hermes888
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Post by hermes888 on Mar 10, 2010 0:37:41 GMT
Brontodocus: I´ll drive to Freudenberg tomorrow and see what I can do. thelordsgym: answered your P.M. Mauro: Sometimes brands offer cheaper versions of their products and sell them in discounters. What you get is the original product, just labeled with another brand. In Germany this often happens with beer(hey, brontodocus: Warsteiner and Paderborner are the same!), Nutella or cacao flavor. "Kindertoyz" thus probably is not a real brand but an artificial one, with dinos produced by Bullyland. They´re probably from the same or lightly changed molds Hi Libraraptor, thanks for your message. No problem with the Dimetrodon, I already have the ML Dimetrodon in the dull green version. I think relabelling the same original product would make sense, no copyright issues and if some company would like to copy from another brand why would they want to make an exact copy, anyway? It's possible that I thought they'd be somewhat smaller than the originals because Hans is a little more in the foreground on the photo... Warsteiner and Paderborner are the same? Didn't know that. I'm glad that there's Moritz Fiege, anyway ;D. **** internet! Look what's it's done to me! Instead of reading "Paderborner," I read "Pedobear." I should stop going on the internet so often... |
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Post by brontodocus on Mar 10, 2010 13:33:39 GMT
**** internet! Look what's it's done to me! Instead of reading "Paderborner," I read "Pedobear." I should stop going on the internet so often... Hi hermes, I hope you or anyone else did not feel offended... ;D Actually Paderborner, Warsteiner and Moritz Fiege are beers (from Paderborn, Warstein, and Bochum, respectively). |
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Post by sid on Mar 10, 2010 17:00:48 GMT
Hell yeah, guys, today i found and got one of the new Papo critters, the Oviraptor, also known as "Baldiraptor, the egg thief from the 90s" ;D I have to say it, despite my doubts and the inaccuracies of the figure, he seriously kicks some serious ass; highly detailed as always Papo dinos are, sculpted in a very dinamic and life-like pose (like he's been caught stealing the egg from some other dinosaur or, using a more modern interpretation, while he's pulling one of his own eggs, which has maybe fallen from the nest, back to safety, his head slightly turned to the left, as if he has heard a strange noise from the nearby forest...) and , last but not least, with a more beautiful paintjob IMHO, than the one shown in the promotional pic.  |
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Post by brontodocus on Mar 10, 2010 17:53:57 GMT
Hell yeah, guys, today i found and got one of the new Papo critters, the Oviraptor, also known as "Baldiraptor, the egg thief from the 90s" ;D I have to say it, despite my doubts and the inaccuracies of the figure, he seriously kicks some serious ass; highly detailed as always Papo dinos are, sculpted in a very dinamic and life-like pose (like he's been caught stealing the egg from some other dinosaur or, using a more modern interpretation, while he's pulling one of his own eggs, which has maybe fallen from the nest, back to safety, his head slightly turned to the left, as if he has heard a strange noise from the nearby forest...) and , last but not least, with a more beautiful paintjob IMHO, than the one shown in the promotional pic. Hi sid, I absolutely agree in every respect. I received it yesterday and I think it's great. Retro, yes, but great. I bought two of them, let's see what I can do to make one of them look fuzzier. But it may take some time... |
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Post by sid on Mar 10, 2010 18:28:33 GMT
Hell yeah, guys, today i found and got one of the new Papo critters, the Oviraptor, also known as "Baldiraptor, the egg thief from the 90s" ;D I have to say it, despite my doubts and the inaccuracies of the figure, he seriously kicks some serious ass; highly detailed as always Papo dinos are, sculpted in a very dinamic and life-like pose (like he's been caught stealing the egg from some other dinosaur or, using a more modern interpretation, while he's pulling one of his own eggs, which has maybe fallen from the nest, back to safety, his head slightly turned to the left, as if he has heard a strange noise from the nearby forest...) and , last but not least, with a more beautiful paintjob IMHO, than the one shown in the promotional pic. Hi sid, I absolutely agree in every respect. I received it yesterday and I think it's great. Retro, yes, but great. I bought two of them, let's see what I can do to make one of them look fuzzier. But it may take some time... It's a great idea, though i don't know what could you use to make the "fuzz"... |
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Post by sbell on Mar 10, 2010 21:39:30 GMT
So not actually my acquisition, but an acquisition in my store--we just got in some new dog kits (plaster blocks, need to dig out the skeletons, like I Dig). One of them was supposed to be a Pteranodon, but it has been relabelled as 'Pterosaur'.
