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Post by dinodinkies on Oct 11, 2009 22:02:52 GMT
Cool collection, love the decorative trees and vines Thankyou, i was standing there and looked at all the dinosaurs, and i thought.... Let's add some nice vines there, and some trees. Well to be very honoust, at first i wanted to make a diorama out of every shelve. But that was too much.. for now at least teehee! I have a fossil ammonite, trilobite, some plants, a petrified log that my dad found, a Deltadromeus tooth and a mosasaur tooth. Ow that is some nice fossil collection indeed. Well hopefully i will expand my collection in the future. where did your dad find the log?? And i have some new updates. I took some new pictures from an old friend I have this one since i was a kid. And i used to drag him around in my parents house. And now well i do the same thing. One moment he is in our livingroom the next he is standing next to the dinosaur collection. Here are some pictures from my camarasaurus. Closeup Full view Size camarasaurus with papo T-rex And yes i know it looks a bit like E.T., and no it didn't phone home. It also didn't eat all my smarties. And no he has not a glowy finger. Ha i am proud at my camarasaurus . And some couple of days ago i have got the AAA Gallimimus, And the Carnegie collection Psittacosaurus
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Post by Griffin on Oct 11, 2009 22:47:30 GMT
Wow that cammie is a big boy!
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Post by Horridus on Oct 13, 2009 20:21:06 GMT
Aaarrgghh those pictures are HUGE! Would you mind making them a little smaller next time please? You had it about right with the Camarasaurus shots!
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Post by Griffin on Oct 13, 2009 21:36:38 GMT
Too big cant see!
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Post by dinodinkies on Oct 13, 2009 22:22:30 GMT
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Post by Horridus on Oct 13, 2009 22:36:40 GMT
Yes, much better. That Quetzalcoatlus doesn't look half bad. Not sure about the Apatosaurus...it has quite a retro feel, albeit without the dragging tail.
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Post by Radman on Oct 13, 2009 23:18:03 GMT
So, I'm still on the fence about this guy. When you're the size of an elephant, you can't have the bulk comparable to a hippo. The last Schleich Apato was a huge beast, nearly twice the weight of the concurrent Carnegie, and I just didn't buy it.,(literally and figuratively). I would expect a leaner, leg-skinnier beast like the 2010 Carnegie or the 1:72 Krentz Antediluvia model (http://krentzpresentz.com/sculpture/) to be more realistic. Still, not having seen one in person what do you think? Can you put Hans in for scale, but still the salient question remains, how could a beast this huge feed itself with such a tiny head? Hippos and elephants both have big heads. Giraffes, small heads sure, but bodywise they're not that huge. I would just think the Apato and all similar sauropods would be pretty slim and this one sure looks like another chubster. Thoughts?
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Post by Ajax on Oct 13, 2009 23:49:21 GMT
I think its one of the best long-necks out there and like sauropods to be a little chunky, they may have had slow metabolism rate, we will never know. Also its just Safari releasing the Apatosaurus next year, not the Carnegie museum.
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Post by Radman on Oct 14, 2009 0:11:14 GMT
I think its one of the best long-necks out there and like sauropods to be a little chunky, they may have had slow metabolism rate, we will never know. Also its just Safari releasing the Apatosaurus next year, not the Carnegie museum. Cool! Do you have a pic of the current with the older one? or any other refernce dino, thanks.
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Post by Megaraptor on Oct 14, 2009 4:13:05 GMT
Your camarasaurus sure looks happy. And im not sure where my dad found the log.
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Post by dinodinkies on Oct 14, 2009 14:18:44 GMT
Yes, much better. That Quetzalcoatlus doesn't look half bad. Not sure about the Apatosaurus...it has quite a retro feel, albeit without the dragging tail. Yes it has indeed a retro feel. And that is exactly why i love it . I have a lot old dinosaur books with the retro looks. And in fact i hope we will get some new schleich or carnegie/safari versions with retro look dinosaurs. Like the old iguanodon ;D. The new detailed style and the old look ;D. So, I'm still on the fence about this guy. When you're the size of an elephant, you can't have the bulk comparable to a hippo. The last Schleich Apato was a huge beast, nearly twice the weight of the concurrent Carnegie, and I just didn't buy it.,(literally and figuratively). I would expect a leaner, leg-skinnier beast like the 2010 Carnegie or the 1:72 Krentz Antediluvia model (http://krentzpresentz.com/sculpture/) to be more realistic. Still, not having seen one in person what do you think? Can you put Hans in for scale, but still the salient question remains, how could a beast this huge feed itself with such a tiny head? Hippos and elephants both have big heads. Giraffes, small heads sure, but bodywise they're not that huge. I would just think the Apato and all similar sauropods would be pretty slim and this one sure looks like another chubster. Thoughts? Those are interesting questions and for this question we are going to look and no it is not a reptile. Because we are so big we often forget to look at the smaller creatures. Let's get a closer look to the tick. And now we can say ow but that is a small creature. Yes for us it is indeed. But there are smaller creatures. The tick has compared to the rest of its body a tiny head And it does work for them too. Even better they are very succesing in what they do. And with the flea exact the same. Very large body and a relatively seen smaller head. So who can actually say something how they