Blade-of-the-Moon's Art

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Edmontosaurus juvenile head

[reinier zwanink]

Its starting to look like a production line there

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Its starting to look like a production line there

lol shame it's mostly an assembly line of one.. 

If we had a couple more people I could crank these guys out twice as fast.  We now have the Pachy ready for paint, the Ceratosaurus is being skinned, Oviraptors are frames, adding wire, and I've started the frame for the Edmontosaurus in the past couple days.

Usually I do the basic framing, then I help my partner add the base/other framing, I add the wire musculature, me and him do the poultry fencing, and we take turns doing vinyl application...our power source only lets us run one heat gun at a time now and that slows us up..but while he's using it I start another frame.

If I can get the Edmontosaurus to the same progress as the Cerato then I can start the Nothronychus/therizinosaur.

I'll still have the Oviraptors and Deinonychus after that or during all this. They are smaller so I work on them indoors in inclement weather..like today.

[reinier zwanink]

If i was a wee bit closer i would help you in the weekends

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

If i was a wee bit closer i would help you in the weekends

lol thanks! Story of my life right there!  heh

Seems everyone who would really love to help can't be here. If ever we manage to get some real money sometime I'd love to build a community of dinosaur artists to work here. Talk about fun! A place built by people who love what they are doing.

[reinier zwanink]

Yey
Who needs jurassic park

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Not sure I'd go that far... lol  but thank you! It's always great when you spend all day sweating, getting splinters, itching from fiberglass, mashing your fingers, picking metal shards from screws out of you, ect, ect, ect... to have that effort appreciated!

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Nothronychus eyes in!



Working on the body plan right now. This guy which I've nicknamed " Freddy" in my head apparently..I can't find any overhead shots of anywhere.  I'm guessing it's nowhere near as wide as Therizinosaurus appears to be based on the skeleton images I find online, but my figures are still turning up 40" at the widest part of the ribs for a specimen around 18.3' long. Anyone else think that's about right?

[reinier zwanink]

Are you not afraid your going to knock your models of that table?

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Are you not afraid your going to knock your models of that table?

Gotta be very, very careful! My space is a bit..limited.

[Yutyrannus]

Working on the body plan right now. This guy which I've nicknamed " Freddy" in my head apparently..I can't find any overhead shots of anywhere.  I'm guessing it's nowhere near as wide as Therizinosaurus appears to be based on the skeleton images I find online, but my figures are still turning up 40" at the widest part of the ribs for a specimen around 18.3' long. Anyone else think that's about right?

There's a Nothronychus skeleton in the Utah Natural History Museum and I plan to go back there sometime before mid-June, I could attempt to get an overhead shot of it .

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Working on the body plan right now. This guy which I've nicknamed " Freddy" in my head apparently..I can't find any overhead shots of anywhere.  I'm guessing it's nowhere near as wide as Therizinosaurus appears to be based on the skeleton images I find online, but my figures are still turning up 40" at the widest part of the ribs for a specimen around 18.3' long. Anyone else think that's about right?

There's a Nothronychus skeleton in the Utah Natural History Museum and I plan to go back there sometime before mid-June, I could attempt to get an overhead shot of it .

I'll probably start this guy next week or the week after,  I do appreciate the offer though!  Maybe if you can get one I can at least compare.

[Yutyrannus]

Working on the body plan right now. This guy which I've nicknamed " Freddy" in my head apparently..I can't find any overhead shots of anywhere.  I'm guessing it's nowhere near as wide as Therizinosaurus appears to be based on the skeleton images I find online, but my figures are still turning up 40" at the widest part of the ribs for a specimen around 18.3' long. Anyone else think that's about right?

There's a Nothronychus skeleton in the Utah Natural History Museum and I plan to go back there sometime before mid-June, I could attempt to get an overhead shot of it .

I'll probably start this guy next week or the week after,  I do appreciate the offer though!  Maybe if you can get one I can at least compare.

Sure, I'll try to get one for that then . It might be angled from the front a bit though, because the place where I could get the best possible overhead shot of the skeleton is blocked by a Barosaurus mount.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Need your climbing tools! lol

I'm surprised there isn't something online already really..most skeletal images I turn up are these :

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

So here's what I have so far after a few hours researching online and looking a lot of images of fleshed out, skeletons ( a few incorrect mounts are out there it seems), fossil papers, and books on hand :



So..what do you think?

Seems slimmer than the sheer rotundness of Therizinosaurus but certainly a bit bulkier than Beipeiasaurus, Falcarius, ect..

[Kayakasaurus]

Looks pretty neat! I think the tail was a little longer on the skeletals I looked at but since I was doing a therazinosaurs I didn't go off any specific species... Besides the arms

[stargatedalek]

Hartman has done a skeletal of two different species of Nothronychus, but only the side view:
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs24/f/2007/323/d/1/Project_1___Therizinosaurus_by_Bonart101.jpg

The plan looks good to me, and those eyes feel so real already!

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Looks pretty neat! I think the tail was a little longer on the skeletals I looked at but since I was doing a therazinosaurs I didn't go off any specific species... Besides the arms

The tail looks short, but it should work out to around 72" long or so?  Therizinosaurs seem to have tails that are about the same as their body length ( minus the neck).

Hartman has done a skeletal of two different species of Nothronychus, but only the side view:
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs24/f/2007/323/d/1/Project_1___Therizinosaurus_by_Bonart101.jpg

The plan looks good to me, and those eyes feel so real already!

Thanks, I am using Scott's newest updated skeletal for a Nothonychus sp. , seems both species could actually be the same one at any rate.

I've lamented to Scott the lack of above/front/back views and he says he wants to..it's just a time issue.
Thanks! Hopefully this plan will work, I expect to maybe get started on him next week?  I can't do worse than Billings at least :


Here's the frame for our Edmontosaurus :

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Had an idea and decided to give these old eyes I had a try..what do think ?



Not really how they will sit..but it's hard to balance a camera, eyeball and dino head without a third hand. lol

[Uroplatus]

They look menacing..,  i like it.