1/40 Apatosaurus- Released

[dinonikes]

So when I moved recently, the rearing Apatosaurus was a casualty- most of the unfinished sculpts at the time were scrapped, clay removed from the armatures and those were then tossed- decided to do another 1/40 Apatosaurus recently, it is in the roughed in stage right now ready to start detailing, but I wanted to catch this thread up by posting these photos I took ofthe armature- more recent photos will be coming soon for this piece-

[dinonikes]

Here are a few photos showing the Apatosaurus at the roughed in state- hope you like it so far-

[dinonikes]

Here are a few progress photos- got most of it laid in, smoothed out ready to start detailing- I found that it didn't need the base as it stands up fine even with the raised front leg-

[dinonikes]

Here are some photos taken of this one,basically a finished sculpt, but before I cleaned it up with thinner to remove burrs and such- this one is in the molding stage now-

[Takama]

is this one a biggen?

[Simon]

Fabulous, Malcolm - takes your sauropods to a new level!!   

[Lio99]

so beautiful ! 

[DinoLord]

Looks great! Any price estimate for this one?

[Patrx]

Fantastic! Very elegant.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Pretty sweet bud !

The only tiny thing I would change is smaller spines ..but I think we covered how difficult that would be before.

[Lady medusa]

Nice!!!! How did u mAke the ripples in the neck? Now it just needs a mate rearing up

[robustus_]

Awesome, awesome, awesome. I definitely want this one. A big shelf with your sauropods would be so cool...

[Tylosaurus]

This is another awesome spectacle from your experienced crafting hands dinonikes

[Takama]

Seeing that the thing looks like its close to completion, is there any chance that it would come out soon?

[dinonikes]

Here is one of these guys painted up-

[darylj]

really nice work!

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Nice ! I hadn't seen one of these painted up yet. Did you alter the tail on all of them or just this one ?

[dinonikes]

Nice ! I hadn't seen one of these painted up yet. Did you alter the tail on all of them or just this one ?

The tail ends up different on each one- I guess I am trying to make each of these figures, not just the apatosaurus, unique in some way- sort of makes it more artistic to me some how than just making all of them the same each time.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

I get ya'. It's hard for me to do something exactly the same each time as well.

[Bokisaurus]

I hope mine is painted Very nice.