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Hi,I 'am a pasionate collector of beetle figurines, especially the ones that look really realistic and are more or less scale 1:1. Also I breed some species and prepare beetles for a educational project (next to my job). For 5 years I have been collecting and it has become quite a collection I have been collecting beetles from Kaiyodo, Sega, Yujin, Kitan, DeAgostini (European and Japanese series complete , Takara, F-toys and Futura.I like to share images of my collection later (busy making a photo overview) and have a few doubles for trade. Hope to meet other beetle enthousiasts here!
Hi Beetle guy, welcome to the Animal Toy Forum! So you're breeding beetles, too? Seeing your avatar photo I suppose Dynastes hyllus is among them?
Quote from: brontodocus on February 12, 2016, 09:13:54 AMHi Beetle guy, welcome to the Animal Toy Forum! So you're breeding beetles, too? Seeing your avatar photo I suppose Dynastes hyllus is among them?Hi,It is a Sega Mushi King DX series beetle model of Dynastes hyllus! Very detailed models.I will post a walk around of it soon.It looks also(more) like Dynastes miyashitai actually.I'm breeding a.o. D. granti, D hercules hercules and Lucanus laticornis.
Quote from: Beetle guy on February 12, 2016, 09:48:51 AMQuote from: brontodocus on February 12, 2016, 09:13:54 AMHi Beetle guy, welcome to the Animal Toy Forum! So you're breeding beetles, too? Seeing your avatar photo I suppose Dynastes hyllus is among them?Hi,It is a Sega Mushi King DX series beetle model of Dynastes hyllus! Very detailed models.I will post a walk around of it soon.It looks also(more) like Dynastes miyashitai actually.I'm breeding a.o. D. granti, D hercules hercules and Lucanus laticornis.Yay, looking forward to your walk-around! I had to take a look at Lai's "For the Love of Rhinoceros and Stag Beetles"... D. miyashitai is at least very similar to D. hyllus. Are there merely colour differences between the two? By the way, currently I am breeding only Goliathini (predominantly blueish Mecynorhina torquata ugandensis) but I'm tempted to get D. hercules back into culture (I had them two decades ago but wasn't really succesful with them), today our knowledge on scarab breeding is much better and I can produce my own Flake Soil with a concrete mixer.
Flake soil making, that should be on my list