South-east Asian fauna

thank you Rogério! :)

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tapir from Papo, clouded leopard from Safari ltd

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from collectA

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in the Bovidae family, Saola is closer to gaur than to water buffalo (3 from CollectA)

I want so badly the Papo tapir or the Safari LTD one! Sadly both are retired

I admire very much the CollectA's babirusa, but is too big for my collection.

It is amazing the species we have to collect these days. Some of the major companies have been quite diversified in their new releases. I think I have all of these except the tapir that mine is Safari's. It is great to see how you use these figures and all your talent to give to us a true Asian athmosphere.

thank you Pardofelis, Andreas and Rogério. :)

..shooting tapir outdoor made me realize that its rather visible black and white patern is finaly rather mimetic in wooden area!..

..you're right Pardo, this babirussa is great and I think it fits rather well with my others suidae!..

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chitals, tiger and monkeys from vintage very cheap Singapore brand..

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from Starlux..

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from Elastolin..

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from Britains..

Interesting, an Indian Gaur repaint. Your darker colour is more realistic than the original.

thank you Roger! :)

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from Clairet..

Wonderful scenes

thank you Andreas! :)

I really appreciate your photos.
They are full of so much creativity and vitality.

thank you Lucky Luke and Yvette! :)

Caracal, one of the most special feature of your "outside scenen" is that the environment fits so exactly to the animal species. Now I ask myself, how are these pictures created ?
Do you have a special picture in mind before you leave the house with the figures ? Are you looking for certain places for certain animal species ? Does coincidence plays a role "to find the right place" or is everything an exact planning?

well, I live in a very small village surrounded by the "garrigues" (mediterranean woods) and most of my pictures come from my usual footing way where I selected a "jungle" which is a laurisylve on dry stream side, a "savana" in a rocky area with mediterranean grasses (that I cut a little!), a "canopea" in arbousier trees, and an "european (or temperated) wood" in a oaks little wood. When I go back to the village from I am originated, in the "grands causses" I have beautiful landscapes of steppic highlands with deep canyons and a beautiful river (whith real beavers and otters!) which flows along our family camping site. So, almost everywhere I go, I take replicas which seem appropriate and  I try them, some fit, others no.. Last sunday, I went to the beach to swim and took some sharks (that you can see in "sea and oceanic life").. I have a little compact camera easy to bring, the most difficult is to avoid people because I am rather well known in my country side but unfortunatly, I was sometimes surprised by neighbours, hunters, trailers, campers of my camping site or ancient pupils!

Oh, it all fits together. A beautiful environment, the animal figures, photographing and everything is arranged by a collector and artist. So everything makes a wonderful synthesis, the result we can see in your pictures.

Caracal wrote:

...because I am rather well known in my country side....

But now I am a littöe bit curious. Is is beacause your hobby or an other reason ?

..no, I just mean many people know me because I live and I tauhg here for a long time!.. I have a reputation to defend and.. shooting animals toys in nature is a strange way to do it!  

Caracal wrote:

I have a reputation to defend and.. shooting animals toys in nature is a strange way to do it!

Oh, yes - I know very well what you mean.

Apart from that, even though we have a very unusual hobby which some people may wonder about because of ignorance, just stupidity and other reasons - we have a beautiful hobby and I am very happy to have you here on STS to share our enthusiasm about animal figures.

thanks a lot Yvette! :)