The last LINEOL BActrian camel walkaround by Kikimalou

As I promised on the Modern Bactrian camels confrontation topic, here is a review of the last Bactrian camel made by LINEOL.

The German company made two different camels from 1920 to 1940, those venerable models are alas far from my shelves and too expensive for me now  

In 1940, LINEOL began a new animal serie and made a new Bactrian camel, the third one which I will have the pleasure to show you.

It was made in composition material as usual and molded on wires.

This model will be sold until 1960 when the LINEOL company collapsed. The VEB PLAHO Marolin used some models to build their own line, unfortunately not this Camel and calf...

About my Camel, it is not in Mint condition, the legs have been "repaired" a bit... Nevertheless, until I find a better one this one is really good enough to enjoy my shelves and heart   .

The figurine scale is between 1:22 and 1:28. So I choosed Mr. Tintin (1:25) to compare with.

Congrats fantastic models Kikimalou,

It's magnificent, glorious and poetic model! And in phenomenal walk around by Kikimalou with fantastic comparisons also

Great, great, great, best model of bactrian camel

Hooray for Lineol and thank You for sharing Christophe! And congratulations for having this treasure Lucky macaque

And I love the young one, is so adorable Also great to see it is more semi adult age then newborn, it's not often represented age in animal models

Phantastic Camel

You know the year- is it from Dresden?

Álvaro/schleich wrote:

Congrats fantastic models Kikimalou,        

Than you Alvaro   ...

ana wrote:

It's magnificent, glorious and poetic model! And in phenomenal walk around by Kikimalou with fantastic comparisons also          

Great, great, great, best model of bactrian camel  

Hooray for Lineol and thank You for sharing Christophe!   And congratulations for having this treasure   Lucky macaque    

And I love the young one, is so adorable   Also great to see it is more semi adult age then newborn, it's not often represented age in animal models    

Thank you Anna, I'm so happy you lile the review and the model of course  

widukind wrote:

Phantastic Camel      

You know the year- is it from Dresden?

Well, it never told me        As I said, this model was made from 1940 to 1960   So it could be 72 years old or at least 52 !

Phenomenal animals...
If only those gorgeous Lineols could be made in plastic one day...

skysthelimit wrote:

Phenomenal animals...
If only those gorgeous Lineols could be made in plastic one day...

I feel a little pain watching these photos and You Robert? These figures are too good to not have them

Anna, Robert I wish you a long collector life full of fantastic finds

ana wrote:

I feel a little pain watching these photos and You Robert? These figures are too good to not have them

Dear Anna, all in good time


Thanks Christophe

Christophe, it is so nice that you decided to make a walk arround about these 2 Lineol camels. It is a very competent figure, everything looks nicely sculpted and realistic. Good proportions, fantastic limbs, texture, etc. No needing of cuteness factor, weird and toyish proportions. That's natural design, the design of Nature! Sometimes when we are a little snappy with modern brands it is because we love the animals as they are and not as the companies think they should look to sell better. ...I don't want to think that sculptors from modern brands are not able of making better. To see the Lineol with the Schleich , for example, is painful. Mainly the head and legs arepoorly done. It is curious also to see the ears of the cute Schleich baby, never noticed it before. :roll:Well, once Schleich is really easy to find my wish was that the brand was more competent with their sculpting and I would have a nice camel with 6 Euros, but who can change the mind of a brand that has such an impressive success and that is defeated for new generations saying that everything is the best even when it is clear that is not? That's also the reason why I'm happy seeing more interesting sculpts like we are seeing these last years with Papo, Safari, CollectA and Mojo mainly and my hope of having a fantastic camel is not anymore delivered in a old figure, hard to find and not affordable for me.
I see that Papo camel is not as nice as Lineol, see the way Papo placed the legs to turn it in a shelf figure and how they are under the body in Lineol figure but I'm really satisfied with it, I have a very decent camel, much more realistic than Schleich or other modern and with an affordable price.

Gorgeous walkaround Christophe!! The Lineol is amazing. Thank you!

Thank you Roger and Scott

Kikimalou wrote:

Anna, Robert I wish you a long collector life full of fantastic finds

skysthelimit wrote:

ana wrote:

I feel a little pain watching these photos and You Robert? These figures are too good to not have them

Dear Anna, all in good time


Thanks Christophe

Thank You Robert and Christophe

It's seen that LINEOL BActrian camel is more accurate compared to modern maker...

Thanks Chris!!

I think I've fallen in love with these two, that foal is just a camel foal all over - they are both perfect models Thank you for posting beautiful photos of them Christophe

Great model as usual in Lineol, and yes, from the modern ones you showed, the papo seems to be the best indeed...

Thank you Willy... Sometimes older is better

Haha, who are you telling this?