A new batch, acquired somewhat impulsively after an alarm about the brand of them, that may be not survive the crysis that the pandemy provocked. I wanted to have all my remaining wished Southland Replicas figures before they become unavailable in the net. 1. Dingo (Canis dingo). This dingo is somewhat smaller than most western brand wild canids. Still the difference is not striking and works perfectly. This scene was probably common during past centuries. 2. The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus).
3. Lumholtz's tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus lumholtzi). Do Lumholtz's have blue eyes? 4. Tiger quoll or spotted-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) 5. Finally, the eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus). I like this figure, it's really well done and far superior than most kangaroos by western brands, but... I bought because I tought I could display it without the base, but it can't be sustained without the base. The center of gravity it's just too backwards. And even worst, the figure doesn't stand straight, but inclined to a side. And sometimes it can fall unsuspectedly. So I will not include it in my collection. All my kangaroos for size comparison:
I noticed that earlier in the year and snagged my most wanted figures from them. Unfortunately the Red Kangaroo was out of stock and looks like it will be a great rarity now...
I have finally gotten around to posting on this thread. Here is my current collection; I have been collecting since I was ten so for exactly a decade now. I am not too bothered about the size of the figurines; I usually just pick the ones that grab my attention. New additions from the local hobby store today – finally got an okapi and a friend for my Lumholtz’s Tree Kangaroo: How my collection is usually set out (I will be expanding the bottom section): All of the animals out:
Very nice! A lot of familiar figures and quite a few I'm still looking to get! Very nice display hutch as well!
Nice collection, and it's a joy to see how it's arranged. I see that you basically organize them in four categories: Australian, African, Oceanic and "the rest", where it's a mix of Holarctic and Oriental species. And inside each category, figures are arranged more or less by taxonomic affinity. Very great! I went enthusiast initially about Safari's tree kangaroo, but every time I see its disproportionate paws and head, I doubt more that I want it. I see you got the magnific Southland Replicas male red kangaroo, it's a treasure now and suddenly difficult to find online, as seen in this same thread some messages above and I also readed it in other places. It's the red cardinal your smallest model?
I have Safari's Matschies and Southland's Lumholtz's, I can post a direct comparison photo if you want.
Thanks. The red cardinal, along with my hummingbird (Safari Good Luck Minis), are my smallest models.
I've got a handful of the good luck minis, but I don't even know where they are or remember what I've got. Safari throws a few in each time I order, but I kinda ignore them since they're just not as good typically.
Thanks Great Argus, I already saw a comparison pic long time ago. Still I think that the Southlands model is superior in realism than the Safari one. Overall the paws of the Safari model seems very exaggerated. Nice collection of Safari Toob figurines. Toobs are sometimes very nice, especially the ones from last few years from Safari (pelagic fishes, dolphins, monkeys, Great Lakes and for 2021 South America). I have only a couple of Good Luck Minis, a bat and a chamaleon, because they're the only figures whose scale matches with my other models. Want to add the new hegdehog too.
If you boiled your wonky kangaroo in a pot of water for a few seconds you could probably reset it to upright.
Doing that would probably ruin this figure due to how it's created. Also this is a tree kangaroo so the position is not unnatural.
