Now my *Shane Foulkes Apatosaurus* DIORAMA: "Don´t mess with big mama" :o

[Die_Maulquappe]

Now my *Shane Foulkes Apatosaurus* DIORAMA: "Don´t mess with big mama" 
Story:
"Two babies hatched a week ago. Hardly in the world do they begin to erode the plants around them in order to promote their incredible growth.
  Another baby is just breaking out of the egg. Not everyone will make it. The mass of the eggs alone counts.
  A relative to Spinosaurus who lives in the water lurks on the nearby river bank to tear a young animal into the swampy brackish water.
  The attentive mother animal, however, discovered the predator and rushes in.
  One more step and the robber is simply crushed under her heavy feet.
  The robber looks up, startled, but it's already too late. 30 tons in motion are unstoppable."

https://youtu.be/wouO470BvNo  (I use it as a Patagotitan Model in scale 1/24 with the other figures)

[Shonisaurus]

That diorama is monumental, the spinosaurus that I see in the water is the Papo spinosaurus old version, isn't it? The truth is a very nice diorama the apatosaurus is huge and the eggs with hatchlings coming out of the shell is beautiful, by the way, how did you get the effect of the living water coming out of the spinosaurus mouth? Looks great. My congratulations on having such a beautiful diorama.

[Syndicate Bias]

I've seen many dioramas, some that really caught my eye, mostly big ones but this one catches it in a different way. Mostly due to how small yet how interesting it is.

It really gives a sense of scale seeing that spinosaurus in the water that it makes me appreciate the whole area around it despite it not being super massive. Who did this? Really love this piece.

[Die_Maulquappe]

Thank you
The Apatosaurus model is from Shane foulkes.
I mounted it and ABC Airbrush (her in my region) airbrushed the model for me...because I don´t have airbrush until now (but i think i will buy a starter kit on christmas)

The base and the diorama was made by myself.
The Apatosaurus had a small base, that I modified with Epoxy Clay...
I made the footsteps for a better stand and the effect of the massive weight of the dinosaur.
I made different groundlevels so that the foot is off the ground and for the water area.

The water area is only 1cm deep. To make it look deep i painted the ground dark green, brown and black (where the shadow/body of the spinosaurus is)
Yes it´s the old but well sculpted PAPO SPINOSAURUS.
I cut the head, one claw, the back sail and the tail how I need it and hot-glued it on the ground.

The water effect is simply made by 100% crystal clear silicon.
I put one layer of silicon in the water-area and flatened it with a spoon and toothpicks.
then I painted the layer green... you can also miy the silcon with every acryl color instead to change water colour.
But I wanted the water look like a swamp ...where the surface is clear and the deeper you go it went muddy and green brown.
So I put a second (last) layer over the painted one ... so you have clear waves and spalshes and the water also looks deep (but its only on 1cm deep ^^)
The WATER-Spalsh effect is simply made by pull up of the viscous siliconmass with atoothpick.
You can pull up the viscous mass a bit...wait until its hardens then you build it up from that point until you reach the other side.
Or you pull it down...
You can build up waves by sculpting it in layers slowly or you can make stillwater by smooth it out or put it on a cling film and peel it off when it's dry...the turn ist around and you have a smooth surface.

Another trick for very thin an dynamic water threads or hreads of saliva is...
You take a bit of transparen cling film or the thin rush hair ... fix it on the par You want with glue.
And the you can put some silcon on it with a toothpick.
The guideline of the cling film or the thin rush hair merges optically and you have a super effect.
(you can do this with water resin...but mere expenside hand too fluid)

The nest and the eggs are the REBOR Sauropod nest... I recalled it that the scale of it perfectly fits with the size of the big apatosaurus (and it´s cheap and looks good)
I build it ins with epoxy and sprayed everything and drybrushed it with acrylic and glossy finisher in some areas like the mud and the water edges.
Two eggs where cut and hollowed out by a dremel.
The yolk is silkon with paint.

The plats are made of several deco-plants from the supermarket (1-4 Euro)...its plastic. (modified it)

For the hatchling and the two (1 or 2 week) old babys I bought a Safri ltd mini dinosaurbox (sortiment 2) for 10 Euros.
I took the stegosaurus and cut the spices and plates off...and the head (is the hatchlings head in the egg^^ now)
The body was smoothed with a dremel and I put a longer neck on it with epoxy clay...the head was from another dinosaur from the boy...modyfied.
The other one was an edmontosaurus... also neck modified.
Then repainted approximately like the mother ... and all fit together
A happy family

And that´s it.
Was the first time I made a diorama (dioramas) ...so not bad - thanks

Building pics:

[Shonisaurus]

What you have done is a monumental diorama, it has been super cool and great. I congratulate you, what you have done is a work of crafts that you could not pay for all the money in the world if you sold it, it is a meticulous work, nice diorama.

[Libraraptor]

A true piece of art! What a wonderful, highly creative diorama!

