Mojo 2015 releases

Ana wrote:

Kikimalou wrote:

arafan wrote:

And a simmental cow!  

An old style Simmental  I feel younger  Moooooore pics please

I have only unpainted version. Would you like to see photos of it?

Why do you still are asking? Of course we want!    
Do you have sculpted more figures for this year?

Yes Anna, please show us. Thanks.

Ana wrote:

I have only unpainted version. Would you like to see photos of it?

Of course Anna

... ... I missed it was your sculpt, congratulation

I think it needed time to other dimensions as brides 1:32 to go collect. what a beautiful cow !! really a typical dual purpose alpine cow.

beautiful horns also I like that there

SUSANNE wrote:

I LOVE this Simmental

As CC says : this cow is the beautyful, graceful type that Simmentals were before the world went crazy

With the three new bos, Mojo's farm range gets a HUGE leap up in quality

what is happened in the cattle world?

Nice cow.. Great work Anna

I don't get why Mojo's photos are always so bright..!? It's hard to see the whole figure there

This cow is a beauty! Congratulations Ana!

I think I have to start a new collection containing only Ana's work! I have the Norwegian Fjord Horse and have just ordered the gaur and the Arab mare. The Texas longhorn bull and Orlov Trotter horse are on my wishlist. Which other available sculpts are Ana's?

JonasV wrote:

Nice cow.. Great work Anna

I don't get why Mojo's photos are always so bright..!? It's hard to see the whole figure there

I agree Jonas, Mojo needs a new photograph.

Here we go with the photos of unpainted Simmental cow. Hope you find it helpful. And one more time thank you for all the good words about this cow everyone







And here is also another photo of bull

Tove wrote:

This cow is a beauty!     Congratulations Ana!

I think I have to start a new collection containing only Ana's work! I have the Norwegian Fjord Horse and have just ordered the gaur and the Arab mare. The Texas longhorn bull and Orlov Trotter horse are on my wishlist. Which other available sculpts are Ana's?

JonasV wrote:

Nice cow.. Great work Anna

I don't get why Mojo's photos are always so bright..!? It's hard to see the whole figure there

I agree Jonas, Mojo needs a new photograph.

I agree about the photos, I say it often too

Tove, here is list of animals I sculpted for Mojo since 2012, all are available or will be available since this year:
Horses: Andalusian stallion, Fjord mare, QH stallion, Appaloosa, Morgan, Suffolk Punch mare and foal, Arabian pregnant mare, Orlov Trotter, Shetland mare and foal, Tinker mare
Cattle: Highland cow and calf, Simmental Cow, Texas Longhorn bull
Wild animals: Gaur, Honey badgers male and female with young, Thylacine, Quagga and Brazilian Tapir

Thanks for the list Anna.

The Simmental cow reminds me of the old norwegian Telemark cattle but the Simmental is bigger. When I was a child, Telemark cattle was a common breed in Norway. Now it is only few animals left. It gives not enough profability.

Thanks for extra pictures Ana! They look wonderful!

klompenboertje wrote:

SUSANNE wrote:

I LOVE this Simmental

As CC says : this cow is the beautyful, graceful type that Simmentals were before the world went crazy

With the three new bos, Mojo's farm range gets a HUGE leap up in quality

what is happened in the cattle world?

Many original forms of breeds are being "improved" to make them more profitable. In the case of the Simmental, it is more common, at least where I live, to see a solid black form. The Simmental was originally a dual purpose breed, intended for beef and dairy, but the "new" breed is raised purely as a beef animal. The horns have also been bred out because, as neat as they look, they can be a safety hazzard. The few Simmental we have raised at my Grandpa's have been solid black animals that are naturally polled (no horns) and if you did not have papers on them, you would think that they were black angus.

Black simmental??? here they do here in the area a lot of breeding with simmental/ hf, than you get a black (ore grey) cow with a white head, you get stonger cow, but you can't call them simmental, they are cross breeds.
And to get good cross breeds you need good 100% original breeds I think

By the way the cows on my photos are crossbreeds Holstein/ mry

klompenboertje wrote:

Black simmental??? here they do here in the area a lot of breeding with simmental/ hf, than you get a black (ore grey) cow with a white head, you get stonger cow, but you can't call them simmental, they are cross breeds.
And to get good cross breeds you need good 100% original breeds I think

By the way the cows on my photos are crossbreeds Holstein/ mry

I don't feel that they qualify as Simmental either, but apparently they are recognized as a pure breed.
I copied this from Wikipedia. Not sure how accurate it is, but I've read the same thing in other places as well.