look, walked, the colour and the shape. Because unless they will find a dinosaur mummy like the couple ones they did. We will never now about what they looked like. And in what position the tale would have been. You just can't know. It is all a possibility. Sure they can look at animals and say hmm if we look at that species of now existing animals. Then the dinosaur must also walk like this or that . They were not there. So they can't know. And sure it is fun to speculate. But it still is a speculation. I personally like a dinosaur for what it is. If it is thin, chubby, skinny, or what kind of looking. As long as it looks like a dinosaur. For me it is a dinosaur. And humans also come in all sizes and shapes . So maybe... just maybe... The apatosaurus has eaten to much LOL. Could be no ? Your camarasaurus sure looks happy. And im not sure where my dad found the log. My camarasaurus is also very happy. It survived the tooth of time. That is why is he smiling ;D . I always thought it is a young camarasaurus. But who knows
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Post by bokisaurus on Oct 14, 2009 22:13:18 GMT
The painted invicta's are indeed very nice. I like Ikea for their light wood colours. A glass display case is beautifull for the dinosaurs ;D. So they will be dust-free ;D. What kind of dinosaurs are in it? At first they had another housing, but it was way to dark. So i decided to get 3 ikea housings for them. And it worked the way i wanted it. I have...a lot of figures. Hundreds. The cases we are looking at would be dark stained wood. The need for installed lights is obvious, of course. There is a lighter wood as well, but it wouldn't suit our decor. I may paint the back light, or use backdrops. Very likely I will be using clear acrylic stepped risers (like spice racks, but I just got a retailers catalogue with all sorts of display products) so that figures will stand above each other. I have not yet figured out what I will do with my smaller, Dinotales/Yujin size animals. I really don't even know what method I will use to group them (I tend to use systematics, but I may change it up). More like thousands of figures ;D Nice, very fancy display case
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Post by bokisaurus on Oct 14, 2009 22:16:36 GMT
Dinodinkie, you have what most of us don't: A whole space to showcase your collection! Hmm, my sauropod collection alone will fill up (plus more) that space! ;D The price of living i n an apartment in the big city is that you don't have the space ;D My beloved collections, with the exceptions of a few lucky individuals, are in bins, in the closet storage ;D I like your trees ( Schleich?), it adds a certain touch to the display ;D
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Post by sbell on Oct 14, 2009 22:21:14 GMT
Dinodinkie, you have what most of us don't: A whole space to showcase your collection! Hmm, my sauropod collection alone will fill up (plus more) that space! ;D The price of living i n an apartment in the big city is that you don't have the space ;D My beloved collections, with the exceptions of a few lucky individuals, are in bins, in the closet storage ;D I like your trees ( Schleich?), it adds a certain touch to the display ;D Wait until the end of the month--I am getting (I hope) 2 full, glass door book cases, where hopefully everything worthwhile can go. Not sure if all of the modern animals will go out though--I may be looking to sell off the older Schleich figures. Best of all, the space I have is behind a bar! (Yes, Canadian house built in the late 70s--dead giveaway).
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Post by dinodinkies on Oct 15, 2009 15:28:45 GMT
Dinodinkie, you have what most of us don't: A whole space to showcase your collection! Hmm, my sauropod collection alone will fill up (plus more) that space! ;D The price of living i n an apartment in the big city is that you don't have the space ;D My beloved collections, with the exceptions of a few lucky individuals, are in bins, in the closet storage ;D I like your trees ( Schleich?), it adds a certain touch to the display ;D That is a large collection of sauropods . Well when i lived with my parents about 4 years ago. I only had one room for my dinosaurs. And it was also full with other collections so i did'nt had the space for them. But now i am almost three years on my own. So i said to my fiance. My dinosaurs need space and a lots of it too ;D. I am happy she loves them too. So there they were. (but i want a little more room for them but i won't tell her that yet LOL ) And yes those are schleich trees indeed. I hope they will create the pineapple like trees too in the future. And when my camera is full i will take some pictures of my minidinosaur collection. *couple of days later* My cam is full again. So here are the minisauruses.
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Post by Griffin on Oct 18, 2009 17:23:38 GMT
That blue one with the feathers is pretty interesting.
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Post by Horridus on Oct 18, 2009 17:41:23 GMT
Is that little all-brown one with a base (most obvious in the 6th picture down) a Jurassic Park toy that came in an egg with some sweets? I think I used to have a Dilophosaurus from the same range.
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Post by bokisaurus on Oct 18, 2009 19:21:54 GMT
Cute little ones ;D Ah, so you are one of the few who has not had the pleasure of meeting my sauropod herd ;D Dig in far enough, you will see a thread for them ;D
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Post by Libraraptor on Oct 18, 2009 20:33:14 GMT
Uhm, those kangaroo - dinosaur - things, usually called Moropus and noone knows why, in the fifth picture have fun, yes? Griffin: That one is a Diatryma. We have a thread about Diatrymas somewhere, where it´s described more closely.
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Post by Griffin on Oct 18, 2009 22:08:14 GMT
Cool thanks. The long tail threw me off.
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