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Look at THIS coolness! T. rex attacks Triceratops

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Look at THIS coolness! T. rex attacks Triceratops
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 20, 2005 12:29 PM
Paleocraft is a garage kit company famous for making sculpts of prehistoric mammals instead of dinosaurs, but the proprietor, Sean Cooper, has recently gotten into dinosaurs in a BIG way! He's just about finished with a sculpt of T. rex preying on Triceratops as a baby gets away. It looks like T. rex, like most predators, was going after the baby, but the adult put itself in the way, and the T. rex is getting ambitious, going for the killing neck-bite on the adult. Maybe the T. rex has babies of its own to feed. Just feast your eyes on this (click on the pics to see them full-size):





It's probably going to be fairly pricey, because you get a LOT in the box, but it will be an awesome centerpiece for a modeler's figure collection. Or, if you want, Sean also makes a T. rex in a stand-alone sculpt.

I imagine the model will probably be available in the near future -- Sean says he's putting the finishing touches on it. Good stuff.
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Posted by J-Hulk on Sunday, February 20, 2005 12:42 PM
Wow, that is cool!
Thanks for posting that, Larry.
~Brian
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 20, 2005 12:49 PM
Interesting, I did a Tamiya T-Rex a long time ago, it turned out awesome but has since been lost in multiple moves along with almost all of my other models from back then, I have several dinosaur models in my stash but am not currently inclined to building them.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 20, 2005 6:25 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by paz8473

Interesting, I did a Tamiya T-Rex a long time ago,


Those Tamiya 90's era kits are fun. (The 70s kits are strictly "great fossil lizard" stuff.) I am not sure where they got the shape of the T. rex's head from though! And they are in 1/35th scale, so you can have the dinosaurs attacking some infantry or the Tamiya samurai figures ....

I have the Brachiosaurus, but never got around to building it -- I really should.
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Posted by madmike on Sunday, February 20, 2005 7:23 PM
Crikey!

Pretty impressive. I will have to show my SO this diorama as she loves dinosaur kits!

cheers

Mike
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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Sunday, February 20, 2005 9:06 PM
Looks very impressive.

Regards, Rick
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Posted by Dwight Ta-ala on Sunday, February 20, 2005 10:11 PM
Holy Macaroni! That's awesome.

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Posted by madmike on Monday, February 21, 2005 9:51 PM
Well I showed Lori and there was a one word answer.....

PLEASE!!!!

sigh.....oh well.....I will have to wait and see the final price of this masterpiece!

cheers

Mike
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, February 21, 2005 9:56 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by madmike

Well I showed Lori and there was a one word answer.....

PLEASE!!!!

sigh.....oh well.....I will have to wait and see the final price of this masterpiece!



Probably will be over $200US.
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Posted by madmike on Monday, February 21, 2005 11:02 PM
crikey!

Well at least she saw it.......

cheers

Mike
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 9:00 AM
Top shelf!!
Dan
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 12:10 PM
thats really cool. poor little dino.
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Posted by spector822002 on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 2:21 PM
Wow thats pretty nice , thanks for posting that Larry .

How much is just the rex ?

I take it this is a full resin kit at that price .
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Posted by saltydog on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 8:34 PM
that looks interesting!!
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:43 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by spector822002

Wow thats pretty nice , thanks for posting that Larry .

How much is just the rex ?

I take it this is a full resin kit at that price .


I think the red alone (in a different pose from this one) is arounf $100.

I don't know what the full price for this kit will be, but when it's done it will include everything you see -- three dinosaurs and a base.
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