My newest additions

Of course! Why do you look like unsure?
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..because it's too tall and I am not convinced by these draws that show wild cat as tall as the fox and badger, viverine dog and hare far too small, they aren't either at the same scale! :)

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Some days ago I received a photo of some animal figures from a friend. He told me that he bought them in certain toy shop, and looks like they had decent variety.
I was unaware of that toy shop so yesterday I went to investigate.

What I've found is... a treasure cove!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL THE DREAMED COLLECTAS EVER ARE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's a million times better shop than any others that can be found in my city: small grocery stores with few variety, commercial centers with only Schleichs, etc.

I bought three figures. Only three because I want to reach the 99 figures in my collection, leaving the 100th space for something more special. If it was not by that, I would have emptied the shelves of the shop, hahaha.

These are the three figures selected:

1. The babirusa (Babyrousa babyrussa). There are two babirusas in the current market, this one from CollectA and other from Safari. I find the CollectA one much better. And finally it's in my hands! It's so wonderful! Also my first figure of the pig family :)
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It's certainly too big in scale.... as big as a tapir!!! But scales are something you can't be very obsessed with, as there are no other good babirusas at smaller sizes...
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In a clearing of the forest of Sulawesi jungle, two mysterious creatures share with joy the fallen fruits of some exotic tree...
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2. The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). This time, the CollectA and the Safari counterparts are equally excellent. There is a third figure in the market for this species, the Schleich's, that I find just ugly, especially those horns.
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These are all my deers now. All CollectA's, since this brand is the best one with hoofstock undoubtely.
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3. The Himalayan tahr (Hemitragus jemlahicus). Another species that I have a special fondness for.
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Himalayan Encounters:
What are you? I never saw you before...
Oh, I'm a Chiru and that's because I prefair the steppes, my hooves are too sensitive for your rocky habitat!
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A more dangerous encounter... an adult tahr is a really excellent meal for a hungry Snow Leopard!
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Making friends with an Asiatic black bear. Both enjoy watching the landscape...
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Hello takin! You're too big for being a goat...
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The Tibetan sand fox have a mix of curiosity, anxiety and fear. Will this tahr be a friend or a threat? I hope that he is a friend...
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Wonderful models

I wished I could find some CollectA locally as it happened in the past. I'd surely also get that white-tail once I also find it much better than the Schleich and Mojö I own. Curiously, I wanted the Safari version for a long time but it got pending so long that now I have the chance of choosing the CollectA. I really would love to see a comparison topic between the Safari and CollectA white-tailed deers. If anyone owns both, please.

Nice pics with a lot of nice models

After a long pause making homemade models instead buying figures, I returned to the same shop where I bought the previous three. This shop have CollectA only, but as CollectA is my favourite brand and many wishes are still on my list, I had plenty to choose! So here are all my newest CollectA's! :)

1. First was the wild water buffalo, Bubalus arnee. This majestic beast have imponent hornspan and this is well represented in this figure. It's a big figure, a bit bigger than many bison figures of modern brands.
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Water buffalos honour their name and their favourite hobby is to lie in shallow water :)
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Here in a "moose-mood", this buffalo pulled some water plants out with the horns for making these succulent delicatessen more accesible :)
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Thirsty tiger is carefully watched by this buffalo with prudence, but not with fear. A buffalo is more vulnerable to tigers while in the water, but if he can reach firm land, he is very well equipped for self-defense...
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By the other hand, a sloth bear is just a pacific visitor and the buffalo doesn't care about it.
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Here a comparison of my two buffalos, the African and the Asian ones! (African buffalo by Mojo Fun)
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2. The barbary sheep or adouad, Ammotragus lervia. I'm in love with this figure! It's so superb and well done! Those horns are so beautifully arched! The tan fur and the long beard are very well done too. This is a true masterpiece :)
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In some region of the Sahara desert periphery, a shy fennec watches his horned neighbour. Probably these two guys meet often at the Atlas foothills?
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I know these two are not sympatric, but they're from Northern Africa deserts anyway, so... let's join to the animal party
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3. The common wombat, Vombatus ursinus. Another of the figures that has been in my wishlist for ages, and of course I didn't changed my mind after the announcement of the new Schleich release of a wombat with hooves instead claws
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Behind, it shows us a little surprise.... I usually don't collect figures where more than one animal is visible (such as emperor penguins with a chick between the legs), but this one is quite unobtrusive and in fact adorable!
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Until now my only marsupial was the Schleich's quokka. Maybe this is a common encounter.
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And another easy encounter in the wildlands of Australia... (the echidna is by Southlands Replicas)
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4. The black-backed jackal, Canis mesomelas. Another lovely figure, with very accurate shape and a position of walking slowly.
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Here with my other CollectA canids:
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Male springbok is disgusted contemplating the potential threat of a jackal that can go after the newborn calfs of his herd. But usually, an intimidating position and short persecution is enough to get ride off the jackal.
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Poor cheetah! If were not enough with being constantly menaced by lions, hyenas and leopards, she also must deal with robbers of her kills... But the cheetah is ready to kill the jackal if he don't run away shortly!
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5. The red river hog, Potamochoerus porcus. Well, I forgot taking a picture after repainting it (I did with my mobile, but my mobile don't have connection with my PC). But I think many of you are familiar with the appareance of the model as sold by CollectA, with all dark face. If not, here is an image from [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] if he doesn't mind that I put it here for comparison :) (if not, I can replace it by a link, just tell me)