Today, about 80% of the Simmental cattle in the United States are black, with the remaining 20% being red. Most Simmental cattle are solid in coloring. From the late 60s to the 80s traditionally colored (spotted red and white) Simmental were deemed most desirable by Simmental breeders, as well as the industry. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, due to market premiums in the US, there was a strong push to produce Simmental that were black and solid in color pattern. Fortunately for the breed, given that these characteristics are controlled by single genes, the evolution was relatively rapid and straightforward. The bulk of the change was brought about through the use of purebred Simmental sires that carried genes for black and solid color. These sires were the result of a portion of Simmental breeders selecting for these genes in the "breeding up" process during the 70's and 80's. Today, Simmental cattle in North America are commonly homozygous for black and solid color genes, as well as being homozygous for the polled gene.

Interesting breed combo in your photos. MRY stands for Meuse Rhine Yssel right?

I think that the USA simmental must have angus in theyr blood what gives them the black collor and dissapear theyr horns, indeed it is quite simple to breed black and hornless.

here in europe the original simmental/vleckvieh look the same as the mojo simmental cow, original brown white with a white head.

you are right the normal red and white mrij cows come original from the rivers of Netherlands, and West Germany where they are called rottbunt doppelnutzung

Beautiful cow and bull, Anna. Thanks. I hope the painting would be nice too.

klompenboertje wrote:

I think that the USA simmental must have angus in theyr blood what gives them the black collor and dissapear theyr horns, indeed it is quite simple to breed black and hornless.

here in europe the original simmental/vleckvieh look the same as the mojo simmental cow, original brown white with a white head.

you are right the normal red and white mrij cows come original from the rivers of Netherlands, and West Germany where they are called rottbunt doppelnutzung

Maybe we do have angus in them. Just shows how messed up we can be over here.
Anyway, I didn't mean to turn this thread into a cattle breed discussion topic (although one would be welcome  )
The bottom line is, great figure Ana and mojo, it looks fantastic, and it's accuracy is greatly appreciated.

Anna, just wow. That Simmental is fantastic and the photos of the unpainted model have got me super excited about this model. It's very high on my 2015 list.

Ana wrote:

Tove wrote:

JonasV wrote:

I don't get why Mojo's photos are always so bright..!? It's hard to see the whole figure there

I agree Jonas, Mojo needs a new photograph.

I agree about the photos, I say it often too

It's really true about Mojo Fun's stock photos. The company would benefit enormously from some stronger photographs.

Anna, thank you for the pics This cow is beautiful, so true to life

You should even become the new Mojo photograph

Many many thanks again for all nice words about this cow. I didn't expect so much can be said about this humble model of cow.

I find the discussion about the cattle here very interesting, thank you for sharing your knowledge By the way, the hornless version was under consideration but I'm happy that we decided for giving horns to this cow

Tove wrote:

Thanks for the list Anna.

The Simmental cow reminds me of the old norwegian Telemark cattle but the Simmental is bigger. When I was a child, Telemark cattle was a common breed in Norway. Now it is only few animals left. It gives not enough profability.

I've just check this Telemark Cattle, they are very beautiful . It's a pity that they had to be replaced with more efficient breeds



Christophe, about photographs I honestly would rather see you as a new Mojo photographer.

how do you make the cow, do you have pictures of them? ore do you go to a farm and look verry well to a real one?

klompenboertje wrote:

how do you make the cow, do you have pictures of them? ore do you go to a farm and look verry well to a real one?

I use photos and some drawings about anatomy, I don't sculpt them from life. But I'm quite often on the farm so I can look a bit closer too.

However I haven't seen Simmental cattle in the neighbourhood, not mentioning Texas Longhorn->this would really surprise me here!! I have seen however some cows which I assume must have been Dutch Belted cattle, very cool tapir colours they have

Ana wrote:

klompenboertje wrote:

how do you make the cow, do you have pictures of them? ore do you go to a farm and look verry well to a real one?

I have seen however some cows which I assume must have been Dutch Belted cattle, very cool tapir colours they have  

We call them Oreo cows.

cattlecollector wrote:

Ana wrote:

klompenboertje wrote:

how do you make the cow, do you have pictures of them? ore do you go to a farm and look verry well to a real one?

I have seen however some cows which I assume must have been Dutch Belted cattle, very cool tapir colours they have  

We call them Oreo cows.

Haha! Oreo cows!
As a little kid, I was always ever so proud to recognize and know the name of this this breed of cows.
Here we call them "Lakenvelder".
And "Laken" means blanket.
So they were easy to spot, even for me as a little kid, because it did look like someone just threw a white blanket on a cow's back.