Kikimalou's "Scale" collection - 1/15 shelves - updated March 17 2023

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]: Sincerely I don't know where you read I haven't any animals in 1/24 scale.     But yes Rogério, I never told you but I don't have 1/24 shelves, I only have 1/25 ones.  
I have even more 1/25 than 1/22 animals, but no Noah's Pals or Breyer Paddock Pal ! This place is full of  Japanese things, Safari Ltd, CollectA and even a few Starlux and Preiser
About the 1/15 scale I fear to disappoint you, I have no focus on this one. As I said, I try to buy the models that I like regardless of their scale.
For the big critters, I think the Wildlife Wonders rhino and hippo should do the trick, but check it out. The WW Asian Elephant may have to work for a small specimen. This involves space and, in my case, an extra shelf. I only have two hippos in this collection but on the other hand there are already five white rhinos squatting on the shelves.
Well, at the same time, what is tempting is to have some BIG animals like the bison to create contrast. I should think about it.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]: I understand your disinterest for the Colorata even if some could frankly delight you. There are still two boxes that are really made for you, the reptile box and the sea turtle box. You must go for them.  
HKH isn't a brand, these are the initials of one of the very first members of STS, I named Harriet Knibbs Hollinstone, our friend is a great artist and it's not the last model of her you will see in this topic. The thing with the oryx is Harriet asked me about it during the process and I had the great chance to give my two cents, I feel a bit like a godfather when I look at him  

Ah OK Thank you Christophe! :)

It's really cool to read about someone else's thought process when taking the scales seriously. Great work!

OmegaZero wrote:

It's really cool to read about someone else's thought process when taking the scales seriously. Great work!

welcome here

Welcome OmegaZero, thank you.

Stay tune I will post pics and thought about my 1/18 shelves this week-end

Just saw this topic, really amazing! Thank you!

Thanks for the welcome. I look forward to seeing your 1:18 as well.

I love this kind of thread, very informative!

Since I added the Mojo Red Kangaroo bull, my 1/15 Australian family need an update.

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Very beautiful 1/15 scale batch!

It's interesting to see how small the tree kangaroo is compared to the other kangaroos. The two platypus look great. Who made them? It looks like the koala and grey kangaroo are also very intrigued by them.

Which Tree kangaroo Roger ? You mean the Yellow-footed rock-wallaby ?

About the Platypus, they are Noah's Pals "1/25" and teh Grey kanfaroo who survey themis a Red-necked wallaby.

By the way, I splitted my topic in two, on for the 1/15 and one for 1/18. I will show another scale next week

So nice to see other Australian animal figures which fit nicely with the Southlands. What about the other Southlands models, you don't have them or they do not fit at this scale in your opinion? I'm not asking the platypus, I know it is somewhat large and it is a good idea to use the Noah's Pals.
thanks for giving an individual topic for each scale, it is much nicer like that.

Superb figures and photos! Those red roo bucks look ready to rumble. 

Ah, yes, rock wallaby, I was confused. I thought the platypuses had a Noah's Pals style, but I thought that couldn't be right because of the scale.

Roger wrote:

So nice to see other Australian animal figures which fit nicely with the Southlands. What about the other Southlands models, you don't have them or they do not fit at this scale in your opinion? I'm not asking the platypus, I know it is somewhat large and it is a good idea to use the Noah's Pals.
thanks for giving an individual topic for each scale, it is much nicer like that.

I have all the Southlands except the horses. The others are in their places in their respective scales. In fact I decided to trade my opinions for measuring instruments

rogerpgvg wrote:

Ah, yes, rock wallaby, I was confused. I thought the platypuses had a Noah's Pals style, but I thought that couldn't be right because of the scale.

Roger, you know like me that you shouldn't believe what the brands say about scales

Saarlooswolfhound wrote:

Superb figures and photos! Those red roo bucks look ready to rumble. 

Yes, they told me there must be only one… I say NO !

It is interesting. My local collector friends are interested in the scales

This has been really interesting to read so far, and you have a beautiful collection and eye for matching styles. This type of collecting is I think on the far end of the spectrum from how I collect, and so it is a look into a very different kind of brain than my own! Scale is too much math for me to even feel remotely interested in collecting by it, but seeing them together in the correct scale, I begin to understand the appeal. I have always been much more interested in only how the individual looks and not how it looks alongside others--or, it mattered how it looked alongside its own kin, in a complete set for instance. Or maybe a good way to say it is my display and collecting style accentuates them as figures and toys, and this moves them into something else, more diorama or illusion of reality. This creates a museum effect, something artistic and intentional. I loved hearing how you make choices, and I can see where especially the contrasting styles could make choices difficult. I look forward to seeing more, because I think I will enjoy looking at the result of someone else's loving labor more than I would ever enjoy doing it myself.

