Safari Ltd - new for 2015

[John]

In my case,things are a little better as far as what brands are available in stores around me (Baltimore,D.C. area).Now it's not so exclusively Schleich anymore.Safari Ltd. has popped up again in Michaels' and A.C. Moore craft stores and of course Battat in near Target stores.

[Doug Watson]

The internet searches I've done keep showing that no Pachyrhinosaurus skin has been found.  Did you mean you used Pachyrhinosaurus skin for when you sculpted the WS Pachyrhinosaurus, or did I misunderstand? 

You are correct Sim no Pachyrhinosaurus skin impressions have been found to my knowledge either. I miss spoke or miss typed I got my horned dinos mixed up, maybe I have done too many. Three patches of Nasutoceratops skin impressions where found from the area of the humerus and scapula. They were similar in shape to the impressions of the smaller scales from Chasmosaurus so I based the overall skin on a combination of the two. The rest of the information concerning the method for scaling of the scales was correct as far as the Nasutoceratops was concerned. For Pachyrhinosaurus I used Chasmosaurus skin for reference, sorry for the confusion.  I also used the paper The Facial Integument of Centrosaurine Ceratopsids: Morphological and Histological Correlates of Novel Skin Structures for facial ornamentation. The rest of my Pachy reference came from several papers by Currie, Langston Jr, Tanke, Fiorillo & Tykoski. If you are interested in Pachyrhinosaurus the monograph A New Horned Dinosaur from an Upper Cretaceous Bone Bed in Alberta Hardcover – Jan 2008 by P.J. Currie (Author), W. Langston (Author), D.H. Tanke (Author) is very good if you can find a reasonably priced copy, I got mine through Amazon.ca and a secondary seller for $42.07 CDN.

[amargasaurus cazaui]

Hey , Doug is there a way to give the complete citation for the paper about facial integument including the author etc? It would be most useful for some other work I am pursuing, thanks

[Doug Watson]

Hey , Doug is there a way to give the complete citation for the paper about facial integument including the author etc? It would be most useful for some other work I am pursuing, thanks

Here is an online link to the paper
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/ar.20985/asset/20985_ftp.pdf;jsessionid=2B6198434A5DF2B27A5E7AA661BBFAE2.f04t04?v=1&t=i4cs9sxz&s=5d66a38c21037e6fce1d161e6b5ec031861b6d08

[amargasaurus cazaui]

Hey , Doug is there a way to give the complete citation for the paper about facial integument including the author etc? It would be most useful for some other work I am pursuing, thanks

Here is an online link to the paper
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/ar.20985/asset/20985_ftp.pdf;jsessionid=2B6198434A5DF2B27A5E7AA661BBFAE2.f04t04?v=1&t=i4cs9sxz&s=5d66a38c21037e6fce1d161e6b5ec031861b6d08

Apparently they are a bit proprietary about their files, i got this message.
You don't have permission to access /store/10.1002/ar.20985/asset/20985_ftp.pdf on this server.I appreciate the effort though, it sure would be nice to read it

[Doug Watson]

Apparently they are a bit proprietary about their files, i got this message.
You don't have permission to access /store/10.1002/ar.20985/asset/20985_ftp.pdf on this server.I appreciate the effort though, it sure would be nice to read it

Well that sucks here is the full citation. Let me know if you still can't get access.

The Facial Integument of Centrosaurine Ceratopsids: Morphological and Histological Correlates of Novel Skin Structures
TOBIN L. HIERONYMUS,1,2* LAWRENCE M. WITMER,1 DARREN H. TANKE,3 AND PHILIP J. CURRIE4
1Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Athens, Ohionumbers: NSF IBN-0343744, IOB-0517257; Grant sponsors: Jurassic Foundationpi, Ohio University.
DOI 10.1002/ar.20985
Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley. *Correspondence to: Tobin L. Hieronymus, Department of com).
Anatomy and Neurobiology, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and Pharmacy, Rootstown, OH 44272. Fax: 330 325-5916. E-mail: [email protected]
VC   2009 WILEY-LISS, INC.
THE ANATOMICAL RECORD 292:1370–1396 (2009)

[amargasaurus cazaui]

Will feed it into wikipaleo and should have it within a day, now that I have the entire citation, thanks Doug.

[amargasaurus cazaui]

Got it now, thanks Doug. Will dive into this after i get some rest.

[Sim]

You are correct Sim no Pachyrhinosaurus skin impressions have been found to my knowledge either. I miss spoke or miss typed I got my horned dinos mixed up, maybe I have done too many. Three patches of Nasutoceratops skin impressions where found from the area of the humerus and scapula. They were similar in shape to the impressions of the smaller scales from Chasmosaurus so I based the overall skin on a combination of the two. The rest of the information concerning the method for scaling of the scales was correct as far as the Nasutoceratops was concerned. For Pachyrhinosaurus I used Chasmosaurus skin for reference, sorry for the confusion.  I also used the paper The Facial Integument of Centrosaurine Ceratopsids: Morphological and Histological Correlates of Novel Skin Structures for facial ornamentation. The rest of my Pachy reference came from several papers by Currie, Langston Jr, Tanke, Fiorillo & Tykoski. If you are interested in Pachyrhinosaurus the monograph A New Horned Dinosaur from an Upper Cretaceous Bone Bed in Alberta Hardcover – Jan 2008 by P.J. Currie (Author), W. Langston (Author), D.H. Tanke (Author) is very good if you can find a reasonably priced copy, I got mine through Amazon.ca and a secondary seller for $42.07 CDN.

