Kikimalou's "Scale" collection - the 1/2 and 1/2.5 shelf - updated September 14 2024

What happens between the 1/1.5 and 1/3 floors?
Today it's time to discover my collections in 1/2 and 1/2.5 scale.
Why present both in the same topic? Because they live on the same shelf in my house.
There are fifty residents on 1/2, but there are only about twenty on 1/2.5, so I don't have enough room in my jungle to offer them each a shelf.

at 1/2, reptiles and amphibians are still very present but the contingent of mammals and extinct animals is increasing slightly.
This is also where I let you discover the horrible tortures I put some of my residents through. Fish or bats, they have to swim or fly. So I make them Colorata-style pedestals and pierce their bellies to make it work.
There's still a lot of work to do on the bases, so you can keep an eye on the adventures of a Papo bat and two Safari Ltd fish.

Norther Kenya: Kitan Club Naked mole-rat and Papo Nile crocodile hatchling
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Madagascar: Kaiyodo Madagascar giant day gecko and Yujin Malagasy rainbow frog
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Europe: Papo Brown long-eared bat
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Asia: Kaiyodo Red-clawed crabs, Hodgson's bat, Laxmann's shrew, Common leopard gecko and Daphnis nerii caterpillar, Kitan Club Schlegel's Japanese Gecko
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Australia: Kaiyodo Crested gecko, S&N Superb fairywren and Yujin Thorny devil
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Japan: Kaiyodo Bonin white-eye, Japanese dormouse, Japanese dormouse hibernating and Odaigahara salamander, Kitan Club Green Grass Lizards, Japanese Five-lined Skink adult and Sword-tail newt, Yujin Daruma Pond Frog, Forest green tree frog, Japanese Tree Frog and Stream brown frog
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Costa Rica: Takara female Golden toad, Yujin Helmeted Iguana and Red-eyed Tree Frog
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South America: Yujin Clown tree frog, Dyeing poison dart frog and Yellow-banded poison dart frog, Colorata Cranwell's horned frog
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Ocean: Colorata Barreleye, Safari Ltd Atlantic flyingfish and Common seadragon, Yujin Common clownfish, Fire goby, Whitetail dascyllus and Shuttles hoppfish, Kitan Club Hypselodoris bullocki and Kaiyodo Grass puffer
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Ancient seas: Kaiyodo Psychopyge, Pteraspis and Hemicyclaspis (All Devonian), PNSO Keichousaurus (Triassic) and Kaiyodo Eryon (Jurassic)
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Before KT: PNSO Nemicolopterus (Cretaceous) and Yujin Henkelotherium (Jurassic)
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More pics…

Kikimalou’s 1/2 Air Force
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Frogs
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Mammalians
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and Reptiles
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And now let's move on to the 1/2.5 tenants. With almost half the number of guests, the birds are making a notable entrance.
6 of them could live at 1/2 as fairly small representatives of their species, but I prefer to show them as normal-sized individuals.


Europe: Kitan Club Common kingfisher and Eurasian tree sparrow, Papo European robin and Great tit, Kaiyodo Common kingfisher
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Asia: Play Visions Boulenger's Asian tree toad, Yujin Tokay gecko and Dark-spotted frog, Kaiyodo Java sparrow and Owston's tit
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Australia: S&N Leadbeater's possum, Papo Emu chick, Kaiyodo Smooth knob-tailed gecko and Safari Ltd Budgerigar
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Japan: Kaiyodo Japanese freshwater crab, Japanese grass vole and Small Japanese mole
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Mexico: the lonely Yujin Common collared lizard
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Ocean: Bandai Japanese fan lobster and Epoch Floral egg crab
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More pics again !

Birds
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Crabs
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Mammals
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Reptiles
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At first glance, these scales may seem uninteresting, as they are neither lifesized nor close to the classic scales. However, it is perfectly evident that by creating this niche in your collection, you have managed to group together a series of marvelous figures of rare species. Furthermore, the magic of figures being in scale does not necessarily reside in the popularity of the scale but rather in the fact that it makes different figures establish a realistic correspondence between the different sizes of the most diverse creatures. It is as if the figures chose the scale in which to inhabit and not the scale chose the figures, and this gives an almost infinite freedom to your way of collecting.

Lots to enjoy in your photos. I especially like the bird comparison photos. The Papos work well with the Japanese figures. The difference in style isn't obvious.

The superb fairywren has such a funny name. As if it was invented by a salesman!

What is the idea behind the frog on the fish in the sixth photo? Is the frog having a free rider or is it attacking the fish?

Like you, I need to make better bases for several of my models like the Kitans with pedestal. The bottlecap for the bat is perfect for comparisons with the Kaiyodo bottlecap series. Your bases have progressed much more than mine!

Roger wrote:

At first glance, these scales may seem uninteresting, as they are neither lifesized nor close to the classic scales. However, it is perfectly evident that by creating this niche in your collection, you have managed to group together a series of marvelous figures of rare species. Furthermore, the magic of figures being in scale does not necessarily reside in the popularity of the scale but rather in the fact that it makes different figures establish a realistic correspondence between the different sizes of the most diverse creatures. It is as if the figures chose the scale in which to inhabit and not the scale chose the figures, and this gives an almost infinite freedom to your way of collecting.

No scale is uninterresting for me  There are even no less than two STS figures of the year at 1/2.5.
Indeed in my collection I am the one who choose the figures but they certainly choose the scale in which to inhabit  

rogerpgvg wrote:

Lots to enjoy in your photos. I especially like the bird comparison photos. The Papos work well with the Japanese figures. The difference in style isn't obvious.

The superb fairywren has such a funny name. As if it was invented by a salesman!

What is the idea behind the frog on the fish in the sixth photo? Is the frog having a free rider or is it attacking the fish?

Like you, I need to make better bases for several of my models like the Kitans with pedestal. The bottlecap for the bat is perfect for comparisons with the Kaiyodo bottlecap series. Your bases have progressed much more than mine!

I like very much the all birds picture.
Superb fairywren ! Resplendant quetzal ! Indeed some birds certainly have a good marketing team  
If I'm not mistaken, it seems that the Stream brown frog males sometimes confuse fish with females.
I am now trying to made Fimo bases but mine are a bit to thick.

You have a great talent to find species at unusal scales who fit well together and above all to shoot them beautifully!

 Each of your pictures is a real pleasure for eyes!


 You don't have the Papo kingfisher?

Thank you for your kind words Alain and your kind emoji Jean-Luc  

Of course I have the Papo Kingfisher, it is leaving in the 1/3 floor.   You will see it soon

I like the group of frogs, ....splendid photos.

The frogs are very happy to please you

Many many beauties

Thank you Andreas

Many beautiful,rare and varied models!!!!!!

Thank you Taylor

Kikimalou wrote:

If I'm not mistaken, it seems that the Stream brown frog males sometimes confuse fish with females.

I see, love makes blind!