Centurion
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Howdy!
After finishing up Dina the Parasaurolophus the other week I was back into all things Dinosaurs and to my utter delight I managed to bag an original kit by the titular company (now defunct) and no piggy banks were raided either.
I have also got another Brachiosaur kit from the Tamiya diorama range and my plan is to have a adult (probably female) with a juvenile alongside. The Horizon kit when complete is 3ft tall so she's a BIG beastie. The Tamiya kit is a tidy 18" tall so hopefully the juvenile will look good walking alongside its mummy. Once again I will have sounds with the display and have been trolling all the Dino sites and museum sites I can find and have a pretty good collection of the sounds these animals could possibly have made. I also have a lot of the Jurassic Park sounds as well. I could have got a recast kit and saved a few pennies but I jumped at the chance to get an original.
The kit is vinyl which will make a wee change from styrene and resin. I have made a wee start to my girl so on with the pictures methinks.
Original box art.
Having a look at all the pieces (not too many to be honest but each part bar her lower jaw hints at how big this kit is).
I have made a general start on her but the first item on the agenda was to trim all the part and the next after that was to fill her legs with Plaster of Paris up to about 10mm from the top so I had some vinyl that could be heated and shaped when attaching her legs. Once the legs where attached I pored more plaster into the leg holes from inside the body so all four legs were filled .
To add some rigidity to her neck and tail I pored more plaster in, swirled it around to get a good coating on the inside and let the excess drain away. Before the plaster hardened I just wiped the inside of the tail/neck where they would join to the body to depth of about 10mm to again give me some vinyl that could be heated and shaped more easily when attaching to the the body.
Attaching all the parts went pretty well with slowly heating the vinyl where there were gaps (and there was a beauty at the lower neck that was easily 20mm) and quickly cooling it to keep the shape and this was repeated until the gap was much more manageable and more easily puttied up.
There we have it for now and once again I hope you all join me and take a trip back to Jurassic Park.
After finishing up Dina the Parasaurolophus the other week I was back into all things Dinosaurs and to my utter delight I managed to bag an original kit by the titular company (now defunct) and no piggy banks were raided either.
I have also got another Brachiosaur kit from the Tamiya diorama range and my plan is to have a adult (probably female) with a juvenile alongside. The Horizon kit when complete is 3ft tall so she's a BIG beastie. The Tamiya kit is a tidy 18" tall so hopefully the juvenile will look good walking alongside its mummy. Once again I will have sounds with the display and have been trolling all the Dino sites and museum sites I can find and have a pretty good collection of the sounds these animals could possibly have made. I also have a lot of the Jurassic Park sounds as well. I could have got a recast kit and saved a few pennies but I jumped at the chance to get an original.
The kit is vinyl which will make a wee change from styrene and resin. I have made a wee start to my girl so on with the pictures methinks.
Original box art.
Having a look at all the pieces (not too many to be honest but each part bar her lower jaw hints at how big this kit is).
I have made a general start on her but the first item on the agenda was to trim all the part and the next after that was to fill her legs with Plaster of Paris up to about 10mm from the top so I had some vinyl that could be heated and shaped when attaching her legs. Once the legs where attached I pored more plaster into the leg holes from inside the body so all four legs were filled .
To add some rigidity to her neck and tail I pored more plaster in, swirled it around to get a good coating on the inside and let the excess drain away. Before the plaster hardened I just wiped the inside of the tail/neck where they would join to the body to depth of about 10mm to again give me some vinyl that could be heated and shaped more easily when attaching to the the body.
Attaching all the parts went pretty well with slowly heating the vinyl where there were gaps (and there was a beauty at the lower neck that was easily 20mm) and quickly cooling it to keep the shape and this was repeated until the gap was much more manageable and more easily puttied up.
There we have it for now and once again I hope you all join me and take a trip back to Jurassic Park.
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