1:16 fossa and aardwolf finished!

Hello friends  

I've just finished the sculpture work for a fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox). It's an animal that was in my list from years ago. I decided for that scale because it's an small animal, so it's to the same scale to another carnivores made by me, like serval and thylacine

For those who doesn't know that beast here's a little bit of information: http://www.arkive.org/fossa/cryptoprocta-ferox/

Next week I will paint the models and it will be available, and of course I will update this thread. I hope you like it!

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Also working in an aardwolf, more pictures soon

Beautieful fossa :)

We were waiting for a fossa for a long time. Very good choice of species, wonderful pose. Very correct sculpt and nice scale. Looking forward to see it painted in its reddish brown color.

Interesting. great work

great work

Amazing! I love this species Beautiful work

Thank you very much friends for your comments.

Today I can post a picture of the aardwolf process, also 1:16 scale. The smallest one of the hyaenids

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An aardwolf, what a wonderful idea! It is looking quite promising. I wished you were working to a company to get more easily your fantastic pieces.

Roger wrote:

An aardwolf, what a wonderful idea! It is looking quite promising. I wished you were working to a company to get more easily your fantastic pieces.

Thank you Roger, I wish too

Very good work Joan, I love the movement you have given to the figure of the fossa. The aardwolf is very nice too. Congratulations !

Okay, those are really cool. Let us know when the aardwolf will be available! I believe it will be a first for the species!

Those are really cool and already they look very nice.
Wonderful choice to make them Joan and also great result

A aardwolf is a very interesting specie :)

Gran trabajo Juan. Se ve perfectamente que es de la familia de las hienas.

Maravilloso.

signatus wrote:

Very good work Joan, I love the movement you have given to the figure of the fossa. The aardwolf is very nice too. Congratulations !

costicuba wrote:

Those are really cool and already they look very nice.
Wonderful choice to make them Joan and also great result

widukind wrote:

A aardwolf is a very interesting specie :)

Thank you very much Miguel, Kosta and Andreas. Now the mould is made. Let's see if tomorrow I can begin with the copies

sbell wrote:

Okay, those are really cool. Let us know when the aardwolf will be available! I believe it will be a first for the species!

I'll let you know here. Now copies are in progress. Then I must decide for the paintwork :)

landrover wrote:

Gran trabajo Juan. Se ve perfectamente que es de la familia de las hienas.
Maravilloso.      

Muchas gracias!

Joan Milelire wrote:

Roger wrote:

An aardwolf, what a wonderful idea! It is looking quite promising. I wished you were working to a company to get more easily your fantastic pieces.

Thank you Roger, I wish too

I hope you are lucky. It is evident that any of the animal themed companies could improve the average quality of their figures having your cooperation. I hope that one of their managers is clever enough to contact you.

They both look really great!

Thank you for your kind words friends.
Today have the pleasure to announce that both models are ready and available (aardwolf 60€ and fossa 65€)
Here are some pictures for you, I hope you like them :)

1:16 fossa (male 75 x 30 mm)
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1:16 aardwolf (68 x 34 mm)
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Excellent figurines :)

Wonderful Fossa and Aardwolf Joan !
Both animals are so beautiful and your replicas are great :)

I adore them both !!!

How often have I not asked if they would make a fossa , - and the aardwolf is an amazing creatire also
Your models are so perfect, they radite the personality of those species

Roger wrote:

An aardwolf, what a wonderful idea! It is looking quite promising. I wished you were working to a company to get more easily your fantastic pieces.

Actually I think that in the past, some factury models could well be "inspired" by your work

widukind wrote:

Excellent figurines :)

costicuba wrote:

Wonderful Fossa and Aardwolf Joan !
Both animals are so beautiful and your replicas are great :)

SUSANNE wrote:

I adore them both !!!      

How often have I not asked if they would make a fossa , - and the aardwolf is an amazing creatire also  
Your models are so perfect, they radite the personality of those species  

Thank you Andreas, Kosta ans Susanne :)

SUSANNE wrote:

Actually I think that in the past, some factury models could well be "inspired" by your work

Yes That's a story that I think I've never explained here.
I sent some models to that company, later they returned my models saying that they were not interested in them. A few weeks passed and they wrote me again to "inform me" that they were going to do some models of some of the species I did, and of course I had no problems with that, but I asked them not to do them in the same poses or with "some of the special features" that they had, especially one of them. They replied that this was not going to happen, that I should keep calm. But it happened. And I wrote to them again asking about it, and silence was their response. And before that I wrote again. And that silence still follows.

Beautiful works Joan! And brilliant choices of species The fossa got to be my favorite from the two, with the sneaky pose like that. They both are excellent!!

Joan Milelire wrote:

SUSANNE wrote:

Actually I think that in the past, some factury models could well be "inspired" by your work

Yes That's a story that I think I've never explained here.
I sent some models to that company, later they returned my models saying that they were not interested in them. A few weeks passed and they wrote me again to "inform me" that they were going to do some models of some of the species I did, and of course I had no problems with that, but I asked them not to do them in the same poses or with "some of the special features" that they had, especially one of them. They replied that this was not going to happen, that I should keep calm. But it happened. And I wrote to them again asking about it, and silence was their response. And before that I wrote again. And that silence still follows.

This kind of stories make me angry and sad Actually, such situation can really affect our enthusiasm for sculpting and creating models, I'm sorry it happened to you, Joan
We all know that homemade models and limited edition models are often a source of inspiration for big companies but this just went way too far.

Joan Milelire wrote:

SUSANNE wrote:

Actually I think that in the past, some factury models could well be "inspired" by your work

Yes That's a story that I think I've never explained here.
I sent some models to that company, later they returned my models saying that they were not interested in them. A few weeks passed and they wrote me again to "inform me" that they were going to do some models of some of the species I did, and of course I had no problems with that, but I asked them not to do them in the same poses or with "some of the special features" that they had, especially one of them. They replied that this was not going to happen, that I should keep calm. But it happened. And I wrote to them again asking about it, and silence was their response. And before that I wrote again. And that silence still follows.

Joan, I didn't know that and I am really disgusted about that. I also don't understand my lack of insight to understand it before. Mainly, when the forum told that story in several threads even if it was in a subtile way sometimes. I understand you don't want to tell which company did it and you don't need to tell, you sculpted a babirusa, a white-tailed gnu, a thylacine female with a baby and some more, so it is not hard to know which company it is. Their silence is rude and the situation is quite unfair to you. I know they follow a lot of our forum members suggestions through Numaan's intermediation but it doesn't prevent me from telling what I feel. They could show more respect to your work and it is never late to regret a wrong action. They lost the chance of cooperating with an excellent Artist and it seems they also think you could be a good manager once, actually, they liked your ideas.