Baiji - Lipotes vexilifer - Yangtze River Dolphin

Some weeks ago i was browsing Willybacoman's Collection and i found this unusual dolphin figurine by an unknown chinese manufacterer:
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I decided to see another species in this model than a bottlenose dolphin as what it was labeled.
I wanted it to become a Baiji. Afterwards, it would have been easier to make a Sousa chinensis of it.
But i wanted it to become a river dolphin.
Lipotes vexilifer is functionally extinct, it doesn't matter, if there are some single specimens left or not, they can't save the species, their environment is polluted and more a traffic infrastructure than one of the most interesting river ecosystems ever existed in the wild.
The Baiji is very popular, while it's still living relatives as the Ganges Dolphin also disappear, we regret to have lost one species and forget to force efforts to save the still existing.
Even in the Yangtze, there are still critically endangered finless porpoises (Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis) swimming. Some are captive exactly where the best-known Baiji l (Qi Qi) lived until 2002:
the Dolphinarium at Wuhan Institute of Hydrobiology. A small, sometimes not well-filtered indoor pool.
And as an effect of this, most of our impressions of the species remaining are affected by the lighting conditions in the dolphinarium and the special habitus of one single male.
When one browses other exiting pictures, the species showed different colours, from white to blueish grey. So i tried to paint it at least appropriate, but in the end, my "ResculptRepaintRemodel-Baiji" is mainly influenced by Pictures of Qi Qi. I know paintwork could be better, also sculpting. But river dolphins are full of scars and plump but flexible, so i had some extra tolerance for my first work ever,...
Some milestones:
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Taiji-Baiji
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QiQi:
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Good job!!! Congratulations for your 1. work!!

widukind wrote:

Good job!!! Congratulations for your 1. work!!

There's no pic of the finished model yet I need some sunlight. But thank you either.

Can´t wait to see the result!

Looking good Philipp!

SyLoBe wrote:

Can´t wait to see the result!

So am I

Looking good. Can't wait to see it finished.

OMG, what did you do to my beautifull bottlenose dolphin???
No no, just joking my friend, it seems that you can clear the job, and at the end it will look great, i am sure of that!

It looks good so far, I can't wait to see the final effect :) Congratulations for starting Your first custom Philipp

extinced animal.....never can see alive now.

Sorry for the delay, but here we go:
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I am not entirely happy with it, as i like to have thinner flipper and a better fluke, i'd also like to have a better pose as river dolphins are very agile animals. They have to be. but it's a remodel and greenstuff (modeling clay e.g. Warhammer_Gamers use) isn't the best for it.
So what, i like it:D
Here a shot with its PV finless porpoise, PV Amazon river Dolphin and Animal Planet Boto Colleagues:
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Your great job is finished!!! Congrats Phillip!!

Great work,Philipp! Congratulations!

Very beautiful! It´s really well done!

wonderful it is gorgeous

Looks amazing. Great resculpt.

Sculpting and re-modelling is not easy Philipp, but you still made a fantastic creature back to life again!

It's fantastic Philipp, you've done a great job! Congratulations

Very good attempt Philipp I love to see custom models and the brave you made them

This is really great wok :)

Thank you so much for your diplomatic statements.

Haha, diplomatic, no no my friend, there are much worser re-sculpts!

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

Haha, diplomatic, no no my friend, there are much worser re-sculpts!

Finally the possibility for this:
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