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Offline 6mmfan

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Dinosaur bones!
« on: July 02, 2008, 09:04:25 AM »
In the traditional of Grimms wonderful terrain, I decided to create some dinosaur bones terrain pieces.

I picked the set up at Hong Kong airport last year where they have a whole shop devoted to dinosaurs!

Here's the package it came it and this set is a T-Rex. Unfortunately I forgot to take any photos of it before I chopped it up.



Next I mounted it on some 3mm MDF and with some careful cutting I got 2 decent sized skeletons out of it. The white stuff is filler which I used to cover over the joins. You can also see the piece of bark I used for a rock, which helps to hide the inner part of the skeleton which didn't have much detail.



In this picture you can see how I cut the bones up and rounded the edges to make it all fit flatter on the base. I also chopped the tail in a few places to make fit the base better.




Next I drybrushed the bones starting with a light khaki and finishing off with an off-white. The brown colour of the plastic made for a great base colour. I also painted the rock but it ended up being a very similar colour so I might wash it to change the colour a bit more.



Heres a close up of the head. I used a fine dremel piece to gouge grooves into the plastic to make it look like the bone was cracked. Also you can see I didnt fill the hole at the bottom of the jaw, so I'll cover that with a bush when I flock it  :)



Cheers
Kieran

Offline argsilverson

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Re: Dinosaur bones!
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2008, 09:13:20 AM »
Very nice approach.

what is the size of the model?
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Re: Dinosaur bones!
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2008, 11:07:06 AM »
Cool, I did something similar with one of those kits you dig out of a plaster egg.

I really like the colour on yours, very realistic. 

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Re: Dinosaur bones!
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2008, 05:06:21 PM »
 :o :o :o I realy like how you paint them .
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Offline Ray Rivers

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Re: Dinosaur bones!
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2008, 06:03:11 PM »
 :-*

Nice work all round!  They look great!

Offline theoldschool

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Re: Dinosaur bones!
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2008, 10:16:41 PM »
Fantastic, the head looks incredibly realistic.

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Re: Dinosaur bones!
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2008, 10:38:17 AM »
I have one tricycleopterous (?) and one of those bigosauruses ready for the same manouver. I'll take a page from your book 6mm fan.

Offline meanderthal

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Re: Dinosaur bones!
« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2008, 11:00:03 AM »
One of the reasons I love coming to LAF is that people post so many great ideas, like this one, and I smack my head and think "Brilliant!  Why didn't I think of that?!?"

Cool bones!
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Offline 6mmfan

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Re: Dinosaur bones!
« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2008, 11:27:08 AM »
Thanks for the comments guys

meanderthal - I copied the idea from Grimms web site. ;)

Tomorrow I'll post some pictures of the finished model with some figures for a scale comparision.

Offline 6mmfan

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Re: Dinosaur bones!
« Reply #9 on: July 03, 2008, 11:37:51 PM »
Heres the final part of these

In this photo, i've textured the base and painted it and then drybrushed it.



And here's the finished product with a Foundry Baluchi figure for comparison. I tried a new style of basing and I'm very happy with it. But is means I have to reflock all my darkest africa figures to match.  :-I



The vines in this came from a company called MiniNatur (which I think is part of Silfor) and look fantastic





Overall I'm very happy with the way they came out

Cheers
Kieran
« Last Edit: July 04, 2008, 05:34:37 AM by 6mmfan »

Offline Sendak

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Re: Dinosaur bones!
« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2008, 12:20:42 AM »
I like it.

Bones in't fossils. Therefore, I surmise the presence of some rather large-ish gribblies out there!

Beware...we upright two-leggers taste like chicken.

Thanks for the tutorial and the swell pics.
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Offline Ray Rivers

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Re: Dinosaur bones!
« Reply #11 on: July 04, 2008, 09:44:34 AM »
 :-*

Those are great terrain pieces!

Well done!

Offline JollyBob

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Re: Dinosaur bones!
« Reply #12 on: July 04, 2008, 09:54:49 AM »
Top job!  :-*

Offline Paul Pogge

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Re: Dinosaur bones!
« Reply #13 on: July 04, 2008, 10:04:58 AM »
Very nice indeed! The scale looks perfect for 28mm.

What's the name of the manufacturer? A search on ebay could prove worthy.

Offline majorsmith

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Re: Dinosaur bones!
« Reply #14 on: July 04, 2008, 11:02:45 AM »
they look great!

 

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