Just saying Hi. Hi.

[tetonbabydoll]

;D Hey, I just found this site about a week ago. I have always loved dinosaurs, but did not start collecting the toys until a year or so ago.

I am an amateur artist, and when I am not drawing, I like to build model kits. A little everything, but mainly Sci-fi stuff. I convinced my wife to let me get the Tamiya 1/35 scale dinosaur kits, and started looking at some of the toys, trying to find some I could repaint and put in the kit.

The first thing I found was the Papo Stegosaurus. I was shocked, I had never seen a toy that represented ol' stego in an even remotely modern pose, and he was almost in scale to boot. I figured he would look good with the Brachiosor, so I got him, and the Papo Trike. After that, I started finding some of the new carnegies, and was pretty much doomed! ;D

I came across this site, 'cause my local hobby shop stopped ordering new shipments of ANYTHING, including dinos, and I NEED, NEED, NEED the new Papo Allosaurus. So I was searching the web for it, and came across the review on the blog, which led me hear. Where I discovered how many great figures I don't have, and have never heard of before. ( Battat Diplo **sighs longingly*).

so, here I am. Doomed. ;D

Some of my stuff, Dino and not. ( I LOVE posting pics...)

The Fine Molds Millenium Falcon. Now I know what a 4oo dollar kit is like to build. Which is good, "cause my wife says it will be the ONLY one.



A battered old model of Disney's Nuatilus...


A 1/350 scale Enterprise-A, and a Colonial Viper

[Dinotoyforum]

Welcome. That reminds me, I should really do a little survey to find out how people find the forum...

[tetonbabydoll]

Might be interesting. Here is some of my art, my first love after my wife Susan. They are all pen and ink stippling.





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I also do a fair amount of pow wow dancers with colored pencils. No paleo art yet, in part because I do not feel knowledgeable enough to do an accurate rendering out of my head, and using reference pretty much would mean redoing some one else's work. Some day, maybe I will try though.

[crazycrowman]

Gorgeous work!!!

I love the orcas.

[bokisaurus]

Welcome! I had a feeling you were an artist when I saw your custom painted figures.
I like your horse and great white drawings ;D
Yay, another member who likes to post pictures ;D

[tomhet]

Welcome! I truly hope one day you'll come up with some paleowork

[sid]

Wow,both the paintings and your custom models (especially the Nautilus,i love it ) are truly beautiful...Keep up the good work,man

[sbell]

Okay, so maybe not paleo stuff--but are you capable of paleo landscapes? If you knew what sort of environment and plant life (e.g.: no grass in the mesozoic or early Tertiary; no flowers until the later Cretaceous, etc)? It turns out that a lot of the time, a good background would be handy.

[richard]

welcome

[[][][]cordylus[][][]]

The great white looks cool.

[Tyrannax]

Nice modern Tyrannosaurus.

[[][][]cordylus[][][]]

Nov 3, 2008 7:21:38 GMT Tyrannax said:

Nice modern Tyrannosaurus.

There is none.. Unless you mean the eagle.. Which isn't all that tyrannosaurus-like (besides that it is a bird).

[Tyrannax]

Nov 3, 2008 22:04:11 GMT [][][]cordylus[][][] said:

Nov 3, 2008 7:21:38 GMT Tyrannax said:

Nice modern Tyrannosaurus.

There is none.. Unless you mean the eagle.. Which isn't all that tyrannosaurus-like (besides that it is a bird).

The eagle you dingbat. (crazy person lol)

I wasn't saying it was 7 tons and 45 feet long....

It is related to birds. You....know it is related to birds....right? ;D

[tetonbabydoll]

Nov 4, 2008 9:00:36 GMT Tyrannax said:

Nov 3, 2008 22:04:11 GMT [][][]cordylus[][][] said:

There is none.. Unless you mean the eagle.. Which isn't all that tyrannosaurus-like (besides that it is a bird).

The eagle you dingbat.

I wasn't saying it was 7 tons and 45 feet long CT.

It is related to birds. You....know it is related to birds....right? ;D

easy now, or I'll be forced to post pics from my new book that has a cg rex with a neck full of red feathers Aaaand a tarbosaurus with a head full of black "down" ( looks like he has bedhead)

[sbell]

Nov 4, 2008 10:26:24 GMT @tetonbabydoll said:

Nov 4, 2008 9:00:36 GMT Tyrannax said:

The eagle you dingbat.

I wasn't saying it was 7 tons and 45 feet long CT.

It is related to birds. You....know it is related to birds....right? ;D

easy now, or I'll be forced to post pics from my new book that has a cg rex with a neck full of red feathers Aaaand a tarbosaurus with a head full of black "down" ( looks like he has bedhead)

Let me guess--an illustration by Luis Rey? By any chance, doe the rex have wattles too?

[tetonbabydoll]

Actually, I don't think so. It is cg art by people who worked on wwd supposedly

[Tyrannax]

Nov 4, 2008 10:26:24 GMT @tetonbabydoll said:

Nov 4, 2008 9:00:36 GMT Tyrannax said:

The eagle you dingbat.

I wasn't saying it was 7 tons and 45 feet long CT.

It is related to birds. You....know it is related to birds....right? ;D

easy now, or I'll be forced to post pics from my new book that has a cg rex with a neck full of red feathers Aaaand a tarbosaurus with a head full of black "down" ( looks like he has bedhead)

That would be awesome. I think Tyrannosaurs with feathers make them look more deadly birds of prey. Very cool. But without feathers they look cool because they look more reptilian and beastly. Either way is fine.

[[][][]cordylus[][][]]

Nov 4, 2008 23:07:12 GMT Tyrannax said:

Nov 4, 2008 10:26:24 GMT @tetonbabydoll said:

easy now, or I'll be forced to post pics from my new book that has a cg rex with a neck full of red feathers Aaaand a tarbosaurus with a head full of black "down" ( looks like he has bedhead)

That would be awesome. I think Tyrannosaurs with feathers make them look more deadly birds of pray. Very cool. But without feathers they look cool because they look more reptilian and beastly. Either way is fine.

Birds of pray? As in "praying to god"? I think you mean "prey".

[Tyrannax]

Nov 4, 2008 23:11:52 GMT [][][]cordylus[][][] said:

Nov 4, 2008 23:07:12 GMT Tyrannax said:

That would be awesome. I think Tyrannosaurs with feathers make them look more deadly birds of pray. Very cool. But without feathers they look cool because they look more reptilian and beastly. Either way is fine.

Birds of pray? As in "praying to god"? I think you mean "prey".

Don't make me bring up the Velociraptor incident Cordylus! ;D

I do need to stop typing so fast though, don't I?