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

miniNature wrote:

...I noticed the next one is my first non-vegetarian animal. Also the first pet, the Saarloos Wolfdog. This model I created as a present for someone. This female Saarloos Wolfdog loves to go out in the fields and hunting on mice. This is her typical stalking position before she strikes out on a mouse.




I hope you’ll like these models!

I LOVE this model (hence my member name and old avatar). Great job on a great dog breed! I really enjoyed your PBR/bucking bulls too, yellow jacket and nightlife are personal favorites of mine.

What a beautiful herd of impala for an African collection. Congratulations Stijn !!   . And the new ostrich models are awesome !

I'm really impressed with all of your work - all of the ostriches, zebras, and hippos in different poses, a growing heard of distinct impalas, the prize-winning bulls. All of them look really great, and it's incredible that you've made so many of them so quickly! Thanks so much for sharing with us!

Amazing, how you can keep them comming, - I love them all

If I am forced to pick a favorite, it is probably the nesting ostrich ! A beautyful, rare and elegant model

O thank you all for these lovely reactions!

Saarlooswolfhound wrote:

I LOVE this model (hence my member name and old avatar). Great job on a great dog breed! I really enjoyed your PBR/bucking bulls too, yellow jacket and nightlife are personal favorites of mine.

I did expect indeed you’ll love this model. I was not into the bucking bull world, but for the customer who asked for these models, it was nice to study them. Here in the Netherlands nobody will know these bulls.  I just googled Nightlife, also a very impressive bull.

bjarki12 wrote:

I'm really impressed with all of your work - all of the ostriches, zebras, and hippos in different poses, a growing heard of distinct impalas, the prize-winning bulls.  All of them look really great, and it's incredible that you've made so many of them so quickly!  Thanks so much for sharing with us!

SUSANNE wrote:

Amazing, how you can keep them comming, - I love them all

If I am forced to pick a favorite, it is probably the nesting ostrich ! A beautyful, rare and elegant model

It takes some time, but now I’m spending most of my evenings and weekends in creating the models. And one useful thing about working on the computer instead of using real materials, when I make one ostrich, I can use that files to create another one, so that’s saving a bit of time when I don’t have to start again from scratch.

[quote="miniNature"]O thank you all for these lovely reactions!

Saarlooswolfhound wrote:

I LOVE this model (hence my member name and old avatar). Great job on a great dog breed! I really enjoyed your PBR/bucking bulls too, yellow jacket and nightlife are personal favorites of mine.

I did expect indeed you’ll love this model. I was not into the bucking bull world, but for the customer who asked for these models, it was nice to study them. Here in the Netherlands nobody will know these bulls.  I just googled Nightlife, also a very impressive bull. quote]

Where I live Rodeo and PBR type stuff is popular. I mostly just enjoy seeing such impressive animals. I know a few stories about Yellow Jacket and how he was really an even tempered guy at home, but he always knew when he going to an event (to buck or just for the public) and he would get excited and genuinely seem to enjoy it. But you have a great talent of giving these animals, all of them, great justice in your rendering. So great job once again!

Saarlooswolfhound wrote:

Where I live Rodeo and PBR type stuff is popular. I mostly just enjoy seeing such impressive animals. I know a few stories about Yellow Jacket and how he was really an even tempered guy at home, but he always knew when he going to an event (to buck or just for the public) and he would get excited and genuinely seem to enjoy it. But you have a great talent of giving these animals, all of them, great justice in your rendering. So great job once again!

Great, thanks, nice such bull knows exactly what people want, a real star.

I’ve also 4 new models to show. First 3 White Rhino figurines:
Here is a standing male:




Also a grazing female:




And another relax lying female:




And a second new animal. The Cape Buffalo. Here is a bull model:




Hope you’ll like these ones also!

Amazing! Masterpiece!

Beautiful figures Stijn! I hope to get these wonders. Your speed in creating new sculptures is impressive !!

Thank you all! I also have a new model again.  
This time I had something different in my head I wanted to do. I wanted to combine different species into one model and it’s the first dead animal I created.  This ended up with 6 animals in one model, or let's say, 5 living animals. A typical view for the African savanna: The Circle of Life. Here it is:






It’s one of the Plains Zebra herd that didn’t make it.  The group of scavengers contains a Marabou Stork, 3 White-Backed Vultures and a Lappet-Faced Vulture just arrived to claim his part of the carcass. 

I don’t have uploaded this model yet in the different scales, but I couldn’t wait to show you the renders. Later this week I’ll upload it on my site.

Hope you’ll like this new model! Or is it already a mini diorama?

Interesting

I find it very interesting and very complicated to print in 3D !! Another new piece for the fantastic diorama of the African savannah. Congratulations Stijn !

Thanks guys! The model is now online. It’s complicated for sure, but I hope I found all the parts that can be too thin for the printer and scaled them up so it should be printable in all the scales that are online now. So after printing it will be the most challenging for the painter.

Wonderful models!

Beautiful models, I only have your Dik-dik (and I still have to paint it ) but it is a precious thing, I wish I will add a few of your artworks on my shelves.

Beautiful models

Thank you all!  I understand that feeling Christophe, I’ve also many things for too long on my to do list, without doing it.

This model was also for very long on my wish list. This model was the reason I started with the buffalo and here is the result:





It’s not yet online in all the scales, but that will be very soon. Couldn’t wait to show it.  Hope you like this model!

Nice again

Wow !!, amazing sculpture !!. This already more than models are dioramas of the African savannah! Congratulations Stijn!

Splendid work ! :)

Thank you guys! The buffalo scene is online now.
I also created 2 extra Marabou Storks and 3 White-Backed Vultures that can enrich the Zebra carcass diorama. I hope you like them 

Nice birds

Fantastic birds
How on earth do you make the wings ?

SUSANNE wrote:

Fantastic birds
How on earth do you make the wings ?

Thanks! All the different type of feathers are separate 3D models that I can duplicate and rescale and ‘stick’ inside the base of the bird, so it becomes the shape of a wing. A bit time consuming, but this gives it the best result that’s as well 3D printable and with a dynamic look.