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Post by sam9710 on May 16, 2018 20:59:04 GMT -8
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Post by sam9710 on May 16, 2018 21:09:12 GMT -8
 Well done~！ It's a female Agehana maraho bought in a whole box from a Japanese. It pretty cheap but I suggest maybe the shipment not did by the pre-owner. When it arrived the wooden box have nothing safeguard except an common paper box with no filler！！！！ She seems be smashed to pieces，but I spent 5-8 hours to make her could barely to see. At that time I was in senior high school.  Every accident for mounted or shipment could bring us infinite creativity~ Oh，forget to say that the right tail ，I could not find any chips，so improvised it by papilio memnon~  |
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Post by lordpandarus on May 17, 2018 4:04:55 GMT -8
what kind of glue did you use?
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Post by Paul K on May 17, 2018 4:13:36 GMT -8
Puzzle game.
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Post by sam9710 on May 17, 2018 4:41:41 GMT -8
what kind of glue did you use? white glue～，you make add some water to dilution it if its too thick. |
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Post by lordpandarus on May 17, 2018 15:38:24 GMT -8
it's still pretty hard. I mess up this kind or repair 1/2 the time. I can mostly manage a small rip in a wing
I can't imagine how you put all these pieces togheter
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Post by bichos on May 17, 2018 16:07:31 GMT -8
what kind of glue did you use? white glue～，you make add some water to dilution it if its too thick. I'm guessing PVC wood glue, which is water soluble |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2018 23:04:15 GMT -8
My best results have been with simple crafting glue, cheap and dries perfectly clear you can't see it.
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Post by exoticimports on May 18, 2018 5:38:49 GMT -8
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Post by joachim on May 24, 2018 2:38:21 GMT -8
Hello, fantastic specimen. Did you see that on the forewing the yellow spots are not symentric? Is this normal?
best wishes Joachim
P.S. You must be richt to be able to buy this butterfly.
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Post by lordpandarus on May 24, 2018 16:50:00 GMT -8
Are you talking about the Charaxes fournierae?
I didn't notice the spots were not symetric. So it must be a slight aberration
I bought it for 341$ USD so it was at the limit of what I could afford or would pay for it . The last time I saw perfect specimens for sale they were in the 600-700$ range so I figure it was probably my only chance to ever get one.
There's another one on ebay this week so I'm curious to see how much it sells for. (Some small chips and scratches but it's more "golden color" than mine)
But now that I looked at more reference pictures, the color of my specimen is very unique
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Post by lordpandarus on Jul 12, 2018 10:50:59 GMT -8
Then there's the completely unpredictable incidents
I had a pinned butterfly sitting on my desk after removing it from the board. So I open a softdrink bottle near by, the cap slips out of my hand , bounces on the desk a few times and lands right on a wing to break it
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2018 14:15:50 GMT -8
I recently spread a series of Aglais urticae including 1 nice ab and 1 quite extreme ab,all wild caught, about 8 in total, and I knocked the right antenna off.......................yes you guessed it the extreme ab, what are the chances, no problem with the others, either I'm incredibly unlucky or someone up there doesn't like me, a simple repair but still.
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Post by jhyatt on Jul 12, 2018 15:06:12 GMT -8
I've noticed that in the past 2 or 3 years, I've broken more antennae in removing leps from the boards that in the 50 years before then. I think that depth perception must decrease with age, or some similar visual problem occurs, which leads to this. I guess none of us are what we used to be...
jh
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Post by bichos on Jul 14, 2018 2:30:39 GMT -8
I had an Ornithoptera paradisea on a settingboard once and my daughter pushed a pin through its forewing out of sheer curiosity. There where several other specimens around it but she chose the most valued specimen.
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Every accident for mounted or shipment could bring us infinite creativity~
