Tarunyada's General Additions [Updated 24.02]

Many thanks for the lovely comments, 4U, Carola, Andreas, Susanne and Jonas!

SUSANNE wrote:

How big are the dinos ? Do you know the brand ?   

They are about 1 centimeter big, so they're pretty tiny. I'll make some comparison photos when I'm back at my mother's place I still don't know which brand they are, which is very confusing xD I'll let you know if I found out!

And some more of my additions. About 2/3 weeks ago, I went to a thrift store again, and found some nice little models. Here they are:


The big monkey and dinosaur are both from Chap Mei. I didn't had the dinosaur, so I'm especially happy with that one. The others are, from left to right, a Hong Kong/made in China raccoon, Nestlé Disney crocodile, little wolf (I already have more of this one, but I don't know the brand), lion (I guess from some sort of children's surprise thing), Albert Heijn WWF gorilla, giraffe (also from children's surprise something), PlayVision crab and a wolf from Shrek.

More additions are coming, I just have to upload the pictures!

So the 26th of April it was King's Day here in the Netherlands, and on King's Day you can find flea markets everywhere through the whole country. Except in my place. My place has a big flea market every year on the 5th of May, which is Liberation Day in the Netherlands. So I was very lucky I could visit two flea markets in stead of one! On King's Day I went to a village near mine and I must say how very, very lucky I was with all my finds. I paid about (maybe even under) 20 euros in total and I found 18 Schleich-S, some other pretty cool animals, two movies and some plushes. Here are my animal figurine additions from last King's Day:


Photographs from my additions from last week (5th of May, Liberation Day) are coming this weekend!

Wow!  
Those Schleich animals! What a wonderful catch!   Yep, the cow and the giraffe are adorable!
Big congrats a again  

Great new additions Julie!

Maybe I need to visit the Netherlands, if you have all these lucky finds! Congrats again!

So many nice newcomers! Congratulations Julie!

Congratulations !!So many little figures . I love it !!  

So many new additions..! I have trouble keeping up. That Chap Mei monkey is pretty neat. I like the way they sculpt many of their models ..with near-aggressive detail. That PV crab is another gem - wonder what species it is.

You're rather lucky indeed to have all those flea markets happening around you, aren't you? I'm not jealous at all. See how I'm not? Jealous. At all.

Wow really great finds again   The little unknown Tapir Baby is ADORABLE    

And I love your photos! So bright and clean.

Thank you very much Jonas, Bryan, 4U, Andreas, Miguel, Lea and Carola!

koniminiatures wrote:

So many new additions..! I have trouble keeping up. That Chap Mei monkey is pretty neat. I like the way they sculpt many of their models ..with near-aggressive detail.

Yes, I agree; I love the way Chap Mei sculpt their animals. Their style is so different from the other brands.

Koniminiatures wrote:

You're rather lucky indeed to have all those flea markets happening around you, aren't you? I'm not jealous at all. See how I'm not? Jealous. At all.

Haha I'm sorry, didn't want to make you jealous, I'm just getting so excited when I have new animals, I always want to show them to you all xD

Carola wrote:

Wow really great finds again   The little unknown Tapir Baby is ADORABLE   

Yes it is, I love it so much! I almost didn't saw it back at the flea market, but my mother knows I love tapirs, so she took me back to it and I was like afjwfjeijfkawjfkwjf me waaaaaaaants, so I bought it :) I'll show you some better photographs of it soon!

Carola wrote:

And I love your photos! So bright and clean.

Thank you very much

Tarunyada wrote:

Koniminiatures wrote:

You're rather lucky indeed to have all those flea markets happening around you, aren't you? I'm not jealous at all. See how I'm not? Jealous. At all.

Haha I'm sorry, didn't want to make you jealous, I'm just getting so excited when I have new animals, I always want to show them to you all xD

No no, don't apologise! Any inclination towards jealousy, even if only humorous and relatively benign, is a lacking in my character if anything - certainly nothing you should be apologising for. And I'm not all that jealous, not really - only, it strikes me as amusing to time and again witness the stupendous fleamarket finds of fellow Europeans here while faithfully trawling my local flea markets with only the odd Barbie pooch to show for it.  Basically, what I'm trying to say is: Good on you for making such sweet finds!   

koniminiatures wrote:

Tarunyada wrote:

Koniminiatures wrote:

You're rather lucky indeed to have all those flea markets happening around you, aren't you? I'm not jealous at all. See how I'm not? Jealous. At all.

Haha I'm sorry, didn't want to make you jealous, I'm just getting so excited when I have new animals, I always want to show them to you all xD

No no, don't apologise! Any inclination towards jealousy, even if only humorous and relatively benign, is a lacking in my character if anything - certainly nothing you should be apologising for. And I'm not all that jealous, not really - only, it strikes me as amusing to time and again witness the stupendous fleamarket finds of fellow Europeans here while faithfully trawling my local flea markets with only the odd Barbie pooch to show for it.  Basically, what I'm trying to say is: Good on you for making such sweet finds!   

Haha thank you Lea I just hope you have some more luck the next time you're visiting a flea market at your place!

Finally I found some time to photograph some of my newest additions! First I'll show you two packages that I got (one came almost two months ago, but it was sent to the wrong adress - well it was my adress, but at my place where I wasn't at the moment, so it took a time before I could see them etc. etc.). Here are some Albert Heijn WWF animals, from which I'm especially happy with the penguin, because I hadn't got that one before!


And here are most of the Wild Republic animals found in a Australian Collection/Down Under bag:


I love the platypus and dingo!

My additions from the flea market at the 5th of May are coming next!

As I told before, there's always a big fea market in my village at the 5th of May, which I love to go to. I got less Schleich-S than last flea market at King's Day: now I have 3, then I had 18. But that was some crazy record haha. But I found some other lovely animals! I hope you like my new additions; I definitely do!


That's it for now; I'm expecting two more packages (from which one hopefully today)!

Oh my! So great additions again Love the dingo wnd young bull o.o No I am not jealous   Big congrats!

jonesee wrote:

Oh my! So great additions again   Love the dingo wnd young bull o.o No I am not jealous   Big congrats!

Hehe thank you Jonas Now I have to wait another year before I can go to these great flea markets again xD

Congrats again!

Thank you, LeeAnn!

As I hoped, one of the packages just arrived! I ordered 7 figurines, including 3 lovely Schleich-S/Safari Ltd. authentics! The lovely lady from which I bought them even gave me some extras! Here they are:


Still expecting 2 more packages :)

Nice! Congratulations again!

That's one chipper fox in the last pic. Also, the Wild Republic dingo is an exceedingly nice sculpt!

I really think you make each an everyone of those little figures look very exclusive in those photos   How nice old flea market finds get such a revival  

By the way those are som crazy eyes on the fox, ocelot and reindeer    It gives them their own charm   

Beautieful additions again Julie!!

Thanks again, LeeAnn, Lea, Carola and Andreas!

Carola wrote:

I really think you make each an everyone of those little figures look very exclusive in those photos   

Thank you Carola, I do my best to give them as much love as possible

New ones again! Congrats Julie

Thank you, Jonas!

WOW!! You got some real precious models there   

I always loved those Aurthentics ! They have so much charm and personality