Protoceratops & other dinosaurs of the Gobi Desert - Your best figures recommendations

[Elengassen]

No worries I look forward to seeing the finished figure!
Honestly, I don't think the likelihood of this genus being released in PVC is especially high. $85 is a bit more than I'd normally spend on a 3D print, but who knows, if I can find the money someday, I might grab one as well...

[Protopatch]

Nemegtosaurus in progress...
Here is a picture of the pending 3D figure for my Gobi collection, kindly sent by my seller yesterday :



@Elengassen , if it ever works as initially expected, I'll be terribly indebted to you

[Elengassen]

Nemegtosaurus in progress...
Here is a picture of the pending 3D figure for my Gobi collection, kindly sent by my seller yesterday :




@Elengassen , if it ever works as initially expected, I'll be terribly indebted to you

Looking good! I look forward to seeing it all painted up 

[Halichoeres]

Ooh, that's exciting. I'm also eager to see what pajamas you put on it.

[Concavenator]

That sauropod is looking great!

[Protopatch]

Ooh, that's exciting. I'm also eager to see what pajamas you put on it.

Pajamas completed at 40% so far

[Elengassen]

Ooh, that's exciting. I'm also eager to see what pajamas you put on it.

Pajamas completed at 40% so far

Looks familiar somehow... 

[Protopatch]

Looks familiar somehow... 

This is the initial plan, with some slight nuances however

[Protopatch]

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Dark wash and brown dry brush OK.
At this stage (completion status 95%), it already looks superb :



The next (and last) step will be the varnishing

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[Protopatch]

Figure completed at 100%
Here are some beautiful pictures kindly sent by my super cool as well as talented seller :









And alongside another Nemegtosaurus custom order :



Actually, I prefer mine lol
Anyway, hope it'll arrive "sound and safe" in France soon...

Again, many thanks @Elengassen for your great recommendation !

[Protopatch]

Slowly but surely, my Gobi team is becoming richer thanks to all of your great recommendations !

My initial goal was to gather about a dozen of figures by the end of the year, but it definitely sounds too ambitious.
Actually, apart from the PNSO's Therizinosaurus and Deinocheirus and a decent Citipati figure (any suggestions ?) that are all included in my wishlist, I'm eager to see if it would be worth replacing the PNSO's Tarbo with the BW's one once it'll be released ?
Meanwhile, I'm posting an overall picture of the «  Great 7 » in their temporary scenery mixing some BotM's environment sets and real plants I'm taking care of :

[thebermuda303]

Slowly but surely, my Gobi team is becoming richer thanks to all of your great recommendations !

My initial goal was to gather about a dozen of figures by the end of the year, but it definitely sounds too ambitious.
Actually, apart from the PNSO's Therizinosaurus and Deinocheirus and a decent Citipati figure (any suggestions ?) that are all included in my wishlist, I'm eager to see if it would be worth replacing the PNSO's Tarbo with the BW's one once it'll be released ?
Meanwhile, I'm posting an overall picture of the «  Great 7 » in their temporary scenery mixing some BotM's environment sets and real plants I'm taking care of :

Looking great! I'd definitely replace p so turbo with BW one, in fact I'm doing it as soon as preorder hits. P so really didn't age all to well

[Sim]

For Citipati, the Wild Safari version is great and the only figure that represents Citipati osmolskae.  The unnamed 100/42 oviraptorid, which is sometimes considered a second species of Citipati and is from the same ecosystem as C. osmolskae, has some nice figures, e.g. the Schleich Oviraptor which is around the same size as the Safari Citipati, and the Kaiyodo Oviraptor which is much smaller.  Despite being labelled Oviraptor, these two figures are of the 100/42 oviraptorid.

[Concavenator]

Nice little ecosystem you have going on there!

Onto your question, I'd definitely replace PNSO's Tarbosaurus with BW's. Not only is it more accurate, I would say it is already looking much nicer (though this may be subjective).

Safari's Citipati is certainly really good, but it'd be too big to fit in with its other neighbours, scale-wise. What about this Citipati by Bandai?

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Worth mentioning:

- There were discussions about how this figure may not represent Citipati osmolskae proper (I think it was mentioned it was based off the 100/42 oviraptorid?).

