Personal collection - all other vertebrates
A working Neapolitan Mastiff original sculpture by Deseo, a Finnish dog figurine creator & collector.
I had the chance to commission an original sculpture from Deseo in 2013, and this beauty is the result. The model was sculpted from scratch, painted, and even crafted a collar for by Deseo. It is quite the pride of my collection. Around 1:12; shown in the last picture with the significantly sicklier Papo Neo of like scale. |
2014 Miniature Schnauzer resin, sculpted by Deseo.
1:12. Mine is copy number 12 in the edition - I actually got to watch in person while it was cast! It's the raw one in the picture here. |
Signatu Studio cave lion male (Panthera spelaea) 2016 resin sculpted by J Miguel Aparicio. 1:20. Painted in 2018 by Aleksander Freda of Dark Pegasus Studio.
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Now. I never intended to include any humans in my collection; I still don't. Here we go, regardless: A Kaiyodo Revoltech 061 Kerberos Protect Gear The Red Spectacles Edition figurine, from the original 2008 run of the Yamaguchi Series.
Apparently he's a Tokyo Metropolitan Police Special Armed Garrison Panzer Cop in Protect Gear body armour, from a film by Mamoru Oshii called The Red Spectacles, or more generally from the Kerberos Saga, none of which I know much anything about. Fellow came equipped with a MG34 machine gun, FG42 automatic rifle & one and a half Mauser C96 pistols, the first and last of which he's shown here holding all wrong. (By the 3rd pic he's learned how to hold the MG, though loading seems a problem. He'll get there eventually, save Tokyo, the lot.) The MG34 did come with an ammo belt, but it's stiff and awkward so I left it out. I'd rather cast him a nicely draping metal one with some heft to it and open up the bipod on the gun, but maybe I'll continue instead to intend not to include human figurines in my collection and just get a 1:6 version with those features. Next I'll be going for tanks, trains and farm machinery (mmm, farm machinery). And then where will I be? About 1:14 at modern Japanese policeman minimum height. Original finish, sculpted by Katsuhisa Yamaguchi. |