Show us Yours: kangaroos! :D and all other Macropodiformes ;)

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Here is my newcomer to my collection:      

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Matschie’s tree kangaroo

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A must have

Unmissable figure!

newcomer

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I love that little feller

It is a beautiful model.

This gorgeous figure will be arriving with me in October in time for my birthday

Many thanks friends

Wonderful wonderful additions!
And the Quokka!

Great figures

My next model, the dingiso (Dendrolagus mbaiso). Is not a masterpiece and I'm not very proud of it. I managed to do very good hands and feet, but the face is off. However it's enough nice for be displayed in my collection.

This is a species I like a lot and my favourite of the tree kangaroos. I've learned about it in a very charming cryptozoology book by Lothar Frienz, that tell the history about how Flannery discovered this species when all what was known of this species was a single photo and some skin pieces. The first discovery of a whole animal for the science was so late as in 1990, a female killed by dingos. The animal was divinized and respected by the Moni tribe of New Guinea, that consider it as the ancestor of the humans, and they protect this animal and never hunt it. That leaded to use the scientific name of mbaiso, that in Moni language means "prohibited".

It have a striking black and white pattern, unique amongst tree kangaroos. In the photos I can see, the black doesn't look like a "full black" to me, so I did a bit of more "clear" black with shades of deeper black in some parts. The face is very short for a tree-kangaroo and reminds a bear. The ears are very fuzzy. My figure have the ears too flat I think The part that I left most to the imagination is the tail. I didn't found photos of the animal showing the entire tail, just a photo of some skins and an stylized drawing shows the entire tail. I chosen the colours according to said drawing. Not sure if they're correct. Also, the Lothar Frienz book, that I re-readed in the part concerning the dingiso after I finished the model, mentions that the tail is noticeably short. Should I cut the tip of the tail of my figure? How short should it be? Any suggestions in improvements on painting or sculpting over my figure would be welcome, I just would wish my dingiso were perfect :-)

I've called it "Rtas" because I was adding the last painting touches in the very same moment that I was reading the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] grand finale, so now the kangaroo honours one of our most lovely members :)

And now, the images:
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With Southlands Lumholtz's tree kangaroo for size comparison:
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The species choice is really nice. I think the figure is more than recognizable and it is a creature that probably you cannot find many sources to use as reference.
It seems it is featured in one of the episodes of this BBC documentaries that I believe worked as inspiration to Southlands Replicasand their ideas to expand their range to outside the Australian fauna.

What a wonderful choice of species, and amazing that you have made something so rare- it is beautiful!

Thanks everybody! I painted the chin-throat white as I realized it was wrongly painted. Now it looks like slightly better. But the assimetry of eyes kills me and this cannot be corrected...

Fantastic

A new beautie

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Yowies

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The first is amazing

Thank you

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