African Bush Elephants cow and calf from Safari Ltd Vanishing Wild

Hello! Few weeks ago, thanks to help of Phil (Philter9) I was able to get retired Safari Ltd African elephant from the line Vanishing Wild. From all VW figures this elephant with young were my most wanted items so I'm every happy to have them now   I think there was no photo-walk-around of these figures yet, so maybe You will find them interesting :)

On the tag scale was described as 1:15 but could be something between 1:15 and 1:18

Anyway, here is adult  with young
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And more photos of the adult one  
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Some closer pics :)
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And details :)
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I think this model has nice scale, interesting texture, I like the pose of it and the very cute calf. Yeah, I like them  

       

Congrats Ana, very nice elephant and beautiful pics
The elephant seems strange when looking from the left side, maybe connected with left front leg. Doesn't it look strangely long when compared with the right one?

skysthelimit wrote:

Congrats Ana, very nice elephant and beautiful pics
The elephant seems strange when looking from the left side, maybe connected with left front leg. Doesn't it look strangely long when compared with the right one?

Thank You Robert :)

Yes, I also feel this is something not right with the left leg Yes, definitely it's too long compared to the right right one
Well, it's not perfect elephant but it has a lot of good points I think For me the funny thing is the way how he keep the tail- I think this add nice expression to the whole pose and make it more alive :)

Magnificent figures and beautiful pictures in great detail. !! (o)):
It is one of the few elephant figure of any brand having a more correct height with the rest of animals of our collections. Like also the strength of the figure.
A hard to find and good acquisition.

Congratulations Ana !!!

Miguel

Fantastic figure Ana! That's a great elephant and I like that it is very tall.
Your pictures are excelent as usual.
Some brands, that cares more with balance than realism, have many figures with some animals having 2 legs of different sizes. That's evident in some Schleich figures and also in some Safari. It is also hard to decide in a folding and lifted leg and an unbalanced figure, or a figure with perfect balance with a longer leg? Best option is try to keep both and that ends usually in a trivial pose. So???

Thank You Miguel and Rogerio I'm glad You like my new elephants and photos of them

Yes, the problem with leg must be connected with balance of the product. And I'm not really surprised by the decision of giving it support on all 4 when I imagine such huge model falling from the shelf all the time

And, about size, yes it't nice scale I can't wait to place Papo kudu next to them and some others 1:15-1:17 scaled animals Also it's nice to see elephant with quite long legs, some of the modern brands tend to do elephants with too short legs. This one seems to have overall good proportion, I think :)

It is absolutely beautyful
The best elefant model I have seen (o)):

Funny thing, I got one this morning.
The parcel was sent "surface", so I was prepared to wait for months, but it took "only" 3 weeks

Your pictures are fantastic ! It is like seing her real

Thank You Susanne And big congratulations for getting one as well

BTW The package was heavy, wasn't it?

Can't wait for some photos of them from Your collection too

Nice pics Anna

widukind wrote:

Nice pics Anna

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I love this one more than the Wildlife Wonders African elephant.

ana wrote:

skysthelimit wrote:

Congrats Ana, very nice elephant and beautiful pics
The elephant seems strange when looking from the left side, maybe connected with left front leg. Doesn't it look strangely long when compared with the right one?

Thank You Robert :)

Yes, I also feel this is something not right with the left leg Yes, definitely it's too long compared to the right right one
Well, it's not perfect elephant but it has a lot of good points I think For me the funny thing is the way how he keep the tail- I think this add nice expression to the whole pose and make it more alive :)

I don't have many doubts that this is a great replica. Not only the tail makes it look alive. :)
If you see the 7th picture, even removing the tail, you can see that all body expression is very artistic and lifelike.
We can think easily in a real animal, we can feel it moving and we can hear it.

I like him more compares with the Wildlife wonder series!

Thank You Andreas, Jean Luc, Kevin and Ken!!

