Andrew's Collection

[SerAndrew]

In case someone is interested!

Extant animals:

Extinct animals:

Updated 8th of April 2023:
- Video divided in extant vs extinct
- Naturalism eagles
- Miscelanea japanese batch
- Several PNSO dinos
- TNG mammals
- Birds rearrangement

[Isidro]

Your collection grew a lot since I you sent ne a similar video of your collection at a much earlier stage.
Please can you tell me...
0:50 What is the smaller vampire squid behind the Ikimon colossal squid, and what size is it?
2:12 what species of parrotfish is to the left of the shelf and what size is the figure?
3:00 what brand is the Fly River/pig-nosed turtle behind the giant tortoises, and what is the carapace lenght of figure?
3:20 what is the python to the right of Colorata boa? That paintjob is quite good!
4:02 what is that northern goshawk? It is, as it seems, noticeably smaller in body bulk than the Kaiyodo white-tailed sea eagle behind?
4:11 what is this skua in front of the CollectA albatross?
5:43 I'm very curious about this "peeing" canid, aside of the Natural History Tibetan sand fox, and I don't even know if it represent a kind of fox, jackal or whatever! Any info about this?
5:50 what is that bush dog?? I was not aware of any brand doing this species!
6:11 is that a fishing cat to the right of the clouded leopard? Which brand?
6:23 how did you got the bharal sculpted by J. Miguel Aparicio? It's one of my most classic wished figures, but I only know it from the Signatustudio page and all the figures of that page are quite expensive!


I'm quite surprised to see my homemade sponges here.
You did great repaints to your hyenas. I recently acquired the same spotted hyena model and it's in the process of customizing.
By the way, your display is fantastic and very dynamic. I wish I had similar shelves for display my figures.

[JimoAi]

Your collection grew a lot since I you sent ne a similar video of your collection at a much earlier stage.
Please can you tell me...
0:50 What is the smaller vampire squid behind the Ikimon colossal squid, and what size is it?
2:12 what species of parrotfish is to the left of the shelf and what size is the figure?
3:00 what brand is the Fly River/pig-nosed turtle behind the giant tortoises, and what is the carapace lenght of figure?
3:20 what is the python to the right of Colorata boa? That paintjob is quite good!
4:02 what is that northern goshawk? It is, as it seems, noticeably smaller in body bulk than the Kaiyodo white-tailed sea eagle behind?
4:11 what is this skua in front of the CollectA albatross?
5:43 I'm very curious about this "peeing" canid, aside of the Natural History Tibetan sand fox, and I don't even know if it represent a kind of fox, jackal or whatever! Any info about this?
5:50 what is that bush dog?? I was not aware of any brand doing this species!
6:11 is that a fishing cat to the right of the clouded leopard? Which brand?
6:23 how did you got the bharal sculpted by J. Miguel Aparicio? It's one of my most classic wished figures, but I only know it from the Signatustudio page and all the figures of that page are quite expensive!


I'm quite surprised to see my homemade sponges here.
You did great repaints to your hyenas. I recently acquired the same spotted hyena model and it's in the process of customizing.
By the way, your display is fantastic and very dynamic. I wish I had similar shelves for display my figures.

The vampire squid is by kaiyodo for the deep sea aquarium series. It's the same one I own and it's Abt 5cm

The parrotfish is a repaint of the kaiyodo Okinawa fish market bicolor parrotfish

The fly river turtle is by kaiyodo

[Isidro]

Many thanks, I checked these ones, the fly river turtle is tempting, looks like the same size than Yujin matamata by one photo I've found, I would prefair a bit smaller one but is acceptable.
Great repaint on the parrotfish, it reminds me the Mediterranean species, Sparisoma cretense.

