Tall blondes, tall brunettes: Okapi and Giraffes

[brontodocus]

Many thanks altogether! It was quite hard work indeed and took some 15 hours or so to cut out, paint the cutting edges, and assemble. The gracile limbs were a nightmare to attach to the body because the connecting tabs are on the inside of the body and my hands are too big to reach them so I had to use quite a lot of different tools (tweezers, toothpicks, skewers, and an s-shaped metal rod) to glue them on.

[brontodocus]

Something a little different this time because it's one part animal figure and one part sort of educational anatomy model that can be disassembled...
Here is the Revell X-ray Anatomy Model Giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis (Linnaeus, 1758). It is a snap together kit that has to be assembled but there's neither scissors nor glue nor any other tools required and assembly of the few parts takes just minutes. The assembled giraffe has an impressive size, without its base it's 360 mm tall, even more than the already huge Safari Ltd Vanishing Wild male Reticulated Giraffe. This would put the model at a scale of approx. 1:12 to 1:16. The box says 1:16 which would come close to world record size (360 mm * 16 = 5.76 m) but is indeed within the species' recorded size range. The paint job is okay but nothing spectacular. Seen from the right side we see no hint that this is an anatomy model, all cutaway parts are on the left side. The cutaway parts are covered by a clear plastic "skin" and I guess it's even possible to convert this into a regular giraffe model if someone attempted to repaint it. The clear plastic can be removed as well as some of the internal organs - e.g. the heart can only be seen when the left lung is taken out. Like some other anatomy models this one is distributed by Revell but originally it's made by Famemaster/4d Master. This doesn't seem unusual since Famemaster cutaway models are also distributed by Aoshima and a handful of other companies. Safari Ltd Vanishing Wild male Reticulated Giraffe is approx. 1:13 - 1:18 scale and human figure is approx. 1:16 - 1:18 scale. While there may still be some 80,000 individuals in the wild the allover Giraffe population is decreasing and the species has vanished from large parts of its original range. See the distribution map on the backside of the box which is pretty accurate. However, IUCN still lists the Giraffe as "Least Concern".

Box:



Box opened:


The model itself:















Thorax with removable organs:




Edit 2017-02-05: Fixed broken image urls.

[Jetoar]

Lovely replica. I have the Mammoth and the Snaill of this brand and I am looking for the Great Whithe Shark  .

[brontodocus]

Lovely replica. I have the Mammoth and the Snaill of this brand and I am looking for the Great Whithe Shark  .

Thanks, Jetoar! I have the Mammoth, too, and the Great White (among others) which is one of my favourites.

[Jetoar]

More images of Giraffes  .



Schleich Giraffe - 1997.



Schleich Giraffe Calf - 1997.



Kindertoyz Giraffes.



Lontic/Nayab Giraffe.



Schleich Giraffe.



Collecta Giraffe - 2010.

[AcroSauroTaurus]

My Giraffes.


Figures:
Schleich Okapi
Schleich male Reticulated Giraffe (retired)
Schleich Reticulated Giraffe calf

[brontodocus]

Revell X-Ray / Famemaster Giraffe anatomy model photos are working again!

[Takama]

Once again after a long abcence, i decided to post some walkarounds of figures that i have not posted here before.

This is one of a Few models with a Twig in its mouth

[bmathison1972]

CollectA Okapi:

[EpicRaptorMan]

Picture doesn't do the adult giraffe justice as it is taller.

[sbell]

Safari 2022 Okapi



And with Safari 1999 Okapi

[EpicRaptorMan]

Neither one of these okapi were Safari's best attempt.

I used to have the old Schleich but was replaced by CollectA's later.

[bmathison1972]

Toymany baby reticulated giraffe:




Alongside Papo's adult:

[EpicRaptorMan]

I thought you didn't collect offspring?

[bmathison1972]

I thought you didn't collect offspring?

Historically I didn't, but to get a set of 12 that are high quality, I don't mind adding them to my collection. I have very few hard and set rules of what I collect and don't. Don't expect me to collect a baby of every animal that gets released going forward, however.