I’ve started my Pegasus Spinosaurus. I glued all pieces together and filled most scenes. Also assembled the dead fish that comes with it. It is in gray primer. I will be spraying it white as a beginning color. There will be a bunch of airbrush work blending various colors, so I wanted to start with a white coat as a reference for further work.
I have also begun work on the base. I mounted the kit base on a rectangle of plywood and put some resin casting material on to bring up the base to the level of the kit base. I then put some celluclay down to build up the terrain towards the rear. The colors on it now were just playing around. I don’t like them so will be using some other colors.
Greg- not sure yet. Depends on how I paint terrain.
TB- he will be just ready to start a good meal (prey provided in kit)
I now have a big problem. As I was gluing parts together, I had a feeling the material might be vinyl. That seems to be the case. My white base coat is not drying! Putting it in my drying box made it worse! The prime worked fine but that Rustoleum paint sure didn’t. I’ll try stripping it.
This build definitely has my attention! I’ve held this kit, along with the Pegasus T-Rex in my hands so many times when I’ve been in my local hobby shop. I’ve made the Great White Shark and the Kothaga kits both from Pegasus and I know what you mean about the “plastic” they’re made out of. It’s not styrene and it’s not quite vinyl either. I remember that I used Gorilla Super Glue and Tamiya Acryli putty to build it and Tamiya primer as a base coat. On the Great White I airbrushed Tamiya acrylics and on Kothaga I hand brushed craft acrylic paints. Good luck with the rest of your build.
Yep, I think so. So far I have had no luck getting that paint layer off. If I do I can spray it with clear lacquer. Funny- the dinosaur would not fit in my bucket, so I had filled the bucket about a third full and dumped the head and arms into the soapy water. When I went into the basement the next day, the bucket was empty and water all over the floor!
All I can figure out is that the tail was hanging over the edge of the bucket, and the rough texture of the dinosaur skin promoted capillary action, like leaving a towel in a full sink with a corner hanging out. I’ll try again with purple power and scrubbing harder.
I too have had problems removing paint from P.V.C. with anything other than Lacquer Thinner or P.V.C. Prep Fluid. I Never have had any luck with ANY type of alchol! One type just sits there and the other type causes ME to just sit there!
One thing I started to do is to save the excess material (sprues on a regular injection molded kit) and paint them first before I use any paint on the actual model to test if there’s going to be any weird reactions.