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Honestly I'm proud of the repainting! :) It looks much more a red river hog now! :)
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Thirsty river hog in the river!
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The Congo Basin couple that I used so many times for my new Central African additions...
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With my also recent babirusa bought in the same shop, these are all my suids !
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6. The pygmy hippopotamus, Hexaprotodon liberiensis. A perfect figure again! It's my only hippo, but for the common hippo I've also chosen CollectA's one (that is in the same toy shop) and I will buy some day. A collector friend complains about this pygmy hippo being too big, but I find it as perfect-sized :)
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And the usual Congo Basin couple is atonished for see new neighbours from his region coming and coming on almost daily base! Now the red river hog and the pygmy hippo join the homemade Picathartes, duiker and goliath beetle
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7. And by last... The Tasmanian tiger, thylacine or, as I prefair from the usual common name in Spanish, the marsupial wolf, Thylacinus cynocephalus
There are various thylacine models for choose, all of similar size and well done. I think CollectA's is the best one, tough the others are very good too. It's yawning in the typical fashion of this species, famous for his wide gape.
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It's also a female nursing a pup like the wombat
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Reading the menu of the restaurant! ;D
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The famous evolutive convergence item... marsupial wolf and canids
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And now in the natural history museum, these are my extinct animals for now! Thylacine, quagga (repainted from Mojo Fun), and as anticipation, a soon-to-be-painted easy to guess homemade
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That is a superb lot of CollectA figures! Watching this post, it is easy to understand why so many of us are worried with the modest assortment of releases of CollectA for 2020. This brand offered us, during these last years, a true show of masterly done wildlife animal replicas. To show how much I love your new additions, I must say that I have all of them.
Well pointed also about the new Schleich wombat, I've got so concentrated in its comical face that I haven't noticed such strange claws in that figure. Looks like a rhino os so.

Thanks for reply Roger, I appreciate very much your toughts in my newest additions :) Yes, and I'm also included in the people worried by the lack of CollectA wildlife figures this year, tough in prehistoric, horses and insects is a good year :) However, since I'm still pending to get the new 2019 CollectA gems (dama gazelle and the best white rhino ever from any brand), that still was not brought to this shop, then I have material for add during the next year, and will pray for CollectA doing more interesting things in 2021 (and overall NOOOOOOOOOT use one of their own figures repainted as a different species!!!!!!!!!)
And yes, besides the hooves, the wombat also have a bit childish face, but this is usual for Schleich. Animal faces and expressions are tremendously difficult to represent accurately, as I've proved in my homemade models! Schleich still does a good work despite that with many of their species, and the wombat is at least recognizable as a wombat, something that not all brands do

Phantastic additions for your collection :)

New purchases from the previous week! :) Yes I know that this thread is turning into a CollectA's additions, but I hope that soon I will add three Kaiyodos for compensation

1. First, I looked at the figures that a stationery near my home have, for if maybe the added something new. And they did. But not any figure, but the super special CollectA new White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum), new for 2019!!!! This is in my opinion undoubtely the best rhino figure that major brands produced ever!!!!!!!!! It's absolutely incredibly perfect in every detail and infinitely better than previous versions of same brand.

