Susanne's Papo additions!

Kikimalou wrote:

Congratulation Susanne The mammoth is the retired one... A good catch.

The pteranodon is really beautiful too, very detailed and finely made except for one thing... It can't be a pteranodon !
Pteranodon means "toothless wings" in Greek. Pteranodon had toothless beaks, similar to those of modern birds.
The Papo has tooth Isn't it serious ?

So it is not only me who mess around in the names

What is this bird-o-saurus then ?????

I've always liked the pteranodon, imagined pinning him up above my other dinos, like he was flying over them
Great additions Susanne, congratulations

SUSANNE wrote:

Kikimalou wrote:

Congratulation Susanne The mammoth is the retired one... A good catch.

The pteranodon is really beautiful too, very detailed and finely made except for one thing... It can't be a pteranodon !
Pteranodon means "toothless wings" in Greek. Pteranodon had toothless beaks, similar to those of modern birds.
The Papo has tooth Isn't it serious ?

So it is not only me who mess around in the names

What is this bird-o-saurus then ?????

A Pterodentisaurus I guess Or a pteradenture

The mammoth is stunning, I love it :)

Thankyou Sylvia. It was sheer luck I got it. I bought some figueres on a Dansh auktion, and neither the seller nor I had any idea what they were

Kikimalou wrote:

.... Or a pteradenture

Congrats Susanne! Good additions! I like both models too!

Roger, you said "Balty! Are you related with NASA???"
I mean I am from NASA which represents what I want in my figures...
"Nice Artistically Scale Animals"
Then you said "So I'm a nice artistically scaled figure???"
No, but did they make a figure of you?

Congratulations Susanne!
If the meaning is ptera-no-don you can call him ptera-don! So you have a flying reptile with teeth! :)
About the starting of the number series of your mammoth you have the explanation in this page of your catalogue, in 2004 there was no dinosaurs!!!

You have a wonderful collection, Sergey
Before I started collecting prehistorical figueres, I did not really appreciate such wonderful collections, but now I realise how many wonderful figueres you have, WOW !

Roger wrote:

Congratulations Susanne!
If the meaning is ptera-no-don you can call him ptera-don! So you have a flying reptile with teeth! :)
About the starting of the number series of your mammoth you have the explanation in this page of your catalogue, in 2004 there was no dinosaurs!!!

Yes, a pteradon, that must be the name, - I have immediately decided it he a "she" and to call her Petra

There the mammuth is, - he is a stone-age elefant, of course, it is the new one that is wrong

Yes, I'm a crocodile so I'm a scaled figure... but I'm not from NASA, I have much more to do! I colaborate in a mass movement called GM (Gnu Migration)... as you see we have different interests!:)

THE CROC says, "Gnu Migration" = "Fast Food"

What did the mother crocodlie say to her baby while he was flinging his wildebeest from side to side around in the river?

"Don't play with your food"

baltimore zoo wrote:

THE CROC says, "Gnu Migration" = "Fast Food"

What did the mother crocodlie say to her baby while he was flinging his wildebeest from side to side around in the river?

"Don't play with your food"

It is always nice to know what people learns in NASA!

At NASA we teach what we already know...
We want Nice Artistically Scale Animals : )

Oh Susanne, that Icelandic is so awesomeeee! I have to get it, and the Safari one!

baltimore zoo wrote:

At NASA we teach what we already know...
We want Nice Artistically Scale Animals : )

Is always easier to say what we want than to find a solution! NASA is funded to develop solutions and not to require wills! Or am I Wrong???

SyLoBe wrote:

Oh Susanne, that Icelandic is so awesomeeee! I have to get it, and the Safari one!

They are some of my absolute favourites also

The solution to the problem is easy...

Realistic Animal(From Concept design) + Artistic Detail (WIth Sculpting + Painting) + (All figures made in Relative Proportion to each other) = Happy and Non Complaining Baltimore Zoo

baltimore zoo wrote:

The solution to the problem is easy...

Realistic Animal(From Concept design) + Artistic Detail (WIth Sculpting + Painting) + (All figures made in Relative Proportion to each other) = Happy and Non Complaining Baltimore Zoo

OK, let's see all what can we do for you, is really sad to see a Zoo unhappy! I know you don't mind with the scale, but 1:20, 1:18, what is your choice???

I'm not an expert in scale, honestly if the figures look reasonably good together, I'm fine with that.
I really like my Papo big cats, so what ever that scale is, I'd like to see
other animals to go with them : )

Ex: Papo: Just eyeing it, the bigs cats, gorilla, nile croc, hippo, dromedary camels, orang, giraffes, basically look good if displayed in the same zoo diorama(I'm fine with).

baltimore zoo wrote:

I'm not an expert in scale, honestly if the figures look reasonably good together, I'm fine with that.
I really like my Papo big cats, so what ever that scale is, I'd like to see
other animals to go with them : )

Ex: Papo: Just eyeing it, the bigs cats, gorilla, nile croc, hippo, dromedary camels, orang, giraffes, basically look good if displayed in the same zoo diorama(I'm fine with).

That's easier, as I told many times, animals are not cars, if you have a car of 4,30 m in a 1:43 scale this car has to have 10 cm, but animals are not exact in measurements, there are in a wide range of sizes, for example the leopard. So, I agree completly a 1:18 lion can fit with a 1:20 lion working the 1:20 as a smallest lion. With safety rules you will be not lucky enough to see a complete range of a brand in a scale, unless some figures like Preiser, for example, that are made in scale to trains displays. But in scale with your Papo lion you have a lot of figures but mostly medium and large sized animals. You already use the WW for larger species and certainly polybag and toobs figures for smaller! What are you needing???

I'll have to work on a list. Why can't they just use Britain's as a guideline. I think they all look great when displayed together. I know they're not perfect, but relatively o.k.. I'm fine with that.
I go back to the Safari Indian rhino, a beautiful figure, but instead of it being
3" tall and 4.75" long, I would have been happy if it had been made 4 1/2" tall and 6 1/2" long, just a little bigger than what was produced(about the size of Papo hippo).

baltimore zoo wrote:

I'll have to work on a list. Why can't they just use Britain's as a guideline. I think they all look great when displayed together. I know they're not perfect, but relatively o.k.. I'm fine with that.
I go back to the Safari Indian rhino, a beautiful figure, but instead of it being
3" tall and 4.75" long, I would have been happy if it had been made 4 1/2" tall and 6 1/2" long, just a little bigger than what was produced(about the size of Papo hippo).

Which other rhinos are you using???

Well, I have to use the Papo black rhino, and I guess I'll have to use the Safari ltd. Indian.
*But do you see what I'm saying about just making it the dimensions(4 1/2" tall and 6 1/2") I said?

Even if they were some of the first ones that Papo made, they are still quite nice, i think
No real farm without them , so I just had to get them

Here the geese. Both marked 2003, but the grey one came in 2004, the white one came in 2006.
The grey one is named a Perigord goose, but they probably both are.


The first chickens, marked 2003, they appear in the 2004-catalogue.


I couldn`t get picture of the white ones and the dark ones sharp in the same photo. So here the white hen(s) alone


Here the Gallic rooster and his wife. Both marked 2004, but they appear in the 2005-catalogue


The two roosters together


And the two rabbits, both marked 2003. The black/white one came in 2004, the brown one in 2006.
They look strange in the catalogue, but they are really cute


The Perigord goose (geese?) here is hopefully not being force fed to get a sick, swollen liver (Foi gras). I HATE foi gras and HATE resturants where they serve it !!!! But that is another story ;-)