Wouldn't the papo African fish eagle released this year be a nice addition to your raptor collection?
T'would indeed, I've had my eye on it since it was announced. Just haven't got around to picking one up yet. The species I listed are favorites of mine that are a bit harder to come by, not the only ones I'm looking for.
My newest additions: 1. Schleich grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) California seafloor: 2. Papo dromedary (Camelus dromedarius): Encounter in the Sahara: 3. Schleich western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla): Ghosts of the Congo jungle:
4. CollectA European mouflon, Ovis musimon: Mediterranean forest ungulates: 5. Schleich common wolf (Canis lupus): Run for your life! 6. Schleich arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus): Following the boss at prudent distance:
More additions, received a week ago but I had no time for publishing until now. This time a Japanese parcel. 1. Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) - Kaiyodo Unimpressed! 2. White-tailed sea eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) - Kaiyodo Goose for dinner! 3. Pacific ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) - Yujin Sea turtles rules!
4. Siberian weasel (Mustela sibirica) - Ikimon-Kitan Club Siberian mammal realm! 5. Copper pheasant (Syrmaticus soemmerringii) - Ikimon-Kitan Club The pheasantry! Customized! (it needed legs really, and a longer tail with a different paintjob)
6. King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) - Eikoh Encounter in the Ghats: 7. Prosopocoilus dissimilis (one of the many species of stag beetle) - Re-Ment The only branded insect enough small for fit into my collection: 8. Dorado (Salminus brasiliensis) - Kaiyodo Large fishes of the Amazonas:
And as a bonus, a tiny homemade Andean cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruviana) finished the same day I received the figures, and done honouring my Peruvian boyfriend There are also some figures in the same parcel that I rejected due to size issues and sometimes also quality: Kaiyodo white-blotched stingray, Kaiyodo Japanese spiny lobster, Eikoh green pheasant and unknown brand tamandua received instead the Kaiyodo one I asked for.
Nice figurine! I've been wanting to by this one for some time,but it is a bit expensive for my taste.Fortunately,I see them in the wild atleast once a weak where i live.I even saw one on my latest Skansen visit being bullied by some crows!
Guessing this was a size issue? It looked a pretty good model to me, I've debated getting the figure a couple times.
Indeed, the quality is absolutely superb in this figurine, but it just is too strikingly big compared with my other rays:
Ah indeed, to be precisely size accurate it would need to be distinctly smaller than the fiddler ray, not nearly twice the size of it! Adding it to a group to pass along to another collector then? Or contemplating a repaint?
I think that it will be added to the growing group of "extras" I reserve for maybe future figure swaps for collectors. I don't think a repaint would solve nothing as AFAIK all river stingrays have similar sizes...
Both the weasel and the pheasant comes from the Ikimon-Kitan Club "Micro" Nature of Satoyama. It's a set of native Japanese animals, with also a raccoon dog, sika deer, Japanese serows, a hare.. all figures are really TINY and that can make them valuable for scale-consciousness collectors, for dioramas, for save space, etc but also are not toys - children can eat them easily, and the figures can be lost easily. Search for Ikimon Nature of Satoyama and you probably will find some results at eBay and other sale pages or online figurine shops.
Just the other day, I once again had the time and opportunity to count up all of the figurines that I currently have; and thus, the total amount of this updated collection now sums up to around 225 figures in total. Although, just like with many other collections, it will always be subjected to change; so do expect to see some additional figures being added to my roster overtime. Along with some figures that I might need to lose and give up on for the sake of my current interests.
As in choosing to drop the collection size due to decreasing interest or removing certain types of figures?
