Dinosaur Fans! Check THIS Out!

BINGO!!
The head looks fantastic on this thing!! 1000000X better!!
It totally changes the look of this thing.
I will have to leave this as a tease until I can get pics up.

Lynn
 
Here is the new head.
It is not on correctly and is placed gingerly on one side of the skull in one of the cavities, but it looks pretty damn good to me.

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Lynn
 
OK i bought one of these and finished it. This is the first model I have built since I was a kid. I used Krylon fusion black satin and then dry brushed autumn gold rub n buff on to it. Here are my pics

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It's better sculpted, better detailed, and better proportioned. The kit supplied head had to have some altered angles and the removal of undercuts so that it could be extracted from the steel mold without being locked into it. There's a whole inner structure of the skull that this new resin one has that just doesn't even get hinted at existing in the kit skull. Also, the teeth on the kit skull just aren't intimidating at all.



Lynn, could you take some side by side comparison photos of the two skulls? I'd like to see exactly how much they differ.
 
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I was at the local Childrens museum recently, and they had a couple Rex skeletons on display that had this freaky, "fireplace grill" looking bone on the bellies of their Rex skeletons.

Is that some new discovery, or is it species specific?

-Sarge
 
SgtFang said:
I was at the local Childrens museum recently, and they had a couple Rex skeletons on display that had this freaky, "fireplace grill" looking bone on the bellies of their Rex skeletons.

Is that some new discovery, or is it species specific?

-Sarge
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It's the front of the rib cage, and like ours, it's made up of a lot of cartilage, and thus doesnt survive the petrification process very well. As far as I know, only one (maybe two) example of this has been found, and it's very incomplete. So much so, that we're not really sure exactly what it looks like or how it was arranged and attached. For that reason, most museum displays opt to leave that piece off. Heck, it wasn't too long ago we discovered Rexes had a collarbone/wishbone connecting the two shoulder blades.
 
Yeah, the two arms are just dangling now...

The metal one looks great!

As far as the other skull goes, I'm not that impressed. Could be because of the lack of uniformity in the paint...
 
Finally picked one of these up yesterday $37AU. There were 5 or 6 left at my local store so I may have to grab another if they have been discontinued.

Think I will look into that Ebay skull as a replacement and I'd like to modify the body structure if at all possible into a running - head swooping low to the ground pose as indicated in some of the museum display photos linked to in this thread. Also be repainting, lot of inspiration from some of the great jobs already shown off here :thumbsup

Mike
 
Tyderium said:
Finally picked one of these up yesterday $37AU. There were 5 or 6 left at my local store so I may have to grab another if they have been discontinued.

Mike
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Mike, which store was this? A friend was at the Morley store yesterday and said there were 'heaps' at the time he visited.

Cheers,
Martyn
 
SiR-ROUND said:
As far as the other skull goes, I'm not that impressed. Could be because of the lack of uniformity in the paint...
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Too each his own I guess....
Going from a so so monster looking skull that isn't accurate looking to a representation that is 100X better is a no brainer.
I got the skull on, and I just gotta shoot it.
Lynn
 
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