Miniature Animal Figure Collection

Very good both the additions in habitat as well as your homemade models. You're good with them, and the paintjob is very accurate.

I have the sloth bear, the wedge-tailed eagle, the mountain nyala and the minke whale. I customized the two first. For sawfish I've chosen CollectA's one instead. The Yujin crab is in my wishlist. So I see we save very similar tastes!
And also we have similar tastes for homemade models: I've done the rockfowl, customized another seal into ribbon seal, and both king eider. rufous and black elephant shrew, Commersons's dolphin and rhinoceros hornbill are into my "to do" list!

And if we can accept homemade models, then I want to show you the last ones I did (in chronolofical order) thanks to air drying modelling paste that I received as a gift for Epiphany :-)

Congo peafowl (made with Fimo Air, toes, crest and spurs with WePAM, legs are wires)
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Agami heron (with Fimo Air, bill, toes and crest with WePAM, legs are wires)
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Saddle butterflyfish (with WePAM)
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Scarlet ibis (with Fimo Air, toes and bill with WePAM, legs are wires)
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Fiddler ray (with Fimo Air, fins and claspers and part of the tail with WePAM, also spines on back with WePAM)
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Death's hawk moth (the most unusual mix of building materials! body with WePAM, wings with a CollectA's tag (from the Baird's tapir), legs are wires, with a base of glue, and antennae are made of... my nails!)
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Epaulette shark (Fimo Air, fins, barbels and lower lip with WePAM)
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Another set of homemades completed, some better than others! :p
I had to pick several tough ones to paint, and one or two were difficult to sculpt as well! Learning as I go and enjoying it so that's what counts!

African Pygmy Goose
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Emperor Flat Lizard
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Malayan Banded Pitta
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Andean Cock-of-the-Rock
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Epaulette Shark
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Dragon Eel (hopefully should have teeth later on)
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Great Blue Turaco
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Saddle-billed Stork
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Temminck's Tragopan
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So today, I finally had the time and opportunity to count up all of my animal figurines that I currently had, and thus the total amount all comes up to around 204 figurines as of late. Although like many other collections out there, it will always be subject to change, so do expect to notice a few more extra figurines over time, as well as some I might have to lose and give up on for the sake of my current interests.
 
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And the last one, done just yesterday at night:
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Impressive work with all the tiny, delicate insects! I particularly like the dragonfly, the species is native to my area and a favorite of mine. The streamers on the Chinese moon moth are quite impressive for how tiny it is!

Hoopoe and Dingiso are quite good as well!
 
Thanks my friend! I saw the twelve-spotted skimmer in my visit to New York and Boston and got amazed about such a beautiful, tropical-looking insect thrives in a cold climate.

None of the two moths are native to China, one is Actias isabellae (from Spanish mountains and the Alps, probably introduced centuries ago in the latter part) and the other is Eudaemonia argus, from equatorial Africa. Hence each one is riding a geographically-matching pig :P

I'm proud of the hoopoe (23 millimeters lenght!) but not very fond of the dingiso. Paws and feet resulted quite good but the face is somewhat deformed. I corrected the white painting in chin and throat and now it looks a bit better, but the sculpt is still not perfect.
 
Got a few more painted as well, and starting on a complicated one.

Rosy-faced Lovebird
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Sword-billed Hummingbird
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Red-saddled Snake-Eel
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Giant Otter (complete with whiskers, tedious as it was :confused:)
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And a near life-sized Peppermint Angelfish
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And now to test my patience on a very complicated paint job, on a favorite species of mine. ;)
 

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Great Argus said:
Got a few more painted as well, and starting on a complicated one.

Rosy-faced Lovebird
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Sword-billed Hummingbird
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Red-saddled Snake-Eel
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Giant Otter (complete with whiskers, tedious as it was :confused:)
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And a near life-sized Peppermint Angelfish
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And now to test my patience on a very complicated paint job, on a favorite species of mine. ;)
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Great job, these are really nice! Love the snake-eel in particular.
 
There is even a species that didn't knew before: the red-saddled snake eel! And I like it! The dorsal fin is great, how do you manage to did it without irregularities in thickness nor height?
 
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There is even a species that didn't knew before: the red-saddled snake eel! And I like it! The dorsal fin is great, how do you manage to did it without irregularities in thickness nor height?
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The Red-saddled Snake Eel (Quassiremus nothochir) seems to be rather little known, which is a shame as it is a quite nice species.

The dorsal is actually a strip of plastic carefully cut and attached, which was much easier and looks better than had I tried to make a paper thin strip of clay! There is a slight discrepancy where the two pieces join, but it's barely visible after painting. I like the thin appearance the plastic gives, particularly from the top.
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How did you get the sword-bill to stay intact while sculpting and painting it? I'd assume that it would be very fragile.
 
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