David Silvas New Kickstarter: Articulated Dinosaur TOYS

[UK]

I will order the complete set, enjoy them for two or three years and then eventually send payment when I feel like it... Exactly the opposite to what has happened with the raptors. Another early supporter from Europe awaiting to receive their order.

They look stunning none the less.

[Halichoeres]

I intend to back the kickstarter just to support this line, but I won't be getting more than one or two at the most of the ceratopsians.  I just don't have the space for too many big models, and I'd rather save my shelf space and money for the tyrannosaurs.   I didn't realise he was intending to make all 52 models, I assumed he'd do a smaller core set and then the rest as stretch goals.

My guess is that some of them will be stretch goals. Even if he splits it in half and does 26 in each Kickstarter, I think he knows it would be risky to set the goal high enough to cover all 26. But having 52 options means he has lots of things he can add on as a more modest goal is exceeded and hype accumulates.

[Minmiminime]

David has posted a video of the Xenoceratops parts being put together. It's a beautiful piece of work, which fires both my desires and my frustration at the size of these things!! I like that he's chosen a less well-known ceratopsian to start with https://www.facebook.com/creativebeaststudio/posts/2098213140219551

[Albertosaurus]

It looks amazing! Though I will think about it twice this time before backing. The raptors are taking FOREVER. Was it in 2015? Way too long...

[Minmiminime]

I'm eagerly awaiting my 'raptors, too! At least I know they will arrive, eventually I backed Saurian too, and actually can't download it because we don't have any hardware powerful enough to run it Nor is there any point in us purchasing anything purely to run just that, because we have no other need for it!! So, at least I contributed it, but I'll never know the fruits it bore.

I don't even know if I'll be able to support the ceratopsian campaign, and have a few concerns with how he's going about it. I sometimes wonder if it would have been more interesting for him to create faunal groups, rather than do dinosaur families. That would have been fantastic for diorama building!

[Halichoeres]

I don't even know if I'll be able to support the ceratopsian campaign, and have a few concerns with how he's going about it. I sometimes wonder if it would have been more interesting for him to create faunal groups, rather than do dinosaur families. That would have been fantastic for diorama building!

I also would have liked faunal groups more, but it definitely makes it harder to share parts. Might have been more expensive.

[stargatedalek]

I'm just worried all of the early ceratopsians will be stretch goals and may never happen. Unless one of the others is based on a lizard I'm particularly fond of those are the only ones that interest me.

[Minmiminime]

I don't even know if I'll be able to support the ceratopsian campaign, and have a few concerns with how he's going about it. I sometimes wonder if it would have been more interesting for him to create faunal groups, rather than do dinosaur families. That would have been fantastic for diorama building!

I also would have liked faunal groups more, but it definitely makes it harder to share parts. Might have been more expensive.

That's a very good point! I'd forgotten about the shared parts Still, I wonder if that would have been offset by him not having to expend so much time and effort in technical planning and multiple sculpts and paint jobs..? I don't know, but David certainly will with all his experience! It's an astonishing undertaking, I have the greatest respect for his talent and sheer determination

[Sim]

Glad to see you are (I think?) doing better Sim.

I am doing better.  It's been gradual.  When I backed Beasts of the Mesozoic I had been led to think certain things, and later the opposite of those things happened.  I'm glad David refunded me, so now I'm not forced to accept these things that I find unsatisfactory.  This also allows me to consider the things I find good or bad about Beasts of the Mesozoic without being reminded too strongly of things I feel haven't been right.

[Counterklock]

I'm so excited to discover this thread!

I recently received Build-a-Raptor Set A (with Linheraptor, Dromaeosaurus, Pyroraptor, the amber nestlings and Build-A-Raptor set B on their way) and painted my all-time favorite raptor, Blue of Jurassic World:



I also run the Official Beasts of the Mesozoic Community Hub forum, Facebook Group, and Discord server, if anyone is interested!

[mgaguilar]

@counterklock Looks good! And thanks for posting those links. Is David currently fielding interest on certain species? Or going by personal interest and direction?

[Counterklock]

@mgaguilar You're welcome. And tbh I don't really know; all I know is from the Facebook updates he gives, and those suggest he's very hard at work on the ceratopsian line

[terrorchicken]

I'm so excited to discover this thread!

I recently received Build-a-Raptor Set A (with Linheraptor, Dromaeosaurus, Pyroraptor, the amber nestlings and Build-A-Raptor set B on their way) and painted my all-time favorite raptor, Blue of Jurassic World:



I also run the Official Beasts of the Mesozoic Community Hub forum, Facebook Group, and Discord server, if anyone is interested!

welcome!
nice paint work! and it gives us an idea of what the JW raptors would have looked like if the studio had cared to make the dinosaurs more accurate.

[Counterklock]

@terrorchicken Thank you! Honestly I'd love to get my paws on some of the Papo and Schleich feathered raptors and paint the whole Raptor Squad (and pretend they didn't all die and leave poor Blue alone :'D)

[Sim]

@terrorchicken Thank you! Honestly I'd love to get my paws on some of the Papo and Schleich feathered raptors and paint the whole Raptor Squad (and pretend they didn't all die and leave poor Blue alone :'D)

I don't know what exactly you're looking for in the figures you want to repaint, but those Schleich figures are absolutely terrible.  I can't imagine how they would serve you better than additional Beasts of the Mesozoic (build-a-raptor) figures, or even just the Papo feathered Velociraptor.  If articulation isn't necessary, I'd recommend the Wild Safari feathered Velociraptor, it's really great.

Nice customised BotM build-a-raptor/Blue.

[Counterklock]

@terrorchicken Thank you! Honestly I'd love to get my paws on some of the Papo and Schleich feathered raptors and paint the whole Raptor Squad (and pretend they didn't all die and leave poor Blue alone :'D)

I don't know what exactly you're looking for in the figures you want to repaint, but those Schleich figures are absolutely terrible.  I can't imagine how they would serve you better than additional Beasts of the Mesozoic (build-a-raptor) figures, or even just the Papo feathered Velociraptor.  If articulation isn't necessary, I'd recommend the Wild Safari feathered Velociraptor, it's really great.

Nice customised BotM build-a-raptor/Blue.

I would honestly love to get three more Build-a-Raptor figures, but unfortunately the price is an inhibiting factor for me (I live in Canada, and between the figure + the shipping it'd now cost $100 CAD or so for me, buying from creative-beast.com. I'll definitely look into the Wild Safari raptor though

[Faelrin]

Really nice paint up of that build a raptor as Blue there Counterklock.

Also there was an announcement on the Creative Beast studio FB page about the wave 1 deluxe raptors shipping today/tomorrow. I can't wait to finally have these in my hands after all this time.

[paintingdinos]

Exciting! Just got notice that one of mine shipped 

[IrritatorRaji]

Exciting! Just got notice that one of mine shipped 

One of the deluxe raptors? Woah, must be exciting!

[paintingdinos]

Yeah, I ordered the two Dromaeosaurus during the holiday sale. Didn't combine with the others I ordered, which I guess was lucky seeing as how that order wont be shipping until all the models are stateside