Gilvan Blight
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Was that the one with the Caffine sipder? Now wait that was something else
Hey Bill!!
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Was that the one with the Caffine sipder? Now wait that was something else
I know exactly the show you are talking about! My favorites were the velvet worm that would spray glue over its victims, the \"net\" spider that hangs arm\'s length above the ground and pushes a silk net down over prey, and the \"bola\" spider that would swing a glob of sticky silk on the end of a line to snare victims. Great stuff!
Found the link to the show Ritual mentioned:
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Undergrowth-David-Attenborough/dp/B000EBD9W6/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-7271184-4774429?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1175128894&sr=8-1
Attenborough is without peer for narration. Did he do the Blue Planet series?
funnymouth
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what a cool thread! blue planet is great! one of my favorite nature shows of all time...
there is a great new HD documentary too called \"planet earth\"
linkey to discovery.com
there is a great new HD documentary too called \"planet earth\"
linkey to discovery.com
Gilvan Blight
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Someone didn\'t read the entire thread. lol
There\'s a new member with a name like Bill\'s old one too!
There\'s a new member with a name like Bill\'s old one too!
AinuLainour
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We\'ve had quite a discussion about planet earth, too
Yeah, Attenbrough does pretty much any nature show that the BBC is involved in, including Blue Planet, which was one of the best.
These days he takes a back seat, but I remember when I was a nipper, seeing him hiding out in the undergrowth with all manner of wild creatures close by, crawling through anthills (was that in \'The Trials of Life\'?), all sorts of crazy stuff.
In general I prefer it when there are no humans in view (although sometimes for a true idea of the scale of things I think Planet Earth could have done with some more people in shot) but he always had the good grace to realise that it was the animals, not him who were the stars of the show, and always adopted that soft, unobtrusive sort of presentation style.
I don\'t normally go in for all of this \'Sir\' stuff, but with David Attenbrough I think it\'s throughly deserved. He\'s a legend!
These days he takes a back seat, but I remember when I was a nipper, seeing him hiding out in the undergrowth with all manner of wild creatures close by, crawling through anthills (was that in \'The Trials of Life\'?), all sorts of crazy stuff.
In general I prefer it when there are no humans in view (although sometimes for a true idea of the scale of things I think Planet Earth could have done with some more people in shot) but he always had the good grace to realise that it was the animals, not him who were the stars of the show, and always adopted that soft, unobtrusive sort of presentation style.
I don\'t normally go in for all of this \'Sir\' stuff, but with David Attenbrough I think it\'s throughly deserved. He\'s a legend!
funnymouth
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doh! i must be :drunk:
I actually have a good question for you, Bill, to keep the thread rolling.
I picked up a cool set of old Grenadier miniatures on ebay recently, and one of the minis is a Giant Beetle! Here\'s a link:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope/sol/grenadier/images2/1501.jpg
Since you seem to know quite a bit about colorful bugs, I thought I would look to you for inspiration about color schemes. Not sure what type of \"real life\" beetle it is based on, but it has large mandibles and no \"horns\".
I picked up a cool set of old Grenadier miniatures on ebay recently, and one of the minis is a Giant Beetle! Here\'s a link:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope/sol/grenadier/images2/1501.jpg
Since you seem to know quite a bit about colorful bugs, I thought I would look to you for inspiration about color schemes. Not sure what type of \"real life\" beetle it is based on, but it has large mandibles and no \"horns\".
Well, from what I can see it looks a lot like a regular male - females have smaller mandibles - common stag beetle (Lucanus cervus):
Not very interesting eh?
But as it\'s not very tightly based on any particular species, luckily there are some nice, brightly-coloured tropical beetles which are of similar shape!
Here\'s a couple I thought would be more interesting:
Mouhotia planipennis
Phalacrognathus Muelleri
Of course, you don\'t have to be tied to the type of beetle, so here are a few more nicely coloured beetles which might inspire you:
Acrocinus longimanus
Pachnoda cordata cordata
Coilodera preaenobilis
Sternotomis pulchra picta
Pachyteria equestris
Chrysodema pyrostictica
Chrysina batesi
Chrysina boucardi
Phanaeus vindex
Go Nuts!!
Not very interesting eh?
But as it\'s not very tightly based on any particular species, luckily there are some nice, brightly-coloured tropical beetles which are of similar shape!
Here\'s a couple I thought would be more interesting:
Mouhotia planipennis
Phalacrognathus Muelleri
Of course, you don\'t have to be tied to the type of beetle, so here are a few more nicely coloured beetles which might inspire you:
Acrocinus longimanus
Pachnoda cordata cordata
Coilodera preaenobilis
Sternotomis pulchra picta
Pachyteria equestris
Chrysodema pyrostictica
Chrysina batesi
Chrysina boucardi
Phanaeus vindex
Go Nuts!!
:innocent:
*edit*
here are a few that would be simpler to paint...
Euchroea vadoni
Pseudomyagrus waterhousei
Eupholus bennetti
Lampropepla rothschildi
Chrysochroa ephippigera
I\'m just trying to give inspiration! As you can tell even from this small selection, the diversity of colouration on beetles is so vast that you could paint one pretty much any colour (except perhaps bubblegum pink), and get away with it. I\'m only here to help
~Bill
(Go on, you know you want to... :drunk: )
Thanks, Bill!
Been out of town for a few days, so sorry about the belated response. I have to agree with the others that the irridescent ones are probably a bit out of my league as far as painting skills are concerned, but you have definitely given me some good options. I particularly like the second one, and the one with red patterning. Looks a bit like Darth Maul, actually.
Been out of town for a few days, so sorry about the belated response. I have to agree with the others that the irridescent ones are probably a bit out of my league as far as painting skills are concerned, but you have definitely given me some good options. I particularly like the second one, and the one with red patterning. Looks a bit like Darth Maul, actually.
