Happy Kin Toys Borzoi

Hi, dear STSers
Yesterday I was trying to do some walkarounds, but later it seems that I took not good photos. So if to say clear, I need remake those photos. But if you'll like it, I'll be calm about it. If you need other photos — let me know, I'll take new ones.
Let me say my opinion to this dog. He is absolutaly... great, wonderful, awesome and many-many other words. This is one of the most beautiful dog in my collection. But he has some lacks too: wrong back form (borzoi should have cambered back), wrong ears (actually ears of any hound are semi-erect, but each dog press its ears to back) and borzoi breed are most often hawk-nosed, this one hasn't this nose form exactly, but it is not terrible, some dogs may look so. But all other proportions are absolutaly wonderful.
By the way, word «borzoi» isn't correct as a name of breed. This russian word means any dog of greyhound type. More correct is «russian wolfhound», or «russian coat hound». At Russian it sounds like the last way, «russkaya psovaya borzaya». «Psovaya» is formed by word «psovina», which is old russian word that means speciefic type of dog fur.
His name is Vladimir Putin and he «lives» in my collection already long time: about 2 years.
You know, when I once took photos of Vladimir, he looked like spirit of Russia: lordly, beautiful and free. Unfortunately, I don't take photos of him, cause I can't realize my plans of his photo — I just haven't supposed landscape.

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Nayab Borzoi and Papo Great Dane:
And he is huge as real borzoi. I can't say who is taller, those guys have the same growth.

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Nayab Borzoi with a Schleich wolf:

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Vladimir outside:

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I also have some other dogs from this serie. I can do a walkarounds, if you need it.

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Beautiful dog! Just a shame it has the seams on the legs.

LeeAnn wrote:

Beautiful dog! Just a shame it has the seams on the legs.

I wouldn't say so, it doesn't bother me. It's joints, which can be useful in some moments

Holy, hopping Hamster

I am so much in love ! He is fabulous, ohhhh

But as you say, - something in his anantomy...actually I think there could be Saluki-blood in him ...the loin, the hanging ears, the stop on his face... but too much fur for a Saluki

However, according to my "bible" of gazehounds, originally the borzois varied enormously much in different areas of Russia.
It was really not untill well into the 20th century that a written standard was made...and I suppose that long after that there were still kennels where they were bred for hunting and not for looking like the standard

Actually, there is stil a Short-haired Borzoi , which is a great hunting hound

Хортая борзая
I realy like these dogs :) So beautiful, so elegant...and of course, so fast
This model is very charming :)
yes, it is not perfect like anatomy of the real dog...
but look at this face :) So nice face, like real dog :)
And you made soo beautiful photos...especialy the outdoor photos

A nice dog figurine!

SUSANNE wrote:

Holy, hopping Hamster

I am so much in love ! He is fabulous, ohhhh

But as you say, - something in his anantomy...actually I think there could be Saluki-blood in him ...the loin, the hanging ears, the stop on his face... but too much fur for a Saluki

However, according to my "bible" of gazehounds, originally the borzois varied enormously much in different areas of Russia.
It was really not untill well into the 20th century that a written standard was made...and I suppose that long after that there were still kennels where they were bred for hunting and not for looking like the standard

Actually, there is stil a Short-haired Borzoi , which is a great hunting hound

I didn't think about saluki because of Vladimir colour, but yes, you're right!
And you're right again
Yes again. I don't remember what breeds were used for getting russian borzoi, but there were greyhound, hortaya (which is eldest) and tazy (they look like hortaya, but have some differences depending area). However, borzois are very beautiful dogs, and I want to sculp one

costicuba wrote:

Хортая борзая
I realy like these dogs :) So beautiful, so elegant...and of course, so fast
This model is very charming :)
yes, it is not perfect like anatomy of the real dog...
but look at this face :) So nice face, like real dog :)
And you made soo beautiful photos...especialy the outdoor photos  

Not perfect, but very nice indeed
Thank you, Kosta!

widukind wrote:

A nice dog figurine!

Thank you, Andreas

Anasta SchwarzeWölfin wrote:

....... However, borzois are very beautiful dogs, and I want to sculp one

Ohhh! Yes !!! And wonderful dogs too !

One of my friends had eight ( EIGHT !!!) at a time, and they were always friends, never barked.
She is a little, rotound lady, but she could take these enormous creatures for walks four at a time with no problem at all

If you make an extra Borzoi, please, please, think of me - *Bambi-eyes*  

SUSANNE wrote:

Anasta SchwarzeWölfin wrote:

....... However, borzois are very beautiful dogs, and I want to sculp one

Ohhh! Yes !!! And wonderful dogs too !

One of my friends had eight ( EIGHT !!!) at a time, and they were always friends, never barked.
She is a little, rotound lady, but she could take these enormous creatures for walks four at a time with no problem at all

If you make an extra Borzoi, please, please, think of me - *Bambi-eyes*  

Oh my god! Sometimes I can't deal with my cat, so I can't imagine how that is — have 8 dogs, especialy such big and strong XD
Got a deal, Susanne

I like very much that figure, it seems Nayab has an interesting dogs collection. It is not a bad idea to have walk arounds of all of them but you can make instead a thread about their dogs, as long as you acquire some more you can update it. Maybe it is easier?
Although all good things of this dog, the best is by far its name... Vladimir Putin? Vladimir is color and Putin is what?

Roger wrote:

I like very much that figure, it seems Nayab has an interesting dogs collection. It is not a bad idea to have walk arounds of all of them but you can make instead a thread about their dogs, as long as you acquire some more you can update it. Maybe it is easier?
Although all good things of this dog, the best is by far its name... Vladimir Putin? Vladimir is color and Putin is what?

Surely you're right, Roger, I'm planing to get one more set of this collection, so this way will be really the best
It was a joke, but now Putin is his nickname