Show us yours: Butterflies and Moths!

landrover wrote:

Variety and color , esplendid set.

Not really, quite disappointing when you realize they are just copies of K&M Figures. A step down for Insect Lore, considering their very nice and original insect life cycle. Still, most of these can be identified to the species level. Just don't think Insect Lore did their due diligence here...

Here are three more that I made:
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LAMBDINA FISCELLARIA

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CARIPETA DIVISATA

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CATOCALA BRISAEIS

Nice again

Nice too

Bowhead Whale wrote:

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Epelis Truncataria

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Heliconius erato

My first arthropod is a homemade butterfly, Rajah Brooke's birdwing (Trogonoptera brookiana), male. 2,2 cm wingspan, so about 1:8 scale

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very good! congratulations for the painting!

Good work

WOW! Someone else who makes lepidopterans!

"new"

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newcomers

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I wanted a challenge, something that I can do with air drying paste but would be more difficult with baking paste: try to do "even smaller". Being passionate about insects since my early childhood, it's unfair to have a model collection where basically all models are not insects. But this is logic: I don't want to have models whose scale is too strikingly different compared with my other models, and with insects very few are enough big for made them in a matching scale. But here is it...

The death's hawk moth, Acherontia atropos. The biggest and heaviest hawk moth of Europe (where is present only in warm months, migrating to Africa for the winter). It measures about 12 mm wingspan, making it roughly in 1:10 scale.

It's a very curious figure. Body is made with WePam, wings with a CollectA's tag, legs with wire, with a base of glue for secure them, and antennae are made of... my nails

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I also wanted to do a realistic underside of the wings, something that many toy makers often don't consider when making butterflies and moths.
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Here with a ruler (in centimeters) for see the size.
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Also a free ride in Safari's wild boar can let us to appreciate the size. But I'm not sure of what thinks the boar about that.
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These are all my insects for now. Logically I only can make big species.
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Impressive work Big congratulation for the idea, the result and your great imagination about how to find the right material

Really painstaking work

Goodness- wow!!!
What a fantastic idea, ! And all those tiny details, and it looks so realistic!

Very nice

So small but so detailed, and just wonderful

Thanks a lot to my English, French and German friends for your kind words

My new Atlas moth:

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Wonderful bugs but none of them fits actually with the Diana monkey do they ?

Hahahahahhahahahah

Well judge yourself:
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The moth is at 1:10 scale :)

Well done, I got "checkmated", I have no other choice but go harakiri in order to keep my honour in defeat.

Very nice moth Pardo Could you show a making of ?