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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: 6mmfan on July 02, 2008, 10:04:25 AM

Title: Dinosaur bones!
Post by: 6mmfan on July 02, 2008, 10:04:25 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.

(http://6mm.wargaming.info/photos/dino1.jpg)

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.

(http://6mm.wargaming.info/photos/dino2.jpg)

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.

(http://6mm.wargaming.info/photos/dino3.jpg)


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.

(http://6mm.wargaming.info/photos/dino4.jpg)

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  :)

(http://6mm.wargaming.info/photos/dino5.jpg)

Cheers
Kieran

Title: Re: Dinosaur bones!
Post by: argsilverson on July 02, 2008, 10:13:20 AM

Very nice approach.

what is the size of the model?

Title: Re: Dinosaur bones!
Post by: JollyBob on July 02, 2008, 12:07:06 PM

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. 

Title: Re: Dinosaur bones!
Post by: Grimm on July 02, 2008, 06:06:21 PM

 :o :o :o I realy like how you paint them .

Title: Re: Dinosaur bones!
Post by: Ray Rivers on July 02, 2008, 07:03:11 PM

 :-*

Nice work all round!  They look great!

Title: Re: Dinosaur bones!
Post by: theoldschool on July 02, 2008, 11:16:41 PM

Fantastic, the head looks incredibly realistic.

Title: Re: Dinosaur bones!
Post by: Hammers on July 03, 2008, 11:38:17 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.

Title: Re: Dinosaur bones!
Post by: meanderthal on July 03, 2008, 12:00:03 PM

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!

Title: Re: Dinosaur bones!
Post by: 6mmfan on July 03, 2008, 12:27:08 PM

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.

Title: Re: Dinosaur bones!
Post by: 6mmfan on July 04, 2008, 12:37:51 AM

Heres the final part of these

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

(http://6mm.wargaming.info/photos/dino6.jpg)

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

(http://6mm.wargaming.info/photos/dino7.jpg)

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

(http://6mm.wargaming.info/photos/dino8.jpg)

(http://6mm.wargaming.info/photos/dino9.jpg)

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

Cheers
Kieran

Title: Re: Dinosaur bones!
Post by: Sendak on July 04, 2008, 01:20:42 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.

Title: Re: Dinosaur bones!
Post by: Ray Rivers on July 04, 2008, 10:44:34 AM

 :-*

Those are great terrain pieces!

Well done!

Title: Re: Dinosaur bones!
Post by: JollyBob on July 04, 2008, 10:54:49 AM

Top job!  :-*

Title: Re: Dinosaur bones!
Post by: Paul Pogge on July 04, 2008, 11:04:58 AM

Very nice indeed! The scale looks perfect for 28mm.

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

Title: Re: Dinosaur bones!
Post by: majorsmith on July 04, 2008, 12:02:45 PM

they look great!

Title: Re: Dinosaur bones!
Post by: Doomhippie on July 05, 2008, 03:01:29 PM

Envy!!!

Nicely done. A pleasure to look upon your photo.

Title: Re: Dinosaur bones!
Post by: twrchtrwyth on July 06, 2008, 12:38:52 AM

Great terrain idea and very well done to. 8)

Title: Re: Dinosaur bones!
Post by: 6mmfan on July 08, 2008, 12:28:29 PM

Thanks for the feedback guys.

Paul

The only name I could find was Dino Horizons by a company called Cog.

Their website is here but not very helpful http://www.dinohorizons.com/

The range I got is called "Test Tube Skeletons"

Hope that helps

Kieran

Title: Re: Dinosaur bones!
Post by: Paul Pogge on July 08, 2008, 12:53:37 PM

Thanks for the info!