Catfish – Fauna Figures

12 Days of FISHMAS! Day Six!

Day six of the Twelve Days of Fishmas! Day five can be found here. The tag for the whole set will be here. On the sixth day of Fishmas cladistics gave to me... Six crown groups of the OtomorphaFIVE! BOH-NY TONGUES!Four elopomorphs Three HolosteansTwo ChondrosteiAnd a bichir at the base of Actinopterygii And we start getting complicated! For day 6 we visit one of the two crown clades of the 'Clupeocephala', in this case the 'Otomorpha' side. At the basal…

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December 18, 2021

FigureFrenzy / FigureTales

Vault Tales 255 FigureFrenzy Betta, Capybara, Catfish, Wiwaxia, Mammoth+Smilodon

Another FigureFrenzy! And it's going to be very random...all over the place, really. Little of everything. Although they're all small, and all part of larger sets so...unifying features? Marmit World of Tropical Fish Betta A very familiar pet fish, a Betta or Siamese Fighting Fish in what might be the most unusual possible colour...a pearlescent white with a red lateral line? I'm not even sure if this is a real pattern. A more characteristic blue or red would have made…

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October 18, 2021

FigureFrenzy / FigureTales

Vault Tales 247 FigureFrenzy Ichthyosaurus and belemnite, Torpdedo ray, Catfish, Cusk eel, Trumpetfish

Another frenzy of figures! And all aquatic animals! Mostly fish, with one prehistoric reptile + mollusk diorama...let's get in the water! Bandai Hungry Dinos series 1 Ichthyosaurus A very detailed diorama featuring Ichthyosaurus leaping from the water with some kind of cephalopod in it's mouth; likely a belemnite of some kind (I assume Phragmoteuthis based on location and size). The figure is roughly 1:30 - 1:40 scale. I've also included a closer photo of the belemnite. The first figure is…

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September 20, 2021

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 164 ToyTrio Snail, Amur catfish, Trilobite

So here we have yet another varied bunch of figures...from a varied bunch of companies. But they're all aquatic, so that's a connection!? FUL Snail (Periwinkle) large and small marine sets They are very small figures, and despite being different sizes they are very similar in appearance. Maybe 1:2 scale or smaller if the species were identifiable. Probably too big to be to scale with The Doctor. First up, a quick look at a pair of FUL marine set figures.…

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December 3, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 145 ToyTrio Ayu, Brown trout, Wels catfish

So, another trio and this time it's all (mostly) freshwater fish! All of them being ones that are frequently caught by anglers, for various reasons. Plus, I don't think any of these fish figures are actually still in production anymore...so there's that. Yujin Freshwater Fish Pictorial book 1 Ayu Popular in as a food fish, the Ayu is also known as the Sweetfish. They are also popular as figures from Japan. Our first one is a fish from Japanese company…

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September 21, 2020

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales Run the Set 111 ToyFishFactory American Angler Collection

It's a set of fish! popular American angling fish no less! We're back with a Run the Set again, this time the American Angler collection from Toy Fish Factory. I know I've talked about the TFF line at some point--I think in the old version of the blog. Since then, of course, the purpose of the site and how I discuss things has changed. But in case you don't want to go read an old thing, here's a quick run…

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May 25, 2020