My AAA Aquisitions

Hi friends,

here are my latest aquisitions from AAA. Some very interesting deep-sea fishes:
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I would enjoy if more photos follow from new members.

schleichtiersammler

Hello All, I joined last night, while I was restless and couldn't sleep I read emails and Willy linked me here, and I'm glad to be a part of it. I hope to see lots of photos of all the collections, as that is a big way to get my ideas for additions to my dioramas. Nice deep see fish, I love the flat batfish, not sure the real name, but in Florida there is a family that that fish reminds me of that are mostly deep water and called walking batfish. They are related to anglers, and even have a lure like anglers, but it sits under the nose near the mouth and the flick it back and forth, fishing for shrimp. As the shrimp come to investigate the piece of "food" the batfish just sucks it into his mouth. I have kept several of the species that live in shallower water and though they are hard to feed they are fascinating to watch.

Great Fish, I've just bought an AAA Zebra grazing, which was poorly painted so I'm repainting it.

Welcome again Phil!
As you are a fishman like me, you have a lot of knowledge about those creatures, but i m more specialized in the freshwater species, and specially cichlids as you know.
I think i saw those batfish before in a movie or so, their belly-fins are really working like little legs indeed, very fascinating indeed.
We have a fish in the northsea overhere, that has the last spines of the bellyfins seperated, so he can rest and walk on them too.
And he does taste very nice too!

Nice new additions Torben!
Strange creatures those deep-sea fish!
I wonder what more strange creatures will come out of the deep in the coming years.

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Great Fish, I've just bought an AAA Zebra grazing, which was poorly painted so I'm repainting it.

I guess it is this zebra, which Torben has too.
I bought it last year in the Rotterdam Blijdorp Zoo, because it had an original position, and that was before the new Schleich model came of course...
I think, the painting was not so bad at all.
On the picture are two, i think i did send one to Christophe some time ago.

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WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

HKHollinstone wrote:

Great Fish, I've just bought an AAA Zebra grazing, which was poorly painted so I'm repainting it.

I guess it is this zebra, which Torben has too.
I bought it last year in the Rotterdam Blijdorp Zoo, because it had an original position, and that was before the new Schleich model came of course...
I think, the painting was not so bad at all.
On the picture are two, i think i did send one to Christophe some time ago.

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Yes, your Zebras are painted nicely, I said it wrong I meant mine had rubs and the stripes were worn, it probably was as good as yours when first made. Actually, mine is slightly different, the legs aren't as far apart as on yours. Perhaps a later model? I'll have to upload the pictures

Yours are a lot nicer than mine, the heads a better shape and the eyes are black. Mine the eyes are orange and the ears are slightly too big. I bought it mainly to repaint, got it very cheap, I think it will look nice once repainted.

We would love to see pics of course, from the old, and the new version!
Maybe your are other moulds indeed.
But is there AAA written under them, maybe they are just copies, could be possible...

I don't know if this worked, but I tried uploading the pictures. They are before I painted it.

HKHollinstone wrote:

I don't know if this worked, but I tried uploading the pictures. They are before I painted it.

Nope didn't work. I'll try again.
Yes it has AAA written on the tummy, made in china and Zebra.

OK, I think I need help with uploading, do I press "Host an Image"?

I always do this a complete different way.
I go to [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
There you see the box, in which you can upload your pictures, i think you understand this, even when it is in German.
When you up-loaded your pic, you can see it in a smaller version.
Then you go to BBCodes, and select this one: BBCode Bild in Originalgröße
Cut the link and paste it here.
After you post your tread, it will appear here on the forum, and you can see it before too under this box, before you even post it.
It must be possible though, to post over the forum too, but that i must sort out.
You hear that from me later then, ok...

Like this?
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Yes, like that, haha.
Good that you made a new tread for that, because you invaded Torbens tread about the deepsea-fish, haha.
doesn't matter, we all have to learn here first...

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

Yes, like that, haha.
Good that you made a new tread for that, because you invaded Torbens tread about the deepsea-fish, haha.
doesn't matter, we all have to learn here first...

Oh yes, sorry Torben!

Beautiful new additions, Torben. The batfish and anglerfish are stunning, IMHO. I've only had one marine tank in my life, and it housed a small frogfish. He was a beautiful creature, and I named him "Igor" as I thought it most appropriate!

Here are some big cats:

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Hi Other Phil,
Hey I don't do a flikr acct, so I can't look at the pics, could you link them a different way? or just post them, I would love to see everyones collections, as you probably know, I don't collect for series or complete collections so it is my way of living though all of you vicariously HA!
thanks,
Phil

hi if anyone is interested those fish and others are on ebay uk at the moment here is the link to 1 of them
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steve

Hi Steve,

thanks for the ebay-link. I have already done some bids on these auctions, so the Jelly fish and some others.

Torben

Great new fish Torben. Thanks for sharing.

Nice models!
Deep-sea fish are so fascinating, it is good to see some made into figures.

Hello Phil. My apologies for the botched photo posts. I was trying out flickr, but it is obviously not worth the effort. I'll re-do them and many others after I have registered with img.de, which I used previously with some success.

I use imgbox.de for a long time now, and it always worked for me.
Only not, when the pics have too many pixels or so, then the site says, that you have to use another format.
In that case i use photobucket.
It is in German of course, but the things you have to do there are the same as on other sites, so in time you will know how it works out there.
But after some time i saw that my pics vanished here, so i got to be a free meber, and host them there, and now it is no problem anymore.

Hi Friends,

in the last time i bought some nice AAA figures. Here they are:

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