Joy City pygmy hog customized

[Isidro]

I had the Joy City pygmy hog (Porcula salvania) for ages out of my collection, because when I received it, I was disappointed by the small size and the lack of quality. The legs are very short and give the impression of a badly-proportioned figure. And the texture is granulose, this is not very important in the fur, but it's unpleasant looking in the muzzle. So, I had this figure out of my collection and planned to do some day a pygmy hog (one of my most wished species) more according to my taste.

But recently, I decided that this pygmy hog was not so small in scale with my other figures. Comparing figures of wild boars and pygmy hogs together, indeed it have the ideal size for me.




The figure, thus, only must be improved in quality. It needed longer legs and a smooth muzzle. Also, a more flat, not so concave dorse of muzzle. So, this is the original figure:



I've cut the legs:


Redone legs and muzzle. Also added a bit of paste in front of eyes for make eyes smaller:


And gave it a new paintjob:


In that paintjob I tried that the pig is not so plain brown as the original, but with some countershading especially in the face like they usually have:

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Original and customized:










The granulose texture of the muzzle disappeared:




The size is quite good actually when compared with my Safari wild boar:

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And now released into the wild:




I like next photo as the best:


With other inhabitants of the extremely rich in megafauna of the Manas National Park in Assam, India, from with this pig is endemic (having being extirpated from elsewhere in India)