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Six different zoos in the world keeps or have kept white rhinos with cheetahs in same enclosure (Cleveland Metroparks, Parc Safari Quebec, Borås Djurpark, Schmiding, Attica and Everland - Zootopia), it seems to work quite fine. Cheetahs are usually not afraid of rhinos because rhinos accept them quickly as friends. I suppose that encounters in the wild tends to be peaceful too.
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Also often rhinos and giraffes meets with harmony, overall near drinking spots.
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This white rhino matches perfectly in size with my other rhinos (Papo black and Safari Sumatran):
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Next figures were bought in the toy shop that I've talked about sometimes, that only have CollectA's. It was difficult to choose some figures and left others for next time, finally I reluctanly let in the shop the dugong and other creatures, and caught the next ones:

2. The diana monkey (Cercopithecus diana).

As it cames:
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After a bit of repaint:
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Also, the "before" and "after" of the face:
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It's a magnific figure, one of the best done monkeys from any major brand. And a so attractive species!
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It joins to my monkey troop happily. Size fits perfectly with the Schleich mandrill.
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More encounters in the African jungle:
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3. Next one is the Blainville's beaked whale, Mesoplodon densirostris. This one was also repainted for make it more realistic:

Before:
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It's an absolutely wonderful figure. The shape and sculpt is very well done.
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Especially in the mouth area.
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Here, the two only species of beaked whales available in realistic figurine: with Happy Kin's strap-toothed whale, that is noticeably smaller than the Blainville's figure:
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4. Next one is the largetooth sawfish, Pristis pristis. Well, the figure is sold under "sawfish" only, but TAI list it as that species. Again a wonderful animal, and altough there are plenty of sawfish figures from many brands, I think that this is one of the best.
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This one was also retouched: I sharpened every tooth with a cutter, and painted them to the base as they was painted only in the tip. However the result was not very different from the original figure, and I didn't took photos of the "before".
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With the Colorata's bastard halibut:
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As I don't have other branded rays than the sawfish, I put it together with my homemade torpedo ray:
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5. Next one is the wonderful Saiga (Saiga tatarica). This one already was perfect so I didn't customized it
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With other inhabitant of the endless Central Asian steppes:
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These two antelope species from the cold areas of Central Asia are both very specialized to breathe cold air with lower level oxygen. That causes that they can't thrive in captivity because they fail from respiratory diseases.
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6. And by last: the Tasmanian devil, Sarcophilus harrisii. Two models of this species are almost equally superb and well done and have the same size: the CollectA's and the Southlands. It's difficult to choose one of them for my collection as both are magnific, but I decided by the CollectA's one and after some years passed finally I got it.

Again, with a bit of retouching. Before:
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And now released into the wild:
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Devils usually prefairs carrion and do not chases live prey often. But they can do too, if convenient. But how "convenient" will be this prickly thing full of hard and pungent spines?
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And the unavoidable comparison pal....
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Tremendous lot of additions with some of the most remarkable CollectA recent releases.
I am really tempted to get the rhino. I also find it a fantastic figure. I don't know if it is the best rhino of ever once I find the Safari Indian rhino equally excellent, thoug, among African rhinos, it has surely a special place. The Mojö white rhinoceros is very well balanced and detailed but somewhat static.
Don't you agree with the identification of the sawfish? Andreas suggested it to be (Pristis zijsron) instead but the most part is using it as a (Pristis pristis). There's no official source as far as I could see.
The saiga is perfect, I agree and one of the best figures of ever! The Tasmanian devil is also one of my favorites together with the Southlands and that's the reason why I have both.

Great new species for your collection

Thanks to both for your kind replies :-)
Roger, yes the Safari Indian rhino is wonderful and for that reason I've included it in my wishlist since long time ago, for buy some day. Actually the Schleich's Indian rhino is good too, but too small I think
I can't agree nor disagree on the sawfish identification because I don't know the differences amongst these species! I'm fine with Pristis pristis, that is easy to remember and to pronounce (unlike P. zijsron heheh)

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Thanks to both for your kind replies :-)
Roger, yes the Safari Indian rhino is wonderful and for that reason I've included it in my wishlist since long time ago, for buy some day. Actually the Schleich's Indian rhino is good too, but too small I think
I can't agree nor disagree on the sawfish identification because I don't know the differences amongst these species! I'm fine with Pristis pristis, that is easy to remember and to pronounce (unlike P. zijsron heheh)

We'll need a carpenter. Yes, well observed. I forgot the Schleich Indian rhino and it also deserves a special mention. I have a slight preference for Safari's but Schleich's is quite impressive with the extra touch of a dynamic pose. Both are small actually but Schleich's is smaller.

My latest additions was bought in eBay and received some days ago! :)

1. The Galapagos land iguana, Conolophus subcristatus. One of the few reptiles in my collection, it's absolutely magnific and painted with the exquisite detail that only Japanese brands are able to do with their figures, even the supertiny eyes. The sculpt is superb too. The crest over the back is precisely sculpted with minute teeth, and I love the folds of the skin in one flank as the animal curves itself slightly to the right side.

