Paddlefish – Fauna Figures

FigureFocus 278 My Favorite Animals Paddlefish

Time for another fast, single-figure post. This time featuring one of my favorite models...from a series called My Favorite Animals. Naming the company is awkward...anyway, it is part of the subset 'Past Works 4, the only figure I have from the sculptor. It's definitely not a toy, and definitely one of the more obscure figures and series in my collection (among many, of course). This could very well be the definitive American Paddlefish figure ever made. It would be nice…

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January 27, 2022

12 Days of FISHMAS! Day Two!

Day two of the Twelve Days of Fishmas! Day one can be found here. The tag for the whole set will be here. On the first day of Fishmas cladistics gave to me... Two orders of ChondrosteiAnd a bichir at the base of Actinopterygii Two's company! Next up the family tree, the Chondrostei, represented by the modern Sturgeon (Acipenseriformes) and Paddlefish (Polyodontiformes). This clade is the basal (living) representative of the broader 'Actinopteri' clade of actinopterygians. The two figures chosen…

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December 14, 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 / 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 45 Shapeways 3D Paddlefish

Who makes it? Printed on the Shapeways site. I don't know where the file was made When did it come out? I've had it a few years, but I don't know how long. It's a creator test print--which is cheaper but rougher. Hence the thick texture on this side Still available? Depends if the file is still out there. Where can it be found in my displays? With so many other odd and interesting fish figures. That describes about 15…

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October 7, 2019