Willybacoman's 2010 Additions

Congratulations Willy. I love the zebras, red pandas and koalas the best. You are definately lucky to receive these surprises.

Wonderful new figures Willy! It's so nice from the Christophe's side

Ohh,those models are awesome!
I've almost completed the genet-civet set from PV.I don't have any of the models from the other mustelid set,YET!
And those Bandai are very nice,too!

PS:Congratz on all the models you've aquired so far this month!!!

Congratz on some lovely new models Willy

My favvos are the red pandas and langurs.

Great new additions Willy (even thou they are not plastic )

The Leopard is simply amazing, it looks soo realistic and beautiful Big congrats!

Very nice Leopard!

Ohhhh, they are so lovely !
What a fantastic friend you have

Great sets Willy, I love Bandai and the PlayVisions sets have some really unusual and nice species. Thanks for the photos, especially the individual ones.

great set of models there Willy-love the wildebeests and the set of civets/mustelids!

Hi taos,

it´s a really great pleasure to see you here Taylor.

Torben

taos wrote:

great set of models there Willy-love the wildebeests and the set of civets/mustelids!

Welcome to the forum taos!! Lovely to have you with us!

Welcome here Taos

Very nice critters, Willy! They would easily embellish any display.

taos wrote:

great set of models there Willy-love the wildebeests and the set of civets/mustelids!

Welcome, taos! I've been waiting for you to join here.

First i want to thank you all for the nice comments!
I am a lucky guy with a friend like that, i know, and i hope he thinks the same about me...

And then....,Taylor, man where were you all of this time?
nice to see you here again, and a very warm welcome on the best animal-collectors forum in the world!

wooow! I love these!!!

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Blue Gnu with calf

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Grants Zebra with foal

congrats Willy this is fantastic!

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

First i want to thank you all for the nice comments!
I am a lucky guy with a friend like that, i know, and i hope he thinks the same about me...

A good friend ???? More than that ! Willy is my favourite Uncle

MartinH wrote:

wooow! I love these!!!

Blue Gnu with calf
Grants Zebra with foal

congrats Willy this is fantastic!

What is fantastic with these models is they are really tiny but the sculpting and colouring are incredible. I will try to find anough time to amke a review about this.

Congratulations Willy. August we like most about this set.

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I hope that your review Christophe starts precisely from this set

Thank you my nephew, haha!

Those Bandai are really great, i wish i had them in my younger days when i was building miniature-zoos..., although they are in may different little scales, but great anyway!

The set you showed Zbyszek is from Playvisons, and not even complete, so there is more to wish for...

Last week, i had a strange lot coming in.
It seems as the manufacturer copied several brands in his production lines.
They are all made in a softer kind of plastic, more like the original Schleich Classics.
I hoped to catch some original ones with this lot, but they weren't...
The quality is less, they are not marked as Schleich, and they didn't came out good of the moulds, because they have a kind of cracks on them sometimes.
The strange thing is, that they used the Schleich Classics for the wild-life, and some older Hong-Kong models for the farmlife, although they were already copied by the Hong Kong manufacturer from another brand already.
But they are produced in the same softer kind of plastic too, which was much harder in the 1970's...
I am not sure in which time these copies were made, it could be the 1990's, but later in the 2000's would be possible too...
Here they are:

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The whole lot.

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Dolphin(Schleich Classics copy)

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Indian Rhino(Schleich Classics copy)

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Bactrian Camel(Schleich Classics copy)

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Crocodile(Schleich Classics copy)

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Lion(Schleich Classics copy)

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African Elephant(Schleich Classics copy)

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Tiger(Schleich Classics copy)

The farm animals are in the same kind of plastic like i said before, but are all copies of 1970's Hong Kong animals.

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Billygoat in white, which i had in a black hardplastic Hong Kong version already.
The original model could be from Timpo Toys Scotland, when i don't mistake...

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Cow in white, from which i had a Hong Kong version in hardplastic, made in black and white too.

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Horse in brown, which i have in several colour-versions in hard-plastic too.

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Scottish Collie in dark-brown.
I have this model in hardplastic since i was a child, but much more deetailed, as the first Hong Kong copies were very direct copies of the original models, and the (copy-)moulds were much better then.
With the years, you saw the deetails coming down in quality...

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Sow in white.
I know i have this model in pink from the 1970's too, but i still have to work on 2 collections on Collectors Quest, and the pig-section is one of them...

:) :)
congratulations,rare additions.

They were made in other plastics but is very important,that you find these.
In your hands,far of the destroyers childrens,are best.

Congratulations Willy more lovely additions!

Thanks guys!

Well, even if they are copies, or even copies of copies like the Hong Kong models, they are something new in the collection, and maybe a little bit strange, because of the strange combination the manufacturer made...

Really nice my friend. I like the crocodile

Well, they are old and cartoonish sometimes, but they are the ancestors of the modern Schleich-lines, which you can see quit good in some models!
Here is the real one:

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