1:1 Scale Jurassic Park Tyrannosaurus Rex Bust Completed!

[animator]

Looking forward to seeing this finished!

 

[simon830]

1 word... INCREDIBLE! This is amazing! Are you gonna look at painting it up? If so, if/ how will you look at making the layer lines disappear?

 

[yankeetrex]

So I sculpted and printed new eyes, filled, sanded, and then poured clear resin on top for a beautiful shine. Once I insert them, I'll finally start working on the seam filling and sculpting. Still a long ways to go.

 

[Duncanator]

"Here's looking at you!"

 

[Jintosh]

Wow, creepy eyeball ! Nice.

 

[CT1138]

Loving those eye, Rob!

 

[Welmanshire]

This is fantastic. Can't wait to see more.

Followed!

 

[yankeetrex]

Bigish update.....

So I have put all the main components of the head together,have to sand the seams down to better match the surrounding scales, then work on the neck...

Brought it over to my parents house to do some work on Father's day.

 

[13doctorwho]

Even at half scale it's intimidating. Looks great.

 

[yankeetrex]

Update, seamed everything and primed her multiple times. Hoping to have her painted by end of the week!

 

[Duncanator]

That's a lot of work!

 

[yankeetrex]

Had time this weekend to get the base color coat down. Cheated and used a camo spray paint can from walmart, but its all airbrush from here......

 

[yankeetrex]

Pic heavy update......
Finally was able to paint a bit this yesterday. I just choos a terrible day,haha. Hit 100 degrees where i live..was out there for about 6 hrs.

 

[yankeetrex]

Sorry about the double post, question for the Jp Fans out there, should I introduce black at all or just keep going for darker layers of brown?

 

[Jintosh]

Sorry about the double post, question for the Jp Fans out there, should I introduce black at all or just keep going for darker layers of brown?

As a reptile, and specifically Lizard like, I would say black wasn't extremely common in modern lizards that are mostly brown based, but not unheard of either. You can take a picture of you T-Rex and play in Photoshop to try some colors as accents and see what works. Black could still be very striking if done right.

 

[yankeetrex]

Finally happy with the paint, next step is painting the teeth, sealing it, and i may try a different way to do the eyes....

 

[Jintosh]

Awesome !

I almost want to say that the inside mouth area needs some attention....it's too consistently pink.
But, I don't have better advice than that.

 

[13doctorwho]

It's looking great!! Very intimidating, even half scale!

 

[yankeetrex]

Question about resin polishing.....So I went and made resin Eyeballs using a circular silicon ice mold I had. It picked up the texture of the ice mold since it didnt have a shine. How do I go about buffing the shine back in? Dremel with a polishing attachment? Buff with something like FLitz and a microfiber cloth? Pour another layer of resin on top of the piece? Wet sanding isn't really an option for me.

 

[tye williams]

Amazing airbrushing