Recent Acquisitions (Archive, March 2012 - July 2018)

[Simon]

Re:  Epic Forest Rex



Martin is doing one for me right now, too, another "Epic Forest TRex" (not the Carnegie however) that I customized quite heavily.

Stay tuned ....

Your trex is likely going to be epic, but it wont be a "forest" trex, I somewhat doubt lol. Mine was sculpted by Forest Rogers and given your thoughts on her abilities I doubt yours is 

[Simon]

Here is the first dio that Martin did for me - don't have it yet, but Marilyn was kind enough to email me the pics.  I took a WWD Iguanodon and customized the pose .... when my Battat Utahraptor didn't sell the first time, I decided to use it in this dio, and then sent them to Martin, who created the base, assembled and painted the piece.  The next dio he is doing for me is a Battat TRex that I customized, and a Kinto Triceratops, facing off...stay tuned...

[postsaurischian]

  Mind-blowing! Very imaginative ... Awesome!

[stoneage]

Wild Safari Prehistoric Landscape

[Roselaar]

Excellent custom diorama! The WWD Iguanodon looks grand now. The Utahraptor was already fine, but only better now. Am I wrong in seeing some Colorata Deinonychus inspiration in its paint job?

[Simon]

Excellent custom diorama! The WWD Iguanodon looks grand now. The Utahraptor was already fine, but only better now. Am I wrong in seeing some Colorata Deinonychus inspiration in its paint job?

I asked Martin to paint them in the color schemes from the WWD series.  The Colorata Utah. was obviously based off the same scheme ...

The TRex and Trike will also be painted using the WWD color schemes for the Rex and Torosaurus ...

[amargasaurus cazaui]

Very nice diorama Simon. I like the choice of figures and colors. I admit a strong fondness for some of the bases Martin makes, where there are the partial trees and so many small plants and differing textures. One of my favorite models, done by Martin , my Corythosaurus has an almost identical base. I can always spot a base Martin has done by the way his sculpted stones appear.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Nice scores!

[Pawnosuchus]

That Utahraptor pose looks alot like the way I have mine set up in my garage display. I have six surrounding an Iguanodon with a Battat raptor on his back and several more Iguanodons looking on. If you want to see it , it's on page two of collections under Pawns world.

[stoneage]

New stuff from my vacation in Florida during Spring Break.



One of two bags.

[CityRaptor]

Buying Safari in Florida...seems about right.

And Simon, that is a very nice Diorama! Looks like something straight out of the series!

[Libraraptor]

Simon, great diorama!

[Simon]

Thanks fellas - the customization and idea are mine, but Martin is the one who gets the credit for creating it!

[sauroid]

very cool @ Simon and stoneage

[Chad]

A few recent pickups:

The first are the ROM Burgess Shale figures I've been frantically looking for for a long time. In fact, it was trying to find figures like this that led me to this forum in the first place.


Next up are some figures created by forum member brandem. I'm afraid my terrible photography isn't doing them justice but I'm glad to have them.

First up are the Kings of Appalachia--appalachiosaurus, nodosaur, hypsilbema, and dryptosaurus

Next up are the simosuchus and archeornithomimus chasing a dragonfly

Finally, a poposaurus digging out a lung fish


Also, from forum member ofmp, I'm really happy to have picked up some outstanding DeAgostini dinos:
ornitholestes, abelisaurus and struthiomimus

tarbosaurus, nanotyrannus and ornithomimus

mamenchisaurus, muttaburrasaurus, huayangosaurus, hadrosaurus and stygimoloch (with a Dinosaurs of Utah book in the background I recently picked up in, well, Utah!)

And some obscure names:
a pelicanimimus

an indosuchus

and arrhinoceratops


And finally and most importantly, I was gifted this work of art by an aspiring paleontologist in Germany. It's a Cambrian Explosion fauna so it's right in my wheelhouse and I'm very proud to have it:

[tyrantqueen]

It's the Schleich Torosaurus 

[Ikessauro]

It's the Schleich Torosaurus 

How can that be? Did Schleich copy De agostini? The magazine collection which came with these toys was released in 1993, while the Torosaurus by Schleich only came out in 2000, according with DTB.

[Chad]

I think Tyrant Queen was just joking.

[SpittersForEver]

I think Tyrant Queen was just joking.

Yep

[tyrantqueen]

No, I wasn't. I think either Schleich copied DeAgostini, or they used the same piece of art as inspiration.



Or maybe it's the angle of the photograph that gave me that impression.