Knifefish – 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

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

FigureTales

Vault tales 75 Monday Knight Productions Knifefish

Who makes them? They are current sold by a RPG miniatures company called Monday Knight Productions under the name 'eel' in their 25mm Aquatic animals line. Except, given the extended anal fin/no caudal-or-dorsal fin, and the overall shape, they're more likely gymnotiform knifefish, not eels. My take on the pattern of a banded knifefish. The base is a Sculpey one. When did it come out? I honestly have no clue. They were originally produced by a different company (I think…

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January 20, 2020