FaunaFiguresFishes – Fauna Figures

FigureTales 288 – Clades – Holostei

Okay, thanks to the Random Number Generator, it looks like I'm working through the 2021 Fishmas tree again but I promise I'm not...plus, the Chondrostei was covered a very long time ago anyway! But it's going to be another daunting one for me--another fish group that I greatly appreciate but don't have much personal knowledge on, the Holostei, so the modern Gars and Bowfin (and a whole lot of fossil taxa...) One of those groups at least has some pretty…

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March 3, 2022

Clades & Grades / FigureTales

FigureTales 287 – Clades – Cladistia

We're looking at a clade again today, and as far as clades go...I have been excited and dreading it all at the same time. As the title says, it is the crown group Cladistia, which includes the modern bichirs and reedfish and their fossil relatives. I'm excited because as I'm sure I've mentioned before, bichirs are easily my favorite fish of all time. Dreading because, well...not a whole lot to say. I may be a fan, but I'm no expert.…

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February 28, 2022

FigureFocus / FigureTales

Vault Tales 193 Obscurus/FaunaFiguresFishes Protosphyraena

So this one is a bitter of a bittersweet one for me. I think it's a fantastic model, but it does remind me that it is the last model made with Brandon Demoss for the FaunaFiguresFishes series, this one specifically as a joint with Brandon's Obscurus line. And was done in my last year of running the online store. But to go out on such a dynamic and fantastic model? This Protosphyraena is a great way to do it. Pictured…

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March 15, 2021

Clades & Grades / FigureTales

Vault tales 127 – Clades – Chondrostei

I am back with another Clades post. This one is exciting because it features one of my favorite fish groups! It's also daunting because I have a lot of representatives of this group (unlike most of the ones I've done) which means more to say. And also trying to sort out photo presentation... As it says in the title, it is the clade Chondrostei, the modern sturgeons and paddlefish (and of course a variety of fossil relatives...none of which are…

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July 20, 2020

FigureTales

Vault Tales 102 FaunaFiguresFishes Ornate Bichir

More primitive fishes? And another bichir to boot? Well I'm happy! It seems like not that long ago I did a whole long post on the original run of FaunaFiguresFishes models. In that set I had mentioned that a couple of models were later made as a revised concept for the line--bigger, a little more detail, that kind of thing. And due to the vagaries of my random number generator, the only modern figure thus far created is today's topic--the…

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April 23, 2020

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales Run the Set 100 The FaunaFiguresFishes!

Welcome to post 100! A milestone number! And I thought I should do something different, and kind of special--so I will go over all of the figures from my original line of fish figures, made for my store! The FaunaFiguresFishes were sculpted and cast for by a sculptor named Brandon DeMoss. The first of the original waves were produced in 2016, the last one came out in late 2018. A couple of other figures were later produced in a new…

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April 15, 2020