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[sfstudios]

Ok i will keep that in mind, im glad that your looking at my work so close though it makes me feel that you care enough to comment and im sure you only want me to get better and thats a good thing. I think what Steve was doing with the fenestrae being colored ,was to show that fleshy area to be flushed with color and it being a very vascular area i can see where maybe it could show color there to attract females ? food for thought. thanks for the kind comments.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

We all def want to see you get better and keep making these beautiful pieces for yeas to come..I know it sounds cliche, but it's true.

[sfstudios]

Hey folks here is a shot of the inprogress life size (sub-Adult) Psittacosaurus ,38" long and when finished it will be available as a kit or build up model. enjoy hope some think its cool.

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[Blade-of-the-Moon]

WOW.... that's def impressive Shane ! I love all the skin details..looks like it just heard something... maybe your Velociraptor ?

I still think it would be really sweet to get both..have the raptor stalking or attacking the Pssittacosaurus..heh heh ;D

BTW..being a juvenile..will this one have all those fancy quills ?

[sfstudios]

Yes on its base of the tail and they will end 2/3rds the way down. Im going to suppy real porcupine quills not feathers ,these quills will serve as a primative feather quill ,stiff yet flexible ,and a bag of them will come with each kit.
also here is another sculptureim working on its a 1/20th scale Camarasaurus. i will send more pics of it if you want me too.

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[dyscrasia]

Wow, that camarasaurus is awesome. I especially love the skin details.

(For a second, I thought there was a glitch on the image since the lower jaw was missing... )

[Seijun]

Are you still using a sculpy mix for these?

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Aug 16, 2011 14:38:36 GMT sfstudios said:

Yes on its base of the tail and they will end 2/3rds the way down. Im going to suppy real porcupine quills not feathers ,these quills will serve as a primative feather quill ,stiff yet flexible ,and a bag of them will come with each kit.
also here is another sculptureim working on its a 1/20th scale Camarasaurus. i will send more pics of it if you want me too.

Sounds awesome..I'd love to see more it. Just a thought, any chance real quills will degrade ? I've had some bone and deer hoof pieces in the past be attacked by moth larvae that ate holes through them.

Nice work on the Camara..lots of nice skin detailing and the small spikes make it all the cooler..now I really want to see what this new 1/15 Baryonyx will look like.. ;D

Back to sauropods though...after seeing this and your previous Apatosaurus..I would love to see you do an Amargasaurus and a 1/15 Diplodocus that's kinda my preference to go with your 1/15 Allosaurus..

[dinonikes]

Real nice work on the Camarasaurus- I think that Shane is the best paleoartist out there making sculpts of dinos for sale to collectors-his skin details and especially his skin wrinkling is superb and highly refined, not just throwing in wrinkles where they make no sense to add details for details sake. I like that he isnt just focusing on heads and stamping scales all over the body in the usual cookie cutter fashion like most paleo sculptors seem to do- also his musculature is subtly beautiful and not generic from piece to piece- and the poses are natural and convincing-if I were a collector with funds to do so, I would be buying everything he offers up-

[caspakian]

Awesome job on both the psittacosaurus and the camarasaurus. Is the camarasaurus going to be cast? I would definitely purchase one.....

[Jeremy]

That's looking great Shane. I can't wait to have this little guy sitting proudly beside my Sarah (your 1:1 2 month old infant Stegosaurus)

I thought it looked amazing before you added all the skin detail, and now it's been kicked up to a whole other level.

I'll just have to get your Velociraptor, to go with this beautiful creature. ;D

Btw, I can't wait to see the new pose you've put the Velociraptor in. I remember you telling me about it, but I kinda forgot exactly what you said. lol

Great work on the Camarasaurus as well. It should look great when finished.

[sfstudios]

thank you all for the kind words , i really love what i do. Yes im using a mix of super sculpey and supersculpey firm at a 50/50 ratio. works perfect and much better for baking. The camarasaur will be available as a resin model but its a commish so he will be selling it and i will give notice to all about his info when the time comes. I will post more pics soon.

[Seijun]

I am very curious, how do you go about detailing the underside of the figure without destroying the clay detail on the rest of him? Do you detail from the underside up?

[arioch]

That Psittaco is insane. Can´t wait to see it finished with all the quills and stuff. The camarasaurus looks amazing as well.

[sfstudios]

Aug 17, 2011 2:45:15 GMT Seijun said:

I am very curious, how do you go about detailing the underside of the figure without destroying the clay detail on the rest of him? Do you detail from the underside up?

No i do something no one else does and that i create an amature out of wire and wood and bulk out the main areas with aluminum foil then cover the entire figure with yellow making tape which the model at that point is about 50% bulked out then i can still move or bend the figure as i see fit then i cover it in clay and bake it. this hard surface to sculpt on is now the inner core of the model and about 70% bulked out. then i lay it on its side and sculpt on muscle and skin an details on one side of the dino only then bake it then sculpt the other side to match .

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[Seijun]

So if I am reading this correctly, you detail one half, bake, and then detail the other half? The clay does not crack from being baked over a hard, solid core? This is a method I had been contemplating using on my own clay sculptures. My boss often sculpts by baking sculpy cores and sculpting over with soft clay and rebaking, but never on a large scale. I have tried it myself on a very small scale, never on large sculptures.

[sfstudios]

Yes that is exactly how i do it. the hard "inner core " allows you to place on final detial without them sinking in and i dont mount my sculpture on rods or to a flat base board and then try to sculpt around it, what i do is after the inner core is done then i sculpt one side to completion while the other side is left in the inner core form and thats the part that i hold onto when i sculpt this way i can move it around in my hands and get to those hard to reach places then once the sculpt is done on one side i bake it at 270* for 1 hour, yes 1 hour with no peaking and when the hour is up i shut off the oven and DONT open the door for at least 2 hours so it cools gradually .If you open the door while it still hot then the 70* air on the outside hits the 270*air on the inside and bam! your sculpture WILL crack. so be patient and dont check it until its room temp or close to it. I also lay my sculpture in the oven on a old rag unsculpted side down of course and place it on a cookie sheet that way your sure not to have the edges of the rag get to close to the flames ,it stays contained within the cookie sheet. After i sculpt the other side then i do the same thing and lay it on the first side that was finished so the 2nd side can get baked. Dont worry as long as you have a plush rag underneth it , it wont smash or damgae your work that you did on the first side ,as it rebakes it gets very rubber like so it can handle its own wieght . hope this helps.
the photo is of one of my next projects SAUROSUCHUS ,in 1/15th scle. so cool no!

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[Himmapaan]

Thank you so much for sharing that, Shane. Like Seijun, I've tried sculpting over previously baked material on very small things and then rebaking, but wasn't sure how well it would fare on larger sculptures. It's good to know that it survives repeated baking without becoming more brittle.

[Seijun]

Thank you for the explanation. I will have to give that method a serious try on my diplodocus.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Bet that Saurosuchus will be a hit..I've seen a lot of people that wanted the previous Postosuchus you did .