1/32 scale animals

I have a little Putitto goldfish. They really do have everything.

I wonder if a 'vine' could be made from twine for them to hang from? Not so natural, but maybe easy to do and it would allow good visibility of the model.

Thanks, that may be possible. The difficulty is that their grabbing fingers are short and some of them additionally need something to rest their feet against. Even on a glass, they fall off very easily.

Really nice gorillas!!The Border Collie with the all black tail is one I repainted myself when younger!

It’s nearly Christmas and I got a visit from some reindeer. Nice that they thought of me, but where are their presents? I have five reindeer in 1:32 scale:
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Depending on the subspecies, reindeer (or caribou in North America) vary a lot in size and according to Wikipedia, their shoulder height is between 85 and 150 cm. I was a bit sceptical whether they can really be that large. Nieminen and Helle (1980, Annales Zoologici Fennici) found that different domestic populations of reindeer in Finland had a shoulder height of about 90 cm. The Finnish wild populations varied between 90 and 105 cm. Klein et al. (1987, Journal of Mammology) used data from various populations and found that shoulder height was between 88 and 133 cm. I found the largest shoulder heights in an article by Gauthier and Farnell (1986, Rangifer), who measured woodland caribou populations in Canada. At different sites, females had mean shoulder heights between 104 and 130 cm. These are mean heights and using the measure of variability they report, the females at the latter site could probably get up to 138 cm. Bulls are usually larger, so perhaps Wikipedia’s size is only a slight exaggeration.

Let’s look at each individually. The Starlux reindeer has a shoulder height of 3.5/112 cm. It was first made in 1962 and probably lasted until the 1990s.
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A more modern reindeer is by Club Earth, one I got from Yvette. It is the same height as the Starlux, but a bit shorter. Not much is known about Club Earth, but it was probably first produced between 1998 and 2007.
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Another modern reindeer is the Kaiyodo Wild Rush from 2019. I showed it in this topic before, but it’s very good, so worth showing again. It’s 3.6/115 cm at the shoulder.
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The Marolin reindeer is the largest. Its shoulder height is 4.3/138 cm. It is also the mostly robustly built reindeer and assuming that it is a bull, I believe it is possible as a very large woodland caribou. Its length (7.1/227 cm without tail) is also within the length of the woodland caribou measured by Gauthier and Farnell (1986). This reindeer was first produced as VEB Plaho from about 1970 until 1992 before it was slightly remodelled and produced as Marolin until about 2010.
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Finally, the Hausser Elastolin reindeer. Although it is part of their 70 mm series, it also works in 1:32 scale, as it has a height of 4.1/131 cm (in 1:25 scale it would be 103 cm). It was produced as Hausser Elastolin between 1967 and 1983, but Preiser still produces it. I like the lighter winter colour, very appropriate for this time of the year.
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Beautiful reindeer! And very interesting information too!!

That is very interesting :)

Great herd

Now you only need To add The Blancherie Freres, the K&M and the Play Visions and you would have the biggest 1/32 reindeer herds ever

I am hoping they will visit me next year. If they do, I'll catch them!

Very interesting seasonal post. Now you just need a 1:32 sled and fly. Considering those you posted more the ones Christophe mentioned, I was surely not aware about so many reindeers at this scale.

rogerpgvg wrote:

I am hoping they will visit me next year. If they do, I'll catch them!

Great reindeer/caribou and a wonderful collection.

What a fabulous festive family of deer

Thank you everyone. I am glad you enjoyed my reindeer.

beautiful range at this scale!

There is also one from Acédo, I'll show it to you tomorow! :)

Indeed I forget this one

It has missed the Christmas party , but I am very curious about the Acedo reindeer.

There are a lot of sharks in 1:32 scale; let me show you some of my favourites.  First, the recent Papo whale sharks, an adult and young. They look graceful, have a wonderful texture, are beautifully painted, and to add further interest, they have an open mouth. Two of my top sea life animals.
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The adult is small in 1:32 scale, but perhaps not totally impossible as a mature shark. It has a total length of 24/768 cm. Whale sharks can reach almost 20 m, but larger sizes are extremely rare.  You’d be much more likely to see a juvenile shark, as they seem to group together more in coastal waters. For example, Rohner and colleagues (2015, PeerJ) found that in 15 of 16 studies, the mean total length of the whale sharks was 7 m or less. There was only one study that reported a larger mean length (just under 11 m). In the Rohner et al. study, it was estimated that 50% of males at the coasts of Mozambique and Tanzania became mature at 9.16 m total length, but this size appears to depend on the location. In two other studies, the size at which 50% of males became mature off the coast of Western Australia was estimated to be around 8.1 m, while in the Gulf of Mexico this size was estimated to be around 7 m.
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The Papo adult doesn’t have clear male or female characteristics as far as I can tell, but because it doesn’t have claspers, it probably looks more like a female. Much less is known about the size at which females become mature, as this can only be established based on whether they are pregnant, and apparently only one pregnant whale shark has ever been found (it was 10.6 m)! However, it is thought that females may become mature at about 9 m.
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The Papo young shark is definitely not too small, because baby sharks are only 45-60 cm when born (only 19 sharks smaller than 150 cm have ever been seen). The Papo has a total length of 12.9/410 cm, so clearly no longer a baby.
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I was keen to have a clear adult-sized whale shark too, and I found this one by Recur:
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Its total length is 30.7/982 cm. When I ordered it online, I wasn’t sure whether I was going to like it, because it was my only soft vinyl figure. But it’s pretty good. It’s difficult to tell that it is a soft model until you squeeze it. It’s hollow and much lighter than hard-plastic models. Much more suitable for children’s play. It has a scar underneath it; I don’t know why it has a scar but suppose this is due to the way vinyl figures are produced.
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Here is the Recur with the adult Papo:
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The label on the Recur says that whale sharks are grey, so it’s a bit odd that they made it blue. I suppose they often look blue under water.

