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Post by Tyrannax on Apr 8, 2009 5:12:14 GMT
cool a big sauropod, i was more excited about the alamosaurus but the super is pretty impressive. as far as hollowing it out how much weight would that actually take off? Still hoping for the alamo so i can have a sauropod that fits into a late cretaceous diorama with my rex and hadrosaurs. I would say hollowing it out would cut the weight by 1/4..if not 1/2...but that is only speculatory.. |
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Post by Meso-Cenozoic on Apr 8, 2009 6:05:50 GMT
Very cool, Malcolm! It's looking great!!
One small note -- I think I'd thicken the tail out a little further. Besides that, I think he's gonna be a fantastic figure! Have you decided what to do yet about the little spikes?
Can't wait for this one to be done. It's definitely on my B-day gift list!! I hope it's finished by next month. But, don't rush on my account. I want this guy to be the best that you can make it! ;D
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Post by Meso-Cenozoic on Apr 8, 2009 6:39:18 GMT
Hey, I just noticed that with that last post, I am finally officially an Ultimate Member -- 500 posts! *Does happy dino dances!*    *And roars with delight!!*  |
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Post by dinonikes on Apr 8, 2009 14:33:27 GMT
My thoughts exactly... ;D On that note.. the 1/1 pieces you mentioned earlier..would they hollow casted as well ? I just assumed yes without asking..heh All life size heads or fullbody pieces I make are usually cast in polyester resin reinforced with fiberglass-so yes the life size pieces are hollow- |
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Post by Blade-of-the-Moon on Apr 8, 2009 18:09:19 GMT
My thoughts exactly... ;D On that note.. the 1/1 pieces you mentioned earlier..would they hollow casted as well ? I just assumed yes without asking..heh All life size heads or fullbody pieces I make are usually cast in polyester resin reinforced with fiberglass-so yes the life size pieces are hollow- Just wanted to check...I recently shipped something large at the PO I thought was going to be cheaper ....and well you prob know the rest...  Hollow works fine outdoors as well...just need to strap the suckers down in March...  learned that the hard way last month when my 1/1 Ptero took a flight across the yard and my JP Raptor was knocked down..still can't figure how...he must weigh 200 pounds or more....  |
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Post by dinonikes on Apr 8, 2009 23:32:15 GMT
All life size heads or fullbody pieces I make are usually cast in polyester resin reinforced with fiberglass-so yes the life size pieces are hollow- Just wanted to check...I recently shipped something large at the PO I thought was going to be cheaper ....and well you prob know the rest... if I were to ship one of these Velociraptors it would have to go by freight- or it would have to come apart to be assembled by the customer- it would be just too large to ship in one piece through the PO- probably not UPS either- this piece would be one that a collector would have to really want-although my price would probably be a lot more reasonable than most of these life size models I see available-- i am making it(and any others to make a pack that I make-one at a time-first things first) more for work related promo- a portfolio piece- Anyone reading this that is worried this Velociraptor, or any other life size piece i discuss, will affect my output of figures for this line- have no fear- I am fairly prolific- i think that i have done pretty well in what has been accomplished here since i first came up with the idea for this project in December-i always have a million things going on- one really doesn't affect the other- it is all about which inspires me at a given moment as regards to what gets worked on- you could say that the time i spend here is wasting my time that could be spent making figures too couldn't you-its all good-everything has its place- |
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Post by Blade-of-the-Moon on Apr 9, 2009 0:33:36 GMT
I don't think your output is a problem..gives some time to save between purchases..lol
The closest I have to compare is the OXMOX Deinonychus... he come in seperate pieces with a type of interlocking steel structure... I was lucky to actually see one at Dinosaur World in Cave City.. it comes in about 5 parts I think...but if you order from OXMOX in Germany it ships in the same number of boxes and costs around 1500.00 bucks.. same price as the piece itself if I remember correctly. They are supposedly working on a 1/1 Velociraptor as well.. it's mentioned in their two page ad in the back of PT recently...once released you could see what they are selling it for.
I also once saw an unpainted Rex around 8 feet tall ( tail was lowered to the ground in a rearing pose ) for 799.00 ship on him was 300.00 that kept me out of it.. unfortunatly...lol
Since most of the length is tail ( I'm guessing, no idea how yours is posed ) you consider doing something similar reducing a 6 foot long Raptor to 3 feet in length would prob help...prob could get it all in the same box that way.
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Post by dinonikes on Apr 9, 2009 10:49:53 GMT
Very cool, Malcolm! It's looking great!! One small note -- I think I'd thicken the tail out a little further. Besides that, I think he's gonna be a fantastic figure! Have you decided what to do yet about the little spikes? Can't wait for this one to be done. It's definitely on my B-day gift list!! I hope it's finished by next month. But, don't rush on my account. I want this guy to be the best that you can make it! ;D Yes the tail will be beefed up more as it gets filled in more- I have decided to make the spines on this guy after all, i think it will be cooler looking that way- I will mold it with the parting line running along the bottom sides of the beast so that the spines will be cast without needing to clean up along them- the mold will be made with the parting line similar to the way the Muraenosaurus was done- you can see that set up in my Sculpting/Molding/Casting tutorial thread if you are curious- |
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Post by Blade-of-the-Moon on Apr 9, 2009 18:20:53 GMT
Thumbs up on going for the spines !