[SerAndrew]

@Isidro ,

0:50 - Deep sea aquarium series
2:12 - My repaint as a "vieja" (Sparisoma cretense), a quite common species in Canary Islands I see while diving.
3:00 - Pignose turtle by Kaiyodo, aquarium line. I'd say it's a bit bigger than the mata mata.
3:20 - My repaint of bullyland albino python
4:02 - A Kaiyodo ChocoQ
4:11 - Kitan Nature Technicolour
5:43 - Beauty of the Beast resin sculpture. It's a culpeo. Check the website at the bottom.
5:50 - Beauty of the Beast
6:11 - Beauty of the Beast
6:23 - It's Signatus. I have several resine sculptures, some more Beauty of the Beast you didn't asked for (margay, canadian and iberian lynx and wild cat) and several Signatus too (wisent, cinerous vulture, kiang, Przewalski gazelle, wooly rhino, auroch, cave lion and stepe bison).

The hyenas were not repainted by me. Those and my tiger, leopard, puma, peccari, nilgai and sumatran rhinoceros were bought to a member of this forum.

You can also get those vitrines, it's Detloff vitrine from Ikea and it's 60€.

https://www.etsy.com/es/listing/989503094/culpeo-los-110-cias?click_key=509a1443f024e24857c6deccbf75f9ffc1244662%3A989503094&click_sum=caa70c48&ref=shop_home_recs_5

[JimoAi]

I'm envious of your collection! I too have many JP figs from kaiyodo and colorata too but I have way fewer cuz I'm more scale conscious and have other hobbies too

[SerAndrew]

I'm "concious" about scales too, but I accept different scales as long as they are sufficiently represented and displayed somehow separately.
For example, tibetan fox and culpeo are in a bigger scale than the rest of canids, but they are at the bottom in an elevated position.
I know these are only excuses, but I manage to trick my eye with these...

[JimoAi]

I'm "concious" about scales too, but I accept different scales as long as they are sufficiently represented and displayed somehow separately.
For example, tibetan fox and culpeo are in a bigger scale than the rest of canids, but they are at the bottom in an elevated position.
I know these are only excuses, but I manage to trick my eye with these...

I see! Can't wait to show my updated collection! Still waiting for my botm tyrannosaurus since I can't show my dinos off without a tyrannosaurus

[JimoAi]

Ok I finally got time to look at the collection as a whole. You mind some qns?

The first shelf is a life sized shelf if I'm right?

You didn't get the Takara Tomy Arts Ornate Octopus seeing that u have many of the cephalopods from that line? I myself only have the broadclub cuttlefish.

The Japanese sea bass on the freshwater shelf even though it's a marine fish? Is it a personal preference?

What makes you choose the yujin Napoleon wrasse over the Nature techni color and the aquameridian one? I find those 2 are superior in terms of color scheme but the yujin one has a plate coral base.

I see alot of rare fish figures like the secret kelp grouper from yujin, the giant grouper from aquameridian and various aquarium figures form kaiyodo but are you intending to get these 3 too: yujin striped eel catfish, Kaiyodo red emperor snapped and the kaiyodo dragon moray.

I see u have a customed Safari Ltd spotted eagle ray. Are you going to replace it with the upcoming Papo spotted eagle ray? That figure is the best on the market and we've only seen promo pics! I did customized my safari figure with modelling putty and a new paint job and for yours did u alter the sculpt too or just repainted.

For the whales, you chosed the MnB sperm whale because of availability and size? I'm getting the 2018 one soon!

From your prehistoric collection I see you don't have a Tyrannosaurus. It's not everyday u see someone's prehistoric collection without one!

Overall, I love that you've organized them all by their specific groups and it looks to be a quality over quantity type too!

[SerAndrew]

Hi @JimoAi, sure:

The first shelf is a life sized shelf if I'm right?

Yes, that's the idea. It was mainly a bunch of real things I found in nature, but I ended adding some 1:1 figures that otherwise will be out of the collection but including them allow me to tick some interesting taxons.
Ah, there are some arthropods not at 1:1 like the human flea and the sea flea.

You didn't get the Takara Tomy Arts Ornate Octopus seeing that u have many of the cephalopods from that line? I myself only have the broadclub cuttlefish.

