CT's "Retro Classic Collection" Dioramas

[[][][]cordylus[][][]]

I think that actually WAS a rex with three fingers!

[Griffin]

Ur probably right.

[Horridus]

It was a Tyrannosaurus - legend has it that Disney himself decreed that the dinosaur be given three fingers because "it looked better". At the time the forelimbs of T. rex hadn't been found, but it was given two fingers based on related genera (like Albertosaurus).

[foxilized]

Yes it was a Rex.

Remember Osborn had built a skeleton with 3 fingers on the NewYork museum, and Chalres Knight had done a 3 fingers Rex in 1909: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/T._rex_old_posture.jpg

That painting inspired KingKong's Rex (also 3 fingered) and the Fantasia.... And Gwangi later!! (wich was also a Rex based on Knight's painting and Kong's, though later Harryhausen said it was an allosaurus trying to pacify the angry purists).


PD: in the JP novel, the young Rex attacks the stegosaurus at the end. ;D A "Fantasia" nostalgic reference, I suppose.

[[][][]cordylus[][][]]

Lambeo




A tale of two brachies!



Allo vs stego.

[stoneage]

Where did you get the Lambeo and who put the stripes on it?

[[][][]cordylus[][][]]

It's a painted invicta lambeo I bought from the UK a while ago. I think last october?














_{nah, I added the stripes digitally via photoshop}

[foxilized]

The "periscope" brachio is just so lovely.

[stoneage]

Apr 18, 2010 2:49:21 GMT [][][]cordylus[][][] said:

It's a painted invicta lambeo I bought from the UK a while ago. I think last october?














_{nah, I added the stripes digitally via photoshop}

You did that intentionally just to get me going didn't you?!!!!

[[][][]cordylus[][][]]

Apr 18, 2010 3:33:27 GMT stoneage said:

Apr 18, 2010 2:49:21 GMT [][][]cordylus[][][] said:

It's a painted invicta lambeo I bought from the UK a while ago. I think last october?














_{nah, I added the stripes digitally via photoshop}

You did that intentionally just to get me going didn't you?!!!!

I'm a conniving little weasel aren't I

[Horridus]

Wow, that original Carnegie Allosaurus was, in retrospect, pretty awful! (Mind you, the newer ones aren't fantastic.)

[[][][]cordylus[][][]]

Apr 18, 2010 13:53:15 GMT Horridus said:

Wow, that original Carnegie Allosaurus was, in retrospect, pretty awful! (Mind you, the newer ones aren't fantastic.)

Honestly, I think if it just had a better set of teeth it'd be pretty OK. The skull would be sort of messed up, but at least they got the position of the arms right

[Griffin]

The later carnegie allo isn't too bad.