The Name-A-Model topic

I have a new cat. He keeps walking on my computer. It's annoying the hell out of me. His name is Kimble. Would that name suit your tiger or any of your lemurs?

Hm, that is a very lemury name...

If I ever name animals/figurines, it's usually based on their looks. I once had a rabbit, and the day I chose him among his siblings, he was the fattest/most fluffy, therefore I named him Obelix (Even though the seller said, his breed will only be like four years, he lived for almost ten years and passed away in '07  )

I also name models) Not all, but most of them have their names. Sometimes they get their names because they look like some characters from films/books/games, etc, sometimes.. well, you just look at them and want them to be named somehow)

I have more than 250 animal figures and all of them have names. They are like my childs      

Only a few of my figures have names...
I don't know why I name only some of them, because they aren't necessarily any more special than the others...

Most of my named animals are dinosaurs, because I collected them first.

So, I'd like to know how creative my fellow schleich collectors are with names.

I myself take a lot of my names from Books and tv. These are mainly:

Game of Thrones, Tolkien, Final Fantasy/Kingdom Hearts and Supernatural

But I also got some of my own names up my sleeve: BamBam, BLACKSTORM VON PENDRAGON, Calimero, Dark Thunder, Demoon, Dottie, Dreamcatcher, Evelientje, Ghost, Gozer, ICEDUST VON PENDRAGON, Macho, Pablo, Nana, Pipo, Rakker, Rambo, Renzo, Salinero, Senna, Fina, Spirit, Stardust, Ukkie, Ustin, Vindur, White Price, Wild Thorn, Diacon

What names do you give your schleichy friends?

Some of mine have their name from the people I got them from :-D

That is a nice thing, lets hear some!

Gwaine, I moved and merged your topic with a previous one about the same subject. You'll see that you're not the only one giving names to your figures. I have a Breyer donkey called Jeremias and Susanne has a custom donkey with the same name.

All my Schleich horses have names!
So far:

Arab stallion - Brownie
Arab mare - Zara
Arab foal - Otto
Dartmoor stallion - Chester
Dartmoor mare -Tilly
Dartmoor foal - Poppy
Knabstrupper stallion -Hercules
Knabstrupper mare - Lady Epona
Knabstrupper suckling foal - Tiger (because he's spotted. Yes, I'm hilarious.)
Shetland mare - Pixie
Lusitano gelding - Dante

I have a couple of unnamed Schleich dogs, but my mixed breed one is called Timmy!

Me naming model animals? No!

I don't even name my real live pets, pigeons and bantams.
They have leg ring numbers, that's enough for me.
I'm almost tempted to give names to a particularly tame pair (out of about 40) of my pigeons, and a stray racing pigeon who has more or less lived here for a few years, who I call 'Matey', when he flies in for breakfast, lunch, supper and in between snacks. In summer, when I have my patio door/window open, he walks indoors and 'asks' for food, which I guess means he's tamer than my 'proper' pet pigeons.

Sometimes you take one look at a figure and a suitable name just pops into your head   Sometimes though, it can be quite tough. I have heaps of unamed figures.
Would you like to help me name them?
We shell look at one at a time

I will also show you my named figures, I hope you like them



First up is Mick the park ranger (my brother brought and named this one before giving him to me)
responsible for looking after the safari park





And this guy who doesn't have a name yet!  



Have fun!

Jebediah?
maybe Rover for the buffalo?

Very sorry if you didn't understand me,  the park ranger has a name- Mick- but the buffalo doesn't have a name yet. I'm going through all my animals to check which ones have names and which ones don't
I thought that you would like to see the ones that have names as well as the ones that don't for inspiration I guess
Anyway that is a good name, I like it
Now for the next one...


the buffalo calf doesn't have a name 



I simply cannot figure out how to downsize these pictures I've tried the insert an image icon but it doesn't work

did you specify width/height?

My apologies, I just assumed you were renaming Mick... or maybe I didn't read what you wrote very closely?

Oranoko?

Yes I did specify the width and height but it just entered a blank image   
No worries Oranoko is an interesting name, I will give it some thought

I have a feeling that I am going to confuse everyone by including the named figures as well as the unnamed figures so I will just show the ones that have not been named




The really annoying thing is that for some reason I cannot resize my photos from photobucket but I seem to be able to resize an image from google images
This rhino female needs a name

I use GIMP to resize my photos, it's very easy to use and you can overwrite the new size over the old one.


On topic with naming, I don't name my figures, but I do name the model horses I show. Most have unusual names, I think these have better ring as a show name than a simple one-part name. Here is the link to download GIMP, if you decide to go with it and need help with any of it please ask me.

Here are a few examples of my favorite names:
(Original release name listed first, new show name listed after)
Windtalker: I will if I Want
Valentine: Wishful Thinking
Holiday on Parade: Instant Replay

I love to give name to figures, my figures have all names and I know them from memmory. Though, I only enjoy to suggest names when it is a horse.
About resizing a picture on forum, not all codes work correctly with sizing tags, that's the reason why it works from certain sources and not from others. Though, it is not recomended that you resize them on forum because the full image will be loaded and it can turn the system slow to members with narrow or slow Internet services.
So, LeeAnn suggestion is the best, try to resize them on your computer before posting on forum.

What about calling the rhino OTTO ?

We have a children's book in Danish, called "Otto er et næsehorn", - Otto is a rhino . There has been made both a film and a song about Otto the Rhino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_A1JfmSEl8

SUSANNE wrote:

What about calling the rhino OTTO ?

We have a children's book in Danish, called "Otto er et næsehorn", - Otto is a rhino . There has been made both a film and a song about Otto the Rhino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_A1JfmSEl8

Oto-rhino-laryngologi!

SUSANNE wrote:

What about calling the rhino OTTO ?

We have a children's book in Danish, called "Otto er et næsehorn", - Otto is a rhino . There has been made both a film and a song about Otto the Rhino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_A1JfmSEl8

Unfortunately the uploader has not made this video available to my country So I cannot watch it, but thanks for the link
I like the name Otto.

Now for the calf

SUSANNE wrote:

What about calling the rhino OTTO ?

We have a children's book in Danish, called "Otto er et næsehorn", - Otto is a rhino . There has been made both a film and a song about Otto the Rhino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_A1JfmSEl8

Haha Otto is a Finnish male name Well not that popular anymore

Emma, I'm so bad naming someone's other animals Sorry xD

I am thinking Keto after the Auckland rhino baby on a television series that I saw a long time ago. I am not sure how they spell it, he was pronounced Kee-toe

Jonas wrote:

Emma, I'm so bad naming someone's other animals Sorry xD

No worries  Sometimes I get lucky, I wouldn't have thought of Otto by myself or Oranoko


Now for the mandrills