JEOL elephant calf-custom

As JEOL is my favourite vintage brand I thought it would be neat to try and sculpt a figure in the same style as this company.  I sculpted a younger elephant calf, there is already an older calf from the series along with an adult bull and cow.  The JEOL figures are all in 1:32 scale, they are nicely proportioned and have a stylized look to them which adds to their appeal.

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The armature.
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The body was sculpted with Super Sculpey and the delicate tail and trunk end were made with epoxy putty.
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I added the company name on the bottom to be more authentic.
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Compared with Schleich and Britains models
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The new calf along with my other JEOL elephants.

That's an excelent idea and more than that an excelent work!
It also shows that Jeol is a cult brand for you!
It remembers me that I always wanted a cape buffalo in Britains style!

Great work matching the style! This would have made a great April Fools joke.

Stunning, how it looks like a very, very nice JEOL   

You may cause a collector some brainwork some day   

Beautieful calf and a nice work!!

Wow! What a wonderful model and great idea! Lovely lovely work.

SUSANNE wrote:

You may cause a collector some brainwork some day   

I had the same thought as Susanne above. One day, there's going to be a discussion on your figurine, on a board a lot like this one, with everyone trying to figure out where the heck it came from. (I guess the material will be a dead giveaway.)

Beautiful work, I love the style!

Wow, you can't tell that it's made of clay, that's incredible work Andrew, looks like the genuine article. You're so talented.

Beautiful work as always! As Harriet said, it doesn't even look like clay!

Roger wrote:

It also shows that Jeol is a cult brand for you!

What is a 'cult brand?'    

Thanks Geospiza, Andreas, and Kelsey.

SUSANNE wrote:

Stunning, how it looks like a very, very nice JEOL   

You may cause a collector some brainwork some day   

scot(t) wrote:

Wow! What a wonderful model and great idea! Lovely lovely work.

I had the same thought as Susanne above. One day, there's going to be a discussion on your figurine, on a board a lot like this one, with everyone trying to figure out where the heck it came from. (I guess the material will be a dead giveaway.)

Thank you Susanne and Scot, that would be funny if in the future someone only saw one image and thought this was a genuine JEOL model.

HKHollinstone wrote:

Wow, you can't tell that it's made of clay, that's incredible work Andrew, looks like the genuine article.  You're so talented.

Thank Harriet.  I looked up the components of Super sculpey and it turns out it is a pvc plastic based product.  The pvc is suspended in a gel (plasticizer) which evaporates when baked thus fusing the PVC particles together.  So I like to think of baked sculpey models as being plastic more than clay.  I have used a dremel power tool to buff some of my models and they really feel like smooth plastic after.

Roger wrote:

That's an excelent idea and more than that an excelent work!
It also shows that Jeol is a cult brand for you!
It remembers me that I always wanted a cape buffalo in Britains style!

Thanks Roger.  It is too bad because Britains did have the cape buffalo as a possible model when they were planning their zoo series.  Here is a picture of rough sketches from my Britains Zoo book.  They also planned kudu, blackbuck, cheetahs etc.
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Animal_Figures_4U wrote:

Beautiful work as always! As Harriet said, it doesn't even look like clay!

Roger wrote:

It also shows that Jeol is a cult brand for you!

What is a 'cult brand?'    

Thanks LeeAnn.  I think Roger meant that this vintage brand has some dedicated collectors like cult movies which have a devoted fanbase.  Since JEOL models are quite rare this makes them desirable to many collectors, many of which are on this forum who appreciate these models.

Fantastic work Andrew, as always!!!

scot(t) wrote:

Wow! What a wonderful model and great idea! Lovely lovely work.

SUSANNE wrote:

You may cause a collector some brainwork some day   

I had the same thought as Susanne above. One day, there's going to be a discussion on your figurine, on a board a lot like this one, with everyone trying to figure out where the heck it came from. (I guess the material will be a dead giveaway.)

I agree with everything here. You are a brilliant forger Andrew   

And this pic is very very cruel for all vintage collectors         

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Wow, what a crazy idea, and beautifully made figure. Amazing!

SUSANNE wrote:

Stunning, how it looks like a very, very nice JEOL   

You may cause a collector some brainwork some day   

Agree          

Animal_Figures_4U wrote:

Beautiful work as always! As Harriet said, it doesn't even look like clay!

Roger wrote:

It also shows that Jeol is a cult brand for you!

What is a 'cult brand?'

Leeann, it seems I said once more a silly thing, remember I am not an English native person but this is what I ment See here!

elephas_maximus wrote:

Roger wrote:

That's an excelent idea and more than that an excelent work!
It also shows that Jeol is a cult brand for you!
It remembers me that I always wanted a cape buffalo in Britains style!

Thanks Roger.  It is too bad because Britains did have the cape buffalo as a possible model when they were planning their zoo series.  Here is a picture of rough sketches from my Britains Zoo book.  They also planned kudu, blackbuck, cheetahs etc.
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I didn't know that! Cruel indeed!

Roger, your English is great. 'Cult brand' makes sense.

The page from the Britains Zoo Book was cruel! It's the Kudu and the Blackbuck that particularly cause me pain. (The body of the Cape Buffalo looks a little odd to me.)

Outstanding work, Elephas! It fits in with the Jeol herd perfectly!

scot(t) wrote:

Roger, your English is great. 'Cult brand' makes sense.

Thanks Scott! :) I am glad it does.

elephas_maximus wrote:

HKHollinstone wrote:

Wow, you can't tell that it's made of clay, that's incredible work Andrew, looks like the genuine article.  You're so talented.

Thank Harriet.  I looked up the components of Super sculpey and it turns out it is a pvc plastic based product.  The pvc is suspended in a gel (plasticizer) which evaporates when baked thus fusing the PVC particles together.  So I like to think of baked sculpey models as being plastic more than clay.  I have used a dremel power tool to buff some of my models and they really feel like smooth plastic after.

How interesting! Well, this little elephant you made certainly resembles plastic in the way you've created it. I love how you put the brand name underneath, brilliant.

Thank you Phil, Christophe, Anna, bjarki12.

Uffffffffffffff!!!!!!!!!!!!! Really perfectly made Jeol-looking calf...    

Wonderfull and perfect figure, looks like original !!   

Amazing! You wouldn't even know that calf was handmade! Nice work!