Great photo and lovely models!

Thank you Andreas and Taylor  

Jill wrote:

This has been really interesting to read so far, and you have a beautiful collection and eye for matching styles. This type of collecting is I think on the far end of the spectrum from how I collect, and so it is a look into a very different kind of brain than my own! Scale is too much math for me to even feel remotely interested in collecting by it, but seeing them together in the correct scale, I begin to understand the appeal. I have always been much more interested in only how the individual looks and not how it looks alongside others--or, it mattered how it looked alongside its own kin, in a complete set for instance. Or maybe a good way to say it is my display and collecting style accentuates them as figures and toys, and this moves them into something else, more diorama or illusion of reality. This creates a museum effect, something artistic and intentional. I loved hearing how you make choices, and I can see where especially the contrasting styles could make choices difficult. I look forward to seeing more, because I think I will enjoy looking at the result of someone else's loving labor more than I would ever enjoy doing it myself.

There's a misunderstanding about what I'm actually doing Jill and it's probably my fault.    We're not as far away as you think.  
In reality, I don't collect by scale, that's absolutely not what motivates my choices. Collecting is for me a love affair between a figurine and me, that's all.

I know you follow my thread about my additions: I have a crush on very varied, vintage, very very vintage, mainstream, Japanese, Chinese or improbable figurines.  
On the other hand, I don't like to "collect" in boxes, my little darlings have to be exposed.

The appearance of the individual is therefore essential for me, but the appearance of my collection is just as important. I build it as one builds a “cabinet of curiosities”. Each piece of the puzzle must have enough interest in itself but the whole puzzle must still transcend all that, be much more than the sum of small wonders but a "wonder" in itself. At least I try  
Like you, I seek to create a museum effect, something artistic and intentional.
So what to do when you have a herd of thousands heads and you have to show them to the public in the best possible way? There are plenty of possibilities and all are fine… Only you have to choose.  
For a few years I divided my collection into four, then into five by force of circumstance. There is my collection of vintage Compositions, vintage Metals and vintage plastics. in these three collections the animals are not presented by scale or by brand but in a joyful and very studied jumble (unfortunately two of these three collections are for the moment partly boxed but I do not despair of finding a real solution before the end of the year).
There is also a last mysterious collection, the one I call the Hobbit collection because I didn't choose it, because it gradually imposed itself on me and makes me think of Bilbo the Hobbit “an unexpected journey”.

Finally, for the modern miniatures, I chose to present them by scale, that's all, I don't collect by scale, it's just a presentation, even if it takes time.
In fact, presenting the figurines by scales is the best way to free myself from scales.
Nothing annoys me more in this hobby than comments like “too big” or “too small”, for who? Why ? At one time I even made my walkarounds or photos for TAW, absolutely avoiding anything that could indicate the size of the model, to be sure not to read these laconic comments “too big!” "Too small!". I am convinced that our little toys deserve better than that.

I had not forgotten your incredible vintage collection by any means! It is full of pieces that have inspired me in that direction in my own collection, and absolutely I can imagine them together as a curated museum. A different type of museum--not a natural history one, like I imagine these scale projects, but one about history and artistry. More I was thinking of these scale exhibitions as one piece of your collecting--and I see what you mean, scale is not so much how you collect, but how you display, and that works out very nicely in the end, it seems! You pick out figures that appeal regardless of their scale and then find a home for them. For me, though, it hardly matters--either way is too much for me. It is like a puzzle, and I am very bad at puzzles and precision. I like to enjoy the end product completed by someone else. Your motivations for determining scale are interesting. I have not been in the collecting community long enough to hear any debate about sizes and scales (or I haven't paid attention to them, because maybe they are less relevant to my areas of interest), but what a clever answer to the idea altogether. Thank you for elaborating, I never get tired of hearing the particulars of why people collect what they do. My idea of collecting had always been "get all of the set" (or at least all of the sets you like), because I had always collected things that came in sets.

You Hobbit collection sounds really interesting! I'm glad to hear that they all get to be on display and not in boxes. I am also envious, but I suppose that comes from curation and careful selection.