{"id":1440,"date":"2009-08-31T19:57:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T18:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2009-08-31T19:57:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T18:57:22","slug":"mega-miniatures-megafauna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/2009\/08\/mega-miniatures-megafauna\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega Miniatures Megafauna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/megaminis-chalicotherium.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/megaminis-chalicotherium-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Chalicotherium from Mega Miniatures\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/stores.shop.ebay.com\/MegaMiniatures\">Mega Miniatures<\/a> have enhanced their extensive range of animal miniatures with some prehistoric mammals &#8211; a <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/DEAL-44103-Doedicurus-Prehistoric-miniature-25mm_W0QQitemZ140342416435QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0\">Doedicurus<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/DEAL-44102-Dip-Rotodon-Prehistoric-miniature-25mm_W0QQitemZ360183923821QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0\">Diprotodon<\/a> and best of all a <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/DEAL-44101-Chalicotherium-Prehistoric-miniature-25mm_W0QQitemZ140342415844QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0\">Chalicotherium<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been fascinated by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chalicotheriidae\">Chalicotheres<\/a> ever since I saw them on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walking_with_Beasts\"><cite>Walking with Beasts<\/cite><\/a> but up to now the only miniature representation has been the 1\/72 scale <a href=\"http:\/\/krentzpresentz.com\/sculpture\/Chalicotherium.html\">David Krentz<\/a> version, which whilst a better sculpt is small and pricey. So big kudos to Mega for bringing one of my favourite animals to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mega Miniatures have enhanced their extensive range of animal miniatures with some prehistoric mammals &#8211; a Doedicurus, a Diprotodon and best of all a Chalicotherium. I&#8217;ve been fascinated by Chalicotheres ever since I saw them on Walking with Beasts but up to now the only miniature representation has been the 1\/72 scale David Krentz version, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[92,153],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dinosaurs","category-miniatures","tag-ebay","tag-megafauna"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1fxq5-ne","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}