Do you think that will work for sure ? Casting isn't my forte at all... though I have read and watched it done many times...lol
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Post by dinonikes on Apr 9, 2009 18:39:20 GMT
Yeah it will work- it just means any cleanup will be done through the sides- which would be easier to take care of than the spines would-
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Post by Meso-Cenozoic on Apr 9, 2009 21:19:23 GMT
WooHoo! Spines!!! ;D  |
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Post by bokisaurus on Apr 9, 2009 22:07:34 GMT
;D Spines R us ;D I like them with spines!  This guy is very cool. Just look at those dorsal spines ;D |
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Apr 10, 2009 0:47:28 GMT
Super spines! ;D
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Post by Blade-of-the-Moon on Apr 10, 2009 1:40:07 GMT
Yeah it will work- it just means any cleanup will be done through the sides- which would be easier to take care of than the spines would- Ah I see... had to run it throught the old imagination..heh Very clever actually.. I never would have considered that myself... ;D Having figured out this method..any chance we will spines on the Acro ? |
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Post by tetonbabydoll on Apr 10, 2009 2:06:59 GMT
;D Spines R us ;D I like them with spines! This guy is very cool. Just look at those dorsal spines ;D What is this, and why can't I have one? Sad Teton has no new dinos to play with. |
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Post by dinonikes on Apr 10, 2009 2:45:42 GMT
;D Spines R us ;D I like them with spines! This guy is very cool. Just look at those dorsal spines ;D That is a cool looking beast- what make is it? Its a kit of some sort I am assuming by the separate neck and tail- the spines seem to be a bit akward in the spacing of them- sort of too regularly spaced and i would think the size would change over the length too- like get bigger in the middle and smaller at both head and tail ends, more so than this one shows- does that seem to make sense?- it just looks a bit artificial this way- |
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Post by Blade-of-the-Moon on Apr 10, 2009 3:06:16 GMT
This one was mentioned before..it came as an extra if you collected the other dinos...in the set..by one get a piece, if I'm recalling correctly... was it Yujin ?
Not sure about spacing...I would assume some would break and re-grow or be torn off in battle or during mating even . Some sauropods had larger spines o nthe neck ( Amargasaurus ) , near the back ( Agustinia ) or at the end of the tail... hard to say..spines on an iguana are fairly regular but with hardly any space between them..though they do get broken , shed, and re-grown...so I'm not sure how you would like to go.
Are the spines attached to vertebrae or just skin ? That would effect how even or close together...bones can only have so many spines attached to them I would think...skin..well they could be one right after the other.
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Post by piltdown on Apr 10, 2009 3:48:08 GMT
That's the Kabaya Seismosaurus, sculpted by Kazunari Araki I believe  Blade is right, it was a chase figure; it is composed of five pieces, one of which was included in a set consisting of 2 tyrannosaurs, a triceratops, a spinosaurus, and a (highly feathered  ) deinonychus in individual boxes, so one would have had to buy all 5 dinos to build the figure. |
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Post by timlee3005 on Apr 10, 2009 3:50:27 GMT
This one was mentioned before..it came as an extra if you collected the other dinos...in the set..by one get a piece, if I'm recalling correctly... was it Yujin ? Not sure about spacing...I would assume some would break and re-grow or be torn off in battle or during mating even . Some sauropods had larger spines o nthe neck ( Amargasaurus ) , near the back ( Agustinia ) or at the end of the tail... hard to say..spines on an iguana are fairly regular but with hardly any space between them..though they do get broken , shed, and re-grown...so I'm not sure how you would like to go. Are the spines attached to vertebrae or just skin ? That would effect how even or close together...bones can only have so many spines attached to them I would think...skin..well they could be one right after the other. The spines found along the tail of the diplodocid specimen found in the early 90s' and described by Stephen Czerkas (as I understand it,a 40 foot long adult specimen now labeled as "Diplodocus sp.") were more like those of an iguana and were apparently connected to just the skin |
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Post by dinonikes on Apr 10, 2009 4:09:27 GMT
Got into the zone tonight working on the supersaurus-Supersaurus is almost finished- got it all filled in, muscled out , smoothed out and is ready for skin detailing- will post photos of it at this stage tomorrow- it looks pretty cool like this at this stage- real slick looking-
You know looking at all of my figures on my worktable i am glad I went with making all of these figures the same scale- it strikes me how cool it is to see all of these different animals all in the same true 1:40 scale- it makes me realize just how interesting it is to compare side by side the different sizes all of these things were- like seeing how tiny the dilophosaur looks alongside the supersaurus- I bet in life a dilophosaur size predator that was alone would just get out of the way of such a similar big animal, wishing it could get some of that meat-lol
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learned that the hard way last month when my 1/1 Ptero took a flight across the yard and my JP Raptor was knocked down..still can't figure how...he must weigh 200 pounds or more.... 
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Blade is right, it was a chase figure; it is composed of five pieces, one of which was included in a set consisting of 2 tyrannosaurs, a triceratops, a spinosaurus, and a (highly feathered 
) deinonychus in individual boxes, so one would have had to buy all 5 dinos to build the figure.