Kevin, Thanks, I bought it from the auction from the link You have sent on this forum

I also think VW elephant looks nicer than WW one. But from WW I know I need Asian elephant female, I really like her :)

Roger wrote:

ana wrote:

skysthelimit wrote:

Congrats Ana, very nice elephant and beautiful pics
The elephant seems strange when looking from the left side, maybe connected with left front leg. Doesn't it look strangely long when compared with the right one?

Thank You Robert :)

Yes, I also feel this is something not right with the left leg Yes, definitely it's too long compared to the right right one
Well, it's not perfect elephant but it has a lot of good points I think For me the funny thing is the way how he keep the tail- I think this add nice expression to the whole pose and make it more alive :)

I don't have many doubts that this is a great replica. Not only the tail makes it look alive. :)
If you see the 7th picture, even removing the tail, you can see that all body expression is very artistic and lifelike.
We can think easily in a real animal, we can feel it moving and we can hear it.

Well, sometime I think it has slightly too long neck, but maybe it's just a feeling. Also trunk in end part should be thinner, like in almost all plastic elephants. Anyway, I really like this replica, surely one of the nicest African elephant figures, and indeed it's easy to imagine how it moves, it's quite lifelike.

I wouldn't say it's the number 1, it's too many African elephant figures to choose one best . I love more Clairet forest elephant, it looks so amazing (however I know it only from photos :) ) but it seems to be much harder to find :)

BTW the VW elephant has 5 toes in front leg and four in hind, I think these numbers would be correct only for forest elephant (while bush elephant has 4 and 3, yes?)? But I'm not 100% sure How it is experts?

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schleich61 wrote:

ana wrote:

Thank You Miguel and Rogerio I'm glad You like my new elephants and photos of them

Yes, the problem with leg must be connected with balance of the product. And I'm not really surprised by the decision of giving it support on all 4 when I imagine such huge model falling from the shelf all the time

Great elephants, Ana. By the way, the only reason that Roger noticed this flaw with many elephant figurines is because he recently became an elephant tailor...

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Thank You Phil!

I'm eager to see Rogerio's fashion collection for elephant in Autumn/Winter 2012/2013. I bet effects will be surprising

schleich61 wrote:

ana wrote:

Thank You Miguel and Rogerio I'm glad You like my new elephants and photos of them

Yes, the problem with leg must be connected with balance of the product. And I'm not really surprised by the decision of giving it support on all 4 when I imagine such huge model falling from the shelf all the time

Great elephants, Ana. By the way, the only reason that Roger noticed this flaw with many elephant figurines is because he recently became an elephant tailor...

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I try to figure out this photo initially, after reading I began to

ana wrote:

I also think VW elephant looks nicer than WW one. But from WW I know I need Asian elephant female, I really like her :)

Thank you Anna for this great walkaround (o)): Your pics are very nice and help me a lot.

WW Asian elephant female is a must have.

But let's talk about VW elephant. I also prefer VW to WW, the proportion are better IMHO even with a longer leg And that's the kind of details which matters for me. I have problems with new SCHLEICH elephants, even more than with the WW one, because disproportion disturb me so much I can't enjoy the details. I don't say VW is perfectly shaped but it is sufficiently for me.

I'm happy you like the CLAIRET Anna, it is not as realistic but it is beautiful... And alas very rare in mint state !

By the way, I've just noticed the VW remind me the BRITAINS calf hey little BRITAINS calf, one day you will be a big VW bull

That is AMAZING

They look almost the same, - except for the size, and a few details

Wow, that's amazing indeed The Britains is so much alike the VW one

Thank you Christophe for Your words, and I'm happy the photos might be useful for You

Well, Clairet has phenomenal pose, color looks great and when I look at it I just start to see real elephant. I love it indeed, maybe You could do walk around someday in future?
BTW in not mint (or with some damage) state is it not so rare?
I recently found one, pretty expensive I think and also color looks different than the one from Your collection Kiki Link is here [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] I don't really know what to think, sculpting is great but this color