The odd thing? It's a Dsunngaripterus!
It's one thing to keep it generic--but for whatever reason, they went out of their way to create the skeleton of a fairly obscure pterosaur--and then left it with the generic name anyway (let's be honest, 'Dsungaripterus Skeleton' wouldn't really have them flying off the shelves anyway).
Hopefully this is just one of many interesting surprises this year--we are eagerly awaiting an I Dig order, that should finally include the Shark Figure dig sets. And I ordered lots, because I have an odd feeling they will disappear again...
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Mar 10, 2010 23:14:38 GMT
I love those shark dig sets. They are really expensive though, for what they are.
I'd really love an orthacanthus out of one of those sets, but they're $20 each. I have the saphanorynchus already.
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Post by brontodocus on Mar 11, 2010 0:00:18 GMT
It's a great idea, though i don't know what could you use to make the "fuzz"... I was just thinking (and I made experiments with it on the small Tamiya Mesozoic Creatures Oviraptor) that some modelling flockage might help. I'm not too satisfied with the results on the tiny Tamiya model, but on a larger one like the Papo, application of differently coloured fibers might do well. Something like these grass fibers for model railways, and they come in many different colours. |
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Post by sid on Mar 11, 2010 14:00:59 GMT
It's a great idea, though i don't know what could you use to make the "fuzz"... I was just thinking (and I made experiments with it on the small Tamiya Mesozoic Creatures Oviraptor) that some modelling flockage might help. I'm not too satisfied with the results on the tiny Tamiya model, but on a larger one like the Papo, application of differently coloured fibers might do well. Something like these grass fibers for model railways, and they come in many different colours. Mmh... It could work! |
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Mar 11, 2010 18:42:20 GMT
I just got the new schleich goat saichania  |
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Post by sumo on Mar 11, 2010 18:56:24 GMT
Woohoo, I got me some teeny-weeny newbs!   They're a brand called Dinosaur King, same as the Spiny and Toro I painted earlier. Pretty sure I way overpaid, but never mind.  The craptacular colors will of course be painted over - the flash actually makes them look better than IRL, so you can imagine.... |
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Mar 11, 2010 19:49:11 GMT
I have all of those besides that utahraptor (is that what it is? I see that od feather crest) and that purple daspleto (?) . I think they're pretty fun, it's too bad they were only available in the UK. If they were more available I would have gotten them all, there's some unique species in there.
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Post by sumo on Mar 11, 2010 20:01:54 GMT
... I'm not in the UK, so I guess they can be found in the rest of Europe as well.
Yup, mr Bananahead there apparently is the Utahraptor. The actual models don't quite match the pics on the packaging, though - this one's missing the big claws, and the Toro I painted has one leg moved.
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Post by Radman on Mar 11, 2010 21:09:04 GMT
Sumo, where did you get these, Ebay?
I'm interested in the hadrosaurs, at least.
