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#1 PanzerPaulo

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 01:46 PM

As any (mentally) healthy child I used to be a huge dinosaur fan, sadlly for many years Chile has a wastland in terms of "variety of model dinosaurs in the formal market at a reasonable price". It wasn't untill a couple of years that I had the luck of finding a couple of this kits and finally having the money to buy them.

As my first model shared at Britmodeller I've like to share my Tyrannosaurus Rex, from the Diorama Set of Tamiya, this are the only Tamiya dinosaurs kit that are anatomically correct to a point.
All the beast in this series of kits come this a diorama base, some tipe of tree or palmtree, rocks, another smaller dinosaur (a juvenil of the main dinosaur in some cases). Somewhere I read that the bases can be put together to make a large base with all the dinosaurs.

Now let's go to the T-Rex, Tamiya made this kit this the option to leave it with either an open moyth or a closed one, in a running position or a standing one. For stability's sake I chose the standing position but with an open mouth. The one thing the kit didn't allow was he position of the neck, that I heavily modified with an epoxic resin, moving the center of gravity to the fordward part of the kit, thankfully the standing position of the legs is firm and helped much to give a firm pose.

The palmtrees came form the kit, and a third one was provided by a Parasaurolophus kit, the bones also came from the kit, and the Velociraptor came from winning a bet to a friend.

Now let's see if photobucke is as dependable as usual:
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#2 pte1643

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 02:02 PM

Excellent work, nice pattern on the body.

I know what you mean by "Anatomically Correct", I made the older style Tamiya T-Rex a while back (pictures on forum somewhere), that one looks like a man in a rubber suit, similar to the sort you see in old japanese monster films.

#3 Moofles

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 02:50 PM

That looks fantastic, great work.

#4 PanzerPaulo

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 03:14 PM

Many thanks!!! It has a great kit to build and have me many hours of work with my daughter just to get the right colours, at least those that leaft us both happy.

pte1643, some months ago surfing the internet I found a finnish heavy metal band called Heavysaurus, it's target public is young children, they go out to stage drees up as "heavy metal dinosaurs"... at old Tamiya T-Rex would do just the trick to make the "lead vocals" for that band!!

#5 jimbuna

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 06:09 PM

She's a beauty.

#6 Azgaron

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 07:58 PM

Awesome looking T-Rex! Very nice work!

Cheers,

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#7 FrancieT

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 08:00 PM

Looks great

#8 Obi-Jiff Kenobi

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 08:48 PM

Nice work, good composition of pieces, and lovely painting too.

#9 PanzerPaulo

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 10:31 PM

As Ceratti said: " Gracias totales!!"

#10 Kallisti

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 11:45 PM

Nice to see something different, looks fantastic!

#11 PanzerPaulo

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 01:53 PM

Thank you Kallisti!!




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