Recent acquisitions

[bmathison1972]

Hmmm. The paperwork doesn't really help, does it. You can probably made pretty good assumptions, based on my proposals above. I would assume they represent North Pacific fauna (which would eliminate grey), but who's to say.

[Arctinus]

Your new arrivals have many Aussie vibes :-) Congrats for your purchases!

I also have the Science & Nature eagle, a big too big and not very fine but after a heavy customizing it resulted very good. Of course I also have the Southlands platypus, the only platypus of decent size in the whole trade, is absolutely perfect in every sense :-) I would like to see the new Schleich armadillo, tough I fear that it would be probably too ginormous for my taste.

Here's a picture of the armadillo with the Schleich eagle and reindeer. Sadly, didn't have any other Schleich figures at hand.


Here are my recent acquisitions. Got them in the last month. I also bought the Schleich Cape Buffalo, blue macaw and bonobo yesterday, but haven't taken any photos yet.


Here's also a comparison of the new Schleich (right) and the older Bullyland (left) salamander.


And I also saw the alpine ibex and aardvark, but I didn't like them, so I didn't buy them. The ibex looks kind of like a knock-off, like someone else already commented here or somewhere else. And the aardvark was very small and not quite to my liking. Maybe a bit too simplistic?  I don't know.

[bmathison1972]

Very nice, Arctinus! I have a lot in your group pic  . I also decided not to get the Schleich ibex, especially after Kimimalou's walkaround. I will wait for this year's CollectA.

[Arctinus]

Very nice, Arctinus! I have a lot in your group pic  . I also decided not to get the Schleich ibex, especially after Kimimalou's walkaround. I will wait for this year's CollectA.

Thanks!    Ah, right! That's where I must've seen the first images.    I'm planning on doing the same.

And here are the three figures I bought yesterday. Not sure why they went with brown on the buffalo, though I like the sculpt. And the macaw is rather small and its feet are a bit too large, but that's due to stability. Maybe they could've gone with a perching one.

[bmathison1972]

I am very pleased with this bonobo. I didn't go for the macaw as I have one by Kaiyodo, but it's not bad!

[Arctinus]

Yeah, I like the bonobo as well, even though it looks a bit off here in the photo compared to the actual figure. I also contemplated taking a Japanese macaque home with me, but I think it suffered a similar fate as the ibex as far as the paintjob goes. Though, I might still change my mind and grab one next time.

[EpicRaptorMan]

The painting around the nose of the bonobo has been inconsistent across the models and promotional images.

The paint is very glossy and makes it look cheap.

[Arctinus]

I just checked again and mine doesn't seem to have glossy paint on the face, though the rest of the body (the black parts) seem to be glossy.

[EpicRaptorMan]

I just checked again and mine doesn't seem to have glossy paint on the face, though the rest of the body (the black parts) seem to be glossy.

My mistake I should've clarified. The black hair across the body is what is glossy.

[Arctinus]

Oh, I thought the second sentence referred to the first one.

I just watched a YouTube video on Schleich badger and it also seems to have a glossy black fur, so I don't know if it's just a glossy paint they use for black colour or something. I don't have my figures with me to check whether other black animals have the same glossy appearance. I don't remember their chimpanzee having a glossy coat, but then again my memory isn't really great. 

[Sim]

I've recently acquired:

1. Science & Nature yellow-crowned parakeet.  I like it!

2. Science & Nature brown snake.  It's amazing!  Jason Smit is a great sculptor!  I know he sculpted the Southlands Replicas figures, but I'd like to know if he sculpted any other Science & Nature figure besides the brown snake?

3. Schleich mini chameleon.  I like it too, it replaces my Mojo chameleon.

[Sim]

I've acquired a better-painted Safari great grey owl.  I've also acquired the Safari Galapagos toob!  I bought it for the two boobies and I'm happy with them!  I noticed that they both say "red footed booby" underneath!  Not a problem for me though, I know what the blue-footed one is!

[JimoAi]

Haul time


A bunch of safari ltd sea animals. Am shifting my collection I to a smaller scale. The lineup I have gotten is the Safari ltd Manta, Toob sawfish which I'm using as Pristis clavata and a K/O of the toon Bottlenose dolphin which I may eventually get the toob



For this and my next haul, it would be my last prehistorics for a long time as I have grown tired of having to constantly replace figures. Here I have gotten the Safari ltd liopleurodon, which is a childhood favourite, the Kaiyodo Icthyosaurus, which I'm using as a smaller species in the genus and the Favorite Ankylosaurus which is q crudely painted on my copy and I noticed the feet looks quite odd (see next picture)



Lastly, some SpongeBob merch. The Super7 ultimates wave 2 finally shipped after waiting since September 2022 and they're basically 1:1 copies of the characters from the show. Some other items I've obtain includes a Youtooz Sandy, Miku Squidward, hopes and dreams grave and the tiki house.

[Sim]

I've acquired the Archie McPhee garden birds set, thanks to @brettnj who very kindly got it and sent it to me!  I'm very happy with it!

[EpicRaptorMan]

Obtained the Schleich Scarlet Macaw. Looks pretty good. The posture is a bit weird when standing on its own. But I'm satisfied.

[JimoAi]

Latest haul time:

Eikoh Baby seal

Kaiyodo dimetrodon

Kaiyodo Eryops

Colorata male green turtle

collectA Mosasaurus (prolly mosasaurus lemonnieri)

Eofauna Tyrannosaurus

[MudpupWaterdog]

Hi all! I just swung by Japan for a few days on my return from a few years in SE Asia, and here's my newest haul:



Some of these are from the secondhand figure stores in Akihabara but most of them are from the gachapon machines at the mall near my friend's house, and a few from the gacha centers in Shibuya.

The yen is super weak to the dollar right now, so I may have gone a bit overboard...but I haven't really been collecting for the past two years either so it was nice to finally grab some figures that I really wanted (I clearly like freshwater stingrays) and get back in the game.

[EpicRaptorMan]

Not sure what I have shared here yet or not but things are my two recent batches over the past couple months. Some of them I've had for a while but I haven't had the chance to add them to my album until now and are thus here now.

[Arctinus]

Obtained the Schleich Scarlet Macaw. Looks pretty good. The posture is a bit weird when standing on its own. But I'm satisfied.

I also have that macaw and I like it. 

Also, just saw your newer post and I like your recent-additions layout! Some I already have and some I'm yet to get.

Latest haul time:

Eikoh Baby seal

Kaiyodo dimetrodon

Kaiyodo Eryops

Colorata male green turtle

collectA Mosasaurus (prolly mosasaurus lemonnieri)

Eofauna Tyrannosaurus

Where did you get the Eofauna T-Rex? What do you think of it?  I like that it comes with a base, since I seem to have bad luck with their Giga and now even Papo's T-Rex. 

Hi all! I just swung by Japan for a few days on my return from a few years in SE Asia, and here's my newest haul:

Some of these are from the secondhand figure stores in Akihabara but most of them are from the gachapon machines at the mall near my friend's house, and a few from the gacha centers in Shibuya.

The yen is super weak to the dollar right now, so I may have gone a bit overboard...but I haven't really been collecting for the past two years either so it was nice to finally grab some figures that I really wanted (I clearly like freshwater stingrays) and get back in the game.

Wow, nice additions!

[JimoAi]

I got it off a Chinese site but AliExpress has it. It's the best theropod figure imo and the ppl whining about it's minor flaws can shut up cuz it's beautiful