Animal models from extruded polystyrene

Hello friends,
when Susanne showed us her new-old composition rhinos HERE , whatching her Neo-Form model of rhino I was thinking, except the Lineol rhino, that it reminds me of a model, which I have...
So I found some models, which I have from my childhood and I had forgotten about them.
Let`s say that I have them from about 25-30 years...
I think that maybe they are russian models, but I`m not shure....for shure I don`t know the brand..becouse they are not marked.
What is interesting for them is, that they are made from extruded polystyrene. They are very light, but also hard on tuching.

I`m gonna start with the rhino.
He is also a bit funny becouse of his ears, .. they are made it from fabric :)
Check it out :







On this photo, maybe you can see better the structure of the polystyrene :


And to show the size, together with the Papo black thino :



Next model - Zebra :





Together with Schleich Zabra :

That are very interesting figurines- you have any more infos?

Next one : Blue Wildebeest







A bear :





Lion :





I have two more models..... but I was enough stupid as a child, to repaint them in black
I dont know why black.....but, these are lioness with cub :







I hope, these models will be interesting for you to see them :)
Thank`s for watching.

widukind wrote:

That are very interesting figurines- you have any more infos?

Thank you Andreas, unfortunately I don`t know more about them.

Also interesting

That's what we like Kosta! To see figures that we've never seen before!
That's is very interesting, the rhino really ressembles the Lineol, although not as clearly copied as the Neo-Form Susanne posted.
Children are never stupid. You just painted them in black because you always loved black panthers and they look like black panthers when painted like that.
Also, you were not probably as much  talented painter as you are if you haven't made your experiences before.
Tell your Papo rhino that he won't have any chance in that fight. Also, tell Schleich zebra that it is very gentle from her to let older zebra drink first. Mainly when there aren't crocs around.

Roger wrote:

That's what we like Kosta! To see figures that we've never seen before!
That's is very interesting, the rhino really ressembles the Lineol, although not as clearly copied as the Neo-Form Susanne posted.
Children are never stupid. You just painted them in black because you always loved black panthers and they look like black panthers when painted like that.
Also, you were not probably as much  talented painter as you are if you haven't made your experiences before.
Tell your Papo rhino that he won't have any chance in that fight. Also, tell Schleich zebra that it is very gentle from her to let older zebra drink first. Mainly when there aren't crocs around.

Haha Thank you Roger
Yes, you are absolutely right, I love black panthers...so for shure , this is the reason

Very, very, very, exiting models
Both the material, the design, and their history

And they are beautyful, - such marmony and ballance !
Probably also enomously rare, - very few children would look so well after them as you did
The repaints are lovely also !
It seems that you always liked black cats, - and repainting too

These pictures made my day special !!! Thankyou VERY much, dear Kosta

Thank you very much for your kind words dear Susanne :)

Extraordinary! The only other application of this type I can think of is shop-fitters heads for showing hats or sun-glasses!!

Wonderful! The shape forms remind me of the animals made of plaster by JH Miller in the US.

They are beautiful, congrats

Thank you friends :)

i promised myself to reach WWW ( world WITHOUT web ) for holidays... Alas today I had to go, a car problem... So I took a look at my favorite place and i found gems

This is an excellent topic Kosta, about fantastic models I never ever heard of before... And they are absolute jewels, so fragile, so old, so rare and so full of childhood magic. They are the true cherries of your collection. Hats off

Kikimalou wrote:

i promised myself to reach WWW ( world WITHOUT web ) for holidays... Alas today I had to go, a car problem... So I took a look at my favorite place and i found gems

This is an excellent topic Kosta, about fantastic models I never ever heard of before... And they are absolute jewels, so fragile, so old, so rare and so full of childhood magic. They are the true cherries of your collection. Hats off

Wow, I`m very happy to read your comment Kiki :)
Thank you very much :)

Hi guys,
I found, that I have 2 more of these models.
Two prehistoric mammals.
They look very toysh ..like cartoons, but still they have them charm :)
here they are :

Oooh I really like these two, they're very charming Congratulations, Kosta! It's always a welcome surprise to find figurines like these between our old stuff!

Tarunyada wrote:

It's always a welcome surprise to find figurines like these between our old stuff!

Yeah, that`s true :)))
Thank you very much Julie

They are absolutely wonderful !!!
They are sort of monumental, - I love the style

SUSANNE wrote:

They are absolutely wonderful !!!
They are sort of monumental, - I love the style

:) I`m happy you like them Susanne

Very toyish but interesting :)

These last two look like they are trying to be (or represent) prehistoric animals? Again; fascinating!

Cartoonish of course... But SO charming I would love to find these kind of rarities inside a forgotten box lost in the attic

Thank you for your comments friends :)

I'll use one of these two to choose my new hair style. Very crazy wooly mammoth and rhino. They're very special!