The new project is finished
I was able to use a lot of the items I found at LuxPlaymodays, and a lot of new animals that I've been collecting over the past two years. Some of the smaller sets from the fair theme came in handy too.
I had to wait for the model train shop to re-open after their summer break, but it was worth it, because I found more of that brown sandpaper-ish texture for soil.
I didn't have enough space (what else is new) for rhino's or hippo's, and the European section of the zoo consists of one black bear enclosure, but other than that I pretty much got it all in there - I do have a few very disappointed deer, two brooding foxes and an angry mob of petting zoo candidates on my hands, though.
We've visited San Diego Zoo, the San Francisco Zoo, and the Golden Gate Park (with the beautiful Conservatory of Flowers that has a wealth of butterflies, and the California Academy of Sciences with tons of snakes and parrots) in July, and those served as inspiration:
There's a conservatory with all kinds of birds and parrots, a reptile house with snakes, strange insects and scorpions and a tank with exotic fish and sea-creatures.
Apart from that, the park is divided in five sections for continents (and the European bear enclosure
). Some of the sections have their own entrance gate:
- Australia - or shall I say an enclosure for kangaroos and koalas (please Geobra, we need wombats, dingo's and Tasmanian devils)
- Asia - with urangutangs, tigers and panda bears
- America - with bison, racoons, monkeys, possums, guinea pigs, a wolf
- Antarctica - with two types of pinguïns, seals and ... turtles
- Africa - with crocodiles, lions, meerkats and well basically all the rest, you'll see in the pictures, that section is the biggest
Come on in
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