Dinosaur Discovery Museum-Kenosha, WI

[Horridus]

[Pedantry] Those are mostly genera, not species (T.rex is the one species) [/pedantry]

[dinonikes]

Fixed to show my level of scientific acumen-lol

I am just an artist who likes to make prehistoric critters- I only research as far as I need to-most of the time through work I get all of the science research handed to me by the client- I am basically as non scientist as you can imagine- my studies lie in art, not science to be quite honest-

[bokisaurus]

what a cool place, too bad its so far away ;D
Now if only Seattle will get one of these cool museums put up here! ;D

[dinonikes]

Last week the museum finally put the Rush Dilophosaurus cast that I painted out in front of the museum- I made this back in 2006, it has been in storage since then, nice to see it up- I paintedthis in colored polyester resins so it would withstand the weather better- I painted it in the mold-first I painted the black markings in the mold then I sprayed the cream and ochre colors that shade over the white, then I brushed in the white resin- when the cast was all cleaned up I touched up colors in resins, and applied a grey oil wash over the whole thing-the color scheme was designed by Dr. Carr, the consulting paleontologist on the project-he also made me grind off the lips as this was originally sculpted in 1982 under the direction of Gregory Paul,who likes lips-

[sepp]

Awesome!!!

[Himmapaan]

Brilliant!

[dinonikes]

The museum has two of these old bronze plaques flanking the main stairs out front- nice retro style to them-

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Beautiful work on the Dilo bud ! Wish I had the means to do something similar.. ;D

[dinonikes]

Here is a photo of the scale model of the Rush Dilo that I had painted prior to making the full size one for this museum- museum client wanted to work out the color scheme on a smal scale and I needed to work it out before casting it as I wantedto cast the colors into the piece as much as possible due to the outdoor display- weather, and the fact that people can come right up and touch the dino-

[sbell]

May 26, 2011 21:29:20 GMT dinonikes said:

Here is a photo of the scale model of the Rush Dilo that I had painted prior to making the full size one for this museum- museum client wanted to work out the color scheme on a smal scale and I needed to work it out before casting it as I wantedto cast the colors into the piece as much as possible due to the outdoor display- weather, and the fact that people can come right up and touch the dino-

Looks awesome Malcolm. Ever do a full-size T.rex? ;D Yea, like I have that kind of budget...

[dinonikes]

Here is a photo showing one half of the Dilophosaurus mold after all of the resin surface work has been done, and all of the fiberglass has been cast over the resin to reinforce it- this shows the steel support framing that we had our buddy Joe do for us- the steel support is fiberglassed into the inside surface of the cast and the two halves of the mold are sealed together- basically this is done by buttering thickened resin along the whole perimeter of both halves of the mold and then bolting the two halves togehter while the thick resin cures. Once the piece is cured the cast comes out of the mold with the steel support integral to the cast-there was a good size steel plate welded to the botto mof the steel support-the tail support that anchored into the cement in the ground screwed into the steel running down the tail inside the cast-hope this all makes sense