Cix Models presents a resin set of farmer with cow and plow.

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The figure is nice but it looks a little stiff. The animal is awesome but the legs should be in some motion if it's plowing a field.

Cow and plow are OK, but the farmer is not...

Although I likethe animal..........it appears to be a bull.... not a cow :-)

More likely to be an ox. Bulls are very difficult to control and hitch up for something like plowing.

Thanks for the review

Realy a wonderful model of a Chianina ox. Chianina is the biggest cattle breed on the world. Most likely already known to the Romans, originally from the Lucania area in Italy. The bulls are about 160 - 175 cm high and do have a weight of 1.150 - 1.280 kgs. Oxses can reach 190 cm.
Therefore the farmer could have been considerably smaller, the more since he is, most likely, Italian as well, who tend to be not that tall (in the middle of the 20th century)
A realy well sculped modell. I am thinking about a German soldier, admiring the animal and thinking about his farm back in Hessen!
Waiting to see it on the market.
Who sells them in Western Europe?

Hi,
this is not a bull ... it is an Italian ox "Chianina" ....

I’m definitely not an expert on agricultural history, but isn’t an ox-driven plow a thing of long ago?
I thought that in the 20th century horses were used before tractors?

the size of the ox can vary from 1.70m to 2.10m ..
during the two wars they were usually smaller ...
the scene takes up an ox that does not work...he is at rest.
the strings can be tensioned or loose

In Italy (and Europe ) the ox is used from the late nineteenth century until about the 50s
the horse was less used..
my grandfather had it ... he used it until the 1950s

Hi paul,
if you want to buy the set, you can contact cixmodels directly at the site .... or via ebay, my nickname is hypercix
Cheers
Andrea
Cixmodels

Keo, farmers will plow with anything they can. Since Hitler was taking so much oil from citizens I suspect only very large farms had petrol allowances. I've seen farmers plowing with mules and oxen in the 21st century, but not on BIG GLOBAL farms... Mostly now it is a labor of love for many who use animals to pull plows. So, it is certainly relevant to the hobby for the period of 1919 (when ww2 started in Germany) thru to the post-war period. I've petted an ox named Brutus who was hitched along with another to a plow. When I put my hand on his MASSIVE back, he twitched his back skin and an area at least 3by3 feet moved, it gave me a sensation of being quite small next to Brutus. And he was POWERFUL but submissive and also quite good-natured. There is a lot to be said about working with animals who are often quite happy to please you. My great grandfather had a mule named John, and when it was time for John to retire, Grandpa sold John to another farmer down the road. John kept coming back to Grandpa's farm and so he bought John back. The "title" to John looked remarkably like the title for an automobile except for "Animal's name" which was listed as "John Leverett."

History lesson aside, I like the ox, but the farmer is a bit too static for me, I'd rather he was holding the reins by the plow actually doing something. maybe the next release?

Whatever it is a great paint job on that Ox.
So do you do another animals?
How about a dead Camel skeleton?


Cheers

This is kind of beautiful. I think I will buy one.

Hi Brian,
if you are interested....you are welcome ...
The ox can also be associated with the miniart cart (or similar)

I just visited the company website. fantastic variety of little modeled details. I would like to see a review on the motorcycle & conversions kits.