Amphibinas

[Beetle guy]

I havent been much on the forum last years. But working on these at the moment. An amphibian collection of European species. My late father in law, Ben Francissen, was taxidermist at an University. He mounted frogs and salamander amogst many other animals. Because amphibians are hard to mount he made plaster casts of the mounted frogs, toads and salamanders.

I have cleaned up the plaster casts and made new molds. casting in polyurethane means I could loose the big bulky bases that the plaster casts had. The unpainted cast models in the pictures have to be worked to loose the exces of resin. Or in the case of the fire Salamander get an extra finger on one hind foot.

First Salamander painted.
 

Here are the first results. I am going to paint them with the aim for hyper realistic. All scale 1;1 naturally 
Clockwise:Triturus cristatus (female) Hyla arborea, Rana dalmatina, Pelophylax kl. esculentus, Pelobates fuscus, Epidalea calamita,  Pelophylax ridibundus, Salamandra salamandra terrestris, Bufu bufo, Rana arvalis. Middle Alytes obstetricans. Missing in the collection picture: Two other fire salamanders and Rana temporaria.





 

[stargatedalek]

Those frogs in particular have such incredible detail! If only production models still used casts like this, such amazing work here.

[Gwangi]

I'm blown away, those are absolutely fantastic.

[Beetle guy]

I'm blown away, those are absolutely fantastic.

Thank you @Gwangi and @stargatedalek ! I will post some photo's of the figurines when they are painted.

[BlueKrono]

These look great. I've often thought about getting into 1:1 scale taxidermy models, but that's a dangerous hole to fall down. 💸

[Gwangi]

I'm blown away, those are absolutely fantastic.

Thank you @Gwangi and @stargatedalek ! I will post some photo's of the figurines when they are painted.

Looking forward to it! 

[bmathison1972]

Keep up the great work and people here are going to commission you to make some 

[Beetle guy]

Keep up the great work and people here are going to commission you to make some 

Thank you Blaine!

[Beetle guy]

These look great. I've often thought about getting into 1:1 scale taxidermy models, but that's a dangerous hole to fall down. 💸

hahaha! That is the truth ;-)