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

Started by Protopatch, February 07, 2025, 09:36:10 PM

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Protopatch

Quote from: Faelrin on June 30, 2025, 02:53:27 PMThe 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.
Quote from: Concavenator on June 30, 2025, 08:24:31 PM1:26 according to avatar_Georassicavatar_Georassic @Georassic .
Quote from: Concavenator on June 30, 2025, 08:24:31 PMI'd say the Gallimimus works nicely for 1:35 scale or so.
Okay thank you for the clarifications !

Quote from: Concavenator on June 30, 2025, 08:24:31 PMCollectA'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.
Actually, the head of this Gallimimus reminds me a bit the WP's Protoceratops head in its style and execution.
If the former's scale is situated somewhere between 1:40 and 1:35, it would even be a better fit.
I like it a lot, but still have to consider the potential visual contrast that would be implied by its light-colored body^^

In short in my opinion, scales are rather relative.
A specific model might well be considered as a subadult or an adult, depending on the context.



Protopatch

So, I've finally chosen the Bandai's Citipati as I thought it would be more appropriate to my current collection in terms of accuracy and colors.
However, it might well be a bit large in comparison with the other 1:35 figures.
It's apparently 13 cm high according to my seller, but I don't know if they included the stand when they measured it.
And I won't use the latter, apart from its upper part with Catopsbaatar.
Which means that it could either pass for a subadult Gigantoraptor (implying an extended Gobi family, Tsintao would feel less lonely), or a mutant Citipati lol
Answer in a few weeks...

Elengassen

Quote from: Sim on June 30, 2025, 10:31:51 PMYeah, 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.

I tried calculating the scale of the CollectA Gallimimus, but I kept getting different results depending on which part I was measuring. Along the curve of the spine, though, it's about 18cm, which for a 6-metre individual works out to about 1:33. So it fits nicely into the same 1:30-1:35 scale that many figures nowadays are in.
One day we will know the truth about Spinosaurus... but not today.

Protopatch

I'm searching for a 1:35 figure of crocodylomorph which could potentially stand for P. gradilifrons and, as far as possible, not a 3D print.
Did some research on the internet, but nothing conclusive so far...
So any suggestion is welcome !


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