mawsonia

[frederico]

my first time designing a fish, which is surprisingly harder then it looks, especially with a creature with this body shape.
this is mawsonia. mawsonia is a massive ceolocanth. measuring 6 meters in length, it's weighs about as much as a rhino. dwarfing all modern fresh water fish by comparison and only the modern day basking and whale shark surpass it in size. as a primitive member of the lobed finned fish family, mawsonia was likely capable of breathing air and covered in scales reinforced with tough dermal layers of lemellar bone
dispirit it's size, a certain predator measuring 15 meters could of eaten this fish quite readily ( hint: it starts with an s and has a large dorsal structure)
at 1: 48 scale, it's about 6 inches in length. same length as the sinosaurus and hererrasaurus but MUCH GIRTHIER!

[Vermin_King]

Very nice textures on these last two models. Thanks for sharing

[Yeti]

That's really neat. Did you hand paint this one with watercolors, too? The subtle color transitions are very good.

[frederico]

thanks yeti. i actually used a combination of charcoal and various color markers for this fish. next time i try to build this, i might splatter some water color browns and greens, as this was an animal that lived in muddy river deltas.