- @Georassic estimated it to be in 1:26 scale.

- Its wings aren't completely accurate (I think that's a minor quibble).

All things considered, I guess it could work as some really large individual of an unnamed Citipati species if you really like the figure.

BTW, IIRC, you got the Tsintaosaurus as an alternative to Saurolophus angustirostris. Have you considered getting HLG's figure? Sure, HLG probably intended to represent S. osborni with it, but the figure works nicely as a subadult S. angustirostris individual as well.

[Sim]

I keep forgetting about the Bandai Citipati!  But yes, it too represents the 100/42 oviraptorid.  On this subject, Bandai also made a quite nice Velociraptor in the same series as the Citipati, which might be of interest.  Another figure you might want to get is the CollectA Gallimimus, it's excellent.

[Concavenator]

Another figure you might want to get is the CollectA Gallimimus, it's excellent.

That one comes highly recommended!

[Protopatch]

Thank you guys for your precious advice !
I think that we are all looking forward to seeing this new Tarbo which sounds promising.
I'm just wondering about its color scheme : the promotional picture suggests a mix of green with kind of "copper" reflects (?) which, on the face of it, gives a sort of metallic aspect to the figure ? ^^

What about this Citipati by Bandai?

The Bandai's Citipati looks nice indeed, it's maybe the one that would fit the best my current collection in terms of accuracy and color scheme.
Do you have any idea of its scale ? I couldn't find it on dinotoycollector.com
Actually, I'm considering the Kaiyodo's Oviraptor as well

BTW, IIRC, you got the Tsintaosaurus as an alternative to Saurolophus angustirostris. Have you considered getting HLG's figure?

Right, when I started this collection project at the beginning of the year, there was no truly decent figures of Saurolophus, except the Favorite's one which was impossible to find on sale. And I really needed an hadrosaur !
Thought that PNSO's Tsintaosaurus could be a good alternative to an unfindable Saurolophus.
I'm now of course considering replacing it by HLG's Saurolophus, not immediately but more in the mid/long term.

Another figure you might want to get is the CollectA Gallimimus, it's excellent.

Yeah, this is a cool one ! It's apparently a 1:40 figure so it may be technically suitable for my collection, without any huge "visual mismatch".
Nevertheless, I have a doubt about its color scheme, mainly based on light pink & blue, which might not tone with the other figures.

[Faelrin]

The coloring there is a result of being rendered in the 3D modeling tool. You can see the same thing going on with wip renders of some of the various Creative Beast figures. Not an indication of the final figure's color.

[Concavenator]

@Faelrin is right, the color scheme on BW's Tarbo is currently unknown.

Do you have any idea of its scale ?

1:26 according to @Georassic .

It's apparently a 1:40 figure so it may be technically suitable for my collection, without any huge "visual mismatch".

That's something CollectA tends to say, but whether or not the figures are actually made in said scale is a different story (CollectA's scales aren't exactly reliable  ). Just so you get an idea, they state their ginormous Pteranodon figure from 2021 to be in 1:40 scale too. 

I'd say the Gallimimus works nicely for 1:35 scale or so. Here's a couple of comparison pics I took that might be useful:

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Next to Wonder Artistic Models' 1:35 humanoid for scale reference.



Alongside PNSO's Deinocheirus.

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CollectA's Gallimimus is an important figure, being the first truly good figure of perhaps the most famous ornithomimid. But I respect it if you don't like the figure, of course.

In the context of a Nemegt Formation collection, I'd definitely replace Tsintaosaurus with even a juvenile Saurolophus angustirostris, but hopefully you'll be lucky and in the meantime (if you ever decide on replacing it, that is) a proper, widely-available, S. angustirostris figure will be released, as that'd be a better fit for your collection.

[Sim]

Yeah, CollectA say the Gallimimus is 1:40 scale, but it's not.  I haven't worked out its scale yet but it's larger than what a 1:40 Gallimimus would be.  For comparison, the Battat Gallimimus is 1:40 and the CollectA figure is significantly larger than it even when excluding its feathers.  I'm glad about this, as I like my non-sauropods to be 1:35 at the smallest.