Kaiyodo Natural Painting of World ATLAS ANIMA 3D

Kaiyodo Natural Painting of World ATLAS ANIMA 3D, all 8 types, 2005.4
It has an official box.

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It is really unbelievable that such small models can be so neatly painted in an industrial way
That box makes all into a piece of art

SUSANNE wrote:

It is really unbelievable that such small models can be so neatly painted in an industrial way
That box makes all into a piece of art

Yes, especially some kaiyodo and NTC's figures, they are small and exquisite, there are some scenes, so this is why I like gacha.

Masters of the finish quality in mass production. :)

Curious, they made into figure the interpretation of antique animal prints, that in some cases looks realistic and in others medieval-fantasy items

Indeed, I don't understand this set. Clearly, they aren't meant to be realistic fish figures, but what are they supposed to be?

Some are realistic, others not. As I said, they're supposed to be the transformation into figurine form of existing antique Japanese prints of animals made decades or centuries ago by artists of the time. You can see the prints that inspired the models in the last image of the tjjtjjtjja's message :)

That's like, this is how dolphins looked like in the imagination of mankind at the medieval age:
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And this is a dolphin statue made in modern times for resemble these antique medieval prints, despite we all know now how the dolphins are really:
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So it's the same with the whale shark. From prints in the times where photography was not invented yet.

rogerpgvg wrote:

Indeed, I don't understand this set. Clearly, they aren't meant to be realistic fish figures, but what are they supposed to be?

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This set seems to be a little weird for individual species, and is somewhat different from the real animal. It is actually produced based on the 3D illustrations of the 18th and 19th century illustrated books. Because the painters at that time did not have enough knowledge of real animal, they were subjectively conjectured when depicting some species.

By the way, this set was only sold in ENOSHIMA aquarium.

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Kaiyodo already gave loads of realistic figures to this hobby. This is something different and cultural and scientifically interesting. A good idea in my opinion.

Ah, now I understand (I am a bit slow ). It's so much better with the illustration, because you can see how Kaiyodo tried to bring the illustration to life (or 3D).

Some japanese figures are not my taste :)