Abu Rai's Black Wildebeest

Hello friends!

As some of you were waiting for, finally after months of taking time from my job and specially after making a difficult mould I can show you the 1:23 male Black Wildebeest (Connochaetes gnou)

Today I finished painting my first copy and here is the result. I hope that you like it!





and here with his Schleich "cousin" :)



If somebody is interested in copies just PM me - I can send you more pictures if you want

do you really expect us to believe that this is only your second sculpting project?!
if this is what you do as a beginner, i can't wait until you're experienced!

you are an amazingly talented artist!

Joan he's BEAUTIFUL!!! You are so clever

Very nice, he looks great. He will make a fantastic addition to your animal figure collection!

Looks so great! I like it!

Thank you to you all, friends!

@Mastiffcat wrote:

do you really expect us to believe that this is only your second sculpting project?!

XD yes it's true! here you can see my first project:

http://sts-forum.forumieren.de/t1502-my-first-attempt-at-sculpting

Ohhhh, my heart almost stopped beating when I saw this subject

And, golly, I was not disapointed, it is FABULOUS

Well, I never doubted you were an artist, - but you are also a perfectionist, a brilliant combination

I am short of words to say how much I love that beast

Really lovely! Well done!

Congratulations on your gnu Joan is beautiful,
your talent and unlimited ...
Congratulations!

Beautiful animal

Another very good work!! A phantastic animal!!!

Thank you very much friends!. That encourages me to make more animals!

here you have a picture of the process of sculpting, when the model was almost finished:

Gosh, SO much detail
It is an awesome figure

We are so lucky having such talented friends in our forum!
It is a very detailed and realistic figure! Congratulations! I apreciate a lot your work and I hope you continue surprising us!

Very very fine white tail gnu Joan, it seems you didn't spend your time doing silly things

I love the choice of the specie and can see your skills improvement on that one

Wonderful antelope Joan! Great, beautiful work! I'm so happy to see it!!!

Thank you very much for your words Roger!

@Mastiffcat wrote:

when you posted your zoo sketches (rhinos ) you mentioned studying architecture. Are you an architect? That on top of your artistry would explain why you take so well to 3 dimensional work.

Yes Carolynn, I'm architect (those days when I went to the zoo to taking sketches of the animals are a little bit far ) and I try to share my work with my hobby

@Kikimalou wrote:

Very very fine white tail gnu Joan, it seems you didn't spend your time doing silly things

You wouldn't say the same if you saw me with my friends Thank you for your comments, I will start thinking on the next one.

@ana wrote:

Wonderful antelope Joan! Great, beautiful work! I'm so happy to see it!!!

Thank you Ana. My first antelope... I had nightmares in hooves when I was sculpting them XD

That's good!!! I love it

Joan... This is amazing!!! I love it! You are so talented!

Wonderfull figure Joan !! and difficult to made him !! .

Felicitats !!!

Miguel

Here is a little herd of black wildebeest.

One of them will go now to the postman for travel to the North



and here with more friends that are waiting to be painted

Juan... they are amazing!!!!!

Thanks for showing more pictures of this wonderful figure! Lucky Northern friend!