The mighty LINEOL Asian elephant: A walkaround by Kikimalou

LOVE all this "scale" talk! I would like to see Papo, Safari, and CollectA do animals in "relative scale"!
I always refer to "relative scale" because, as I learned and was told on this forum, that to make perfect scale would be nearly impossible, so I'll settle for "relative scale" : )

castlerigg wrote:

Christophe, may we ask a question?

https://sts-forum.forumieren.de/t2521-a-few-ancient-elephants

If you follow this link back to our "Ancient Elephants" post, you will see two of these Lineol Asian Elephants on the third picture. Would you tell us whether your Elephant has metal or composition tusks?

Sue & Lesley
castlerigg

Mine has composition tusk I guess... I guess because they are in mint condition but I can't see any breaking line between elephant and tusk

mine has metal tusks and his new pigmentation will be finished soon
check this in the meantime:

Lineol Wisent and elephant renovation

Thanks Christophe! Thanks PeGe!



Lesley.

Castlerigg.

What a superbly animated pose Christophe. A really impressive sculpture and a must have for any animal figure collection.

Beautiful model! Its probably the best asian elephant I have seen!

You're welcome Lesley

Thank you Chris and Kelsey

animalluvr6 wrote:

Beautiful model! Its probably the best asian elephant I have seen!

I think so too! The proportion is quite accurate!

Scale, scale, scale, maybe one day...

ken yeo wrote:

animalluvr6 wrote:

Beautiful model! Its probably the best asian elephant I have seen!

I think so too! The proportion is quite accurate!

baltimore zoo wrote:

Scale, scale, scale, maybe one day...

Good scale, fine proportion... Yes, maybe one day the LINEOL will have a deserving successor

I have successors, my WW Asian and African elephants : )

Kiki said deserving successors

I think they are extremely deserving.

baltimore zoo wrote:

I have successors, my WW Asian and African elephants : )

I love very much the WW Asian elephant, it is on one of my "Indian" shelves and can deal with models I love like Ana's Gaur bull, PAPO tigers...

I don't like the WW African elephant, it is big but the proportion are those of a subadult not an adult, head is too big for an adult.

Nevertheless, when I am speaking about a deserving successor I'm speaking about a brand not a few models

Brand as the same whole line?

I mean LINEOL, or BRITAINS, were brands with very fine sculpting, proportions and nearly in scale. None of the modern companies have all the qualities of LINEOL.
For example PAPO made some fantastic cats and a poor very poor dromedary, without speaking about the zebras...
SCHLEICH models are a bit more accurate than in the past but still out of scale.
SAFARI Ltd mad e a lot of good models, some are really very very accurate but how many scales ?
None of them have all the LINEOL qualities in one brand... But I'm not to old so who knows

I agree! I still cherish my Britain's zoo animals, because of what you said, good sculpting and relative scale. I wish Papo would use their big cats as scale for other models, and go from there.
I guess the same could said for Safari, CollectA and Mojo.
WW Asian elephant looks fine with Papo tigers : )

I had to look into this tread again, and the only thing i can say is: "Long live the king"!

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

I had to look into this tread again, and the only thing i can say is: "Long live the king"!

I can't wait to see a real successor

Where, where, where????