Let me show you a few sharks from the Colorata Sharks Deluxe box too. It’s a deluxe box because the sharks are larger and slightly higher quality than the Colorata regular sharks box and they have a base. Four of the 9 sharks are 1:32 scale. From left to right, we have the tiger shark, great white shark, goblin shark and bull shark:
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The great white shark has a total length of 12.2/390 cm. Its claspers make clear that it is a male:
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That’s a good thing, because it would be too small for a mature female. According to IUCN Red List, female white sharks are thought to mature between 450 and 500 cm but males mature when they are smaller, between 360 and 400 cm total length. Males are thought to reach a maximum length of 500 cm (females 640), but as with whale sharks, juveniles are most commonly seen. Here is the Colorata with the Safari Ltd. great white from 1997. They are good together as a male and female.
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The bull shark looks quite similar to the great white and it is also male. Its total length is 10.3/330 cm, which would be very large for a bull shark, especially for a male. Cruz-Martínez and colleagues (2004, J. Northw. Atl. Fish. Sci) measured 95 bull sharks and the largest was 341.5 cm. They didn’t report the sex of this shark and its age was not determined. Females seem to be able to grow slightly larger than males, but this mainly appears to be due to the fact that they found no males over 23 years old, whereas they found females up to 28 years. The oldest female was 271 cm, so the 341.5 cm shark was presumably quite a bit older.

The tiger shark (another male) is 11/352 cm in total length. IUCN Red List says that females mature at 274-345 cm and males at 250-305 cm. They can become very large, with the maximum recorded length 740 cm, but again, these are extremely rare.

I like the fact that the Coloratas can be put on a base with rod. That way, they look like much more like they are swimming rather than washed up on a beach.
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Finally, the goblin shark is 10.4/333 cm in total length. According to IUCN Red List, male goblin sharks mature between 260-380 cm TL. Females are thought to mature when they are over 400 cm, which is interesting because the largest measured goblin shark was only slightly larger at 410 cm (Wikipedia says that females’ size at maturity is unknown). However, photographs of a shark in the Gulf of Mexico suggest that it was 540-617 cm. The Colorata may be intended to be female, as it doesn’t have claspers.

Here they are with the big beast:
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So much information and a very interesting read- you're clearly very knowledgeable on the subject!
And the models are beauties too, the detail and the realism- amazing!

From whale sharks to goblins, what an interesting journey.
I believe the reindeer you are awaiting is still with Santa Claus, delivering gifts is not so easy these days once the old fat man needs to desinfect all chimneys and it takes time. I hope Alain is not searching for it in vain.

Great shark batch, they are beautiful all together

Here are some Acedo reindeers (from an old eBay pic )

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Thank you, good to see the Acedo.

Bonnie wrote:

So much information and a very interesting read- you're clearly very knowledgeable on the subject!

No, I am afraid I don't know much about animals. Unlike many other collectors, I was interested in collecting animals before I became interested in the animals themselves. People on the forum need to tell me that a kiwi is a ratite, that roedeer don't really have a tail and what a sea lion looks like. The good thing about collecting animal figures to scale is that I need to search for information about the animals, so I learn a lot.

Speaking of Colorata sharks, The Colorata Sharks of the World manta ray might suit your needs now. Morphologically, the figure is the reef manta ray Mobula alfredi, which, when the set came out, was a synonym of the giant oceanic manta ray, M. birostris. With the change of this figure to M. alfredi it is a smaller species and the scale comes to 1:33-1:38 (up to 1:55 for a maximum-sized specimen).

With STS, I think we are all learning about animals and toys together

rogerpgvg wrote:

Thank you, good to see the Acedo.

Bonnie wrote:

So much information and a very interesting read- you're clearly very knowledgeable on the subject!  

No, I am afraid I don't know much about animals. Unlike many other collectors, I was interested in collecting animals before I became interested in the animals themselves. People on the forum need to tell me that a kiwi is a ratite, that roedeer don't really have a tail and what a sea lion looks like. The good thing about collecting animal figures to scale is that I need to search for information about the animals, so I learn a lot.

Very modest of you- I think your knowledge is excellent! And I can see how, when researching scale, you would also end up finding a lot about all the animals! But like you I'm definitely always learning here too!

One of the greatest joys I get out of collecting animal figures, is learning more about the animals themselves! As a child I read everything I could on animals (remember, I didn't have the internet ;-). I use my toy/figure hobby as an introduction to learning more (or re-remembering) about the animals themselves!