Bonnie's Collection- Final Update Wolves!

Like Rogério, I turned back to collect animal replicas with big cats (from safari, then Papo when this brand appeared) At the biginning, I just wanted to collect wild cats then, I added wild dogs, then bears, weasels, viverrids (civets mongooses, genets..), then bovids, deers, rhino, elephants, hippo, camels, then crocs, varans and snakes and so and so, and now I buy also fishes, insects, spiders.. addict at all!

TAKE CARE Bonnie!

Thank you Alain!
This hobby really is addicting, I completely agree, and I can just imagine how your collection must have grown and grown!
Which is why I told myself, I had to only collect dogs and some wild dogs and the occasional animal that may appeal...
But as you say it is just so tempting! Even with dogs, there a thousands and thousands and thousands of figures
Sometimes I wonder whether collecting leaf-tailed geckos would have been easier
But of course I don't regret my decision on dogs, I love them so so much, but I'll take your advice as there are many many other animals!

I expected your collection to be only focused on dogs, I see that it is not !

That's a very diversified collection, especially as far as brands are concerned, you have a lot of figures I had never seen before. But I was also very surprised to see other models that I owned too but never knew what brand they were nor remembered how I got them !

Especially this croc on the bottom right hand corner
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I also would like to thank you for this picture, I laughed a lot at it because it completely destroys the belief that scale is respected within a brand ! I have the okapi and the bison you are showing but never realised how the first one looked ridiculously gigantic and the second one ridiculously small when you put them together
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However, I look forward to see the core of your collection : dogs. I guess you are keeping them for the end. I do not collect dogs figures but I do love dogs and dogs' diversity so it is surely going to interest me.

Thank you very much Lilias! :)

RtasVadumee wrote:

I expected your collection to be only focused on dogs, I see that it is not !

That's a very diversified collection, especially as far as brands are concerned, you have a lot of figures I had never seen before. But I was also very surprised to see other models that I owned too but never knew what brand they were nor remembered how I got them !

Especially this croc on the bottom right hand corner
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I also would like to thank you for this picture, I laughed a lot at it because it completely destroys the belief that scale is respected within a brand ! I have the okapi and the bison you are showing but never realised how the first one looked ridiculously gigantic and the second one ridiculously small when you put them together
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However, I look forward to see the core of your collection : dogs. I guess you are keeping them for the end. I do not collect dogs figures but I do love dogs and dogs' diversity so it is surely going to interest me.

Thank you so much !
I actually only switched to being a dog collector this year, which is why I have lots of animals from the other years I've spent collecting But as you said I'm saving the dogs until last, which will get their own topic! I can't believe you also had the crocodile! I'm afraid he's lost all legs and was passed down from my parents, but I never thought that anyone else would have found him! I've just realised that about the okapi and bison too!

Wonderful models

Perhaps it´s just the background or the light, but your okapi looks better than the promo pictures or the model on TAW

Thank you so much Megaptera and Duck-Anch-Amun!
And that's funny about my okapi- I'm not sure why that is- maybe it is the lighting! Or I was just lucky!

That’s interesting about the okapi. Could you please check where is your okapi made in?

It says 'Made in China'- I'm not sure if that helps!

Now for the birds- part 1!
Again there is a variety, I was deciding whether the few at the back would be classed as plush, which they probably are, but I showed them anyway! There are lots of Christmas tree decorations, with a beautiful robin, the only downside being it's hanger! On the right is an AAA duck and goose, I love the little chicks between their feet . Then there are the In My Pocket ducks with buckets and spades, too cute for most but a favourite toy of mine which I have had for many years! And then there are the birds built for dolls houses, which I'd love to draw your attention to. They are front left, and so extraordinarily small so as to be in scale with the house, but also so nicely done, from the sculpt to the detail of the paint! To give you a sense of size, the blue tit is about a quarter of my finger nail!! And I think he deserved a second photo, to appreciate the detail on such a tiny model! Then a lovely par of mallard ducks, I would really recommend buying animals made for dolls houses, even though some can be small they are very high on quality and you can find some really lovely figures, mainly domestic but there are some exceptions- there are some really sweet dogs ! I'd recommend the brands 'Streets Ahead' and 'The Dolls House Emporium'- both make lovely little animals in a variety of smaller scales.
Anyway, here they are:
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And the teeny tiny blue tit and the canary (So tiny I couldn't quite stand him up but hopefully you can just about see!), very sorry for the bad photos!
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Nice bird collection

Thank you so much Andreas!

Looks like that blue tit would have the adequate size for fit into my collection!

Beautiful birds, especially the AAA duck and goose,

congrats.

Bonnie wrote:

Thank you Alain!
This hobby really is addicting, I completely agree, and I can just imagine how your collection must have grown and grown!
Which is why I told myself, I had to only collect dogs and some wild dogs and the occasional animal that may appeal...
But as you say it is just so tempting! Even with dogs, there a thousands and thousands and thousands of figures
Sometimes I wonder whether collecting leaf-tailed geckos would have been easier
But of course I don't regret my decision on dogs, I love them so so much, but I'll take your advice as there are many many other animals!

So you are a bigger collector than me I don’t collect dogs, only occasional animals that may appeal and my displays are too crowded

Thank you so much Pardofelis, Fernando and Christophe!
That's interesting about the blue tit Pardofelis, is your collection all to scale with each other? Because if it is, the blue tit would definitely fit, it's tiny!
And I'll learn from you Christophe, I think the same will happen to me, I'll tell myself only the occasional animal and all dogs, but I'm not sure how long I will be able to resist! But I think I'll be more selective too, because up until now I collected all animals, but I think that hopefully things won't become too overcrowded if from here onwards I'm focused only on dogs!
But I fear my 'occasional animal', like you, may still lead to shelves overcrowding !

interesting these so tiny birds which could fit with our standart scales! :)

Thank you so much Caracal!
I too love the tiny birds, because it means they can perch on a lion or be displayed next to a hippo without looking completely out of scale!

Interesting array of bird figures Lilias

Thank you Adam!

You sertanly have a great collection Bonnie

Thank you so much Ivar!

Wonderful passerine birds

Thank you so much Megaptera!