No, I didn't found it in my figure hunts and it's not the most interesting one. It would be wellcome anyway, the set is fantastic.

The Japanese sea bass on the freshwater shelf even though it's a marine fish? Is it a personal preference?

My mistake, I should move it. Thanks!

What makes you choose the yujin Napoleon wrasse over the Nature techni color and the aquameridian one? I find those 2 are superior in terms of color scheme but the yujin one has a plate coral base.

The plate coral of the Yujin is with my cnidarians, in the rock with other corals. I also have the Aquameridian. Those two are, let's say, taking turns in my display. I love both and never get decided on which to display. The Nature techni is super expensive.

I see alot of rare fish figures like the secret kelp grouper from yujin, the giant grouper from aquameridian and various aquarium figures form kaiyodo but are you intending to get these 3 too: yujin striped eel catfish, Kaiyodo red emperor snapped and the kaiyodo dragon moray.

Not "intending to get", because I'm not activelly getting jap figures at the moment. But indeed the stripped eel catfish and red emperor would be very wellcome, as well as other like the Kaiyodo conger eel and other Yujin's I'm missing. I don't like the Kaiyodo dragon mooray. I've had the chance to get it but rejected it. Let's say that, lately, I'm more focused in prehistorics and in species that expands my taxonomic range.

I see u have a customed Safari Ltd spotted eagle ray. Are you going to replace it with the upcoming Papo spotted eagle ray? That figure is the best on the market and we've only seen promo pics! I did customized my safari figure with modelling putty and a new paint job and for yours did u alter the sculpt too or just repainted.

It's just repainted and, given the promo pics, I intend to replace it with the Papo. But let's see the real figure first.

For the whales, you chosed the MnB sperm whale because of availability and size? I'm getting the 2018 one soon!

That's not the MnB, but the Schleich (I know the mould is the same). It's from my childhood, so it's the one to have. Also, I honestly think it's the best. My cetaceans scales are fucked up, but...

From your prehistoric collection I see you don't have a Tyrannosaurus. It's not everyday u see someone's prehistoric collection without one!

That part is quite outdated. I now also have the PNSO lying Tyranno, Therizinosaurus, Stegosaurus and Deinocheiurs.
HOWEVER, I wasn't planning to have a tyranno, and begin "forced" to get one was a bit annoying. I'm not a dino collector, but a taxonomic collector (at least in terms on prehistorics). So I'm chasing figures of big groups (orders, or very charismatic families) that I don't have yet. They have to be near 1:35 and be as accurate as possible given latest scientific discoveries. I was happy with Eofauna Giganotosaurus as theropod, but then I discovered that giganoto and tyranno belonged to different groups and that it'd be interesting to have both represented to show their differences (this is what I like of collecting prehistorics, to learn in the process). When looking for a good representative among the PNSO range (tarbo, tyranno, ...) I found that the most pleasing figure meeting the conditions was the lying tyranno, which also brings an interesting behavioral feature. But I'd be most pleased if it has been a different, more exciting species. Sadly, it was the same for most of my dinos. I could only diverted from the most known species with my hadrosaurus representative, the Olorotitan.
I may make a new video this weekend, but let's see because a major re-arrangement of prehistorics will hopefully happen in the next 1-1.5 month, so I may wait until then.
But maybe I can simply record the prehistoric part...

Overall, I love that you've organized them all by their specific groups and it looks to be a quality over quantity type too!

Thanks

[JimoAi]

Hi @JimoAi, sure:

The first shelf is a life sized shelf if I'm right?

Yes, that's the idea. It was mainly a bunch of real things I found in nature, but I ended adding some 1:1 figures that otherwise will be out of the collection but including them allow me to tick some interesting taxons.
Ah, there are some arthropods not at 1:1 like the human flea and the sea flea.

You didn't get the Takara Tomy Arts Ornate Octopus seeing that u have many of the cephalopods from that line? I myself only have the broadclub cuttlefish.

