Schleich Horse Club - Andalusian Foal

Andalusian Foal

Item number:13822

Dimensions: 8.3 x 3 x 7.7 cm (W x D x H)

More about the Schleich Horse Club Collection

The Schleich Horse Club will set any horserider's heart racing! Click here for the entire range

More about Andalusian Foal

Andalusian foals aren’t fully grown until the age of six or seven. This is significantly later than foals from other horse breeds. In the first few years, they are gently introduced to wearing a halter and being showered. This helps the foals to learn to trust people.

Fun fact: In Spain, there are cave paintings of Andalusians that are 20,000–30,000 years old.

More about Schleich

The complete production process for Schleich figurines, from the design of the models to the finished product, takes an average of three to four months. Many different stages must be completed – each involving loving attention to detail and the highest quality standards – before the famous hand-painted and uniquely realistic Schleich figurines are finished and ready to be played with by children around the world.

Materials: Each Schleich figurine has its own base colour, the recipe for which is uniquely developed using various PVC-based pigment mixes of varying degrees of hardness. All production substances and materials used undergo chemical checks in advance.

Hand Painting: Every Schleich figurine is hand painted. The only exception occurs in the case of large patterns – for example the brown patches on a giraffe – which are applied via a pad printing process. Otherwise, the careful, step-by-step process of hand painting each figurine with sponges, brushes and airbrushes is a great display of painstaking craftsmanship. In order to keep the colour of each figurine identical across all production runs, each tone has its own individual recipe that stipulates the pigment proportion of up to nine base colours and is mixed in-house. Mixing its own colours not only helps Schleich ensure consistency between all its tones, but also means it can guarantee that the paints it uses are safe. The colours undergo strict quality inspections both during purchasing and after the painting process in the form of light, heat, abrasion and chemical tests. Only once they have passed these tests the finished figurines receive the famous Schleich flag with the red “S” and are ready to be dispatched.