Show Us Yours : Water Birds !!!!

Thanks everyone.

Pardofelis wrote:

What an amazing background in the last photo. The tiny Spergularia makes the effect of bunches of Armeria maritima in miniature, the plant that often dominates the tops of the sea cliffs where puffins live.

Hi Pardofelis I always wanted to know the names of the vegetation so thank you very much for this information.

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the crested shelduck

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Very beautiful, I miss my Maia & Borges models. Namely the crazy tufted duck. It is a pity this duck may be already extinct.

A phantastic figure.

New additions painted yesterday (sculpted the day before): The black-necked swan (Cygnus melancoryphus) and the torrent duck (Merganetta armata). Black-necked is in my opinion the most beautiful swan species so far, and despite being a relatively well known and common species I still love it a lot. They have shorter necks than most other swans and I reflected this in my figure with success. The plumage is very detailed when compared with my early bird figures, altought this is not visible in the photo. I wanted to give the swan a bit more natural posture, so I turned the head to a side while kept the neck partially waved in a very swanish gesture. About the torrent duck, it's a species absent from zoos I think, but still not too obscure. However they're absolutely magnific. Only species in the genus, the torrent duck honours its name living only in strong current waters. It have a striking sexual dimorphism as many ducks, but this time the female is not duller or less pretty, it's just different. Male have a striking white head with bold black markings, while female have a vivid orange belly that contrast with the grey plumage above. Both sexes have a bright red bill, and a long rigid tail. For this figure I did individual elongated back feathers in volume.

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They joined happily my duck flock and now swim together in the pool :)
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Very good news cash my friend

I love ducks and swans. They are part of my childhood. I am particularly impressed with the level of detail of the torrent duck, the swan is not so easy to see. Is your Merganetta a turneri morph?

I didn't know absolutely nothing about morphs of torrent ducks. I tought they was all the same until I saw yesterday when looking at photos for paint my model that males have high variability regarding the presence or not of a black stripe down from eyes, the appareance of the back and overall the colour of the belly (some white with faint black stripes, some black with chestnut center (like mine), some entirely black).

Pardofelis wrote:

I didn't know absolutely nothing about morphs of torrent ducks. I tought they was all the same until I saw yesterday when looking at photos for paint my model that males have high variability regarding the presence or not of a black stripe down from eyes, the appareance of the back and overall the colour of the belly (some white with faint black stripes, some black with chestnut center (like mine), some entirely black).

Yes, I didn't know either and I think the morph I mentioned has the belly completely black so you probably used other morph. Regardless of what morph it is, the figure is really great and an interesting species choice. As I can't do my own ducks, I just wish brands show more diversity or a series like Maia & Borges or AAA did. Papo gave us recently a mandarin and now a Canada goose so we won't live confined to mute swans and mallards.

Very nice birds again.

These two are beautiful, I love the details of the plumage and the colouring-wow!

New one! Whooping crane. I like how it resulted, pose, sculpt, etc... but... I realized, too late, that it was a bit tiny!

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Absolutely beautiful- I love the pose, I love the sculpt, I love the colours- wow!

Really graceful model. One of your best models if not the best. For me it is huge, really huge.

Wonderful crane!

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Unlike my only other Schleich bird, the toucan which I remember buying quite clearly, I'm not sure how or when or why I bought this nice little female mallard!

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Possibly a purchase intended to become a taxidermy specimen for my 12th scale country gent's study, but I never got round to making a little display case? That might be where she ends up 'living', even if that wasn't what I had in mind whenever I picked her up

Very realistic painting on the body feathers of Miss Mallard!
Nice additions from Andreas too, tough laughing kookaburra is a fully terrestrial bird

So many fantastic models, I love the kookaburra and puffin Andreas!
And what a beautiful mallard George!

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Congratulations Andréas little duckling and mother I love them company ania or correct me, already seen?

Wonderful birds, but wow, I just love the duck and ducklings, so sweet!