David Silva's Beasts of the Mesozoic Tyrannosaur Series

[Faelrin]

A @andrewsaurus As with many color schemes derived for the figures, that were based on real animals, this one's particular color scheme is the way it is because it was based on the Steller's Sea Eagle. The main thing different is perhaps the addition of white on the back, and how it carries to the tail (although it could be possible there will be a break at the hips and legs that is brown, since a side view only of the color scheme from the concept art isn't all telling), which was likely done as the animal doesn't have wings like the bird it was based on, which is where most of the white is, other then on the tail and legs too. The only other thing different from the bird is the brown on the underside of the tail. The white patch on the head of Yutyrannus (concept art) can be seen on some of those birds as well.


A pic of the bird:



with the Yutyannus concept art for comparison:

[andrewsaurus rex]

regarding the feet of Yutyrannus, i'm not sure just how snowy its environment became, but from the little I know there was a winter season where it lived, extended periods below freezing and that would certainly imply snow on the ground for extended periods.  Anyone who's walked in deep snow knows what an effort it is.  It is also very slow and burns tons of energy.  And that is for us puny bipedal humans.   Bipedal Yutyrannus weighing a ton or so would have major problems in a snowy environment without some sort of adaptation, like big feet, webbed toes or maybe even feathered feet  acting like snowshoes.   But perhaps it simply migrated; following the herds as they came and went, which would certainly make a lot of sense, especially since many bird species migrate to warmer climes in winter. 

Back to the paint scheme, while BOTM's concept of doing their dino paint schemes based on extant animals is a nifty idea, I've never been a big fan of it simply because I don't feel that the animals chosen as guides are good analogues for the  dinosaurs they are applied to.  The result is dinosaur toys with, to me, garish and/or unrealistic colours in many cases.  I know a lot of people like the schemes chosen and I can certainly understand their appeal, but I wish BOTM had taken a different approach.

However, i'm gonna keep buying 'em...

[suspsy]

Again, unless an animal lives in a snowy climate year round, it is highly unlikely to evolve something as radical as oversized feet. They'd only be a hindrance during the non-snowy seasons. Brown bears, black bears, bison, wolves, moose, elk, and whitetail deer live through much snowier winters than Yutyrannus faced without ever evolving any special adaptations for traversing snow.

On a different note, the finished Bistahieversor package artwork is on social media. Very dramatic!

https://www.facebook.com/113487525333128/posts/4789081841106983/

[Faelrin]

Absolutely fantastic and I love the callback to the soon to be released Pentaceratops from the ceratopsian series.



As this will surely be the first of many, I will be adding a new section to the op (first post on first page) that will have these new package arts for folks to come back and revisit if they so wish.

I am very much stoked we are finally starting to get these, as I love the artwork as much as I love the figures. This also means things are really going to start ramping up these next few months for the upcoming kickstarter and I am so here for it.

[suspsy]

I hope the standard T. rex artwork depicts it either in the act of killing a Triceratops or standing majestically over a dead one. It's only fair!

[andrewsaurus rex]

Again, unless an animal lives in a snowy climate year round, it is highly unlikely to evolve something as radical as oversized feet. They'd only be a hindrance during the non-snowy seasons. Brown bears, black bears, bison, wolves, moose, elk, and whitetail deer live through much snowier winters than Yutyrannus faced without ever evolving any special adaptations for traversing snow.

Fair point....I hadn't considered the effect of the adaptation in non-snowy conditions.  Do you have any thoughts on Yutyrannus migrating during winter?

And on the topic of the Tyrannosaur series, has any release date for Wave 1 been set or suggested?

[Faelrin]

No release dates yet that I've seen, but one could possibly extrapolate based on how the release schedule of the ceratopsian series may be, but we still don't have information about how many waves and what they'll contain yet (again at least not that I've seen). Such information if available would be good to have at the first post of the first page readily available for everyone to see, but I need to be made aware of it first. We will probably learn of that when the kickstarter draws near which should be later in the summer, if not the early fall. Depends on how things work out from here on until then.

Edit: I would guess that the smaller and mid sized figures, such as body types 1 and 2 would probably be shipped out during late 2023, and the larger body types 3-5 would be in 2024. Again that's just going off how production has been going for the ceratopsian series so far, with the kickstarter back in October 2019, Wave 1 shipped out in October 2020 I think, Wave 2 in April 2021, with Wave 3 still on schedule for September this year. The 1/18th scale ceratopsians and raptors should be shipping out by the end of the year as well.

[Dromaenychus]

beside Yutyrannus, do any of the figures in this series have feathers sculpted on them?

Feathered species:
1/6th Dilong paradoxus
1/6th Moros intrepidus
1/18th Suskityrannus hazelae
1/18th Eotyrannus lengi
1/18th Guanlong wucaii
1/18th Proceratosaurus bradleyi
1/18th Yutyrannus huali
1/18th Dryptosaurus aquilunguis(partially feathered)

[Flaffy]

"The first resin prototype for the Beasts of the Mesozoic 1/35th scale T-rex is assembled and ready for paint, along with a new base! Here it is next to the sub-adult Triceratops which is a good stand-in for a 1/35th adult version."

[Kapitaenosavrvs]

Oh, this looks great. I just thought "This looks really really like the Path of Titans Loadingscreens" and wanted to show a Picture. So i looked it up and Its the same Artist. Did not know, that Raul Ramos also does the BotM Artworks

[suspsy]

"The first resin prototype for the Beasts of the Mesozoic 1/35th scale T-rex is assembled and ready for paint, along with a new base! Here it is next to the sub-adult Triceratops which is a good stand-in for a 1/35th adult version."

It's so exciting to see this creative process unfold. Can't wait to see how this bad boy looks with paint on!

[Faelrin]

Yutyrannus is fully painted now. Gallery coming soon:

[DragonRider02]

I honestly liked the lighter brown of the wip photo better.
But the dark coloration still looks pretty cool. It reminds me of Oreo cookies or ice cream.

[andrewsaurus rex]

at first glance I didn't like the dark brown but it's grown on me.  Does remind me of an ice cream sandwich though. 

[Einherjar]

Am I the only one who finds the tyrannosaur feet to be a bit flat? It's kinda weird looking. Maybe it's just me.

[Volgadraco]

Yutyrannus is fully painted now. Gallery coming soon:

Well I do understand that David is making a toy which will later be produced in large numbers and pain application will result pretty ugly anyway, but why making so clear lines between white and chocolate brown, it makes the whole figurine look cheaper in my opinion. 

[Flaffy]

Looks a lot better than the concept art imo. The application of the  orange/red colour on the original concept art felt rather messy and muddled. But on the actual prototype, it looks rather elegant.

[Dinoxels]

It's beautiful. I love it dearly. Feels like an actual bird of prey. A definite pick-up for me.

[suspsy]

Yutyrannus is fully painted now. Gallery coming soon:

Well I do understand that David is making a toy which will later be produced in large numbers and pain application will result pretty ugly anyway, but why making so clear lines between white and chocolate brown, it makes the whole figurine look cheaper in my opinion.

I don't see how that follows given that countless birds, reptiles, and mammals have clear and smooth delineations between the colours on their bodies.

[andrewsaurus rex]

I think the demarcation lines are fine,  Remember the animal is covered in feathers, like a coarse fur.  As a result the demarcation lines between colours will not be crisp.  Look at any feather or fur covered animal that has stripes or areas of two distinct colours and you will see that while the line between the colours is straight-ish, it is far from crisp.