Building models again after months long home improvement!

I haven’t even touched a model since June because of home improvement projects that took their toll on our entire house. I have only been modeling again for about a week, and I have started several models since then. All of them are “biologics”.

There is a Sperm Whale and Blue Whale in 1/35 scale (all of these are in 1/35.)

And Ichthyotitan which was described within the last few months. It is a 70-foot ichthyosaur in 35th scale so the 3D print is 24 inches long. The Liopleurodon is right beside it.

The last project is a recreation of artwork by Dr. Mark Witton, a paleontologist from the UK.



I have definitely hit the ground running!

  • Leelan
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Welcome to the forum, Leelan! Those are great kits! I like the Ichthyotitan model especially. I didn’t know there was an ichthyosaur that grew that big. I look forward to seeing these finished!
Best regards,
Brad

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Ichthyotitan Wiki

Estimates scaling up the bones from other ichthyosaur species put Ichthyotitan 's body length at nearly 25 metres (82 ft), which would make it the largest marine reptile currently known.

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Looks like some nice stuff,enjoy your stay.

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The Sperm Whale is almost ready to paint. It is 24 inches long — 70 feet in 1/35 scale. Bulls sometimes reached 80 feet before whaling decimated the species. Now bulls might get to be 60 feet while females get to 36.

I have a few imperfections to putty then it is on to painting.

  • Leelan


3D print, self-produced and designed, or did you purchase kits?

I commissioned and purchased this kit online from Christopher Chavez PaleoKhrisGallery

The seam at the shoulders was a lot of work to erase. Not sure if that was the fault of the kit or whether the shape of the print changed when I filled it with plumber’s expanding foam.

I am intending this to be an old bull like Moby Dick without explicitly being Moby Dick. The whale in Melville’s book was ninety-feet-long. I wanted my model to be more real. Like this:


To match this whale I had to add flesh to the tail. The caudle peduncle in Chris’ print ended at the base of the flukes when it should have gone on to the middle. That’s my story anyway.

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OK. It looks like that depression is part of the design. It really shouldn’t be there. It calls attention to that seam. Makes it more difficult to hide. Sperm Whale kit

Here is an image that points out that problem and shows my correction for the peduncle:

That’s very interesting! I would have guessed either Mosasaurus or Kronosaurus as the largest known marine reptile. But I hadn’t heard of Ichthyotitan before this.

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