Nayab tiger rework - Javan Tiger - Panthera tigris sondaica

A subspecies of tiger which was hunted to extinction,.....
A sad result of colonization,...Poisoned. Hunted. Some pictures and weird taxidermy remained.
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GREAT WORK. CONGRATS.

Beautiful work!

Beautiful Work!

A good work of a nice subspecie:cheers:  

What an improvement! Loos very realistic :)

That is another great performance! What your repainting did to the poor original figure!
You got the marking very nicely and you always give a realistic fur touch to your works.
Interesting the long strips and the markings almost absent on front limbs. Face is very nice too!

very nice repaint PeGe..
too sad javan tiger are gone.. and they from my country Indonesia  

Such a sad story, - and such a fine model you made

Thenkyou for the background pictures, too  

thank you!
An guess what:
tigers like the sun:
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Beautiful repaint PeGe, I really like your tigers!
It is a shame that in a close future all the wild tigers may become extinct. But, well, human is actually a self-destructive species, too bad that it is also destructive to everything around as well.

Fortunately this tiger still can enjoy the sun.
I like the body shape of that figure.

Brilliant repaint Philip  

That is a very nice repaint. I enjoy the way you've taken the model's texture into consideration with the paint application.. The tiger's coat looks actually furry and alive now.

I wonder what is going on in the last historical photograph. Slaughter in some form, obviously, but I'm left curious about the specific configuration.

arafan wrote:

Beautiful Work!

    

koniminiatures wrote:

That is a very nice repaint. I enjoy the way you've taken the model's texture into consideration with the paint application.. The tiger's coat looks actually furry and alive now.

I wonder what is going on in the last historical photograph. Slaughter in some form, obviously, but I'm left curious about the specific configuration.

Thank you! I personally prefer my corbetti as i missed to rework the eyes of this Nayab model, which make it look like a prototype of an "asiatic" face,....
The ritual slaughter was called "Rampok Macan",something between ritual, religion, protest and amusement,...the tiger was meant to be the colonialist, accrding to some sources. Sometimes, a Banteng or Buffalo he had to fight with, was representing indonesian people.
But later Rampoks were surely more amusement for the colonialists. whenever the tiger tried to escape, a lance hit it,....[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
Tijgergevecht - Rampok macan
Here the tiger from above, getting wounded:
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That's quite interesting - thank you for the extra info! I can kind of see where they might have been coming from, but still the bright idea of protesting a foreign (human) oppressor of a land by staging events of wholesale slaughter of indigenous (non-human) animals of said land seems deliciously/depressingly backwards from where I'm stood.

Tigers like the sun indeed, also the water.
Don't think this one would like the water...

Beautiful transformation.