Fennec fox sculpture painted

Some time ago I sculpted this little fennec fox but I never found the time to paint her. She's been sitting on a cabinet for quite some time and had her little leg broken off once. However, I'm very pleased to tell you that she now finally has been given a proper colour.

Because fennec foxes are so small, I decided to sculpt it in 1:12 scale instead of the usual 1:22. Here she is:

" The fennec fox or fennec (Vulpes zerda) is a small nocturnal fox found in the Sahara of North Africa. Its most distinctive feature is its unusually large ears, which also serve to dissipate heat. The fennec is the smallest species of canid. Its coat, ears, and kidney functions have adapted to high-temperature, low-water, desert environments. In addition, its hearing is sensitive enough to hear prey moving underground. It mainly eats insects, small mammals, and birds. "

- wikipedia

 

 I'm not sure whenever I mentioned it in other posts, but while I was sculpting I kept some sort of a log in ms excel of the time I spent on it. I hoped it would give me more insight as how long it would take for me to actually sculpt a little animal as a lot of people ask me how long it takes to sculpt something. For the painting of the fox I didn't kept a log... not for any specific  reason, just 'cause I just didn't think about it.
I have no idea what others normally do... though it looks quite okay. I expected it to take longer then the stated hours, but that could also be because it took several days and it wasn't in one go...

The table with the times I spent sculpting.*

*Sorry it's in Dutch.. "tijd" means time and  "uren bezig" means hours spent. Everything else is clear enough I think.

Tigers!

Time to upload some repaints agian.

Following the tutorial I also used for the previous tiger I repaint two AAA tigers. Before they were quite yellow and I just like the idea of having more tigers in my collection that look realistic and fit well together.

Here's my whole tiger bunch :D. Except for my little golden tabby tiger...  Anyway, I have another tiger that could do with a better paintwork. Unfortuately, time is not my friend and looking at the time it took for me to post this after the first tiger repaint... I hope to be able to show more in the future ;)

Tiger is finally fully stripped!

Hurray, my little tiger finally has all of it's stripes! It took me some time to finish it but I'm very pleased with the results. All thanks to the tutorial on STS forum :D It looks much better than the original one, but that's mostly the case with modern brand tigers. To give them real realistic stripes during mass production just takes too much time and money. As children toys this is not a problem but for a hobbyist that's aiming for true to natures animals it's different. However, needing to repaint them gave me a nice opportunity to study tigers and it's stripes more resulting in a broader knowledge :D

After all this bla bla I will now give you the pictures, enjoy!

And a fancy picture: 

"Am I not the scariest tiger you've seen?"

Schipperkes finished

Finished the two little black herding dogs today. I think they make a cute pair, but below are some pictures so you can see it for yourself ;)

Seal Bay (STS swap gift)

So, some time ago I mentioned I joined the STS swap and once again I failed at uploading up to date pictures...

But here's the finished product! I resculpted the neck, head. tail, mane and some other muscles. I should have some photo's of the process but I can't find it at the moment so I'll post those some other time.

Schipperke

While going through my bodybox in search of somthing to customize I found this little chihuahua by puppy in my pocket, but it was missing it's ear. So I grabbed my dog breed book and turned the pages until I came across a Schipperke. It's a belgian dog breed that is considered to be the smallest herding dog.

Source: http://www.durantekennel.net/schipperke/

The mold's appearance fits the breed quite well. So I started customizing. Here's a WIP picture of the doggie compared to the original.

While waiting for the clay to dry I thought it was sad that the Schipperke was all alone... So I decided to make him a friend : )

The clay is not the one I usually use for sculpting so the results aren't optimal, but I'm happy enough.

Sheepdog and Lynx

 I did these small repaints some weeks ago. They were in my bodybox for some time so I'm glad they're finally finished :)

The left one is an Old English Sheepdog, a younger one (the one I mention in this post). And the right one is a lynx (you might remeber). I'm thinking about giving him some nylon hair ear plumes to make him more realistic.

Here's a little close up of the Sheepdog. (wel, it's nog actually a close up... but you can see more details on this picture ;) )