miniNature's 3D printing animals - Update May 20: Finally Hyenas and more

Love that Eland!!!

Thank You! Firstly I bought two cheetahs to see how 1:14 scale works. :)

Noémi wrote:

I love the cheetahs, eland, rhino, lioness and some others. How long time will they be available. I'm sure I need minimum a year to collect them.
Could you write me please the shoulder height of the cheetas in 1:14 and 1.16? I can't decide which series fit better to my "already have" big cats :) The siberian tiger male has 7,5cms shoulder height.

No problem Noémi with time, because of the 3D print technique there is no need for molds or stock, so they can't get out of stock and I'm not planning to put them offline, so you can take the time you want
And sure, here are the sizes: they all vary a bit in height to make it realistic when they are put together, for the 1:14 it's between 5,4 and 5,9 mm and for the 1:16 that makes between 4,7 and 5,2 mm. So they are all when 1:1 size between the 75 and 83 cm height, with the females a bit smaller than the males. For me it's also no problem when you want a different scale that's currently not online. [/quote]

It’s been nearly two months, but I found again some time to create something new. Earlier I created the famous elephant bull Satao from Kenya and now I started on a request of 2 famous bulls from South Africa. They are part of the Magnificent Seven who roamed Kruger National Park in the Seventies.

The first one is Dzombo. He is the only one of the Magnificent Seven who is poached. He was recognizable for his wide and heavy head that’s carrying his almost identically shaped thick tusks weighing more than 55 kg each.  




And the second is Shawu, in a more rampaging pose. He was the bull with the longest recorded tusks in the Kruger National Park and the 6th longest of all time from the whole of Africa. They were more than 3 meters each!





Hope you’ll like these new bulls!

Nice again

Magnificent!

The series of male elephants with huge fangs seems impressive to me and the movement of Shawu represents all the power and fierceness of the species. Congratulations Stijn !

Beautiful tusks in this figure. very nice pose.

congrats.

Thank you guys! Really like your comments!
I’ve something new. Cheetah cubs where long on my list and finally the first two cubs are ‘born’.  I’m planning to do some more, also some that are a bit older, but like to show you already these two little kitties.  
The standing cub:




And the sitting cub:




Hope you like these two new additions!

Cute

Thanks Andreas!

I already finished the other cubs.  Here is a walking one:



And I had a photo of 2 playing cubs that I wanted to replicate and this is the result:




These 2 are not linked to each other, so they won’t stay upright. They need to attached to a diorama or base to keep them standing.

Hope you’ll like also these cubs

I would like to see, these in one diorama and with excelent paint.

Very nice work, big congratulations.

Nice again

Thanks Andreas and Fernando! I can ask the person, for whom I've created these cubs, if I can show here his pictures when he finished the models Fernando

I love these cheetahs cubs, amazing poses

Thanks Anna!  

landrover wrote:

I would like to see, these in one diorama and with excelent paint.

Very nice work, big congratulations.

I have received some pictures that I can share here, Fernando. Thanks to Antonio who has some of my models in his awesome diorama

Thanks for the photos.

This scene seems real, Congratulation to you and congratulation to Antonio.

excellent animals.

These are great--and what a nice photo.

Yes, Antonio did a great job with it! He has a beautiful diorama

I got an extra photo of also the other 2 cubs:

Magnificent

Really good these new figures of cheetah cubs     (congratulations Stijn) and I love these dioramas with the painted figures. They seem very realistic !

Where can I get those clear stands that hold them up?

AMAZING !!! WONDERFUL !!!

Thanks all and also my compliments to Antonio

SeanieP wrote:

Where can I get those clear stands that hold them up?

It's a piece of an acrylic rod. I can remember I've seen them in the hobby store that was located in my architecture faculty in University. I think they are very common in hobby stores, or something like architecture/model building stores. When I look online I can find also some web stores sell these in different diameters. Hope you can find some

I can show you again some models I made on request. This time 4 cape buffalo bulls. They are all impressive in size and horns, but the last one in particular.
This last of the 4 is based on buffalo Horizon. He is the most expensive bull in the world. In 2016 sold for $12.2 million.  
He is so special because of his horn-span of 142 cm. Nowadays this is very rare, but before people start hunting on large scale, this was very normal and they were even wider. Because of men hunted down the buffalos with the widest horns, the genes disappeared and now we see almost only the narrow horns.  So Horizon is an important breeding bull.






Hope you’ll like these new additions and the background story of the last bull.