Dinosaurs

[Wizzel]

I picked these up at Monkbar Models in York a couple of months ago, mainly as an opportunity to get some more terrain modelling experience. Very simple kits as you would expect - each creature had just a few parts to assemble which I did at the last play day.


While DCOS was away at scout camp, I had time to start on the bases - or "dinoramas" 😂. Each one is carved out of high density foam and this was a chance to use my hot wire cutter I bought for a few quid locally.

They're in various stages of completion as you can see and I had hoped to have at least one ready for the next club meeting but as ever, work and wife (those two ever present four letter words) have conspired against me. Nonetheless I may bring them as WIP.

The foliage will be completely 100% accurate for the time 🤔🤭 leaves are made by laying bits of wire lengths on baking parchment and brushing five or six coats of latex solution in leaf shapes which then peel off easily once dry and can be painted to suit and cut any size or shape needed. The weird orange flowers are just blobs of latex, again five or six coats, with the wire stem fed through a hole in the middle and a drop of superglue to hold it in place. 

As ever I'm just making it up as I go along.  Hopefully I'll not keep you waiting too long for an update.

[zak]

Great work so far.

[chriswil42]

Looking good Dave.

[Bigkev]

Dinosaurs by a Dinosaur......?
A least you've had a few millenia to hone your skills. 

[cph64]

Great work along with an interesting tip, well done.

[Wizzel]

I just realised I can do this on my phone which makes it easier to upload photos as well as keep up with the rest of your projects

I'm determined to get something new for Lincoln so found a few hours this weekend to continue a couple of these.

The Oviraptor eats eggs apparently (or at least it used to) and the pose looked like it was climbing up something to get to them hence the rock ledges. I started the nest by pressing a bowl of putty into a shallow bowl and sprinkling  7mm & 2mm static hay on it for twigs but it was too out of scale so I used the bowl as the base and built the rest up stick by stick with dead wood from my thyme bush. The eggs are also putty. Initially it was just going to be eggs in a nest at the top but I decided to try and add a bit of movement by showing the nest being pulled apart.

The crocodile was my first proper (scary) attempt at pouring a resin water feature. I mixed a couple of drops of khaki in to tint the water and tomorrow, hopefully, it'll be cured and ready for some surface texture. I was rather hoping it would be a bit more submerged but I'd made the lake shore a bit too shallow. Better planning needed next time - epecially looking at the amount of resin I had left over!!

[zak]

Very Prehistoric, nice modelling.

[chriswil42]

Really nice Dave. Keep going.

[zak]

Will they be at the meeting tomorrow and or at Lincoln?

[MSea]

Ask Neil if you have the correct colour for dinosaurs and background - that is if his memory goes back that far     

[Bigkev]

Ask Neil if you have the correct colour for dinosaurs and background - that is if his memory goes back that far     

Probably easier to ask most of the members rather than just one..........!

[Wizzel]

Will they be at the meeting tomorrow and or at Lincoln?

I'm full of cold so they won't be at the meeting tonight but providing I'm fit and well the crocodile will definitely be at Lincoln - and hopefully the other one.

Anyway as part of my recovery plan, I'm having a go at putting some texture on the water. Another journey into the unknown for me

[Bigkev]

Hope you get well. Hopefully see you and your prehistoric friends there too.
Oh, just to note,  I meant the models not the club members. Hahaha

[chriswil42]

Looking good Dave.

[Wizzel]

Although my cold didn't retreat far enough for me to get to Lincoln model show (which I'm not best pleased about missing again!!), I did manage to get the first two of these finished. They will be coming to the November meeting.