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That's because the iguana is supposed to be eating a tiny piece of greenery.
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The iguana is detachable from the earthy base...
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...and the earthy base is also detachable from the "plate" base.
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This figure is suitable for nice dioramas in natural environment...
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..sometimes in company of a new species for science, the Giant Rove Beetle from Galapagos, specialized in iguana-phoresis
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Size compared with Safari LTD Good Luck Minis chameleon:
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This maybe will be considered a sacrilege by some, especially by base-lovers (Blaine ) but I, by the contrary, dislike bases and avoid them when possible. So once at home, I cut the attachments under the feet, revealing the grey plastic used for this figure...
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... and painted over the "wounds" with matchig colours.
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2. The striped owl, Asio clamator (=Rhinoptynx clamator). My favourite of the genus and one of my most favourite owls. The figure is exquisitely painted, and very well sculpted, as one can expect in the high-quality-standards Kaiyodo.
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But, shamely, a thing that one also can expect in Kaiyodo is the very noticeable seams
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The owl is a bit big, would match more in size for a snowy owl, a fishing owl or such.
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Here with my homemade ashy-faced owl:
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3. And finally, the gem of the trio: the supermagnific and dreamed Long-nosed Lancetfish (Alepisaurus ferox). I always liked a lot this species, with its dragon sail dorsal fin. All in the figure is extremely well done, the slim body, the fins, the sharp muzzle with prominent uneven teeth. The caudal fin is detachable from the fish, one must put care in not lose this part!
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The figure match very well with other bathypelagic fishes from Japanese brands, either Colorata...
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or Ikimon/Kitan Club...
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Congratulations Fantastic additions and remarkable photos

You will never lose THAT Japanese fever

Thanks! I hope to never lose it Japanese brands have very different arrangement of species than western brands, with much more attention to entire biodiversity insead "big well known mammals only" and with amazing attention to detail and often more adequate scale for those species that are not big.

I opened today the figure that our kind Portuguese friend, [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] , sent me in a swap for another figure.

This is the magnific Schleich's bowmouth guitarfish, Rhina ancylostoma. It's an splendid species, that I like a lot, and despite not being so uncommon in public aquaria I never saw it in my life.
I met this figure at the very begin on my collection. I was buying gifts at a commercial center and discovered then the Schleich stand. I bought the giant pangolin and gemsbok then, and tought that I would buy the guitarfish in another day. I came for it some months later, but they evanished all from the shelves. And I never found it again in other visits to this center or other toy shops that have Schleich. Finally the figure was retired from circulation and I still didn't have it.

So I must give a MUITO OBRIGADO to Rogerio :) This is, in my opinion, the best of the many bowmouth guitarfish figurines done by western brands (I'm surprised that a relatively obscure species is so popular as figurine). It have the perfect size and sculpt, and it's adult (there are juvenile figurines, with a very different pattern, but I avoid juvenile animals in my collection).

As arrived, still even with the tag!
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Of course, first thing that I did is repaint it a bit!
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More clear spots added on all fins and some of body, making it more dense like in the real animal.
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The eyes was the worst painted part of the original. Sadly, the sculpt of the eyes is not helpful here. The white part of the original doesn't form part of the eye itself, but is a white circle of skin around it in the real animal. But the eyes are sculpted as if the whole white and black part is the whole eye. Eyes are much smaller actually, and rounder, and can be cointained inside the black part of the original figure. My custom is far from perfect but I think that is much better now.
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Underside was also repainted. Whole surface white (instead with suffused grey near borders), except think darker borders in the fin and head. More realistic now.
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And now, integrated with the whole family
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Wow fantastic addition! And It looks way better after your repainting!

Nice figure

After a long pause I return here to show my Epiphany gifts

1. CollectA's Common fallow deer, Dama dama. No doubt, it's the best fallow deer figure available in the trade. A common but often forgotten species that CollectA represented with inmaculate accuracy, as they tend to do with their hoofstock.

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All my cervids are CollectA's. No wonder why.
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2. CollectA's markhor, Capra falconeri. The tallest of the wild goats and with one of the most spectacular horns of all the ungulates. It's fully wonderful and a must have!

