robban75 Posted February 26, 2010 Share Posted February 26, 2010 Hi everyone! This resin skeleton is a re-cast of the long unavaliable Tamiya T. rex skeleton. The recast is a very roughly molded kit. I have never done so much cleaning before in my life. But, if you want to build a T. rex skeleton in 1/20 scale, this is your only option. What is left for me to do on this kit is to lengthen the tail by about 10 cm, for some reason it's 10 vertebra short. I also need to add som bones underneath the neck. These neck bones are so badly casted I have to make new ones from scratch. The same goes for the gastralia basket. My biggest modification on this kit was done on the skull. Tyrannosaurus rex's skull differed from most other carnivorous dinosaurs in that its eyes faced forward. The kit captured this quite well, but the kit has a bony ridge on each side of the skull that is far too large, this also made the eyes sit too far apart. So, I reduced the size of the ridges, and sawed away a piece on top of the skull, creating a gap. I soaked the skull in hot water and pushed the skull together at the top, making the top of the skull more pointy, and the eyes ended up closer to each other. I also lengthened the skull and lower jaw by about 0.5mm. This gave the skull the familiar concave nose ridge. If built as depicted on the box the rex will have a slightly upright pose. I wanted the back to be more horizontal. This gave me a slight problem in how to position the legs and feet. I found a pose in the end that I'm happy with. It looks like the T. rex is just about to rush forward and bite into its prey! Cool! Anyways, here it is in its current state. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JasonB Posted February 26, 2010 Share Posted February 26, 2010 Hey, thats good stuff right there. I didn't know Tamiya did a T-Rex skeleton. I will have to look around for one of those. Well done! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
robban75 Posted February 26, 2010 Author Share Posted February 26, 2010 (edited) Hey, thats good stuff right there. I didn't know Tamiya did a T-Rex skeleton. I will have to look around for one of those.Well done! Thanks, Jason! I'm glad you like it! :) IIRC the original Tamiya kit is from the 80's, early 90's. I wonder if it's even possible to find a picture of it on the net? The resin re-cast is available from here if you're interested. http://www.homemedia4u.com/catalog/product...roducts_id=3033 Below is an unbuilt, but cleaned resin kit. Edited February 26, 2010 by robban75 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
geedubelyer Posted February 27, 2010 Share Posted February 27, 2010 Very COOL!! Anyone else thinking "Night at the Museum"? :lol: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
janman Posted February 27, 2010 Share Posted February 27, 2010 Anyone else thinking "Night at the Museum"? I am! Well, almost, since I've visited the American Museum of Natural History in NYC (which is the museum in the film) and this skeleton so closely reminds me of the real skeletons I saw there. Great work! Dinos are cool! :lol: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HOLMES Posted February 27, 2010 Share Posted February 27, 2010 NICE !!! I see in the UK there is a T-REX and other Dinosaurs are beign advertised that you can build with the kids .the kits come in a magazine and every week you get so many piecse and the child is able to build it up and it is fairly big too.. Your T-REX is AWESOME!!! COOL!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
robban75 Posted February 28, 2010 Author Share Posted February 28, 2010 Thanks guys! I'm going to start working on the tail now! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChernayaAkula Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 Way, way cool! :lol: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GreyGhost Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 Very cool ! It reminds me of my many visits to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles where they have a T-Rex skull on display and 'Sue' on display in Chicago... >>> Sue <<< >>> Who is Sue ? <<< Gregg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HWR MKII Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 If you want i can get you some shots of the Skeleton at the museum where i work. Its a full size copy od "Sue" the most complete and intact T-Rex skeleton found. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
robban75 Posted March 2, 2010 Author Share Posted March 2, 2010 Thanks all! @HWR MKII It would be great if you could take some photos of Sue! From the side perhaps, and the tail! Thank you! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
robban75 Posted March 7, 2010 Author Share Posted March 7, 2010 Update! Neckbones fixed, and the modified tail is attached. Some more modifications to the skull have also been made. Mostly around the nostrils. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
artoor_k Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Yeah ,T-rex skeleton in running configuration :) I'ts good to see one cause I'm modifing T-rex from Lindberg from static into run mode :P Keep up the good work :lol: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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