Blade-of-the-Moon's Art

[triceratops83]

If the general idea these days is that bashed their heads against their opponents flanks like fighting giraffes, you'd think long spikes might cause serious or even fatal injuries. But if Stygimoloch is indeed a young Pachy, then why the elaborate display. Ugh, frustrating animals.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Tell me about it. I run into similar issues on just about every species eventually.

I think jousting using their heads/horns is likely..just not ramming them together. If the display isn't the horns, but rather the skull cap itself it starts making more sense. That increases as they grow.  There is also apparently signs of damage to all the older Pachy skulls we have so they did whack those heads on something..maybe not hard enough to kill each other but at least unpleasant/painful.

[Newt]

Obviously they were using their heads to bore tunnels into the mountains so they could hide from those hillbilly tyrannosaurs. Young animals had long spikes to use in refining the sides of the tunnels while the adults were doing the heavy smashing with their blunt domes. It all makes sense, I'm telling you! 

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Obviously they were using their heads to bore tunnels into the mountains so they could hide from those hillbilly tyrannosaurs. Young animals had long spikes to use in refining the sides of the tunnels while the adults were doing the heavy smashing with their blunt domes. It all makes sense, I'm telling you! 

I assumed they were doing some sort of construction work..hence the heavy duty hard hats.

[triceratops83]

I assumed they were doing some sort of construction work..hence the heavy duty hard hats.

I always thought it looked like a bald spot. Give him some reading glasses and one of those old timey tax calculators.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

I assumed they were doing some sort of construction work..hence the heavy duty hard hats.

I always thought it looked like a bald spot. Give him some reading glasses and one of those old timey tax calculators.

lol I could name him " George"

[stargatedalek]

Personally I have reservations of lumping pachy together,  but stygimoloch and dracorex are a near perfect match. The domes of some pachycephalosaurs have distinctive pits only possible from intraspecies combat, so they probably used them for jousting,  the spines however I imagine would be more useful as a passive defense,  making the young more difficult to bite down on.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Personally I have reservations of lumping pachy together,  but stygimoloch and dracorex are a near perfect match. The domes of some pachycephalosaurs have distinctive pits only possible from intraspecies combat, so they probably used them for jousting,  the spines however I imagine would be more useful as a passive defense,  making the young more difficult to bite down on.

If any of them were to be lumped together Pachycephalosaurs would be good candidates. I do agree Stygi and Dracorex look a lot more similar than Pachycephalosaurus itself.  We do talk about how Stygi might be a juvenile form though.  My plan with this one is to paint it similar but different from our Stygi so as to show they are related but as an older form or a similar species it will work as either.

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

I remember reading that the skulls of dracorex and styigmoloch (I think it was on Scott Hartman's DA, don't hold me to that, but it wasn't on a published article or anything when I saw it) were fused together indicating they were adults. It doesn't make much sense to me that they are so similar and living in the same time an same place to be separate species, though, so take it with a grain of salt.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

I remember reading that the skulls of dracorex and styigmoloch (I think it was on Scott Hartman's DA, don't hold me to that, but it wasn't on a published article or anything when I saw it) were fused together indicating they were adults. It doesn't make much sense to me that they are so similar and living in the same time an same place to be separate species, though, so take it with a grain of salt.

Hmm..that's exactly the evidence they claim to have to show that they aren't adults. If it's totally the opposite they have haven't a leg to stand on.

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

As I said, I don't remember the source, but it wasn't an article cited from anything, so I can't say as to how accurate it is.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

No problem, if you find it let me know.

Almost have the roof done on the Terrors of the Deep exhibit, We also put up more "rock" wall material.

I also tested the motor for the Nothosaurus and it looks like it will work great and give a good up/down motion.


I also looked into this new crowdfunding page, Patreon. Anyone think it would help the Park?

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

I've run across another odd Pachy question..what size would their eyeball be? The socket is huge for the skull..a good bit of it actually. Yet most seem to restore it in art as pretty small.  What I'm looking at is between 40-50mm.

[E.D.G.E. (PainterRex)]

No problem, if you find it let me know.

Almost have the roof done on the Terrors of the Deep exhibit, We also put up more "rock" wall material.

I also tested the motor for the Nothosaurus and it looks like it will work great and give a good up/down motion.


I also looked into this new crowdfunding page, Patreon. Anyone think it would help the Park?

It would most definitely help you fund your park! son would indiegogo, and kickstarter! you could sell t-shirts as motivation! those would totally be cool! you should go all out and go for it!

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

No problem, if you find it let me know.

Almost have the roof done on the Terrors of the Deep exhibit, We also put up more "rock" wall material.

I also tested the motor for the Nothosaurus and it looks like it will work great and give a good up/down motion.


I also looked into this new crowdfunding page, Patreon. Anyone think it would help the Park?

It would most definitely help you fund your park! son would indiegogo, and kickstarter! you could sell t-shirts as motivation! those would totally be cool! you should go all out and go for it!

lol  okay take a breath!

I have others saying how Patreon isn't for us on FB..still looking for reviews by those that have tried it.  We don't have much to offer in the way of rewards is one thing I'm concerned with.

I haven't looked into indiegogo yet, though I have heard of it. We did try Kickstarter but there were account verification issues.  We do have a very similar GoFundMe page that hasn't helped us out much.

T-shirts are another thing that sounds cool on paper but when you get into sizes, color, ect..it's a huge hassle.  I did try to sell shirts to make money via a site called Booster. They sell and ship the shirts, we get a percentage. I didn't get one order for them from anybody.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Pachy , basic vinyl done, eye test.

[triceratops83]

BAM! I love it. And the orange material really amplifies that hardhat look!

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

BAM! I love it. And the orange material really amplifies that hardhat look!

lol maybe I should add some caution stripes? 

I may mix some orange into the final coloration..I also thought a blue or green design on his bald pate might look neat.

[Meso-Cenozoic]

Now you put one of those every so many feet instead of the usual orange traffic cones, and people will definitely follow around them instead of hitting them willy-nilly! LOL!

Looking good so far!

[triceratops83]

lol maybe I should add some caution stripes? 
I may mix some orange into the final coloration..I also thought a blue or green design on his bald pate might look neat.

You know, a lot of birds see in Ultra violet, so you could probably get away with putting some hi-viz patterns onto the dome. Explain that budgerigars for instance, are a lot more colourful to their own kind than they are even to our eyes, because we can't see in UV. Has some educational value and a chance to do something different.