JIBBER and I are starting a Dinosaur GB for 2016
Dates: 01JAN16 thru 31DEC16
0. There aren’t that many kits so don’t worry about 2 or more folks building the same kit. Colors will vary from artist to artist as will the presentation.
It’s DINOSAURS. Kids love them, Adults love them. There were 4 Jurrasic movies, not to mention Godzilla. Even better no one knows what they looked like so, no matter how you paint them, you aren’t wrong.
Stand alones or part of a diorama with another dinosaur or a vehicle/people, civilian or military.
Any scale.
Crossovers are fine, especially if you are doing a vehicle or figure in another genre, ie armor, airplanes.
IF YOU ARE ADDING ANOTHER OBJECT, please post your build of it in the appropriate forum.
Post here or PM me (WAYNEC) a picture of the box art of the dinosaur and the vehicle if a diorama. i will post it on the roster page along with finished builds. you
Because of the way the forum works, I will initiate the GB and will update the roster on the home page but JIBBER will be posting comments so send stuff to either one of us.
I planned on doing two Dino’s, a T Rex and a Spinosaurous both in 1/24. I just seen that we already have a Spiney on the roster but because of all the different ways of painting and displaying them, I think they’ll look a lot different when it’s all completed. Sorry Bruce I surely dont mean to copy on your entry. I think this will be a fun build for all of us.
Bruce again I’m sorry and if you want me to withdraw it I’d have no problem with that, I still a a T Rex to build.
I’m in but I’m not sure with what yet. I have a resin Albertosaur and a Lindberg Velociraptor that I’d like to add feathers etc to try to make it a little more accurate.
No need to be sorry, I have no problem with you building the Spinosuarus, and I look forward to seeing it finished! I picked the Spino because that was the one my 7yo daughter (My future archaeologist!) wanted me to work on first.
No need to be sorry, there are not a lot of Dinosaur kits, so I expected, and welcome, more of the same kit. Like you said, there will be mulitple colorations on these finished kits. I’m really looking forward to seeing them.
Now, on your question. I hadn’t thought yet of what I wanted to do, but, your question sparked some good thoughts. I’ve seen a few of these kits built at the National convension and they build to look like the box art. The box art makes it look like the Spino is defending its catch. You got my creative juices flowing! Maybe it’s defending it’s catch from another Spino?!?! I’m going to have to think about this a bit more!
This is going to be a great GB! I’m glad you and Wayne thought of it!
Bruce my first thought was that of Spiney holding the fish in its mouth instead of holding it down but the way Pegasus make them that would be somewhat difficult. I next thought of having a couple smaller dino’s eating away at the fish when Spiney shows up and scares them away. I think I’d seen a dino croc somewhere, now that would be cool if it was partially underwater sneaking up behind them. I think this is what makes dinos so cool, theres so many ways to work with them and nobody around to say we did it wrong.
Everytime I think of something I always cause myself more work…
Well, I dug out the Spinosaurus kit. I forgot how heavy these kits are! Anyway, still trying to figure out what I want to do with a dio. I’m going to take a few more days to come up with something good that will not leave the kit is pieces. LOL
Terry, I agree, you’d have to do some major surgery to Spiney’s mouth to make it look like it’s holding the fish. And we won’t have to worry about too many cavemen telling us, “dinosaur wrong color”!
Figures section, good thinking guys. I like posting my builds as WiP threads as well, but couldn’t think where. I forgot the figures is also the Misc. section.
I think i am pretty much setteled on the Tamiya T-Rex, the diorama one. And i have an idea for a scene thats inspired my Karl Logans WW1 tank memorial build he did recently.
Man, I’d love to do this GB, but I don’t want to commit to something that I don’t know if I’ll get around to doing. 50/50 as to whether I’ll participate, but I’ll try.
