caracal's collection

Lots of beautiful models.
Papo 50151 dromedary is such a beautiful figure but it is on TAW since it was released in 2013.
I have it and I love it and despite the good job of Schleich with the last model, it still remains my favorite.

So many lovely models, I love the first Papo model, it's beautifully made and so realistic!

Roger wrote:

Lots of beautiful models.
Papo 50151 dromedary is such a beautiful figure but it is on TAW since it was released in 2013.
I have it and I love it and despite the good job of Schleich with the last model, it still remains my favorite.

 Oh yes I checked again and found it.. at the side of the previous version!  

Bonnie wrote:

So many lovely models, I love the first Papo model, it's beautifully made and so realistic!

 .. me too, thank you Bonnie! :)

Excellent herd of camelids! I think I have none of your models right now but I'm very familiar and a bit nostalgic of your Britains, that I was playing in my childhood.
Also I need this Papo guanaco, I haven't found it yet..

All of these tiny camels and their tinier calves! Each llama is really great, great new batch of figures you have presented!

Lovely figures! I think Papo makes the best camels, although I need to see CollectA's. The guanaco is one of my favorite figures

  many thanks Constantin, Paige and Jolie!

 Constantin and Jolie, you are right, I should have writen "ll ama and Guanaco" for they are not considered as from the same species even if they are very close. :)

Nice again

Beautiful figures of all time, different brands, many sizes.....Big congratulations

Big thanks to you both Andreas and Fernando! :)

wow - that sitting down camel is beautiful !! who knew that such an exquisite little figure could be so attractive. I have never seen this model ever before. This little beauty is on my wish list now:)

and look at those llamas with orange spots, they look so cute:)

I really love seeing your herds. I find them so magical. Every photo is a delight, and thank you for sharing, it is such a treasure to see your many gems Alain!

and by the way, is there nothing that can be done about the acetate ?? today's technology to fix yesterday's alchemy ?

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 first raw (in front): 1 Starlux, 2 Plaho/Marolin, 3 Britains
 second raw: 1 AAA, 1 Blue Box, 1 Elastolin




by herds:

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Thank you for your kind words Annette! :)

About the acetate disease, baths of Pevaryl (anti-fongique) are supposed to stop it for a moment but not definitively.. :/

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Thank you for your kind words Annette! :)

About the acetate disease, baths of Pevaryl (anti-fongique) are supposed to stop it for a moment but not definitively.. :/

ah that's interesting. Hopefully one day there will be a permanent solution.

Wow, those camels remind me of my earliest childhood.

The Prior camels are in a great condition, it must be rare to find them in such a condition.

Many thanks to you both Megaptera and Roger!

now my suiformes:

 the big ones:

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 first raw (in front): Safari ltd, Schleich, Nayab,
 second raw: Schleich,  2 CollectA

 big wild boars:

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 herd on left side: 6 Schleich
 on right side behind: 2 Papo
 on the top behind: 2 Bullyland
 on right side in front: 1 Nine Product

at more little scales:

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 first raw in front: 5 Starlux, 1 Safari ltd, 4 Plaho-Marolin
 second raw: 1 Klima (porcelaine), 1 Clairet, 1 repaint BF (lead), 1 Britains, 1 "Singapore", 1 unbranded chinese

 some primes:

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 from left side: Prior, La Roche aux Fées, Jean Hoeffler


 by herds:

 from Starlux:

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 I never liked caricatural Starlux boars and there is a loong time ago, I tried to meliorate them  to obtain  more realistic models. The result was not at all as I had hoped but at this epoch I had no model from other brands except the one from Prior I prefered a lot because it was looking far better to the boars killed each week by hunters in my village! I remember, far later, my joy when I got the litlle Sfari ltd one (see above) in a shop museum in Grenoble!

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 from Britains:

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 When I discovered this Britains one, I was very happy to find back my old beloved Prior one, better sized and far better carved!

 from "Singapore":

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 from unbranded chinese (repaint):

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 a long lineage!:

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 from Paho-Marolin:

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Here is a group of animals that I really love.
Anytime there is a party, they are the first I want to invite.
Fantastic selection!

What a nice mixture, the red river hog is great to see, and the babirusa.
I've never seen a boar in the wild, so I've no preference for a model type to favour, it's interesting that your favourites are the ones which most match your local wild population. I suppose we all do that a bit, with models of species we know personally.
We do have boar in certain parts of the UK now, but I'm rather glad they haven't made it to my area - my old horse once had a panic attack and bolted down the middle of a road with me, because she saw tame pigs minding their own business in a field, so I dread to think how badly she'd have reacted if she'd ever come face to face with a grumpy wild boar!

Many wonderful figures.

Ooh the CollectA babirusa is a great size! It would look great with Safari's I think

George wrote:

What a nice mixture, the red river hog is great to see, and the babirusa.
I've never seen a boar in the wild, so I've no preference for a model type to favour, it's interesting that your favourites are the ones which most match your local wild population. I suppose we all do that a bit, with models of species we know personally.
We do have boar in certain parts of the UK now, but I'm rather glad they haven't made it to my area - my old horse once had a panic attack and bolted down the middle of a road with me, because she saw tame pigs minding their own business in a field, so I dread to think how badly she'd have reacted if she'd ever come face to face with a grumpy wild boar!

 Here, they are everywhere, even on the edges of town and we see them during the night in the the headlight and even during the day when the weather is so dry  they look for water. At the end of the spring, when I cross the "garrigues",  I walk loudly to avoid to surprise wild sowes with their pups! :)

Many thanks Andreas and Jolie!

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 from Starlux:

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Are the grey boars earlier Starlux? I have never seen them. They are also missing on TAW, I think. I think. They look better to me than the later boars.