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Post by foxilized on Mar 11, 2010 23:41:17 GMT
Hell yeah, guys, today i found and got one of the new Papo critters, the Oviraptor, also known as "Baldiraptor, the egg thief from the 90s" ;D I have to say it, despite my doubts and the inaccuracies of the figure, he seriously kicks some serious ass; highly detailed as always Papo dinos are, sculpted in a very dinamic and life-like pose (like he's been caught stealing the egg from some other dinosaur or, using a more modern interpretation, while he's pulling one of his own eggs, which has maybe fallen from the nest, back to safety, his head slightly turned to the left, as if he has heard a strange noise from the nearby forest...) and , last but not least, with a more beautiful paintjob IMHO, than the one shown in the promotional pic. Hi sid, I absolutely agree in every respect. I received it yesterday and I think it's great. Retro, yes, but great. I bought two of them, let's see what I can do to make one of them look fuzzier. But it may take some time... Hm! Have you thought about using real bird feathers? Not the adult ones, but the kind of soft feathers that hatchlings have and that also adults have under the true grown feathers... you know, the ones that are used on pillows (sorry I don't know the name in english). Could that work? |
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Post by brontodocus on Mar 12, 2010 0:01:51 GMT
Hm! Have you thought about using real bird feathers? Not the adult ones, but the kind of soft feathers that hatchlings have and that also adults have under the true grown feathers... you know, the ones that are used on pillows (sorry I don't know the name in english). Could that work? I think they are called "down feathers" or "downs". I guess it would be a lot more difficult to apply them. If you use grass fiber you have fibers of a constant length that can be dispersed over the model (which has to be coated in thinned white glue before). And where I want longer feathers (e.g. arms and tail) I can simply apply a longer version of fibers or I'll just cut them out of paper. If I used down feathers I guess it might end up looking quite messy. Maybe they are suitable for larger models. But I haven't started yet. I have only cut off the egg of one figure so far. Yes, it does not stand stable now, but I think I can fix that. |
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Mar 12, 2010 13:54:14 GMT
You could put some putty on there and sculpt it to look like feathers, similar to the feathered carnegies.
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Post by Horridus on Mar 12, 2010 21:44:12 GMT
You could put some putty on there and sculpt it to look like feathers, similar to the feathered carnegies. Seems like a good option. That or the fibres. Feathery down from real birds would be out of scale! |
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Post by sbell on Mar 12, 2010 21:54:28 GMT
So not actually my acquisition, but an acquisition in my store--we just got in some new dog kits (plaster blocks, need to dig out the skeletons, like I Dig). One of them was supposed to be a Pteranodon, but it has been relabelled as 'Pterosaur'. The odd thing? It's a Dsunngaripterus! It's one thing to keep it generic--but for whatever reason, they went out of their way to create the skeleton of a fairly obscure pterosaur--and then left it with the generic name anyway (let's be honest, 'Dsungaripterus Skeleton' wouldn't really have them flying off the shelves anyway). Hopefully this is just one of many interesting surprises this year--we are eagerly awaiting an I Dig order, that should finally include the Shark Figure dig sets. And I ordered lots, because I have an odd feeling they will disappear again... The I Digs have arrived! I have an order for a bunch (for me to open up to reduce postage) so I'll let people know how they are--I expect a little cartoony, and yet still a little awesomely epic! |
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Post by Radman on Mar 12, 2010 22:27:38 GMT
So not actually my acquisition, but an acquisition in my store--we just got in some new dog kits (plaster blocks, need to dig out the skeletons, like I Dig). One of them was supposed to be a Pteranodon, but it has been relabelled as 'Pterosaur'. The odd thing? It's a Dsunngaripterus! It's one thing to keep it generic--but for whatever reason, they went out of their way to create the skeleton of a fairly obscure pterosaur--and then left it with the generic name anyway (let's be honest, 'Dsungaripterus Skeleton' wouldn't really have them flying off the shelves anyway). Hopefully this is just one of many interesting surprises this year--we are eagerly awaiting an I Dig order, that should finally include the Shark Figure dig sets. And I ordered lots, because I have an odd feeling they will disappear again... The I Digs have arrived! I have an order for a bunch (for me to open up to reduce postage) so I'll let people know how they are--I expect a little cartoony, and yet still a little awesomely epic! I got one of those (or something similar) for Christmas from my kids. It's an egg-shaped ball of rock-hard clay you have to chip away at to reveal pieces of a dino skeleton, which you can then glue together. It comes with a base. My kids were more excited about it than I was, and they spent a whole rainy-day weekend working on it last month. It's not too bad actually, I slapped a little paint and blackwash on it. Although part of the lower jaw is missing   |
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