[ceratopsian]

Congratulations on a wonderful piece of work.

[Kapitaenosavrvs]

Wow, really good! Thanks you for sharing. I tried Water with the "toiletpaper technique", but did the Whitewater with Acrylic Stuff.
Also, thaks for the really detailed discription

I still need to fninish my Base and wanted to add Splashes with Hotglue. Do you have any experience with this? Oh, was your first Dio aswell. Makes it even better.

The Epoxy Clas you used: was it like Sculpey? You need to bake them. I would love to try it, but i'm afraid, the original Figure will get too soft and gets "crushed" in the Oven. Right now i use Greenstuff and Air drying Clay, which is kind of.. bad.

Oh wait. Epoxy Clay is 2 Component, right? Then its like Greenstuff. Nevertheless, i like the Dio. Also, the Size is enormous (lächerlich groß ).

I'd love to see more in the Future

[Die_Maulquappe]

Thx
Yes the size is enormous. For my 1/24 scale neanderthaler and the elephant it has about the size/scale of Argentinosaurus or Patagotitan. Very cool to illustrate the real size.

Clear hot glue can also be good for splashes, but it hardens very fast.

The two component epoxy clay is not good for sculpting a detailed figure.
It´s good for fixing gapes, or simple models like a base or a simple tree branche.

For fine sculpting the pink super sculpy clay is good.
It hardens by baking by 130 degrees.

Pro: You have no pressure by drying out fast
        It´s very fine for days or even weeks

Con: You have to bake it

[Kapitaenosavrvs]

Thx
Yes the size is enormous. For my 1/24 scale neanderthaler and the elephant it has about the size/scale of Argentinosaurus or Patagotitan. Very cool to illustrate the real size.

Clear hot glue can also be good for splashes, but it hardens very fast.

The two component epoxy clay is not good for sculpting a detailed figure.
It´s good for fixing gapes, or simple models like a base or a simple tree branche.

For fine sculpting the pink super sculpy clay is good.
It hardens by baking by 130 degrees.

Pro: You have no pressure by drying out fast
        It´s very fine for days or even weeks

Con: You have to bake it

Thank you. Yeah, i sculpted a small Ornithocheirus with 2C Epoxy/Greenstuff. It is so sticky and quite hard. Had to keep everything wet. Baking at 130 Degrees. Hm, so if i want to "change" something bigger on a Figure, i have to build a Stand for it in the Oven, i guess. I'll try that out with Super Sculpey on a less loved Dino ( This sounds horrible. )

[Justin_]

Hm, so if i want to "change" something bigger on a Figure, i have to build a Stand for it in the Oven, i guess. I'll try that out with Super Sculpey on a less loved Dino ( This sounds horrible. )

DO NOT PUT A PLASTIC DINOSAUR FIGURE IN AN OVEN! You can use a polymer clay like Sculpey or Fimo to modify a figure as long as you can bake the clay part separately and then glue it to the figure. If it needs to be sculpted while attached to the figure you'll need an epoxy. If you didn't like greenstuff try a softer one such as Milliput, Magic Sculpt or ProCreate. Some stores sell small test sizes of materials so you can try a few and see what suits you.

[Justin_]

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Another trick for very thin an dynamic water threads or hreads of saliva is...
You take a bit of transparen cling film or the thin rush hair ... fix it on the par You want with glue.
And the you can put some silcon on it with a toothpick.
The guideline of the cling film or the thin rush hair merges optically and you have a super effect.
(you can do this with water resin...but mere expenside hand too fluid)
.................

Have you got any links to a tutorial for this method? I think some words have not translated to English properly, for example "thin rush hair".

[Kapitaenosavrvs]

Hm, so if i want to "change" something bigger on a Figure, i have to build a Stand for it in the Oven, i guess. I'll try that out with Super Sculpey on a less loved Dino ( This sounds horrible. )

DO NOT PUT A PLASTIC DINOSAUR FIGURE IN AN OVEN! You can use a polymer clay like Sculpey or Fimo to modify a figure as long as you can bake the clay part separately and then glue it to the figure. If it needs to be sculpted while attached to the figure you'll need an epoxy. If you didn't like greenstuff try a softer one such as Milliput, Magic Sculpt or ProCreate. Some stores sell small test sizes of materials so you can try a few and see what suits you.

Great, thanks! Thats what i thought the whole time. It is not possible to "bake" a Figure without damaging it. Thanks for the alternatives in Epoxy. Because it needs to be attached to the Figure. I'll use my Greenstuff, till its empty and order a different Epoxy.

[Die_Maulquappe]

I meant Super Sculpy like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9WE4P24fL0
It has to bake for hardening...
Armature of metal, filling with aluminum foil, and sculpy around.

Or a combination of different clay like hes uses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q9SRDIIGGc&t=39s

[Die_Maulquappe]

Here is my last (next) Diorama

MEGALODON_The-WHALEkiller water diorama
http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=8911.new#new