For close-ups, so they must be highly detailed. The only so-called 'bumblebee' I've found is hairless and slender--the ones I'm looking for are incredibly fat and very hairy. I don't mind paying for them, since realistic ones are needed, but I've combed all the model sites that are in my bookmarks, with no luck at all....help, please!

BryceTech has one, He looks like this, with or without the hair. Not sure if you can just buy the bee, but check out the store over at 3d commune. Genny

I can second Genny's recommendation. Brycetech's critters are extremely well put together. (Use the dials, not the mouse, though!) DAZ also has a bee, but this one is fatter and furrier and more ferocious-looking (and it would be easier to coat her back legs with pollen and pixeldust). I do not own Ken's hummingbird. I'm not sure where it was offered for sale (since I knew it was out there). IIRC, it was a prize in a contest more than a year ago. DAZ has a songbird by Anton which looks quite nice, and can be sparkled up a bit in the map or the lighting. Sometimes modelers take down their older work. It may not be representative of their current skill or they want to fix it or they need to clear space on the server or their bandwidth usage resembles the steppes after the invading hordes have twice passed. However, if you ask via email or IM, they can usually find it in their archives. Carolly

Thank you both for responding, but that bee looks so very different from the ones buzzing all over my backyard every day....maybe I have a unique kind?! The one above looks a lot like a honey bee, rather than a bumblebee, to me. Mine are very round (fat) and have much, much more hair and are pale yellow and black striped. They look comical as they move from flower to flower---so fat and drunken on nectar that it seems impossible that they can stay airborne at all! Tried to reach EmpKen by email, but the address Jaybutton had is apparently an old one and he's never been logged on for IM when I've checked..........Any more ideas??

my honey bee would have to be textured to make it a bumble bee. It's a wonder someone hasnt already done that. :) BT

Patricia, I have the same bees in my yard. Unfortunatley, I have never seen a model of one anywhere. Sorry.

Thanks musicat---the for sale one isn't detailed enough, I'm afraid, and of course I could never use our suave, debonair, non-hirsute Renderosibee for such a comical character as a bumblebee...... ;^)

I have a bumblebee on my archive somewhere, I think I bought it from 3dc, along with a couple of butterflies and a flower. It isn't hairy, and a pig to pose, but I will try to sort out who made it and let you know. I use Brycetechs honey bee more, but then My other half is an apiarist. He doesn't approve of Rbee for some strange reason.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

"Ah, Patricia, my dear, it's so refreshing to meet a woman with such exquisite taste. Most women today have so little appreciation of the finer things in life, such as myself. You are truly a rare find. "As for you, Musicat, who has dared to insult my honor by implying that I am some mere bee, buzzing around making honey and such, I have no choice but to challenge you to a duel at sunrise!"

ROFLMAO!! (Oops! Hope you didn't take that laughing fit the wrong way, Renderosibee....collapses in giggles) Cohole, is 3DC the 3DCafe?

If you're not covered in stings, he didn't take it the wrong way.;) I think Chohole is referring to 3D Commune.