Hoeger Paleowerks

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Hi everyone , I spent 15 years or so working with 2 different companies making skeletal recreations , I Have decided to get back into Dinosaurs again and make some new items , both Claws and Skulls .

Here is some of my earlier works starting with the first piece I ever sculpted .

This T-Rex plaque was a piece I was asked to do to show I could do some basic sculpting , it is still for sale today , it was never meant to be a
real accurate work of art , but more of a trinket for kids to buy when leaving a museum for a few bucks .
I recently pulled out a first generation cast and made a couple new molds .




Second is a Deinonychus antirrhopus Killing claw , basically sculpted for the same reason as above ,a trinket. this too is a first generation remold from the original sculpture mold , this particular claw seems to have been copied by many folks without my permission LOL




I did several more claws like Therizinosaurus claw , Velociraptor Hand claw , Iguanodon thumb spike and many more !

MORE TO COME !

[DinoLord]

Very nice work! Ever done anything sauropod-related?

[Panzerwerk]

I have not made any Sauropod elements YET !!! , but i would like to do some skull models of them in 1/4 scale , the future is bright !


Here is a couple Skull models I did in the late 90's

Allosaurus



Archaeopteryx



Avimimus



And My Velociraptor, which has been copied Many times LOL

[DinoLord]

Some more great work. I've always been tempted to get one of the 1:1 scale skulls, but I am curious - when people sculpt these skull replicas (particularly the 1:1 ones), what kind of reference material is being used? How much of a sculpt is based on specific fossil specimens and how much is speculative?

[Panzerwerk]

I am not a paleontologist , but the person i worked for had a extensive library of published material including original literature and drawings of type specimens with reconstruction drawings by the describing Paleontologists  .
All that said , I used as much good information as i could , My raptor skull was sent to New York and was looked at before we offered it to the public , and Madson got a cast of the Allosaurus and blessed it before we offered it , he said it was nice , but not perfect .

So i do try to do the best I can with what i have , I do use "Artistic License" when I have nothing else to go on .

Just remember , I am not doing this for publication , its for fun .

[Aaron Doyle]

Welcome to the boards!  I own your Archaeopteryx skull sculpt as well as one of the shameless rip offs of your Velociraptor(which I didn't know was a rip-off at the time).  Both are fantastic although it's obvious that the Velociraptor is more roughly sculpted than your original.  Really glad to see you are getting back into dinosaurs.  I can't wait to see what else you have in store.

[Panzerwerk]

Thanks Aaron , I have a buyer for the plaques right now and he requested a Velociraptor and Spinosaurus plaque , I also plan on a Velociraptor killing claw to go with my Hand claw , and a 1/4 scale Ceratosaurus skull , this is my re start plan LOL , and getting my own website up and going .

Thanks again !!

[Panzerwerk]

Finally got to roughing out the Spino Plaque

[DinoLord]

Very nice! What scale will this one be?

[Panzerwerk]

I dont know LOL , I got to measure it LOL