No, I didn't found it in my figure hunts and it's not the most interesting one. It would be wellcome anyway, the set is fantastic.

The Japanese sea bass on the freshwater shelf even though it's a marine fish? Is it a personal preference?

My mistake, I should move it. Thanks!

What makes you choose the yujin Napoleon wrasse over the Nature techni color and the aquameridian one? I find those 2 are superior in terms of color scheme but the yujin one has a plate coral base.

The plate coral of the Yujin is with my cnidarians, in the rock with other corals. I also have the Aquameridian. Those two are, let's say, taking turns in my display. I love both and never get decided on which to display. The Nature techni is super expensive.

I see alot of rare fish figures like the secret kelp grouper from yujin, the giant grouper from aquameridian and various aquarium figures form kaiyodo but are you intending to get these 3 too: yujin striped eel catfish, Kaiyodo red emperor snapped and the kaiyodo dragon moray.

Not "intending to get", because I'm not activelly getting jap figures at the moment. But indeed the stripped eel catfish and red emperor would be very wellcome, as well as other like the Kaiyodo conger eel and other Yujin's I'm missing. I don't like the Kaiyodo dragon mooray. I've had the chance to get it but rejected it. Let's say that, lately, I'm more focused in prehistorics and in species that expands my taxonomic range.

I see u have a customed Safari Ltd spotted eagle ray. Are you going to replace it with the upcoming Papo spotted eagle ray? That figure is the best on the market and we've only seen promo pics! I did customized my safari figure with modelling putty and a new paint job and for yours did u alter the sculpt too or just repainted.

It's just repainted and, given the promo pics, I intend to replace it with the Papo. But let's see the real figure first.

For the whales, you chosed the MnB sperm whale because of availability and size? I'm getting the 2018 one soon!

That's not the MnB, but the Schleich (I know the mould is the same). It's from my childhood, so it's the one to have. Also, I honestly think it's the best. My cetaceans scales are fucked up, but...

From your prehistoric collection I see you don't have a Tyrannosaurus. It's not everyday u see someone's prehistoric collection without one!

That part is quite outdated. I now also have the PNSO lying Tyranno, Therizinosaurus, Stegosaurus and Deinocheiurs.
HOWEVER, I wasn't planning to have a tyranno, and begin "forced" to get one was a bit annoying. I'm not a dino collector, but a taxonomic collector (at least in terms on prehistorics). So I'm chasing figures of big groups (orders, or very charismatic families) that I don't have yet. They have to be near 1:35 and be as accurate as possible given latest scientific discoveries. I was happy with Eofauna Giganotosaurus as theropod, but then I discovered that giganoto and tyranno belonged to different groups and that it'd be interesting to have both represented to show their differences (this is what I like of collecting prehistorics, to learn in the process). When looking for a good representative among the PNSO range (tarbo, tyranno, ...) I found that the most pleasing figure meeting the conditions was the lying tyranno, which also brings an interesting behavioral feature. But I'd be most pleased if it has been a different, more exciting species. Sadly, it was the same for most of my dinos. I could only diverted from the most known species with my hadrosaurus representative, the Olorotitan.
I may make a new video this weekend, but let's see because a major re-arrangement of prehistorics will hopefully happen in the next 1-1.5 month, so I may wait until then.
But maybe I can simply record the prehistoric part...

Overall, I love that you've organized them all by their specific groups and it looks to be a quality over quantity type too!

Thanks

Thanks for the update! I have an upcoming box from Japan with alot of rare figures that cost a pretty penny each!

I've recently just rearranged my shelves again and I've separated the extinct from extant though it leaves me with less space for the extinct figures but not a high deal since I'm focusing on just the classics like Tyrannosaurus, triceratops, mosasaurus and stegosaurus. I went for safari ltd and for my Tyrannosaurus, I got the beasts of the mesozoic figure as I preferred my theropods lipped.

[SerAndrew]

First post updated.