SidB's Collection Thread

[SidB]

S @SidB What that moa in the back there?

@BlueKrono, check out Dino Dad reviews - it's a resin piece by Mike Eischen of Paleo-Sculpture. There's a fair number of his figures in the display, virtually all 1/35, a couple 1/40.

[SidB]

CollectA's Lythronax, a feathered rendition that I really like. Depending on a projected length of 16 to 26 feet, this gives a scale of 1/26 to 1/42, which will allow my 1/35 or so  scale displays to accommodate it.





A flock of Struthiomimus from CollectA:



Scurrying past the rex pack on the display shelf for my Tyrannosaurs, probably not a good spot to call home:

These little figures work out at 1/35-1/40, depending on the choice of species.

[Lynx]

The display looks very nice with them! Out of curiosity, how much did the flock cost in total?

[SidB]

The display looks very nice with them! Out of curiosity, how much did the flock cost in total?

Not too expensive, @Lynx - from five to eight USD each, from various sources.

[ceratopsian]

They look good as a flock

[SidB]

They look good as a flock

It's a natural association, isn't it. Besides, one would have been lost.

[postsaurischian]

 The Struthiomimus is a wonderful figure. One of those figures that make CollectA special.
 I'm also using it for my 1:35 collection .... and yes, they do look good as a flock .

[SidB]

The Struthiomimus is a wonderful figure. One of those figures that make CollectA special.
 I'm also using it for my 1:35 collection .... and yes, they do look good as a flock .

Even though CollectA has been around for a while, and I too, it's only during the past year or two that I've really come to appreciate their merits and my acquisitions are slowly starting to reflect this, @postsaurischian . I echo the sentiments of more than a few people that we need more smaller dinosaurs in this size range. CollectA is probably the likely source of these if they materialize.

[Flaffy]

The Struthiomimus is a wonderful figure. One of those figures that make CollectA special.
 I'm also using it for my 1:35 collection .... and yes, they do look good as a flock .

Even though CollectA has been around for a while, and I too, it's only during the past year or two that I've really come to appreciate their merits and my acquisitions are slowly starting to reflect this, @postsaurischian . I echo the sentiments of more than a few people that we need more smaller dinosaurs in this size range. CollectA is probably the likely source of these if they materialize.

Still hoping CollectA will repaint the Struthiomimus. That sculpt deserves a better paint job.

[SidB]

The Struthiomimus is a wonderful figure. One of those figures that make CollectA special.
 I'm also using it for my 1:35 collection .... and yes, they do look good as a flock .

Even though CollectA has been around for a while, and I too, it's only during the past year or two that I've really come to appreciate their merits and my acquisitions are slowly starting to reflect this, @postsaurischian . I echo the sentiments of more than a few people that we need more smaller dinosaurs in this size range. CollectA is probably the likely source of these if they materialize.

Still hoping CollectA will repaint the Struthiomimus. That sculpt deserves a better paint job.

As you will no doubt remember, there were a number of sculpts from the CollectA inventory of that epoch that had a similar scheme, such as the Lythronax in my post. Safari has taken a similar approach with their use of color over the last several years, though apparently that's come to an end. Certainly the Struthiomimus would look good in a showier display of feathers.

[SidB]

I thought that I'd dig deep into my storage closet and grab something from the deep past, an almost forgotten epoch of collecting. If Invicta represents the ultimate and final expression of the Marx concept, then perhaps the Royal Ontario Museum line was its penultimate one. Over the years I picked these up, one or sometimes two at a time, from the Value Village thrift shops here in Toronto, though none recently of course.

Here's the line-up, mostly in grey, with a couple of greens, with one knockoff (the whiteish Chasmosaurus) thrown in. Never an extensive group, , but it included some interesting choices and it was sponsored by our very own museum here in Toronto, a phenomenon that's pretty much finished now. Museums don't get involved too much with this sort of thing anymore. Perhaps the public is no longer impressed with the association with public institutions (postmodernity - who knows), but the ROM figures bring back some happy collecting memories.


Some close-ups:

Lambeosaurus


Parasaurolophus


Diplodocus


Albertosaurus


Chasmosaurus (sure wish that some company would make an updated model of this figure)


Stegosaurus


Pteranodon, with a bit of nibbling on a wing tip


And finally, Stenopterygius, a bit chewed (don't know what it was that induced youngsters to nibble on these - can't be the taste/ I've got two, both chewed)


Thanks for checking these out, it was fun for me to find them and share with anyone interested.

[Libraraptor]

Wonderful figures!

[BlueKrono]

I have a fondness for the ROM figures as well. The Lambeosaurus is my favorite. I have both colors, and they hobnob with my other interesting hadrosaurs like Tsintaosaurus and Olorotitan.

[ceratopsian]

A charming retro group. I'm pulled to the Lambeosaurus too. It's that wonderfully curious uptilt of the head.

I can theorise why museums don't get involved in creating their own line of figures these days but I feel the lack.

[SidB]

Thanks, @Libraraptor , @ceratopsian and @BlueKrono , glad that you enjoyed them.

[Pliosaurking]

Very nice figures, I might have to track a few down!

[SidB]

Very nice figures, I might have to track a few down!

Happy hunting. See if you can get a fishing lizard that hasn't been nibbled on!

[SidB]

Cenozoic Rhino collection -

1/35 scale CollectA Paraceratherium ,TNG Elasmotherium, Mike Eischen's Teleoceros and 1/40 Coelodonta


Larger scale rhinos -

CollectA Elasmotherium, Safari Missing Links Coeodonta, Wild Republic Coelodonta








Wooly Rhinos: Papo, Wild Safari, Bullyland and AAA






Bird's-eye view -

[Concavenator]

The CollectA Struthiomimus is interesting. Ornithomimids are criminally overlooked.

[SidB]

The CollectA Struthiomimus is interesting. Ornithomimids are criminally overlooked.

If companies simply won't produce small single ornithomimids, then they could consider grouping them as a flock on a single base. One can hope.