I retouched it a bit. Original:
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The bold blackish stripe running across both sides of its back is the most striking feature. I made it much more diffuse so it went much more realistic. Also the black frontal part of the beard was reduced and more contrasted, and the chin, originally black, was made clear:
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And now released into the wild:
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I also repainted the eyes, originally whole black. I did into goat eyes, with a brownish olive iris and horizontal pupils.
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It fits perfectly with other Himalayan caprines!
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3. CollectA's common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius). Such an ABC species as is the common hippo have, of course, tons of different figures to choose from even the most little and obscure brands. It could easily be the wild species with most models in the figurine world. However, CollectA did THE hippo. The real masterpiece with zero distance to perfection. It's such an extremely accurate hippo that it's impossible to not fall in love with this figure. Every detail in it is so perfect. The barrel body, the square muzzle, the wrinkles around eyes, the sexy little ears, the stubby tail, the short legs, the rosy hues on the underparts...
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The inside of the mouth is also absolutely perfect. They not only sculpted the teeth in the perfect position, with the perfect proportions and the perfect shape (cissel-like lower incisors), but also a perfectly shaped fleshy parts with a glossy varnish for make them look like wet. Same glossy varnish around nostrils too.
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Even the sexual organs are done with absolute precision. I'm not expert in hippo intimate parts but I interpret it as a female, with the udders on each side of the vagina.
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Now Happy Hippo (tough looks like more Angry Hippo) released into their predilect habitat: a shallow pool!
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Now I have completed the whole family Hippopotamidae in my collection. Various people says that the pygmy hippo from CollectA is too big. Well, maybe a bit compared with the other hippo. But not strikingly, the size is not bad and it's enough for include both in my collection.
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4. Schleich's Common leopard (Panthera pardus). I struggled a bit before choose which leopard will be better for my collection. The new 2019 CollectA leopard was my main option during a time, but more recently I returned to the older Schleich that I have seen for sale during the early begins of my collection but not bought it, and never found for sale again in local stores.

It have a nearly perfect sculpt, but the authomatic paintjob that Schleich gives to their models have some issues for such a complicated pattern as is the leopard skin.
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So I took my brush and paintings and... voilá! It's one of the repaints I'm most proud of!!! I absolutely LOVE how it resulted!
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Also the After and Before of the frontal view:
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And now released into the scattered trees of the African savannah or the dry forest of the Indian ghats:
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I think Schleich, despite how little exciting is for me in terms of species range, is the brand to be chosen regarding big cats . Except my Papo snow leopard, all my big cats (including cheetah) are Schleich.
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5. Safari LTD's wild boar, Sus scrofa. Strangely, the tag on it says only Boar and in spanish Cerdo, that is the word for domestic pig (wild boars are called Jabalí in spanish). Wild boars are also very represented in toy form with tons of models to choose, and some are quite good. But in my opinion, nothing as superb as the Safari LTD one, with perfect shape and expression and these absolutely wonderful lovely "streaks" of hair in the body. I think Blaine's synoptic collection wild boar influenced me a bit to chose this one as my future wild boar, but so long time passed since then that I don't remember if I chosen it after or before Blaine got hims. This model was only very slightly customized, regarding only the repaint of tusks (from pure white to a slightly more yellowish tune and paint them to the base because the base of the tusks was painted brown like the fur, I also added a thin dark like between the upper and lower tusk for make them more clearly separated).

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My pig herd . I think soon I can start a ham factory
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6. The dama gazelle (Gazella dama). Of the 2019 CollectA releases there was two figures that I chosen for my collection: this and the white rhino. And now I have both. I'm very happy with this gazelle, sculpted and painted with the superb style of CollectA with antelopes. The gracile legs and long neck are perfectly interpreted, as well as the very sinuous horns.

I did only little custom job in this model. I painted the ears behind, and a bit in the border, added small touches over the hooves and redefined the black stripe under the tail. Oh, and I sharpened the horns. Maybe not so little custom at the end. But visually the result is almost identical to the original model unless one looks very close.

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With other CollectA's gazelle-like antelopes:
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7. Safari LTD's lemon shark, Negaprion brevirostris. Well, Safari is the brand for sharks and I asked a wide variation of them for Epiphany for choose from. Lemon shark is not my favourite species but is nice and distinctive with that yellowish colour.
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The worst thing is that the pectorals fins were badly bended. And given the shape of the "support plastic" I think that is how intended to be. But I would prefair a lot one with straight fins that rest in the fin tips and not in the belly.
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These guys are surprisingly wide and flat. The underside is white and the inner part of mouth is unpainted.
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With other Safari sharks:
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And finally, 8. Safari LTD's arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus). Well, it's a good arctic fox, tough the fur is not as finely sculpted as in other figures. Originally, it had an unaesthetic bluish shade in the lower flanks, belly and lower neck:
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which I corrected painting pure white in it and also in the border of ears:
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But when compared with the usual scale of many other animals common in the trade, this fox is rather an Arctic wolf!!!! I get disappointed by the enormous size of it
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Brilliant additions! I had decided just today to replace my Bullyland Fallow Deer with the collecta and a few hours later I see some more beautiful pictures of it! You have done a fantastic job on your Leopard too

Interesting additions, especially the CollectA antelopes .

Beautiful pictures you make.