Your collections... now - First part

WHISH MARK IS THE CALAO?

This is how I arranged my wildlife part of the collection for now)
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Also a very nice collection Daria    

widukind wrote:

Also a very nice collection Daria    

Thank you Andreas!

Beautyful collection, and marvellous display, Daria  

I love the way you display and the display shelves too, Daria!

Great display, and indeed a good idea to keep them in a 'cage', to avoid the dust  And yours are completely transparent, that's really nice.

Been a while since I have posted pictures here. I have been so busy with work lately, my collection has been very busy too.

New White Tail Deer
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New Red deer and Roebucks
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I have decided to start collecting Moose, along with some new Elks
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I also added Big Horn Rams/Mouflons and Hyenas, along with a few birds
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New Foxes
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New Wolves
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Here is what my Mammal collection looked like back in January...
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...and now!
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Of course, I now face the eternal enemy of collectors everywhere...shelf space! I don't really have room for a single figure on those shelves, and I still have a huge trade in its finalization! Ah, the woes of animal figure collectors! lol

Gold eagle, You have a fantastic colection! In particular I love, love, love your deer!!!!!   

Beautiful shelves   Could you make a comparison topi between the SAFARI Ltd 2013 elk and the one on the left border of your pic ?

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GOSH ! How your collection has expanded , - absolutely stunning collection. 

And welcome in the shelf-space-club  

Wonderful shelves Amanda:-)

You have a very cool room setup, and those gargoyles are wicked  

Thank you all for your kind words, so happy you like the new critters too

Kiki, here are the elk pictures. The guy on the left is a Tree House Kids figure.

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Last two also have the old Safari Elk for comparison
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Great displays, lots of wonderful animals there and nicely put together. That Treehouse Kids elk is quite nice I think

whats with the animal pelt!??  that's so sad

Tiermann wrote:

Great displays, lots of wonderful animals there and nicely put together. That Treehouse Kids elk is quite nice I think

Thanks Tiermann glad you like him! :)

weaselfan93 wrote:

whats with the animal pelt!??  that's so sad

Sorry, Weaselfan, I didn't mean to offend. I didn't kill that blonde coyote, the pelt is probably older than me. I just found it beautiful.

GoldEagle wrote:

I didn't kill that blonde coyote, the pelt is probably older than me. I just found it beautiful.

I find it quite interesting. I just presumed it was a fur fox skin, but that's quite neat if he's a proper wild coyote. Is he ..leukistic, I guess the word would be - or are there more appropriate terms for that degree of blondness? Is that kind of variety in pigmentation common in (your local..?) coyotes, do you know?

GoldEagle wrote:

weaselfan93 wrote:

whats with the animal pelt!??  that's so sad

Sorry, Weaselfan, I didn't mean to offend. I didn't kill that blonde coyote, the pelt is probably older than me. I just found it beautiful.

I'm a post(wo)man, postlady(?), what's the word? I don't know,
But I walk the streets for hours and I find dead animals on my walk all the time.
Sometimes it's mice, rats, moles, birds, beetles, insects and sometimes cats.... yeah it's sad.

But in my teens I would pick up any dead animal and bring it home so I could boil it and get the bare skull or a a birdwing from a dead bird. (Thanks to my grandpa (R.I.P.) who was a great animal lover and always had a switchblade on him for these collector occasions and taught me how to do it.)

I don't collect animal parts like I did then, but still until this day I pick up beautiful bird feathers.
And if I would run into a coyote pelt on my walk, I know for sure I would bring it home and hang it on my wall!

koniminiatures wrote:

GoldEagle wrote:

I didn't kill that blonde coyote, the pelt is probably older than me. I just found it beautiful.

I find it quite interesting. I just presumed it was a fur fox skin, but that's quite neat if he's a proper wild coyote. Is he ..leukistic, I guess the word would be - or are there more appropriate terms for that degree of blondness? Is that kind of variety in pigmentation common in (your local..?) coyotes, do you know?

When I purchased the pelt, the man told me it was a young blonde coyote, but sadly he didn't tell me where he got it so I have no idea if it came from Minnesota or not. Most the coyotes I see around here (they are very common in this area, and are often heard yipping and howling in the night) are more normally colored, although I once saw one with really dark brown fur, almost thought he was a wolf. I'm sure, given our large population, that we have some blondes around here as well.
Blonde fur, like white or black fur, is usually called a "color morph" meaning its a different shade of fur than the species normally has.

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I'm a post(wo)man, postlady(?), what's the word? I don't know,
But I walk the streets for hours and I find dead animals on my walk all the time.
Sometimes it's mice, rats, moles, birds, beetles, insects and sometimes cats.... yeah it's sad.

But in my teens I would pick up any dead animal and bring it home so I could boil it and get the bare skull or a a birdwing from a dead bird. (Thanks to my grandpa (R.I.P.) who was a great animal lover and always had a switchblade on him for these collector occasions and taught me how to do it.)

I don't collect animal parts like I did then, but still until this day I pick up beautiful bird feathers.  
And if I would run into a coyote pelt on my walk, I know for sure I would bring it home and hang it on my wall![/quote]

I did the same thing when I was younger, still have a few deer skulls from my finds. I would like to share my bone and fur collection here in the "other collections" topic, but I'm afraid I might offend someone. I always thought of them as educational and excellent drawing references.

It's recycling at its best!  
As long as these animals died of natural causes, I have absolutely no problem with somebody collecting some parts that otherwise would've been eaten by scavangers or ran over by car wheels.
I can enjoy the beauty of a living deer in the wild as much as I can enjoy the beauty of a deer skull.

GoldEagle wrote:

Thank you all for your kind words, so happy you like the new critters too

Kiki, here are the elk pictures. The guy on the left is a Tree House Kids figure.

Thank you  

  And now I can't decide which one I prefer  

The Tree House Kids figure is quite nice! (Sooooo much better than the old safari elk, which I always loathed. The new one is great though.)

(The pelt is also very pretty.)

GoldEagle wrote:

I would like to share my bone and fur collection here in the "other collections" topic, but I'm afraid I might offend someone.

I, for one, would be interested in seeing people's real specimen collections. I don't know how bothered one ought to be about offending somebody's sensitivities with that sort of thing; people see dead animals proudly displayed every time they set foot in a supermarket, and few keep getting offended by that.

I managed to find and put up my first couple of proper shelves today. They're proper only in the sense that they aren't random horizontal surface found in the house, which is what usually houses my shifting collection - the frames of these are metal alright, but the shelvelets the models are stood on are made out of the kind of plastic one finds tomatos sold in in shops. Not sturdy, not secure, so why not put my Kaiyodos and some very, very brittle skulls on them: