River Horse: Hippos

[brontodocus]

What a difference the new paintjob makes! I never bought it because the original colour version didn't look right which was a pity because the sculpt always looked great. So I think I should get me one with my next batch (and make sure I won't accidently buy old stock).

[loru1588]

When Greg Wenzel and I did the sculpts for Safari, we had no control of the paint schemes. That was quite a let down as we both felt we had a much better feel of what the animals should look like. The paint samples we sent were either heavily modified or ignored for the most part.

[loru1588]

very cool pygmy hippo.

i have this '90s Safari Ltd. hippo (the others are mostly small figures)

That's the one I sculpted. I also did a baby hippo to accompany this one. They recently updated the paint scheme to a more realistic version

[brontodocus]

CollectA Pygmy Hippos photos are back.

[Takama]

Part of the Series 3

[bmathison1972]

Toymany baby hippopotamus:



and with CollectA's adult: