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[mb-cg]

As the date for my show draws close I wondered if the Yinlong project was any closer to completion. I had hoped to purchase the figure, and have it painted for the display I have planned. I am afraid if the dinosaur does not become availible within the coming few days I will not be able to use it .Would you consider perhaps offering one via private sale on the shapeways site to me?

Sorry for not posting lately here, but I'm so busy with another project, that I have to finish for the next week. Anyway I could find the time to upload the running pose to Shapeways, so I hope you can have the model ready for your show 

Th little sauropod painted

Great paintjob, I love the colours and the patern

My 1/40 male Para painted up by our member Melissa Frankford.

The Para looks wonderful. Congratulations to Melissa for his great job with the figure, it doesn't look like a WSF print.

[amargasaurus cazaui]

That would be simply amazing and thanks so much . I will buy it as soon as you do and be glad for its being offered, thanks for that so much. There are just not many dinosaur models out there you can use to suggest an ancestral basis for Psittacosaurus or other ceratopsian dinosaurs and this piece is so unique in that aspect.


Edit> The yinlong is up and being offered, thanks so much, ordered mine. Perfection !!!!

[radman]

Looking forward to more of your creations!

[SBell]

His email is not given in his profile here and I tend to avoid spamming someone via private message as a general courtesy. I am unsure why a few people here are so intent on censoring peoples postings to their own wants and or needs , but sorry if my general request offended anyone.

I didn't mean to 'censor' (honestly people, someone who dissents from your actions or opinions isn't censoring). It just appeared to be a bit of a business-related query, which isn't always something that needs to be in a public space is all. Although, yes, the system is intermittent at best at notifying people of pm's, so there is that. If nothing else, if it's being followed there is a better chance of getting an email notification!

[Bokisaurus]

Nice paint job on those ceratopsians I am waiting on what to do with my herd, I may have to enlist a professional to do the paint job since they are just awesome pieces

[Bokisaurus]

Interesting ! I think watching a herd of these would make me dizzy though ! lol

Ha ha ha! That was exactly my goal, think about the zebra effect

Love the para btw, super awesome job on the paint design .

[amargasaurus cazaui]

He made the dinosaur availible and I was able to order it so I will refrain from further posting here. You can go back to monitoring and making sure all things posted are in agreement with what you feel should and should not be, and harassing any that might fall outside your judgement.
  I made note in another thread a member made arrangements with the sculpter on shapeways to purchase a piece privately, and directly in the publicly viewed thread with no comment or dissent from you. However when I did so you chose to question it. This somewhat suggests harassment, and yes censorship .
  For Myself at least I am asking why private members are being forced to justify what they post to you?

[Bokisaurus]

He made the dinosaur availible and I was able to order it so I will refrain from further posting here. You can go back to monitoring and making sure all things posted are in agreement with what you feel should and should not be, and harassing any that might fall outside your judgement.
  For Myself at least I am asking why private members are being forced to justify what they post to you?

Glad that its available now and that you were able to order it. I have to go check it now
I am looking forward to see how it turns out once painted, I'm sure, based on your previous collection, that it would be stunning.
I may have missed it, but what show are you doing? Sounds really interesting.

Anyway, don't pay much attention to what other may personally think about your post. As long as it is within the established guidelines, there should be no problem. If you let anything gets to you, you will go crazy I enjoy reading some of your post and seeing all your new models.


Cheers

[amargasaurus cazaui]

He made the dinosaur availible and I was able to order it so I will refrain from further posting here. You can go back to monitoring and making sure all things posted are in agreement with what you feel should and should not be, and harassing any that might fall outside your judgement.
  For Myself at least I am asking why private members are being forced to justify what they post to you?

Glad that its available now and that you were able to order it. I have to go check it now
I am looking forward to see how it turns out once painted, I'm sure, based on your previous collection, that it would be stunning.
I may have missed it, but what show are you doing? Sounds really interesting.

Anyway, don't pay much attention to what other may personally think about your post. As long as it is within the established guidelines, there should be no problem. If you let anything gets to you, you will go crazy I enjoy reading some of your post and seeing all your new models.


Cheers

Thanks Boki, such words are encouraging. I always enjoy your threads and the photgraphy is so perfect always.
I had checked last night and the little Yinlong was not there for sale, but after i posted today he made the little guy avaible for sale and I immediately ordered it and also arranged for it to go as fast as possible to Martin Garrat for a nice paint out and basing. I ordered the piece in the detailed and frosted which for the size and quality of the piece i found quite a deal.
  I display each year for the local gem and mineral society doing displays for their annual show that center around dinosaurs. I generally have a case of the dinosaur bone spheres I make, shown in my signature picture as one display. Then I display a case of dinosaur eggs, containing four real dinosaur eggs. There will be another case this year containing the Psittacosaurus skeleton I purchased. In one area of that case, I have a nicely worked display for more derived ceratopsians. THIS is why Yinlong is so central and key for me. There are no other known models I can find that demonstrate a less derived ceratopsian than Psittacosaurus. None, nothing.
Yinlong is the oldest most basal known ceratopsian and using that model at least I can hold it forward and say, over here are the grandkids, and here is the grandfather, making the family tree a tad more complete.The show is April 24th however and I still needed to send the dinosaur for paint up, so my time is getting narrow.
  On fridays we bring in local school kids all day, and let them tour the exhibits for free. The rest of the weekend is the general public and perhaps as many as ten thousand people will pass through viewing these displays. I just really needed that piece !!!! now my psittacosaurus family has an ancestor to show. I am soe xcited and thanks again so much to Manuel for offering and making the dinosaur..

[SBell]

He made the dinosaur availible and I was able to order it so I will refrain from further posting here. You can go back to monitoring and making sure all things posted are in agreement with what you feel should and should not be, and harassing any that might fall outside your judgement.
  I made note in another thread a member made arrangements with the sculpter on shapeways to purchase a piece privately, and directly in the publicly viewed thread with no comment or dissent from you. However when I did so you chose to question it. This somewhat suggests harassment, and yes censorship .
  For Myself at least I am asking why private members are being forced to justify what they post to you?

I apologize--I didn't mean to personalize or anything. It was meant as a friendly suggestion is all--it looked like a conversation between two people. Sorry about that.

It is great that it is available now...one more in a growing list...

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Interesting ! I think watching a herd of these would make me dizzy though ! lol

Ha ha ha! That was exactly my goal, think about the zebra effect

Love the para btw, super awesome job on the paint design .

Zebra's also make me dizzy..lol

Thanks, Melissa, member mmfrankford, did an amazing job...I can't wait to get more.

[mb-cg]

Hello again, finally I could finish my project, that you can see in this link if you want (Alert: non-dinosaur content XD): NOCTURNA OFFICIAL POSTER

After a few days I found an old model, that I fixed and detailed, and this is the result. It's not finished but here is a test pose of the Stegosaurus stenops:

[tyrantqueen]

Gorgeous, I want

[Patrx]

Great work on the Stego! I like the scales on the front legs. You may want to tweak the hands a bit, however, as it seems stegosaur hands were more vertical - a lot like sauropod hands.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2010/11/stegosaurs-walked-like-sauropods/

http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app55/app20091105.pdf

I'm not sure what this indicates as far as claws/nails, however.

[Jodee]

Very nice!

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Looks really cool !

[radman]

First Shapeways stego, AFAIK!  Looks great.

[Joel]

Hi mb-cg, welcome back! Great job on the poster!

Your Stegosaurus is fantastic, like all of your work! I can't wait  to get him.

[wings]

...however, as it seems stegosaur hands were more vertical - a lot like sauropod hands...

I'm not sure what this indicates as far as claws/nails, however.

But the hand bones (metacarpals) are very vertical in mb-cg reconstructions (see diagram below):



What Senter's paper was referring to are the hand bones (metacarpals) being vertical like the sauropods (http://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/lourina_sauropod_right_manus.jpg?w=480) but the actual fingers/digits/phalanges could still be in an angle. The part that indicate metacarpals on mg-cg's Stegosaurus are sitting quite upright. The problem is the length or robustness of these fingers. As you will find from the handprint diagrams above you will find that the last three fingers (there are five altogether) are encased in a fleshy pad (since they are not well defined) and the first two fingers are more pronounced. The first digit sets slightly higher than the other digits so there must be something underneath it to produce an impression, the last phalange on the first finger is also ungual-like as well;  perhaps it has a hoof or at least a fleshy pad. The second digit doesn't seem to be complete so it is hard to confirm whether it also has a ungual-like finger tip... (maybe it was preserved but never figured anywhere, or I just couldn't find it) since this digit also produce similar prints (see above) to the first digit; it is likely that the second digit is similar to the first. Also to be noted is that it shouldn't have a palm pad.

Another quick fix would be the upper leg retractor (m. caudofemoralis longus, CFL) from the tail (see figure 4-4, http://palaeo-electronica.org/2011_2/255/fig_4.htm, and http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/files/2012/05/osteolaemus-14-cfl-extracted-May-2012-600-px-tiny.jpg); it should not be too well defined because it was enveloped by the tail muscle (m. ischiocaudalis, ISCAUD and  m. iliocaudalis, ILCAUD). As you'll see from these examples (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Australian_freshwater_crocodile_%28Crocodylus_johnstoni%29_%282863782849%29.jpg/1024px-Australian_freshwater_crocodile_%28Crocodylus_johnstoni%29_%282863782849%29.jpg, http://whatsinjohnsfreezer.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/crocrom.jpg, http://australianmuseum.net.au/Uploads/Images/16562/IMS%201%20hand_big.jpg and http://www-tc.pbs.org/wnet/nature/files/2008/09/610_supersize_rom.jpg), this muscle is certainly not too visible.

[jtn144]

Nice work on the Stegosaurus! In both 1/72 & 1/40 I hope?