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Re: Marine Life
« Reply #160 on Apr 24, 2011, 5:03am »

Apr 23, 2011, 8:38am, brontodocus wrote:
So do you like this set more than the Sharks of the World Box? I remember that you once told me you were a little disappointed of the (standard) sharks box.


Well I like them equally, the reason why I was so disappointed was because I thought the figures would be a little bigger, oh well.
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« Reply #161 on Apr 24, 2011, 11:36pm »
Ah, okay. At least the DX boxes give us mostly quite large, albeit fewer figures.

While I'm waiting for my NekoWorks Angel Shark, I painted some of the ones I already have. :)

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Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, 1765); Basking Shark, model No. NKWS-20. Length 97 mm, scale approx. 1:52 - 1:101. Human figure is 1:87 scale.

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Isurus oxyrinchus (Rafinesque, 1810); Mako Shark, model No. NKWS-13. Length 95 mm, scale approx. 1:28 - 1:42. Human figure is approx. 1:41 - 1:46 scale.

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Odontaspis ferox (Risso, 1810); (Smalltooth) Sandtiger Shark, model No. NKWS-11. Length 100 mm, scale approx. 1:36 - 1:41. Human figure is approx. 1:41 - 1:46 scale. The model was perhaps intended to represent Carcharias taurus Rafinesque, 1810, but especially the forward position of the first dorsal suggests O. ferox instead.

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Somniosus microcephalus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801); Greenland Shark, model No. NKWS-06. Length 86 mm, scale approx. 1:28 - 1:85. Human figure is. 1:72 scale.

And, yes, the new human scale figure is from shapeways.
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« Reply #162 on Apr 25, 2011, 9:21am »
:) I especially like the Greenland Shark ..... and Grandpa in his summer outfit ;D.
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Re: Marine Life
« Reply #163 on Apr 25, 2011, 1:43pm »

Apr 25, 2011, 9:21am, postsaurischian wrote:
:) I especially like the Greenland Shark ..... and Grandpa in his summer outfit ;D.


And, of course, the Greenland is discontinued. For some reason they discontinue the rarer-made sharks.
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Re: Marine Life
« Reply #164 on Jun 4, 2011, 6:51pm »

Finally my Colorata Marine Mammals DX box arrived :D!

Thy could have also called it the 'Whales DX box'.
The figures are excellent, just as the DX Sharks are - the pics don't really do them justice.
Now let's hope for a Dinosaurs DX box ;D.

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Sperm Whale .....
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Killer Whale .....
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Bottle-nosed Dolphin & Pacific White-sided Dolphin .....
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Gray Whale .....
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Right Whale .....
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Humpback Whale .....
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Blue Whale .....
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Blue Whale & Humpback Whale each have two kinds of lower-jaw joints. Either in their normal closed or open feeding position :).
Here's the Blue for example:

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« Reply #165 on Jun 4, 2011, 7:39pm »
Mine recently arrived too! I haven't had the chance to open them yet, believe it or not.

Good to hear from you, Helge. I'd been wondering how you were. :) I had my share of computer troubles fairly recently myself; it can be pretty infuriating...
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« Reply #166 on Jun 4, 2011, 9:56pm »
Really nice figures, great detail, great pictures!
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Re: Marine Life
« Reply #167 on Jun 4, 2011, 10:51pm »
Excellent! :D And great to see you back, Helge. :) And I'm really looking forward to get these. Assuming the bases are identical with those of the DX Sharks it seems that the Blue Whale is even larger than the DX Whale Shark.

Oh, and it's about time to show photos of these:

Capsule Aquarium 3 - Shinagawa Aquarium by Kaiyodo

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No. 5 Enchelycore pardalis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846); Tiger Moray.

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No. 6 Pterois volitans (Linnaeus, 1758); Lionfish.

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No. 7 Carcharhinus brachyurus (Günther, 1870); Copper Shark.

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No. 8 Pseudocarcinus gigas (Lamarck, 1818); Tasmanian Giant Crab.

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No. 9 Carettochelys insculpta Ramsay, 1886; Pig-Nosed Turtle.

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No. 10 Spheniscus humboldti Meyen, 1834; Humboldt Penguin.

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No. 11 Phoca largha Pallas, 1811; Spotted Seal.

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No. 12 Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758); Killer Whale.

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No. 13 Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758); Blue Whale Skeleton.
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« Reply #168 on Jun 7, 2011, 4:08pm »
Oh, I love the Lionfish :) ..... and the Blue Whale skeleton!
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Re: Marine Life
« Reply #169 on Jul 4, 2011, 2:00pm »
:)I think it's about time to post some new ones here:

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Rhincodon typus Smith, 1828; Whale Shark. Safari Ltd. / Monterey Bay Aquarium Collection model. Length 224 mm.

