little bit/Pebbles scale model for mini division. Each entrant may enter one or two models.
2. Artist may use any technique, any materials, and customize the model any way they choose. The model customizing contests are open to any equid – not only horses, but donkeys, zebras, etc. Only realistic models for this contest.
3. All finished models must have a clear digital or scanned photo of each side, sent in to MEPSA- Shana Bobbitt (starfroggie @ gmail.com). MEPSA can do the photographs for you if needed, when we get the model.
4. Upon completion, the artist must send the finished model to MEPSA at entrant’s expense. Please mail to Elena Lemm (address provided upon request)
5. The contest will be publicized heavily on the Internet and in model horse groups. Please help spread the word!
6. For this contest, winners will be selected by majority vote on MEPSA’s website. When the contest entries are announced and the voting completed, winners will be notified via email.
7. While we LOVE looking at in progress photos, to preserve the integrity of this contest, we are asking that all entrants NOT reveal through personal means via website, on MEPSA sites, or MHSP and the like of their connection with contest entries to encourage equity and fairness of all entries. Please preserve anonymity to make it fun for all!
8. Please state your intent to enter any of the above contests to Shana Bobbitt at starfroggie @ gmail.com. Please note that this is just to field participation numbers, and doesn’t require you enter. Conversely, please also advise if you decide to change your mind regarding entering.
9. This is a MEPSA benefit contest. ALL entered model become property of MEPSA to raise funds or use as Championship Show awards.
10. Violation of these rules and requests may result in inability to enter future contests. Please keep it fun for all.

We will adhere to the deadline mentioned should we receive enough entries for that contest. MEPSA reserves the right to extend the deadlines should there not be enough entries. Voting will take place within a month after the latest expressed deadline.

Blind Bag Contest
Deadline: May 1, 2024
Prize: Blick’s Art $100 Gift Card

MEPSA is holding a blind bag contest as a MEPSA benefit. The winner will be decided by popular vote and everyone is encouraged to enter. This is a great way to get your work shown to a large audience, win a great prize and help MEPSA!

Contest Rules
1. Choose which scale model you would like to enter. Email Alice aaldridge1334 @ gmail.com with your choice and a blind bag model of that size will be sent to you to complete (fix/repair/strip/prep/paint). There are a limited number of bodies available.
Bodies Available:

• Traditional and Classic scale models that are either broken and/or missing pieces
• Stablemate and Littlebit scale broken and/or missing pieces
• Traditional and Classic scale models that need stripping and/or prepping but are not broken
• Stablemate scale not broken but needs stripping and/or prepping

2. Model must have been customized by the entrant. Your identity, as artist, should be kept under wraps until the voting is over. Please don’t tell anyone which entry is yours. Guessing is part of the fun!
3. All finished entries need to be sent in to MEPSA, Alice Aldridge, PO Box 1334, Petal, MS 39465.
4. All entries become property of MEPSA to raise funds or use as Championship Show awards. This is a MEPSA benefit contest. There is other fee to enter.
5. The contest will be publicized on Facebook in model horse groups. Please help spread the word!
6. Deadline for customizing your item and entering is May 1, 2024. Voting will take place in May.

Unrealistic/Fantasy Customs
Deadline: September 15, 2024

MEPSA is holding an Unrealistic/Fantasy Contest as a MEPSA benefit. The winner will be decided by popular vote and everyone is encouraged to enter. This is a great way to get your work shown to a large audience, win a great prize, and help MEPSA.

Contest Rules:

1. Anything goes in this contest as long as the final model does not look like a regular horse. The customized model can have wings, horn, any color, etc. The final product is up to the artist’s discretion.
2. This contest will have two categories: Traditional/Classic and Mini. You can enter one category or can enter both categories if you have two entries.
3. Model must have been customized by the entrant. Your identity, as the artist, should be kept under wraps until the voting is over. Please don’t tell anyone which entry is yours. Guessing is part of the fun!
4. All finished entries need to be sent to Alice Aldridge, PO Box 1334, Petal, MS 39465.
5. All entries become property of MEPSA to raise funds or use as Championship show awards. This is a MEPSA Benefit contest. There is no other fee to enter.
6. The contest will be publicized on Facebook in model horse groups. Please help spread the word!
7. Deadline for customizing your item and entering is September 15th, 2024. Voting will take place in October.

Prizes: Stay tuned for an announcement about the awesome prizes. There will be a prize for the Traditional/Classic category and another prize for the Mini category.