New diorama photos with animals

Here are the photos I promised with the animals on the dioramas. The first set is of India, I love this first photo, it is the pair of wreathed hornbills on one of the two banyon trees, along with the nilgai and wild water buffalo
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Here is a photo of some of the river bank, there are langur monkeys and a lot of tropical plants,

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Here are some of the African diorama, the first is my favorite animals, zebras. In the back you can see the topi and eland that are missing from the post on Ana's sculptures.

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Here is the rock pool, with the new bush pig
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Finally here is a photo of the nile lechwe and wild dogs
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I have lots of other photos, if people want more just ask and I can post them, hope everyone enjoys these

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we enjoy seeing photos y and your magnificent work.
Please , share more and more.

Me too !!!
They are fantastic
Anas art is even greater in those surroundings !

You have so many unusual animals, and they look even greater in your amazing dioramas, wow, I wished I could be there at see it myself

Please can we get a closer picture of the bushpig and the two monkeys, too ?

What line are the monkeys from?

OMG!! Is so good Phil!

I really like the lemurs in the second photo.. so dears :)

The rest, the rest is amazing! One more time, congratulations Phil!

Very nice
I really like the scene with the african wild dogs (one of my favourite animals)

Your dioramas are simply FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!

I love all the photos!!

Wish to see more photos!! I hope is not too much of works!

Your work is fantastic and beautiful photos
What all this biodiversity the splendor
hard work and what success really cheers.
Continue to make us dream you are the king thank you

baltimore zoo wrote:

What line are the monkeys from?

The monkeys are grey langur from Bandai. There are some on ebay from time to time.

I'll get more photos uploaded later today.

I has think they are lemurs..
Is the second time i wrong a animal.. Sorry ..

They are really dears Phil!

By the way, how many meters2 have your diorama Phil?

remowshake wrote:

I has think they are lemurs..
Is the second time i wrong a animal.. Sorry ..

They are really dears Phil!

By the way, how many meters2 have your diorama Phil?

No worries about the lemur, I usually choose animals that are not common or available as toys because those are what I am interested in. I wanted to have golden langurs but they are too small to have made easily or with any detail, grey langurs are the largest species and the Bandai are the correct scale.

The diorama is just a little smaller then 2 meters, it is 60 inches long and 42 inches wide (a little more than a meter wide).

It's really beautiful Phil, I love the first two pictures.

Philter4 wrote:

remowshake wrote:

I has think they are lemurs..
Is the second time i wrong a animal.. Sorry ..

They are really dears Phil!

By the way, how many meters2 have your diorama Phil?

No worries about the lemur, I usually choose animals that are not common or available as toys because those are what I am interested in. I wanted to have golden langurs but they are too small to have made easily or with any detail, grey langurs are the largest species and the Bandai are the correct scale.

The diorama is just a little smaller then 2 meters, it is 60 inches long and 42 inches wide (a little more than a meter wide).

Thanks Phil.. :)

Here are some more Indian photos, I have posted a few in earlier posts, others were taken yesterday so if you have seen some of them that is why.

Here is one of my favorite photos, it shows the water surface while it is free of dust and the reflection of the background on the surface.
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These two are of the wreathed hornbills on the banyon tree.
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I love the male nilgai, these are one of my favorite antelope species so it was a thrill when they were finally ready for the diorama
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I took some others, but they are mostly just different angles of the same figures, when I put some of the other models out I will take a few more. I spent some time putting the talipot tree on the diorama this morning, trying it in different places until I found a spot I am happy with, I'll try to get some photos of that as well.

It looks the real life! OMG!

jabiru, hornbills, ground hornbill... Phil, why are you so cruel with me

This is just so amazing, I don't know how to express it. You must love to just get lost in it.

So I have only one suggestion for your beautiful birds. I think you need to repaint with a glossy paint, instead of the flat
paint. By using a glossy paint it would make the feathers have more of a sheen to them, making them look more realistic.
I notice it the most on the black areas of the hornbills. Just think it would look better(the flat paint looks a little too dull).

baltimore zoo wrote:

So I have only one suggestion for your beautiful birds. I think you need to repaint with a glossy paint, instead of the flat
paint. By using a glossy paint it would make the feathers have more of a sheen to them, making them look more realistic.
I notice it the most on the black areas of the hornbills. Just think it would look better(the flat paint looks a little too dull).

These figures have a glossy coat, it just doesn't show up in the photos. The bald ibis were painted with a metalic blue over the black and as they move in the light the color changes so you can see the blue sheen. These birds are all custom made, I make a few and the rest are either by Ana for me or by a sculptor for Danny and he has changed scales so they don't fit in his zoo any longer.

Thanks for explaining! Would love to see some close up pics to see the feathers shining : )

Where did u get the wild dogs

lionlover wrote:

Where did u get the wild dogs

The dogs came from Anna, I have only used custom animals for a while now because I don't have the choice of species or poses with the toy brands. I thought of this scene quite a while ago and Anna was so fantastic to bring it to life. Anna, Harriet, myself and another couple of sculptors have done all of the animals that I now have for the diorama, and hopefully there will be many more to come!

INCREDIBLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Philter4 wrote:

Here are the photos I promised with the animals on the dioramas. The first set is of India, I love this first photo, it is the pair of wreathed hornbills on one of the two banyon trees, along with the nilgai and wild water buffalo
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Here is a photo of some of the river bank, there are langur monkeys and a lot of tropical plants,

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Here are some of the African diorama, the first is my favorite animals, zebras. In the back you can see the topi and eland that are missing from the post on Ana's sculptures.

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Here is the rock pool, with the new bush pig
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Finally here is a photo of the nile lechwe and wild dogs
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I have lots of other photos, if people want more just ask and I can post them, hope everyone enjoys these

One word...AMAZING! I love the detailing and all the animals in their "natural habitat". Congrats!