Country/State : Finland Age : 28 Joined : 2012-07-23 Posts : 5657
Subject: Re: Show us Yours...Hippos! July 2013 Sat Jan 04, 2014 12:58 pm
Great hippos, kiki
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Country/State : Lille, FRANCE Age : 60 Joined : 2010-04-01 Posts : 21191
Subject: Re: Show us Yours...Hippos! July 2013 Sat Jan 04, 2014 9:33 pm
Thank you Andreas and Jonas
Ana
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Subject: Re: Show us Yours...Hippos! July 2013 Sat Jan 04, 2014 10:05 pm
Only 27? Oh Christophe, they surely feel lonely. You need at least 270, don't you?
Just kidding, wonderful collection Kiki! . My fav is Durso, fantastic "modern" shapes, would look awesome in hippo 1:1 scale. It's shapes (or the way they are simplified) remind me a bit of the Oscar statuette
And excuse me but this Pfeifer Elastolin looks like small barking dog
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SUSANNE Admin
Country/State : Denmark, the peninsula of Djursland. Age : 72 Joined : 2010-09-30 Posts : 37808
Subject: Re: Show us Yours...Hippos! July 2013 Sat Jan 04, 2014 10:36 pm
Wonderful hippos, Christophe !!!!
As always the Starlux ones catch my eye...they have that unspecified "something" in abundance
Country/State : Hampshire, UK Age : 60 Joined : 2014-01-04 Posts : 279
Subject: Re: Show us Yours...Hippos! July 2013 Wed Feb 12, 2014 2:17 pm
These are currently in UK branches of Tiger, I don't know if it's a multinational but it seems to be a Scandinavian concern? IKEA without the furniture! It comes in this imperial blue and a dark jade green but the sculpt is very realistic and a bit of paint would....
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SUSANNE Admin
Country/State : Denmark, the peninsula of Djursland. Age : 72 Joined : 2010-09-30 Posts : 37808
Subject: Re: Show us Yours...Hippos! July 2013 Wed Feb 12, 2014 2:48 pm
What a great hippo
TIGER has nothing to do with IKEA. IKEA is Swedish, TIGER is Danish .
It opened in Copenhagen in 1995, but now has around 300 shops in Europe and Japan.
The name is a play with words, - TI'ER is slang for a 10 Kroner-coin , as they started as a 10-kr outlet 10 Danish kroner is app one GBP, the other Schandinavian 10' ers a bit less.
Country/State : Hampshire, UK Age : 60 Joined : 2014-01-04 Posts : 279
Subject: Re: Show us Yours...Hippos! July 2013 Wed Feb 12, 2014 3:18 pm
Thanks for that Susanne, I didn't think they were the same, just that Tiger is cheap with quality and the sort of stuff IKEA have in the 'market place' area. History of foreign companies is always interesting...so they were like US 5&10's or our modern pound shops!
They also have some lovely (real) insects in perspex at £1 each including a small scorpion! The ethics are questionable, but I assume they are bred for research or something and get a humane death?
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JonasV
Country/State : Finland Age : 28 Joined : 2012-07-23 Posts : 5657
Subject: Re: Show us Yours...Hippos! July 2013 Wed Feb 12, 2014 4:55 pm
Nice hippo!
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Subject: Re: Show us Yours...Hippos! July 2013 Wed Feb 26, 2014 6:52 pm
Country/State : Nottinghamshire England Age : 68 Joined : 2012-04-10 Posts : 1392
Subject: Re: Show us Yours...Hippos! July 2013 Sat Jun 02, 2018 12:37 pm
Amazing posts here - thanks everyone for sharing. One of my latest models is this Tomy Ania Hippopotamus number T16048. With this model one has the option of closed or open mouth: