The Curious Compendium 2023-2025: The end!

[BlueKrono]

I must admit, my favorite is the tiny Mech. Don't really know why... the green maybe? I compiled a great herd of them as a kid as arcade prizes. I hit the grand prize once and... instant mammoth herd.

[Gwangi]

My favorite woolly mammoth is the Carnegie, so much so that I have no desire to own another in its size range. The Marx and Invicta mammoths rank pretty high in my collection too.

[Shane]

I will always have a soft spot for the old Smithsonian Safari Mammoth, with all its stumpy cartoony proportions. It's one of the first prehistoric figures I ever got, and I still have my original (plus a second I think my dad found at a garage sale).

[sbell]

I will always have a soft spot for the old Smithsonian Safari Mammoth, with all its stumpy cartoony proportions. It's one of the first prehistoric figures I ever got, and I still have my original (plus a second I think my dad found at a garage sale).

The Smithsonian prehistoric figures are a line that always gets kind of forgotten. They had their charm but were so hefty it was almost comical! I had both Smilodon at one point, and they were both kind of odd in their own ways.

[Shane]

I will always have a soft spot for the old Smithsonian Safari Mammoth, with all its stumpy cartoony proportions. It's one of the first prehistoric figures I ever got, and I still have my original (plus a second I think my dad found at a garage sale).

The Smithsonian prehistoric figures are a line that always gets kind of forgotten. They had their charm but were so hefty it was almost comical! I had both Smilodon at one point, and they were both kind of odd in their own ways.

They are extremely goofy and surprisingly solid hunks of plastic. But I remember getting the mammoth from the actual Smithsonian Museum of Natural History so I'll always appreciate it for the nostalgia. I eventually tracked down the Woolly Rhino which has its own charm as well.

[sbell]

I will always have a soft spot for the old Smithsonian Safari Mammoth, with all its stumpy cartoony proportions. It's one of the first prehistoric figures I ever got, and I still have my original (plus a second I think my dad found at a garage sale).

The Smithsonian prehistoric figures are a line that always gets kind of forgotten. They had their charm but were so hefty it was almost comical! I had both Smilodon at one point, and they were both kind of odd in their own ways.

They are extremely goofy and surprisingly solid hunks of plastic. But I remember getting the mammoth from the actual Smithsonian Museum of Natural History so I'll always appreciate it for the nostalgia. I eventually tracked down the Woolly Rhino which has its own charm as well.

The original Smilodon (which might have been a Carnegie, not Smithsonian) was weirdly blocky and angular, with strange sabres; I think inspired by a Knight image. The later, much bigger one was a little goofy but felt more right

[Saarlooswolfhound]

These are all good choices my friends. 

Smilodon!

Who doesn't love these? There were two mounted skeletons at the natural history museum where I grew up. I loved seeing them at every visit.

[Saarlooswolfhound]

Each and every one of these are such weird and whimsical animals to me- I can barely pick a favorite. What's yours? I think mine is either the Elasmotherium or Paraceratherium.

[NSD Bashe]

Paraceratherium, Arsinoitherium and Elasmotherium might be my top three of the species shown there, though prehistoric mammals are all really cool to me (especially the "strange" rhinos and elephants, the stranger the better).  Platybelodon is another of my favorites

[BlueKrono]

I gotta go with ol' slingshot nose: Brontops.

[bmathison1972]

Pre-Holocene Cenozoic mammals are my favorite!

[Saarlooswolfhound]

Prehistoric Probiscideans!


Once Eofauna (and TNG) produced these models I was in love- they were done so so well and are still some of my favorites in my entire collection.

[Saarlooswolfhound]

Prehistoric Predators!


I have some ties with most of these but to keep it simple- my true enthusiasm lies with the canidae family and so here the direwolf is my favorite even though there still isn't a good representative of one made yet. I can't wait to add newer models to the fold such as the CollectA  arctodus (I hope to repaint one someday) and I hope to see more diversification in extinct mammals in the future (such as my repaints shown here).

And only 3 more to go!

[Saarlooswolfhound]

Mixed Mammalia!
Mixed mammalia!





I think my very favorites here are my custom Bison latifrons, PNSO livyatan and the WWD alphadon. But each of these is unique to each other! So you can't go wrong.

[bmathison1972]

Yesterday's pic. The running cat on the right. Is that an American cheetah and is it your custom paint job?

[Saarlooswolfhound]

Yesterday's pic. The running cat on the right. Is that an American cheetah and is it your custom paint job?

Yep!

[bmathison1972]

Yesterday's pic. The running cat on the right. Is that an American cheetah and is it your custom paint job?

Yep!

FANTASTIC job!

[Saarlooswolfhound]

Oh, thank you! It was just a chinamal model and I dressed it up to be hybrid coat pattern/color scheme between an African cheetah and the American mountain lion. Its a big figure but I really like it anyhow!

[Saarlooswolfhound]

The penultimate post:



Here are the remnants of my animal models for a group pic. Here the Southlands diprotodon is a favorite as it was just so masterfully done. The thylacoleo was a shoe in for me as such a unique marsupial! And just to ID- that is a custom procoptodon (not the best skull shape I know), and a repainted komodo chinamal to be a megalania (I also use the Safari IC komodo for this in photos).

The finale for prehistorics will be presented tomorrow!

[bmathison1972]

Very nice custom Megalania (I assume you meant Megalania here and not Megatherium  )