Thanks Doug.  I think I've got it now, you said Pachyrhinosaurus when you meant Nasutoceratops, and Nasutoceratops when you meant Pachyrhinosaurus?  Hehe, it can happen!

The discussion about the Wild Safari Edmontosaurus' retirement earlier in this thread got me wondering about the reason for the retirement.  Maybe it was partly due to its hands being incorrect?

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

You are correct Sim no Pachyrhinosaurus skin impressions have been found to my knowledge either. I miss spoke or miss typed I got my horned dinos mixed up, maybe I have done too many. Three patches of Nasutoceratops skin impressions where found from the area of the humerus and scapula. They were similar in shape to the impressions of the smaller scales from Chasmosaurus so I based the overall skin on a combination of the two. The rest of the information concerning the method for scaling of the scales was correct as far as the Nasutoceratops was concerned. For Pachyrhinosaurus I used Chasmosaurus skin for reference, sorry for the confusion.  I also used the paper The Facial Integument of Centrosaurine Ceratopsids: Morphological and Histological Correlates of Novel Skin Structures for facial ornamentation. The rest of my Pachy reference came from several papers by Currie, Langston Jr, Tanke, Fiorillo & Tykoski. If you are interested in Pachyrhinosaurus the monograph A New Horned Dinosaur from an Upper Cretaceous Bone Bed in Alberta Hardcover – Jan 2008 by P.J. Currie (Author), W. Langston (Author), D.H. Tanke (Author) is very good if you can find a reasonably priced copy, I got mine through Amazon.ca and a secondary seller for $42.07 CDN.

Thanks Doug.  I think I've got it now, you said Pachyrhinosaurus when you meant Nasutoceratops, and Nasutoceratops when you meant Pachyrhinosaurus?  Hehe, it can happen!

The discussion about the Wild Safari Edmontosaurus' retirement earlier in this thread got me wondering about the reason for the retirement.  Maybe it was partly due to its hands being incorrect?

Here's hoping it's because we're going to get a new one..maybe from Carnegie next year? I'd love a good detailed Edmontosaurus/Anatotitan/whatever Trachodon/Anatosaurus is being called nowadays...

[Doug Watson]

Got it now, thanks Doug. Will dive into this after i get some rest.

Great!

[Doug Watson]

Thanks Doug. 
The discussion about the Wild Safari Edmontosaurus' retirement earlier in this thread got me wondering about the reason for the retirement.  Maybe it was partly due to its hands being incorrect?

I didn't do that one so I can honestly say I don't know why it is being retired.

[Concavenator]

Thanks Doug. 
The discussion about the Wild Safari Edmontosaurus' retirement earlier in this thread got me wondering about the reason for the retirement.  Maybe it was partly due to its hands being incorrect?

I didn't do that one so I can honestly say I don't know why it is being retired.

I think because of the discovery of a crest on that dinosaur.And I personally didn't like that model,so I'm not sad with these news.
@Doug Did you sculpt the Guanlong?   

[Doug Watson]

@Doug Did you sculpt the Guanlong?   

Nope

[postsaurischian]

@Doug Did you sculpt the Guanlong?   

Nope

Your luck !
I'm still pretty disappointed by that one. Mainly because it means that Safari won't be doing another one for years .

[Concavenator]

@Doug Did you sculpt the Guanlong?   

Nope

Your luck !
I'm still pretty disappointed by that one. Mainly because it means that Safari won't be doing another one for years .

I was thinking something similar too.It wasn't my cup of tea  And Guanlong is a very interesting species,which is the worst thing about that model.The difference of quality between the Guanlong and the Yutyrannus is brutal.I guess that was the sculptor that made the Megalodon,too .

[amargasaurus cazaui]

Just opened a new box of figures that came in the mail today. I was able to get both the Sauropelta, and the Nasutoceratops that I believe were done by Doug. I consider these two of the better dinosaur models I have been fortunate to purchase in the last few years. I offer that if this were a few years ago, noone would have blinked at the idea these were part of the Battat line or Carnegie, given the quality of the sculpt. Both are gorgeous models and delighted to have gotten them both, thanks Doug

[Daspletodave]

Received my Sauropelta, Yutyrannus and Nasutoceratops today. Really impressed by all three, but especially the Sauropelta. It's in a darker color than the pics on page 1 of this thread. It's one of the best armored dinosaur models ever!

[EmperorDinobot]

Nasutoceratops and Sauropelta are must haves.


Velociraptor, while tripod, is neat.


Carnegie is on its way out. It makes me extremely sad to say this, but one new dinosaur per year means we'll be lucky to get one next year. I haven't gotten any new Carns since the Spinosaurus. It's really a shame.

[Concavenator]

Safari has done a fantastic job this year.Really fantastic,I like all of their pieces,but the Yutyrannus is just wonderful.I thought Safari wasn't going to  do one.At least not when I saw there wasn't one in either 2013's and 2014's lineup.I was amazed when saw one was coming up.Although it's indeed a pity it wasn't released earlier.Huh,well I'll still be buying it on another time,which I hope and think will be soon!