Geospiza fortis' Animal Models

Very nice work !! I like the tortoise and the fur and paintjob of the bear . Congratulations !

Thank you all. I used a masking tape-covered armature for the bison, which is only my second of that kind, the first was the camel.
I also wanted to ask if anyone here wanted to see me make anything in particular. I'm nearing the end of my project and I thought it would be good to take a suggestion from here since, as a community, we know lots of different species.

Beautiful figures! Congrats!

Thank you, Animalluvr6

I'm beginning my final model for this wave, then I'll (hopefully) move to prehistoric life.
My elephant:
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Any comments and criticism are very welcome. This elephant is going to be my largest model, and I want him to be as accurate as possible. From here, this leaves me with:
Camel (needs slight modifications)
Lion (being painted)
Tapir ("")
Bongo (started Sculpting)
Peacock (Started Sculpting)
Female Bison (needs painted)
Male bison (started Sculpting)
Przewalski's horse (No progress)
Temminck's Tragopan (no progress)
King Cobra (Needs Texture)
The list is, again, more for my own personal reference than anything. For my project I'm trying to be as diverse as possible while still keeping in a range of animals which can be made in 1/20.
  

Looks a very good start! Here's the drawing, I was like wow! You truly can draw!  

I'm excited to see how he develops! Nice that you've so many figures work in progress! I'm curious to see eps. the przewalski horse  
Great job again 

     

I miss this topic, in my entousiasm for horses on sts.

But i really wanne compliment you, i wish i could do that, its like magic!
You models are like wire, clay and ''poof''  beautifull life like animal replica of the nature wild ones.
And what all the other allready said, you are so young, you can grow this telant and became the best if you want!
Really awsome models and the drawing in the back,  are also great!!
(yes my attention level is low sow i see a lot in a quick time haha)

I Really Think, You schould go Work for a company like Schleich, and sculpt there new animals!

O and, i really wannee see that new lion and bison and and and ... hahah keep them comming

Thank you all. I'm going to try to work more, as this entire lot has to be done before the end of may... I hope I can do it without cutting any models.

Nothing new finished, but I have some pictures of unpainted models:
Camelus dromedarius
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Guess what day it is?   
Ophiophagus hannah
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Tragopan temminckii
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I found it quite difficult to balance the tragopan... I only hope I can get my peacock to stand...

As always comments and criticism (especially criticism) are welcome and appreciated. I want to thank everyone again for helping make this go so well.

Looking good! I like the camel a lot. It is your first, isn't it? The mouth looks juts like a real, I can almost feel that muzzle in my hair lol. I wish you'll do another camel and that time you could legs a bit longer I think. I still like this one a lot!
That blah blahblah-snake is cool! I'm sure it will be stunning with some paint.
Can't wait to see more and final results  

jonesee wrote:

Looking good! I like the camel a lot. It is your first, isn't it? The mouth looks juts like a real, I can almost feel that muzzle in my hair lol. I wish you'll do another camel and that time you could legs a bit longer I think. I still like this one a lot!
That blah blahblah-snake is cool! I'm sure it will be stunning with some paint.
Can't wait to see more and final results  

Thank you. I paid particularly close attention to getting the face right. I think there is a little inaccuracy in proportions, when it comes to the legs, but that was due to the armature which I made too thick, and didn't allow for the thin area between the legs a camel has. But there's always next time, though I can't say that will happen as soon as I'd like. The common name for the snake is a King Cobra, in case you were wondering.  

Nice again, especially interesting for me is the tragopan

Geospiza fortis wrote:

jonesee wrote:

Looking good! I like the camel a lot. It is your first, isn't it? The mouth looks juts like a real, I can almost feel that muzzle in my hair lol. I wish you'll do another camel and that time you could legs a bit longer I think. I still like this one a lot!
That blah blahblah-snake is cool! I'm sure it will be stunning with some paint.
Can't wait to see more and final results  

Thank you. I paid particularly close attention to getting the face right. I think there is a little inaccuracy in proportions, when it comes to the legs, but that was due to the armature which I made too thick, and didn't allow for the thin area between the legs a camel has. But there's always next time, though I can't say that will happen as soon as I'd like. The common name for the snake is a King Cobra, in case you were wondering.  

Great! I'm curiou to see this one finished and specially the next one! I know that, you can't be better in this if you don't have some practis. Okay = D He'll be very good as well I'm sure! Keep going! 

Love that camel!

Very nice camel ! I love it . Can´t wait to see the big elephant on 1/20 scale !!  

Thank you, Widukind, Jonesee, 4U and Signatus!
I think I've finished my lion?
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Something looks wrong with the painting, though. I can't place my finger on it.   Does anyone have thoughts on this or is it my self-critical mentality?
Also I am working on Ryan, my male bison, currently:
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He's a little shorter than Esther at the hump, but its not extremely noticeable. I have to have all my animals done by the end of this month, so its time to get myself in gear to be finished before the deadline.

Wow! Looking so good as always... Yep, the lion is stunning and I do like the paintjob but spmething is missing... Maybe a bit white color to the belly and some other places too? Need to say he's still gorgrous like this!
The bison is so cool! He's good do far   

I really love the pose of the lion, but mmmh how could I say that...
there is not really a mane, there you had added some details, for example more long hair and Idon't really like the mouth area, but I couldn't say which I don't like....
But I couldn't make such a model and it's still a good work    

Thank you on your comments. I completely agree on the paint. Now that I think of it, doesn't the Wildlife Wonders lion have similar paint? Regardless I have some fixing to do.

I dulled down the white on his face and added a lighter white to his underside, made the lighter part of the mane darker, and gave a little pink to the nose. Does it look better?
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Nice work again    

Very beautiful sculpture and very nice paintjob.
Only thing that is missing, (in my opinion), right now is the very distinguished white chin and elegant white eye liner underneath the eyes.
It should be there.
It's what makes the male lion The Chief.

Thank you. I actually just dulled down the white but I will add a small amount on the chin and under the eyes.

I am also sculpting my elephant now:
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This is probably the most research I've put into the anatomy of the head of anything so far.

Yep, the lion looks better now, I think. Simone was right about the white eye liner, I actually didn't even thought it. Probably because I like it so much xP Somehow a bit white color makes him more alive. Anyway, good job! I think he's excellent now!
The elephant looks very nice! the head is like a skull yet now. The shadows are nice in the pic. I'm sure he'll be great model! Like it already now  

Thank you. You were totally right; the white under the eyes makes a HUGE difference. :)
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I also have my snake finished:
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And a progress picture of my peacock:
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It took me a while to get him ^^ balanced.

More Photos should be to come.