Three strange, African fishes from FaunaFigures...and now there are seven :-D

I am delighted to be able to present to you the three first fishes made by our friend Sbell and sold from his shop "FaunaFigures"  
All three are strange creatures with unusual behavour and physique  

Full of fishy charm and fine detail : Cuvier's Bichir, African Butterflyfish and West African Lungfish :
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Each one comes with a neat datasheet with lots of information :
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First, the Bichir !
The Bishir breethes air !
Look at all the detail  
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A very weard and interesting fish , the Lungfish  
Look at the fins, it seems they are very interesting keys in research of the evolution of walking !!!
If times are bad, he can bury in mud and stay there for as long as 18 months without food  
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And, - WOW ! The Freshwater butterflyfish  
This one can also breed air ! He can also jump quite high for his dinner og insects.
What catches the eye first is the fins ! Amazing how well they are shown in this model
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Susanne, those are really very special additions! A little collection developed from a forum friend with really obscure species, probably never seen before in toy shape and that match the collecting taste of their mentor. Also, very interesting as collectibles, they are not exactly widely available and surely not mass produced. They also show a very good quality, real collector itens.
Now we can put them on TAI!

Thank you for the phantastic pics :)

They are SO cool!

They all look wonderful and are also very nicely painted. Congratulations.
The little booklets are very educational.
I always enjoy those little extras.

Glad you like them! I was so excited to get them made. More excited to make them available for others! I do have more coming since I ran out of 2 species in one weekend, and I am planning on a few more species now.

sbell wrote:

Glad you like them! I was so excited to get them made. More excited to make them available for others! I do have more coming since I ran out of 2 species in one weekend, and I am planning on a few more species now.

Yes, keep telling us good things like that!

Better and bigger than expected Congratulation Susanne

Sean, I like people who are making their dreams and share them with others.

Congrats. :)

Kikimalou wrote:

Better and bigger than expected  Congratulation Susanne

Sean, I like people who are making their dreams and share them with others.

Thanks!

The intention was to have them sized roughly with the Colorata fishes (which, of course, are all different sizes anyway). Not so small that there could be no detail, givne the materials (like a PV or original Safari toob), but also not as large as a Safari Sea Life or Bullyland River Fish figure!

Just wanted to include one here--a 4th strange African fish, the African Bonytongue! Not ready just yet, but hopefully soon-ish!

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Those fish are very nicely done!



I think it would be a nice to see a series of prehistoric animals in much the same vein as this fish line.
Imagine a fish like Coccosteus,or maybe an amphibian like Crassigyrinus.
Or early reptiles like Cymbospondylus.

john2xtheman wrote:

Those fish are very nicely done!
   
   
   
I think it would be a nice to see a series of prehistoric animals in much the same vein as this fish line.
Imagine a fish like Coccosteus,or maybe an amphibian like Crassigyrinus.
Or early reptiles like Cymbospondylus.

There has been some thought towards prehistoric fishes, but first there are a lot of ignored living ones. Albeit, primarily primitive or otherwise very unusual ones.

And, for now, it's Fishes. There are more than enough of those to try and go through!

sbell wrote:

john2xtheman wrote:

Those fish are very nicely done!
   
   
   
I think it would be a nice to see a series of prehistoric animals in much the same vein as this fish line.
Imagine a fish like Coccosteus,or maybe an amphibian like Crassigyrinus.
Or early reptiles like Cymbospondylus.

There has been some thought towards prehistoric fishes, but first there are a lot of ignored living ones. Albeit, primarily primitive or otherwise very unusual ones.

And, for now, it's Fishes. There are more than enough of those to try and go through!

I hope you have much success with your fish line!The ones that have turned up so far are top notch.

john2xtheman wrote:

I hope you have much success with your fish line!The ones that have turned up so far are top notch.  

Hear ! Hear !

john2xtheman wrote:

sbell wrote:

john2xtheman wrote:

Those fish are very nicely done!
   
   
   
I think it would be a nice to see a series of prehistoric animals in much the same vein as this fish line.
Imagine a fish like Coccosteus,or maybe an amphibian like Crassigyrinus.
Or early reptiles like Cymbospondylus.

There has been some thought towards prehistoric fishes, but first there are a lot of ignored living ones. Albeit, primarily primitive or otherwise very unusual ones.

And, for now, it's Fishes. There are more than enough of those to try and go through!

I hope you have much success with your fish line!The ones that have turned up so far are top notch.  

Thanks, I hope people like them!

Although of course most credit must go to the sculptor/painter, Brandon DeMoss, who is doing a great job of taking my ideas and making them real!

I think you're developing a sensational line of figures, not sensationalist anyway.
Each idea is excellent, full of interest and competently sculpted.

Roger wrote:

I think you're developing a sensational line of figures, not sensationalist anyway.
Each idea is excellent, full of interest and competently sculpted.

Thanks--I'm hoping that all of the species I've always wanted as figures will eventually get made...within reason (if there were no reason, every Polypterus species would be first up...cool fish, but a liitle too obscure!).

Thanks to Susanne, I am now a proud owner of Sean fishes and I can join the congratulation choir. These three fishes are a great start for an unusual series and can live perfectly with their Colorata kins

Kikimalou wrote:

Thanks to Susanne, I am now a proud owner of Sean fishes and I can join the congratulation choir. These three fishes are a great start for an unusual series and can live perfectly with their Colorata kins

I'm glad you like them! The goal was to kind of match up with the Colorata Fossil Fishes, so I'm glad you think that they do!

This seems like a good place to post this (my Fauna Figures thread keeps disappearing)--I don't have them yet, but the first batch of FaunaFigures Fishes Wave 2 is almost ready!

We have decided to go with continental inspirations! First was Africa, next is North America.

For the first time, a Bowfin, an American Paddlefish and a Brook Lamprey:

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Plus, as a request, we also added a 4th--the African Bonytongue!

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And here is batch one! Plus, an extra one--my son had to have a lungfish, but couldn't make it simple. So he requested a Marbled Lungfish Protopterus aethiopicus.

Really, no diffferent than my daughter who needed an albino Senegal bichir to match our pet one.
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WONDERFUL news

Uhhh, lampreys are the most creepy, uncanny creatures, aren't they ? *Shudder !*
But some people think they are delicious to eat

Great again !

It just felt like a lamprey should be available. If it is any consoloation, the American Brook Lamprey is not a parasitic species! It's just a friendly river-bottom sucker!