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Newest Prehistoric builds
Posted by modelnut on Tuesday, November 22, 2016 4:50 PM

Horizon's Brontosaurus and Kaiyodo's Stegosaurus. Both have been stuffed with newspaper and glued together with CA. Some of the joints and gaps on the Bronto needed some persuading. But I was able to convince them with a judicious application of CA and baking soda. Putty work will be cosmetic more than anything else. That will start this weekend.

- Leelan

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  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Tuesday, November 22, 2016 9:01 PM

Oh cool! Always thought these were neat kits but ended up never getting any due to the size and price.

Looking forward to seeing how you paint 'em.

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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Posted by modelnut on Wednesday, November 23, 2016 2:32 AM

Me too. The prices on eBay were scary. But a fellow on Facebook was thinning his collection so it was Christmas in November! Big Smile

- Leelan

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  • From: Florida-West Central
Posted by Eagle90 on Wednesday, November 23, 2016 6:05 AM

Leelan, now those are cool!  I have never gotten or even thought about dinosaur kits....but now.  Very cool builds!

Eagle90

 

 

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Posted by modelnut on Wednesday, November 23, 2016 7:21 PM

It's a slippery slope, Eagle90. I've always loved dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. But the models that are generally available are either resin kits or out-of-print vinyl kits that are way too expensive for the general modeling public.

For a brief moment it was thought that Pegasus Hobbies would step into the breach with their affordable 1/24th scale vinyl kits. But this line is now extinct thanks to either poor marketing or poor sales. Only three models were produced. Two of them have two animals in them so you could say that five dinosaur models were released. There is Triceratops, a Tyrannosaurus rex and a juvenile Triceratops, and Spinosaurus with a dwarf Xiphactinus audax. I have all of them in primer waiting for me to get the nerve to paint them.

But the thought of prehistoric models in 1/24th scale with all of those other modern figures and models in that scale was too much to resist --- I was hooked! It's one thing to have a great model of a dinosaur on your shelf. But if you have a model of the family car and a figure in the same scale it really brings home how large these animals were. So that's what I'm doing now, collecting dinosaur models in 24th scale (or thereabouts) or sculpting my own because a particular animal is not available.

So be careful. Dinosaurs may bite you back. Devil

-Leelan

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Posted by modelnut on Thursday, November 24, 2016 11:25 AM

Three new kits waiting to be primed this afternoon.

- Leelan

Thanksgiving 2016

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