Scientifically Accurate Great Auk Model Kit – 1:1 Resin Collector Model
"Last of its Kind:" 1:1 Scale Great Auk
Developed in collaboration with EXETINCT.
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Designed using fossil data, anatomical reconstruction, and ultra-high-resolution sculpting techniques to achieve maximum realism and scientific accuracy.
“Collectable”, “exclusive”, “museum-quality”. These words are often thrown about by businesses online offering replicas of extinct animals or what remains of them. This sculpt of a great auk, by noted palaeoartist Matt Ramieri of Ancient Era Artistry is all of those things.
The great auk is our preferred outreach champion.
Why?
One of the reasons the great auk went extinct was because in its final days, museums and amateur naturalists wanted the rare and charismatic bird for their taxidermy collections. The final push to collect these is widely considered to have been what tipped the birds’ dwindling, but still viable population toward the point of no return and extinction. To make matters worse, these collectors understood extinction, it was part of what drove their desire. When presented with this information and coupled with the fact that the North Atlantic could have also had “penguins”, our responsibility for the welfare of our world and consideration for future generations is driven home in a very poignant way.
Ironically, the great auk is quite rare in collectables circles. You would think being a widespread and charismatic species which went extinct more recently than the dodo, it would be more widely available.
Well, we’re here to change that.
Available in a transportable desktop and/or shelf friendly 1/5th scale (23cm high, 12cm wide and length at widest points for the base). This is well-paired with our great auk skull as props for talks and outreach.
Printed in durable impact resistantresin at a stunning .03 mm layer height, Matt’s fine sculpting work makes individual feathers visible - the every scale of the webbing of the feet accounted for. This is museum quality. But unlike in the past, the rare and elusive great auk can be yours.
Key Features:
Scientifically accurate proportions
Ultra-high-resolution sculpt (tens of millions of polygons)
Collector-grade resin kit
Precision scale
Dynamic, lifelike pose
Other available sizes available. If you don't see this model in the scale you need, contact us and we will make it happen! (matt@think-loudly.com)
*This is a model kit shipped unassembled and in parts unless "Model Kit Built," or "Paint by X" is chosen at checkout. Kit colors vary. The actual model may be any color, and may or may not be primed.
Paint by Ancient Era Artistry is available upon request.
Ancient Era Artistry fabrica figuras de dinosaurios y dioramas altamente precisos, realistas y "científicamente posibles". 136bad5cf58d_ Sus kits se investigan rigurosamente, y with everyspecies he esculpe, hace que su misión sea hacer que cada personaje sea lo más científicamente viable posible. Él llama a su trabajo "Científicamente posible".
Matt incluye todos los hechos conocidos y los datos científicos más actualizados para dar vida a la fauna de la prehistoria. Alternativamente, Ramieri cree que cada personaje debe tener una personalidad... una identidad que refleje todo, desde las vidas brutales y tumultuosas que estas criaturas se vieron obligadas a vivir hasta la libertad y fantasía de las jóvenes bestias en el juego. Matt pretende llenar los espacios entre las páginas de las revistas científicas con este punto de vista filosófico, y conduce el camino de la especulación con la libertad creativa de un diseñador de personajes.
Cada modelo producido por Ancient Era Artistry es un prototipo de impresión en 3D mediante LFS (estereolitografía de baja fuerza), tecnología de impresión de resina de alta resolución. Se imprimen con una asombrosa altura de capa de 0,025 mm. ¡Cada modelo consta de miles de capas que a menudo se acercan (o superan) las 10 000 capas!