1/32 scale animals

Thanks for all your responses!

Melekh wrote:

Absolutely, one (smaller) in the upper jaw and one in the lower jaw.

Thanks, good to know!

Kikimalou wrote:

The Starlux you are showing is the 1971 model (ref#1794).

Jim produced this model in the 60's. This company was the French Bullyland then, their main production was Disney, comics and cartoons licensed figurines.

Thanks, also good to know. It reminds me that I should put the Starlux onto TAW, but every time I think about this, the Starlux boar is in a different place from where I am.

Bonnie wrote:

Very interesting information- and you have such a lovely variety of many different vintage figures, and I'm sure many of them are very rare!
I never knew that so many brands made Wild Boars!

The wild boars aren't so rare, perhaps except for the JIM. They must have been a popular species in the past; my feeling is that wild boar may have lost  popularity.

Almost all iconic animals from European fauna lost protagonism last years.
Wild boar, roe deer, chamois, Alpine ibex, etc.

So interesting- yes sadly I think this is true too, I'd love to see some of these species revived again!

Hello,
here my wild boars not allways vintage but allways wild boars.
I think the producer are as followed:
inclusive correction from Kikimalou.
1 Plaho warthog.
2 Plaho wild boar.
3 Hausser/Elastolin 54mm.
4 Timpo Farm ? (Timpo Farm is not listed on TAW)
5 TIM male.
6 TIM female.
7 Copy of BRITAINS.
8 Copy of 7.
9 unknown (I do not look on TAW).
10 unknown (I do not look on TAW).
11 unknown (I do not look on TAW).
12 TIM wild boar babes.
13 New Ray on pink! earth (do wild boars see colours?).

Benno.
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So many wonderful vintage wild boars- there clearly are may more than I thought!
What an amazing collection!

Nice collection Babdo

A few changes

1 Plaho warthog
2 Plaho Wild boar
3 Hausser elastolin 54mm

Kikimalou wrote:

Nice collection Babdo  

A few changes

1 Plaho warthog.
2 Plaho Wild boar.
3 Hausser elastolin 54mm

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Oh, yes, now I see it/remember it.
There are two wild boars of PLAHO.
I must search in the box of my britains animals, if i have a britains, wild boar.
Thank you!
Benno.

You have a very interesting collection and it is a luck to have you among us, Benno! :)

Hello,
when I search for the wild boar of BRITAINS I found some other wild boars.
Benno.
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14 unknown.
15 Hausser/Elastolin 70 mm.
3 Hausser/Elastolin 54 mm.
16 Jean Höfler.
17 BRITAINS.
7 Copy of BRITAINS.
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Indeed

14 Nine Product/ Nayab, right Christophe? :)

Fantastic to see all these wild boar, thanks so much for showing them. I especially like the TIM Toys; I hope I am lucky enough to find them one day. The NewRay indeed has a strangely coloured base, but at least the boars themselves aren't pink. I have a pink rhino from NewRay!

Caracal wrote:

14 Nine Product/ Nayab, right Christophe? :)

Nayab indeed

Some wonderful Wild boar and love your comparison picture Roger!

My New Ray Wild boar has a different coloured base.
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Haha, and the boars themselves are pink!

rogerpgvg wrote:

Haha, and the boars themselves are pink!

Is there a problem with pink animals ?

No, they just make us laugh.

Today's Museum post, Safari's southern right whale dolphin from the 2019 Dolphins TOOB scales at 1:23-1:34:

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Thanks! This dolphins TOOB is very good for 1:32 scale, I showed them here a while ago: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

The Bandaï animals from the “World Natural Animals” series are an important part of my 1:32 scale collection. They were some of the very first non-Britains figures I collected after Christophe showed them at the beginning of this topic. Most of them will be repeated here, but they are good and worth showing again with their exact sizes. Most of the 1:32 scale Bandaïs come from the Australasia and Africa sets. I’ll show the Australasian animals in two parts; the African animals are for another time.

Bandaï didn’t make their animals to scale, but they are small and surprisingly often in 1:32 scale. To start off and to show you that I am not completely 1:32 obsessed, here is the complete Australasia set:
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They were sold in a box that contained the animal figures together with a piece of confectionary, a small cake, I think:
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Either the cake or the animals must have been very popular, because although they were first produced in 2002 and no longer in production, they are still quite easy to find on Japanese auction websites.

