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Post by Radman on Nov 3, 2009 18:27:53 GMT
Quetzlcoatlus snatches an unwary small crocodilian off a mudbank.  |
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Post by Dan on Nov 3, 2009 19:03:29 GMT
Oh, nice! How did you get the Quetz suspended like that?
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Post by franchesca on Nov 3, 2009 19:45:57 GMT
its called photoshop
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Post by Radman on Nov 4, 2009 0:58:15 GMT
Yes, I had it mounted on a slender metal rod (you can still see the hole in its belly) and PS'ed it out.  |
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Post by Horridus on Nov 4, 2009 1:01:15 GMT
That picture has really made me want that Quetzalcoatlus. That's got to be the best figure Schleich has ever made by some distance... Me? Buy a Schleich?  |
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Post by bucketfoot on Nov 4, 2009 2:22:33 GMT
That picture has really made me want that Quetzalcoatlus. That's got to be the best figure Schleich has ever made by some distance... Me? Buy a Schleich? You won't be sorry. The new Schleich Quetzalcoatlus is THE BEST Pterosaur sculpt put out by any of the big names. Period. The paint job is fantastic too, and - man this thing is HUGE - at 1:40 scale it works out to be one of those 45-50foot wingspan Pterosaurs that they have found fragmentary evidence of. Its simply gigantic. And the detail is fantastic. |
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Post by deanm on Nov 4, 2009 2:38:40 GMT
I get a bit of a chuckle out of the over the top enthusiasm that the Quetzel is getting now considering the initial disparaging comments that were made about it when it was announced last year. Don't get me wrong, I like it a lot also (well except for the neck posture - sorry guys the vertebrate wouldn't permit that posture). It is a dynamic figure.
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Post by Ajax on Nov 4, 2009 2:46:51 GMT
I get a bit of a chuckle out of the over the top enthusiasm that the Quetzel is getting now considering the initial disparaging comments that were made about it when it was announced last year. Don't get me wrong, I like it a lot also (well except for the neck posture - sorry guys the vertebrate wouldn't permit that posture). It is a dynamic figure. Should be an easy figure to fix for our 'dino-repair' members, hopefully someone here will straighten the neck and post some pics for us. |
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Post by kuni on Nov 4, 2009 3:10:29 GMT
I don't find that Quetz very spectacular - the Schleich Jr. "Ornithocheirus" (yeah, it's called something else, but it's an Ornitho) is a nice Schliech pterosaur. I wish more companies would sculpt grounded pterosaurs. The Colorata Quetz is probably my favorite in terms of accuracy (the Kaiyodo has an odd neck posture, but not as bad as the Schliech).
I'm still waiting on a good quadrupedal azdharcid sculpt that's bigger than the Kaiyodo...
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Post by bucketfoot on Nov 4, 2009 7:58:47 GMT
I get a bit of a chuckle out of the over the top enthusiasm that the Quetzel is getting now considering the initial disparaging comments that were made about it when it was announced last year. Don't get me wrong, I like it a lot also (well except for the neck posture - sorry guys the vertebrate wouldn't permit that posture). It is a dynamic figure. Should be an easy figure to fix for our 'dino-repair' members, hopefully someone here will straighten the neck and post some pics for us. Well you just had to go and 'call me out' didn't you.  Yes, the neck ought to be longer and straighter. Let me think about it for a little bit. Got a lot of other irons in the fire at the moment.... |
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Post by sbell on Nov 4, 2009 15:08:15 GMT
I get a bit of a chuckle out of the over the top enthusiasm that the Quetzel is getting now considering the initial disparaging comments that were made about it when it was announced last year. Don't get me wrong, I like it a lot also (well except for the neck posture - sorry guys the vertebrate wouldn't permit that posture). It is a dynamic figure. I just kind of like the colour scheme, to be honest. The other one is pretty dull. And I still contend that a) they could have done some other animals, instead of re-treading the three they retired; and b) I still don't like their dinosaurs all that much. |
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Post by Horridus on Nov 4, 2009 16:35:51 GMT
b) I still don't like their dinosaurs all that much. Oh no, their dinosaurs are very, very bad. Which is why I was amazed by this Quetzal - even if it is anatomically flawed, it isn't on the scale of the 'Apatosaurus' they put out recently (or indeed the Tyrannosaurus (any) and knuckle-scraping Spinosaurus etc etc.). |
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Post by Griffin on Nov 4, 2009 18:07:27 GMT
Is the beak on this model the right shape? I was under the impression it was more narrow towards the tip.
Great dio none the less. Love the backdrop.
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Nov 5, 2009 1:08:49 GMT
That picture has really made me want that Quetzalcoatlus. That's got to be the best figure Schleich has ever made by some distance... Me? Buy a Schleich? The shonisaurus owns it's skinny little.... Wing membranes! |
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Post by Radman on Nov 13, 2009 17:37:39 GMT
-Haven't had time to make a new one, but soon... Meanwhile here are some oldies but goodies: Olorotitan  Polocanthus  Shantungosaurus  |
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Post by Megaraptor on Nov 13, 2009 19:29:31 GMT
Wow they look so good! But if you had the WwD Polacanthus instead of Procon's meager offering then it would have been FANTASTIC!! Love your choice of location too.
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Nov 13, 2009 21:37:08 GMT
I like them all but... The first one seems a little "Faux" to me... ;D
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Post by Radman on Nov 14, 2009 0:10:01 GMT
Who ya got? In the labyrinth of Daedelus - Minotaur against Carnotaur Who ya got?!!!  Y'know, I was always intrigued by the myth of the minotaur. Why was a beast with the body of a man and the head of a bull a flesh-eater? Wouldn't it be happy with some hay and an apple? What if the creature that inspired this legend actually was a carnotaurus that had survived extinction? It does look (sorta) like a man (upright) with the head of a bull and could probably live just fine, maybe for centuries, in a dungeon/labyrinth with the weekly Thracian/Thessalonian/Greek/whatever thrown in. Just my pet theory! |
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Nov 14, 2009 0:34:45 GMT
Awesome picture.
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Post by Radman on Nov 14, 2009 0:45:58 GMT
Thanks, but who ya got?!!! I might make this an ongoing theme if folks like it. ;D Can't really tell from the pic, but the minotaur has a club in one hand, cestus in the other. I got him in the light, carno in the dark. |
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