The Name-A-Model topic

I know I can't be the only one here who likes to name their models?
For me, it's partly from necessity - in model horse circles, you need to name your models if you want to show them - and partly because it's easier to say "Squeaky" than "Wild Safari 2007 Velociraptor". And partly because, well, it's fun.
The thing is, I've got a touch of namer's block just when I need it the most... What do you call a bunch of orangutans other than Librarian #1, 2, 3, and so forth? Is there a more appropriate tiger name than Fritz? And what are good names for lemurs, anyway? Suggestions please!

Sumo wrote:

I know I can't be the only one here who likes to name their models?
For me, it's partly from necessity - in model horse circles, you need to name your models if you want to show them - and partly because it's easier to say "Squeaky" than "Wild Safari 2007 Velociraptor". And partly because, well, it's fun.
The thing is, I've got a touch of namer's block just when I need it the most... What do you call a bunch of orangutans other than Librarian #1, 2, 3, and so forth? Is there a more appropriate tiger name than Fritz? And what are good names for lemurs, anyway? Suggestions please!

...When I was 7 years old I named my most first model of the brown bear by VEB Plaho - Balu (or Baloo) from "Jungle Book" by Kipling. This figurine still in my collection display!

Wow...you don't ask much! Naming the individual animals in your collection? I have enough of a problem remembering the passwords for the few sites I go on! or naming a new pet...

So far if I received one as a gift I have named it after that person...not very original am I.
As a child I had a striped kitten named Tiger, so maybe a tiger named Kitten??? :)

but I will help you with yours because then I won't have to remember the names you will


Lemur.....hmmmm ~ how about lemurbert? Orangobert, naw...I don't think that sounds very good...I'll keep working on it for you though


~ Sue

My new Britain tortoise does have a name : Harryette

When I was a child my Reisler animals all had names. I don`t remember them all, but the giraffe`s name is Ellen. This did not please my mom, as her name is Ellen
The goat was Jane, the Elefant was Momba...the panther babies were Peter, Miriam and such "real names...mmmm, I am sure I will remember more now I think about it, - but it is more than 50 years ago

I was just wondering.. Does anybody else here naming their animals?
Or am I the only one who does?

Every single figure of me gets a name and then i get more attached to them >.>
Does anyone reconize this?

I'd like to know xD

-Stardust

Lots of people name their models, especially the horses, I think

I look forward to read ansvers to this subject

This is an interesting subject, and one I've oft wanted to hear more discussion on. In model horse circles naming models is indeed the norm, and there the type of naming strategy usually adhered to seems to be either mimicry of real-world horse naming customs (which vary distinctly from breed to breed and can carry significant amounts of information about lineage, historical setting etc.), or simply pleasing the aesthetics of the model's owner - which is exactly what coming up with, creating and collecting the model horses themselves tends to be about, too.

I, too, name all of my horses, and belong in the second category of naming strategists I guess (although perhaps not entirely comfortably - I've never been able to center on sheer beauteousity or cuteness values, not on my models nor their names). Naming my models begun reluctantly as a necessity for showing them in competitions (well, one can enter models as mere numerals, but it can get confusing, especially in live shows where there's no time to forget what model by what numeral is due on the judging table in 30 seconds). The custom has since taken on a monstrous life of its own, though, thanks to my affinity for English compounds and finding fixed terms for curious concepts - so much so I nowadays find myself creating models just to have something to affix the nifty name I have ready on.

Additionally, the intertextual references and wry humour I get to indulge in on naming plastic ponies after psychological conditions and linguistic quirks does afford me a quiet, pathetic pleasure. (Doubly so if a name I've picked out is able to induce an unsuspecting model horse enthusiast to actually google the subject out of innocent puzzlement.)

Somehow naming any of the other species in my collection comes far less easily and tends to feel quite redundant. I do have a few dinosaurs with surnames, though, and a hare named Albrecht. Perhaps the disease is spreading..?

I have names only for few of my animal figures, if the name doesn't come to my mind with the first sight then I leave the figure just without name. Most of the time if I got animal as a present from my husband then I give a name to this figure, that's why I have for example Valentine the vulture and mustang mare named Rhymfaxa :)
When I started collecting few years ago I tried to give names to all my animals and had all this written in my diary but I think when it's too many to remember then it become difficult and is not that pleasant anymore, at least for me. That's why now I give names only to some of them :)

I've given names only to stuffed animals :) names of characters in movies action, anime and videogames

All of my animals from my childhood had names, which was quite a few. But now that I have so many it begins to get hard to remember them and think of unique ones for each, so I normally don't name them anymore.

Intresting information Koniminiatures (By the way, I think I've seen some of your work on Deviant Art, you're very talented )

I have many horse figurines, but only one with a name : Princess (or Prinzessin)

I'm afraid I haven't got a Deviant Art account, Carola - it must have been someone else's work you saw. There are many very skilled (much more so than I!) people there.

I know the model you refer to, by the way, and find her much more accurate than many of the other Schleich horses, and very pleasing to the eye too - despite the "questionable reputation" the mold has apparently earned among collectors.

koniminiatures wrote:

I'm afraid I haven't got a Deviant Art account, Carola - it must have been someone else's work you saw. There are many very skilled (much more so than I!) people there.