The box also contained a card with some information about the animal in Japanese and assembly instructions. The figures usually consist of two or three parts and are made of a fairly hard rubbery material. The parts generally fit very well and it is hard to see the seams between them.
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OK, let’s have a look at the 1:32 scale Bandaïs! Number 1 are the Bengal tiger and cub:
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The adult has a shoulder height of 2.7/86 cm and a head and body length of approximately 5.0/160 cm. It’s a bit doubtful whether it is 1:32 scale. Wikipedia says that Bengal tigers are 90-110 cm at the shoulder and have a total length of 240-310 cm. Without the 85-110 cm tail, this is a head and body length of about 150-200 cm. So the Bandaï’s length is OK, but its shoulder height is a bit low. I found an old hunters’ book by Nṛipendra Nārāyaṇa Bhūpa, maharajah of Cooch Behār (1908) that reported two 86 cm tigers, but it isn’t clear whether they were adults. The tigers in other reports are always bigger. Here is the adult with the considerably bigger Britains tiger, still my favourite 1:32 scale tiger:
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I don’t have data on tiger cub sizes, but he seems to be fine.

Number 2 are the orangutans:
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The adult has a head and body length of 3.0/96 cm. Groves (1971, Mammalian Species) says that orangutan’s head and body length averages 956 mm for males and 776 mm for females. The Bandaï would probably be too large for a female; perhaps it could be a male without flanges (cheek flaps), although the males without flanges also tend to smaller than those with them. Here is a comparison with the Playspaces orangutan, clearly a male (3.3/106 cm).
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And together with the Britains, which is clearly too large with a 4.2/134 cm head and body length.
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The Asian adult elephant is much too small, but perhaps the calf is just OK with a height of 2.9/93 cm. According to this blog, newborns are about 90 cm: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] but It would have to stand on its toes to reach the Mojö’s udders (8.2/262 cm at the shoulder).
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The Indian rhinos are too small, but the two grey langurs (no 5) have the right size and are very beautiful. It’s as if one is whispering in the other’s ear.
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The whispering langur has a head and body length of 2.2/70 cm and the listening langur is 1 mm smaller. According to Wikipedia, their head and body length is 51-79 cm. They may be Northern plains or Tarai grey langurs. New England Primate Conservancy says that the Northern plains grey langur rangies in size from 45–78.4 cm head and body length., while Tarai grey langurs measure 51–79 cm.

I am very pleased with these two, as there are very few monkeys in 1:32 scale. Here they are with my only other monkeys in this scale, the Britains baboon and the Hausser Elastolin monkeys. The Britains has the right size for a Chacma baboon (2.4/77 cm head+body length). I don’t know what the Elastolin (2.0/64 cm) is meant to be, but I use it as a Barbary macaque, as it doesn’t have a tail.
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The giant panda (no 6) has a head and body length of about 4.0/128 cm.
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There is surprisingly little information about the panda’s size. Wikipedia says that they measure around 120 to 190 cm long, including a 10–15 cm tail, and are 60 to 90 cm tall at the shoulder. One great thing about Bandaï is that they made many young animals. This is my only panda cub! Here they are with my favourite giant panda, the Colorata from the Ueno Zoo set:
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Next time, part 2.

So beautiful set and I agree these langurs are incredible. I think the box tells about a langur that dares to walk in the forest out from his flock and suddenly finds a huge tiger walking. The rest of the story I can't hear, the langur is whispering so low.
I believe the calf won't find any troubles to have a good life with beautiful Mojo's mother. Actually I love that pair. About the Elastolin monkey, you may be right, Barbary monkeys are very common among vintage brands. Barbary macaques are the only primates in Europe if we didn't count with those of the European parliament and related.

Yes, the langurs are amazing, especially given that they are so small. Did vintage brands make many Barbary macaques? TAW only has three and they are all copies of each other. Hausser Elastolin was quite focused on European wildlife, so making a Barbary macaque would make sense.

rogerpgvg wrote:

Yes, the langurs are amazing, especially given that they are so small. Did vintage brands make many Barbary macaques? TAW only has three and they are all copies of each other. Hausser Elastolin was quite focused on European wildlife, so making a Barbary macaque would make sense.

I think there are more Barbary macaques among composition brands but always after that model. Now I see that Rhesus macaques were even commoner but these have tails and I am not sure they are all correctly identified, I thhink so.