A collection of Dogs and Cats (custom ordered)

Hello i wanted to share this collection of cats and mostly dogs that have been custom made for a family member of mine by the artist that creates the animal collection for my zoo.
They are not wild animals, but i think many of you like dogs and cats as well so i desided to share.
A distant cousin of mine, allways had a dream of having a miniature dog collection, she loves all breeds of dogs and her dream was to put a collection together and displayed in a custom glass stand in her house, around 4 months ago i comissioned one of the best miniature artists in the world to create a very comprehensive collection of dog breeds all in perfect scale with eachother, my cousin has given me permission to share this wonderfull photos before the collection takes a final trip to her home.
I will have to do it in parts since there is so many figures, i will list the species included in each part starting with this one.
Burmese cat
German short hair pointer (two dogs)
Maine cat
English settler
black and tan coonhound (two dogs)
Norwegian Elk Hound (two dogs)
Greyhound (two dogs)
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Breeds included here are:

Labrador retriever
dachshund
Drever
Whippet (female and male)
Plott Hound
Bermese Mountain dog (female and male)
Stacked bullmastiff (male and female)
Doberman Pinscher (male and female)
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Breeds included here:
Dogo Argentino (male and female)
Karelian Bear Dog
Mastiff
Rottweiler (3 poses)
Samoyed female
Siberian Husky
Saint Bernard
Great Dane



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Parts 4 5 and 6 of the collection will be uploaded very soon. I will share more pics with you later on today.

Great set of dogs, your cousin should be proud, and your model maker has mad skills. Thanks for the photos, can't wait until you start showing your zoo animals, they will be one of the highlights of this web site.

Fantastic figures, Danny!

Awesome set of dogs. Thanks for sharing. The artist did a great job and you have a lucky cousin. The poses on some of them are absolutely amazing, as well as the details.

They're all Absolutley beautiful Danny! I love the cats, the st. Bernard and the Pointers. I bet your cousin was beside herself when she saw them!

Very beautiful animals Danny :)

Hi There,
Thank you for your comments, i think she is really lucky to have such a great collection all at one time, there is already plans for a part two, but will have to wait until i get some new species for my zoo, i have placed that in backseat for the past few month as the artist was bussy creating this collection for her, and i was bussy buying as many rare African/Egyptian/Asian/Middle easter architectural components as possible for my zoo, all very rare items, and extremely hard to track down in the markets of China.

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I think i might have missed a couple but it was a total of 55 figures created in 4 months to be exact.
Eventually there will be another 55 figures created to complete her collection.

Incredible, they are so beautifully made and painted. A very special collection.

They are all lovely!Very cute figurines,indeed! :)

PS:I am back guys!

Really really fantastich figurines Danny!
They are just awesome!
The paintwork looks fantastic, specially in those tiger-striped models as the greyhounds and so on!
Your cousin must be really proud to have them!
I can't pick out one that isn't nice or wonderfull...
I hope we see some of your animals and zoo parts here to.
Like Phil said, that must be one of the highlights on this site for the coming time!

THank you for all your comments of appreciation, it really means a lot since some of the poses where my idea, everything else just the incredible talent of a very gifted individual.

And Willy, no worries, i will share some very special models in this forum with all of you, this forum feels like a very good home already, as you can see i was never this active in the other forum, it is a very good group of people here, even thought i do not know everybody, but i feel like i do, so i'm very confortable sharing ideas, and figure models.

the next set of custom figures that i will post pics of, are of a species that is very high in the list of animal figure collectors.

Great collection of dogs. All of them are very well made, just beautiful

Great that you feel home and warm here Danny!
That is what we wanted to be here!
Again, great set of dogs, i just love the greyhounds and the whippets!

.... Congratulations mate Berlinzoo954 so excellent to have a collection of dogs and cats.
Demonstrate a passion for their friendly and faithful companions .... dogs.
A collection of high quality models.
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Enhorabuena compañero Berlinzoo954 por tener una tan escelénte colección de perros y gatos.
Demuestras tener una gran pasión por éstos amistosos y fieles compañeros.... los perros.
Una colección de modelos de gran calidad. ...... Jorge.

Gracias Jorge, pero no son mi coleccion, el artista que trabaja en la gran coleccion de mi zoologico en 1:12 escala, la creo para un familiar mio, ella es la del amor por los perros, lo mio es crear el zoologico mas detallado, realista, y en escala del mundo, llevo 10 anos en este projecto y a cambiado muchas veses, pero por los ultimos anos trabajando con algunos de los artistas de miniaturas mas talentosos del mundo e finalmente encontrado el rumbo correcto.

Berlinzoo954 wrote:

Gracias Jorge, pero no son mi coleccion, el artista que trabaja en la gran coleccion de mi zoologico en 1:12 escala, la creo para un familiar mio, ella es la del amor por los perros, lo mio es crear el zoologico mas detallado, realista, y en escala del mundo, llevo 10 anos en este projecto y a cambiado muchas veses, pero por los ultimos anos trabajando con algunos de los artistas de miniaturas mas talentosos del mundo e finalmente encontrado el rumbo correcto.

I try to translate:

Thank you Jorge.
But this is not my collection, but is made by the artist who is making much of my big collection of animals for my 1:12 collection.
They have been made for a family member of mine, who loves dogs.
But i am making a zoo much more deetailed, realistic and on a real life scale, on which i am working for 10 years already, and in between, i changed many many things(which i already had).
But the last years i work with some of the finest and most talented sculpting-artists for miniature models in the world, to make everything correct.
Please correct me if i was wrong Danny...

Your spanish is excellent senor Willy.

For me it is easy to understand because our languages are similar(Spanish Romanian)!

Wow, they all looks great! I love the Frensh Bulldogs!!

Berlinzoo954 wrote:

Your spanish is excellent senor Willy.

Muchas gracias senor!
Yo solo probar...
Pero por un hombre gusto muheres Latina, esta un cosa neccesario! comprende?

THE DOGS ARE AWESOME! VERY NICE! THEY LOOK LIKE THEY WERE SCULPTED FROM SOME NICE DOGS FROM SOME DOG SHOW MAGAZINES! I ALSO LIKE THE FACT THAT THE GREAT DANE, DOBERMAN AND DOGO ARGENTINO'S EARS ARE CROPPED! GIVES THEM SO MUCH MORE OF AN ELEGANT, MAGESTIC AND REGAL LOOK! SORRY BUT "FLOPPY EARED & UN-CROPPED" LOOKS TO DOPEY AND NOT AS EXPRESSIVE!

........ Hello fellow Berlinzoo954. Are you saying that you are creating a zoo at 1 / 1? What ?.... scale Scale "real? ...
And how is: sculpture or taxidermy. (Stuffed animals) ?....
Then the work of a taxidermist Spanish. - Look at all the video. -
How about Dideco animals? These animals do not suffer from the lack of freedom, and a man not kidnapped. That should be the future of zoos. Harmony.

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These are gorgeous! I'am amazed, you are really clever!

Excellent models and wonderful poses and great paintwork!!

Once again, just beautiful! I like them most because they are based more to AKC standard, of which I am more familiar with as well as, I definitely prefer. Again, great job!