I know the model you refer to, by the way, and find her much more accurate than many of the other Schleich horses, and very pleasing to the eye too - despite the "questionable reputation" the mold has apparently earned among collectors.

Oh, well, I'm sure I've seen some gallery with custom stuff called by your name.. Just not Deviant Art then

Interesting, you're one of very few I've heard to have such an opinion about the infamous white lady In this forum.

Ana wrote:

I have names only for few of my animal figures, if the name doesn't come to my mind with the first sight then I leave the figure just without name.

I'm the same. Very few of my figures have names. Only very special ones with personality or when a name leaps into my mind. All the STS artist resin figures have names, of course.
But when i collected Breyers, every model had a name. I had a book in which i entered their name, date of acquisition, description, etc.

koniminiatures wrote:

The custom has since taken on a monstrous life of its own, though, thanks to my affinity for English compounds and finding fixed terms for curious concepts - so much so I nowadays find myself creating models just to have something to affix the nifty name I have ready on.

Additionally, the intertextual references and wry humour I get to indulge in on naming plastic ponies after psychological conditions and linguistic quirks does afford me a quiet, pathetic pleasure. (Doubly so if a name I've picked out is able to induce an unsuspecting model horse enthusiast to actually google the subject out of innocent puzzlement.)

now i'm intrigued! i'd love to see the names of your models.

I also name (allmost) all of my models. Espessialy the customs (artworks and paintings also have titles right? ). And besides that, I try to pedigree my horses and you just can't have a pedigree without a name. Not long ago I started to give some of my dogs a pedigree too so the dog that didn't had a name ( mostly the newer ones) got a name too.
And for the name remember issue: I have a special name book and the ones that aren't in the name book are on the www

Carola, if you happen across that site again, I'd be interested in checking it out. Some of my sold models do appear on their new owners' websites, but no person that I'm aware of has particularly many of them. So if very many are present on one site, it can be it's that of a faker. I've had this in the past - people nicking my photographs and claiming to have created the models. On the other hand, attributing the models to me on the site you remember does imply no one's trying to do that this time, at least.

Carolynn, hope I didn't get your hopes too high with my lofty description. Really they're just Wikipedia-assisted one-man inside jokes. My models and their names may in any case be viewed here: http://koni.weebly.com

koniminiatures wrote:

Carola, if you happen across that site again, I'd be interested in checking it out. Some of my sold models do appear on their new owners' websites, but no person that I'm aware of has particularly many of them. So if very many are present on one site, it can be it's that of a faker. I've had this in the past - people nicking my photographs and claiming to have created the models. On the other hand, attributing the models to me on the site you remember does imply no one's trying to do that this time, at least.

Carolynn, hope I didn't get your hopes too high with my lofty description. Really they're just Wikipedia-assisted one-man inside jokes. My models and their names may in any case be viewed here: http://koni.weebly.com

Bad thing is, I can hadly remember. Maybe is was once Google seach that led me to some of your models. But I'll inform you if I figure it out, and some seem to use your work without permission.

Thanks, Carola!

I used to name almost every model horse I got, but now things have changed, as long as I'm out of suitable names) So mostly Breyer, Stone horses and ARs still have their names.
However, if a model from my collection gets a name, it means it won't be sold away. And otherwise if a model's just standing on my shelf without being named somehow it means that I have no bound with it.

Yep! I do, lots of people do All my Schleich figures have names. The horses also have show names. I can memerize each and every one of they're names and breeds. I mean they're realistic, they should have names to make it even more real! And it's fun to give them names that fit they're personalities!

We find names are vital, both for the animal collection and the horse collection.

On the horse side, it is easier to say "Domino" than "that latex mare that we commissioned in black frame-overo from Julip back in 1973".

On the animal side, it is easier to say "Dingus' Tree" than "that really odd-looking composition thing, which turned out to be a climbing-tree made specifically to fit one of the Tipple-Topple Polar Bear cubs".

Our composition animals are named in series. For instance, the Bactrian Camel mares are named as "ladies of the night"... Big Alice, Hellfire Kate, Fag-Ash-Lil, Moonshine Sally, etc. (and our only male is Sinful Davy).

Our Polar Bears are named with dialect words for unpleasant internal feelings - Collywobble, Fantod, Marthamble, Lurgi, Sheemywamble, Habdab, Jimjam and Heebie Jeebie.

Our Polar Cubs are named with the words you use when you can't remember something's name - Widget, Gizmo, Dingus, Gadget, Doodah, Thingummy-jig, Wim Wam and Timmy-Noggy ...

and so it goes.

Sue & Lesley
castlerigg

Wonderful way of giving names Sue and Lesley, it add so much poetry to collecting. I love it

Sue & Lesley
Yes, you're right! Really great idea of naming them this way:)

I still name mine  Its just fun thinking for names for them all and I still remember all 50 something of my collection. and counting!

You are not alone, I name almost all of my models!   And for lemur names, hmm...Luna?