"Mick Yarrow 15mm Bullockornis and Megalania" Topic

I just primed four Bullockornis, one Megalania from Mick Yarrow… and one French Foreign Legion-er from Peter Pig :) Gonna start painting them tomorrow morning. These creatures were walking on ancient Australian soil during Neogene period. But they can also be used for VSF, PULP or even Sci-Fi.

I am not usually sharing photos of unpainted minis, but I thought you may like to have a look at them, because there is not much hi-rez photos on M.Y.Miniatures Ice Age page link

From Wikipedia:
Bullockornis planei, nicknamed the Demon-Duck of Doom, is an extinct flightless bird that lived in the Middle Miocene, approximately 15 million years ago, in what is now Australia. Bullockornis stood approximately 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) tall. It may have weighed up to 250 kg (550 lb). Features of Bullockornis's skull, including a very large beak suited to shearing, indicate that the bird may have been carnivorous. The bird's skull is larger than that of many small horses.
Many paleontologists, including Peter Murray of the Central Australian Museum, believe that Bullockornis was related to geese and ducks. This, in addition to the bird's tremendous size and possible carnivorous habits, gave rise to its colourful nickname. The bird's generic name is improperly translated as "ox-bird", and was named instead for the type locality for the genus at Bullock Creek, Australia.

From Wikipedia:
The megalania (Megalania prisca or Varanus priscus) was a very large goanna or monitor lizard, now extinct. It was part of a megafaunal assemblage that inhabited southern Australia during the Pleistocene. It seems to have disappeared between 30,000 to 40,000 years ago. The first aboriginal settlers of Australia might have encountered living megalanias. Some Aboriginal Dreaming stories may even be about them.

From Wikipedia:
The megalania (Megalania prisca or Varanus priscus) was a very large goanna or monitor lizard, now extinct. It was part of a megafaunal assemblage that inhabited southern Australia during the Pleistocene. It seems to have disappeared between 30,000 to 40,000 years ago. The first aboriginal settlers of Australia might have encountered living megalanias. Some Aboriginal Dreaming stories may even be about them.

Nick
15mmworld.blogspot.com.au

I thought my Humakti Death Drake was the "demon duck of doom"!

That is excellent. Very nice pic thank you.

Reviews of MY miniaturs is always welcome. ( I think he should do some more photos or a gallery on his site.)

A mystery for all you evolutionary biologists. Surely a bird ahead of its time: a beak adapted for shearing 15 million years before the advent of sheep.

But how would they have held and manipulated the jumbucks? Maybe, in an early expression of mutualism, Megalania would have filled that niche.

And with no market economy for another 15 million years too, does that make these two species the originators of long-term strategic planning?

Everyone needs a few megalania in the mix:

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Dan

I think they would look more excellent with some 16th Lancers sitting on thir backs.

^^^ I've got a pile of mounted Reb cavalry minus their horses.

I never thought of that. I don't have any of them but I Could go with Rush's Lancers.

I painted and based two Demon Ducks of Doom :) These are female birds, and males gonna have white feathers around their beaks. I really like this figures! For size comparison I included Masai warrior from Irregular Miniatures.

2 deflatermouse
Like this?

Haha excellent!! Yes very like that.
saddles would be very necessary. (does anyone else know the oft-heard muttered version of "Particularly nasty weather"?)

Hhhmmmm Cuirassiers with caterpillers plumes? I wonder…. The Cameroonians DID have a unit of them…hhmmm

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