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Carcharhinus leucas (Müller & Henle, 1839); Bull Shark. Safari Ltd. / Wild Safari Sealife. Length 155 mm.

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Taeniura lymma (Forsskål, 1775); Blue Spotted Ray. Safari Ltd. Incredible Creatures. Length 241 mm (with tail stretched out), width of disk 85 mm.

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Manta birostris (Walbaum, 1792); Manta Ray. Safari Ltd. / Monterey Bay Aquarium Collection. Length 185 mm, width 227 mm.

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Halieutaea cf. stellata (Vahl, 1797), Batfish. AAA. Length 105 mm.

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Monodon monoceros Linnaeus, 1758; Narwhal. Safari Ltd. / Monterey Bay Aquarium Collection. Length 190 mm excluding tusk, total length 259 mm.

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Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776); Beluga Whale.
Above: Favorite Marine Life Soft Model. Length 170 mm.
Middle: Adult and calf, Safari Ltd. / Wild Safari Sealife. Length 137 and 73 mm.
Below: Safari Ltd. / Monterey Bay Aquarium Collection. Length 225 mm (calf 118 mm).

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Tursiops truncatus Montagu, 1821; Common Bottlenose Dolphin, adult and calf. Safari Ltd. / Monterey Bay Aquarium Collection. Length 173 and 92 mm.

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Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758); Orca or Killer Whale, adult and calf. Safari Ltd. / Monterey Bay Aquarium Collection. Length 183 and 117 mm.

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Eschrichtius robustus (Lilljeborg, 1861); Gray Whale. Safari Ltd. / Monterey Bay Aquarium Collection. Length of adult 339 mm.

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Eubalaena cf. glacialis (Müller, 1776); Northern Right Wale (well, or any species of Eubalaena you like, they are too similar to each other). AAA. Length 208 mm.

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Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758; Manatee, adult and calf. Safari Ltd. / Wild Safari Sealife. Length 158 mm (adult).

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Pagophilus groenlandicus (Erxleben, 1777); Harp Seal or Saddleback Seal. Safari Ltd. / WS Sealife. Length 90 mm.
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Re: Marine Life
« Reply #170 on Jul 4, 2011, 4:17pm »
How can you have so many safari figures, but not the cool new cownose ray? Or the larger Incredible Creatures one, if you prefer.
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« Reply #171 on Jul 4, 2011, 10:21pm »
:)I already posted the IC version on page 6:
http://dinotoyforum.proboards.com/index.....35&page=6#97215
And of course, you're right, it's a wonderful figure. It was rather strange that my local seller had the IC version cheaper than the WS Sealife.
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« Reply #172 on Jul 4, 2011, 10:25pm »

Jul 4, 2011, 10:21pm, brontodocus wrote:
:)I already posted the IC version on page 6:
http://dinotoyforum.proboards.com/index.....35&page=6#97215
And of course, you're right, it's a wonderful figure. It was rather strange that my local seller had the IC version cheaper than the WS Sealife.


I bet someone messed up! And you lucked out for it...
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« Reply #173 on Jul 5, 2011, 10:31am »
Not really, I'm afraid :-/. They only had the WS Sealife version listed for a ridiculously high price (€7.50). They seem to have noticed their mistake now and reduced it to 4.50. The IC version remains the same as it was when I bought it at €7.00, still considerably more than you'd normally pay in the U.S.

Oh, and there's of course the new addition to the Neko Works sharks by Masato Inoue which I received on Friday:

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Squatina cf. japonica Bleeker, 1858; Angel Shark, NKWS-21. Length 83 mm.
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« Reply #174 on Jul 5, 2011, 10:36am »
:D What a great shot! I love the Angel Shark! What scale figure is that?
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« Reply #175 on Jul 5, 2011, 10:47am »
It's a 3.75 in/10 cm figure of Mutt Williams from the Indiana Jones Kingdom of the Crystal Skull series by Hasbro, I bought it for €3,- in a local toy shop. :)
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« Reply #177 on Jul 11, 2011, 8:54pm »
It's beautiful!!
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Re: Marine Life
« Reply #178 on Jul 11, 2011, 10:12pm »
Thanks, Niroot! :)
However, I would have loved to be able to make all these dark spots a lot smaller but my pigment pen didn't allow it.
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« Reply #179 on Jul 12, 2011, 8:42pm »
Agree with Niroot, its beautiful!

If anyone is looking for the Monterey Bay Aquarium sea otter pair, they're available in this MBA lot.

http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-....em=110713485774
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