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Post by paleoferroequine on Jul 25, 2010 1:54:49 GMT
This is a conversion of a Schleich sperm whale into Livyatan Leviathan melvillei, a 12-13 million year old Miocene whale from Peru which may have co existed with Carcharodon megalodon.The largest teeth were over 12 inches (30.48 cm) long. I did it as an albino in honor of Moby Dick (and Mocha Dick a real whale) A new head was made and the jaws and teeth and also new fins. ;D     Not sure if I'm done painting yet. |
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Post by Himmapaan on Jul 25, 2010 2:20:17 GMT
  ;D
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Post by Blade-of-the-Moon on Jul 25, 2010 8:49:18 GMT
Holy crap !
That's much better than the artwork I've seen so far of it !
Shame one of these guys isn't alive to day..it would scare the tar out of whalers... ;D
If this is meant to be a large adult male...maybe some scaring should present ? Modern Sperm whales have lots of scaring from their prey..and I'm sure Megalodon would have been encountered and fought with at some point...so scars and bite marks could be present from them as well.
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Post by Horridus on Jul 25, 2010 13:25:27 GMT
Brilliant! Looks very, very frightening!
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Post by hkhollinstone on Jul 25, 2010 15:53:09 GMT
FANTASTIC!!!!!!!! Awesome work. |
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Post by foxilized on Jul 25, 2010 21:05:22 GMT
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Post by hellraptor on Jul 25, 2010 21:36:58 GMT
inspiers me to do one myself, well done
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Post by stoneage on Jul 26, 2010 2:51:13 GMT
 Nice work! How big is the model and what scale is it?
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Post by paleoferroequine on Jul 26, 2010 16:13:19 GMT
Nice work! How big is the model and what scale is it? Well, thanks for the compliments, everybody. The model is 13.5in(34.29cm) which will scale out to 45ft(13.7m) in 1/40 scale or 59ft(18m) in 1/55 scale. I thought about scars and such but you have to very careful, it's hard to do it right and especially on a white one, so for now there are none, but I could still try it.  |
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Post by foxilized on Jul 26, 2010 21:40:31 GMT
You should definitely try to add some old harthingys all over his body... thrown by that old Ahab bastard during all those years, with no luck...  EDIT: so I cannot writte h-a-r-p-o-o-n and I can writte "bastard"  ? |
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Post by Horridus on Jul 26, 2010 22:03:52 GMT
I'm sorry, but I'm sure it's worth it so that we can discuss 'faeces' using the correct terminology, rather than crude slang words. Harumph.
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Post by paleoferroequine on Jul 27, 2010 18:24:47 GMT
You should definitely try to add some old harthingys all over his body... thrown by that old Ahab bastard during all those years, with no luck... EDIT: so I cannot writte h-a-r-p-o-o-n and I can writte "bastard" ? Harp.oons? If I stick them all over somebody is gonna whine about how Leviathan and people didn't exist together and Leviathan didn't have bacteria is its mouth to cause sepsis and other inconvenient facts!   (Don't shoot me sbell ;D) Of course, now SyFy will make a movie about it called "Dino Croc Whale, Revenge of Moby Dick"  In which Dino Croc Whale is released from the alien stasis field by the nuke detonated to plug the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico and then swims up the Mississippi River looking for her/his/its offspring and attacks St. Louis! ;D |
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Post by Horridus on Jul 27, 2010 18:36:22 GMT
Not sure about that, but I bet someone will say "Could a late-surviving Leviathan have inspired Moby Dick and other stories?", without realising that sperm whales, while plenty big enough even now, used to get a quite a lot bigger before we ruined their gene pool by mercilessly slaughtering them.
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Post by sbell on Jul 27, 2010 18:52:26 GMT
You should definitely try to add some old harthingys all over his body... thrown by that old Ahab bastard during all those years, with no luck... EDIT: so I cannot writte h-a-r-p-o-o-n and I can writte "bastard" ? Harp.oons? If I stick them all over somebody is gonna whine about how Leviathan and people didn't exist together and Leviathan didn't have bacteria is its mouth to cause sepsis and other inconvenient facts! (Don't shoot me sbell ;D) Of course, now SyFy will make a movie about it called "Dino Croc Whale, Revenge of Moby Dick" In which Dino Croc Whale is released from the alien stasis field by the nuke detonated to plug the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico and then swims up the Mississippi River looking for her/his/its offspring and attacks St. Louis! ;D That movie could be awesome! Not sure about that, but I bet someone will say "Could a late-surviving Leviathan have inspired Moby Dick and other stories?", without realising that sperm whales, while plenty big enough even now, used to get a quite a lot bigger before we ruined their gene pool by mercilessly slaughtering them. Also--Sperm whales are huge, and scary, anyway--they didn't need prehistoric ones to come up with monster whales. Just like a crypto shark wasn't really necessary to make Jaws. |
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Post by Horridus on Jul 27, 2010 19:24:39 GMT
Also--Sperm whales are huge, and scary, anyway--they didn't need prehistoric ones to come up with monster whales. Just like a crypto shark wasn't really necessary to make Jaws. That's what I said - they're "plenty big enough even now" - but thought it worth pointing out that there used to be even larger bulls when whaling began. |
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Post by rugops on Jul 27, 2010 19:41:12 GMT
Great model Paleo, but just as a suggestion if you do deside to mske scars, it would be neat to put some 1/55 scale replica Megalodon teeth in the scars.
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Post by sbell on Jul 27, 2010 20:25:38 GMT
Also--Sperm whales are huge, and scary, anyway--they didn't need prehistoric ones to come up with monster whales. Just like a crypto shark wasn't really necessary to make Jaws. That's what I said - they're "plenty big enough even now" - but thought it worth pointing out that there used to be even larger bulls when whaling began. I meant more in the sense of what inspired people--that we don't need to invoke a crypto to explain how Melville (and other myth-makers) came up with a big, scary sperm whale; modern ones are scary enough. |
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Post by Horridus on Jul 27, 2010 21:04:52 GMT
That was my whole point! Bah, never mind! (Er, you might have just been agreeing with me, in which case, thanks very much. This internets communication can be difficult sometimes.) |
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Post by foxilized on Jul 27, 2010 22:51:08 GMT
What the hell "har-poooon" is slang for??? the men thingy that men has as a natural part wich we desperetely try to hide during all day -except if you are Hugh Heffner, who has it free for the same time rest of men has it on the boxers. This was actually a question, so: ? And - Extremely Nerdie mode ON- "MobyDick" was actually inspired by a real white sperm whale from the XIX cent called "MOCHA DICK". voilá: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocha_DickI think I'm leaving the extremely nerdie mode on the On position... just in case... |
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Post by paleoferroequine on Jul 28, 2010 1:32:13 GMT
What the hell "har-poooon" is slang for??? the men thingy that men has as a natural part wich we desperetely try to hide during all day -except if you are Hugh Heffner, who has it free for the same time rest of men has it on the boxers. This was actually a question, so: ? And - Extremely Nerdie mode ON- "MobyDick" was actually inspired by a real white sperm whale from the XIX cent called "MOCHA DICK". voilá: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocha_DickI think I'm leaving the extremely nerdie mode on the On position... just in case... Not that nerdie, I mentioned it at the very beginning " I did it as an albino in honor of Moby Dick (and Mocha Dick a real whale)"  |
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