Blade-of-the-Moon's Art

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

You guys hit the nail on the head, I would really just like it as a base to do my thing with.  The artist who started it said it cost him 800.00 to create so far. He asking 300.00 plus shipping ( that's what's killing me right now )

I'm thinking of building a neck and maybe even a chest for it with arms and have it coming through a wall or trees in the Park.  I would love to add a body to it as well at some point, if we get to a place where it's feasible anyway we would have a good part of it done. Could be a good fundraiser too..help us body the Rex ?

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Right now the Rex plan is halting due to no funds for shipping. We are always looking for benefactors and donations though , if you would like to contribute anything just send via paypal to [email protected] or you can mail something to our address here :

Backyard Terrors
1065 Walnut Grove Road
Bluff City, TN 37618

Let us know if you do so we can thank you !

Here are some pics of the Suchomimus in progress :

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Sucho progress :

[Weaver]

I am slowly falling in love with the Sucho, he/she has such a toothy-grin. <3 Looking good!

[amargasaurus cazaui]

You might try doing a funding for the park along the lines of..."Adopt a dino" . Approach the local schools, and tell them, raise so much towards a given dinosaur, and the kids can come visit their dinosaur free or perhaps you could arrange to visit particpating schools and give each a thirty minute presentation on dinosaurs. Or allow them to do field trips through your park a given day provided they are a contributing school, that has helped finance one of the animals.
Then you could get plaques to place alongside the different animals...ie. The Allison elementary Allosaurus etc. As each new animal is placed in the park you could acquire a new school to adopt that dinosaur and be given the free dinosaur program. As your efforts would then be educational, they would also be eligible for a tax free status.
From there you could have facebook tie ins, etc. The possibilities are endless.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

I am slowly falling in love with the Sucho, he/she has such a toothy-grin. <3 Looking good!

I know she can't beat the Stygimoloch for you but at least your warming up to her right ? lol A neighborhood kid named her " Suki " the Suchomimus and it's what I've calling her since. 

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

You might try doing a funding for the park along the lines of..."Adopt a dino" . Approach the local schools, and tell them, raise so much towards a given dinosaur, and the kids can come visit their dinosaur free or perhaps you could arrange to visit particpating schools and give each a thirty minute presentation on dinosaurs. Or allow them to do field trips through your park a given day provided they are a contributing school, that has helped finance one of the animals.
Then you could get plaques to place alongside the different animals...ie. The Allison elementary Allosaurus etc. As each new animal is placed in the park you could acquire a new school to adopt that dinosaur and be given the free dinosaur program. As your efforts would then be educational, they would also be eligible for a tax free status.
From there you could have facebook tie ins, etc. The possibilities are endless.

That's not a bad idea at all. I really want to get schools involved here at some point and I was thinking of contacting them for field trips, but this could work better.  Each day the school bus goes by here and I hear all the kids talking about the dinosaurs they see.. heh  My Dinosaur Park is  donation only so really it's pretty much free for anyone to come by. I didn't want any kids no matter their age to go without being able to come and see them. School is almost out now so it might be something we have to do later in the year, but I have a aunt who is a teacher at a local elementary school and see what she thinks.

[amargasaurus cazaui]

You would be surprised how many schools would love to have someone come by and talk about dinosaurs. And when you think about it, you are likely so loaded with dinosaurs that you could EASILY put together something simple, basic, and yet educational. I have found that is the case for myself in my efforts. I already have the knowledge, the models and dinosaurs, and fossils on hand.
   When you work that together with your little theme oriented back yard endeavor I am sure you could quite easily work it into something that provides some help getting the dinosaurs built and where the kids could come and see them.
   It just is NOT that hard to do and kids love dinosaurs.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

You would be surprised how many schools would love to have someone come by and talk about dinosaurs. And when you think about it, you are likely so loaded with dinosaurs that you could EASILY put together something simple, basic, and yet educational. I have found that is the case for myself in my efforts. I already have the knowledge, the models and dinosaurs, and fossils on hand.
   When you work that together with your little theme oriented back yard endeavor I am sure you could quite easily work it into something that provides some help getting the dinosaurs built and where the kids could come and see them.
   It just is NOT that hard to do and kids love dinosaurs.

One of my many faults is public speaking..I'm not very ..outgoing  ? I guess ?  I like to work and gets things done behind the scenes. I've often lamented the lack of a PR person to deal with sponsors, advertising, ect.. lol Wonder if I could train someone ? 

I am planning on creating a fossil dig site area so kids can " excavate " buried fossils of different kinds and maybe learn a bit at the same time. Like finding allosaur teeth imbedded in  a Stegosaur plate and then signs will help lead them to think about what they are seeing.

I do hope to make a free play area as well..kind of like a big Marx playset with dinosaur toys so kids can flex their imaginations and not just their typing fingers.

BTW, here is a map I did of the current Park, additions coming soon ( I hope ! ) , we will have these available for free to pick up as visitors come in.  Hope to get some sponsors to advertise on the space at the bottom.

[Weaver]

Suki the Suchomimus?! Stygi is still my favorite but Suki is growing on me more and more. Oh dear, I have a terrible, wonderful thought... giant salmon-roll for her to chew on.

Wow, the Dinosaur Park map is awesome! It looks great. I do have a question, how big is your backyard? I'd like to suggest that with your funds (if you get enough) that, if you can, purchase more land! It'd be great to see this in a bigger, sprawling area. Also, has the city/town talked to you about structure heights on some of the dinos? I was thinking about the T. rex head and a body to go with it. I'd be surprised if the city had some sort of restriction against it.

Also, hmmf, I think you have plenty of volunteers here who could be speakers and PR representives for you. XD Shame some of us live so far away, maybe those folks closer to you could help with presentations?

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Suki the Suchomimus?! Stygi is still my favorite but Suki is growing on me more and more. Oh dear, I have a terrible, wonderful thought... giant salmon-roll for her to chew on.

Wow, the Dinosaur Park map is awesome! It looks great. I do have a question, how big is your backyard? I'd like to suggest that with your funds (if you get enough) that, if you can, purchase more land! It'd be great to see this in a bigger, sprawling area. Also, has the city/town talked to you about structure heights on some of the dinos? I was thinking about the T. rex head and a body to go with it. I'd be surprised if the city had some sort of restriction against it.

Also, hmmf, I think you have plenty of volunteers here who could be speakers and PR representives for you. XD Shame some of us live so far away, maybe those folks closer to you could help with presentations?

I think she'd love that ! lol

My business is called Backyard Terrors because we basically build and construct things in the backyard before moving them out..it's a home business.  We have about 13+ acres here. We are expanding I'm just filling as much area as possible slowly because I have such great ideas of what to add eventually. For example the 45' or so Diplodocus I want to do will take a nice big area to be able to walk all around it.     We're a ways out the country..plenty of things taller than our dinosaurs around, barns, silos, ect.  I'm actually just now figuring up plans for my Rex head/neck.. I'm not sure about a full body..yet. It would take something much stronger to frame it than what I currently use I think.  Might be something for a fiberglass frame.   Right now I'm considering building a cave to house it and maybe some animated Velociraptors...a slightly more thrilling aspect to the calm of the rest of the Park here.  Not sure when that would be done, I have a few more structures to build first including a gift shop/welcome building.  I'm really throwing just about every dime at this venture and it seems word is spreading as well from what I hear.

If anyone wants to assist me with anything I'd deeply appreciate it..I have so much going on right now and different facets to work at it drives me nuts sometimes..heh

[Weaver]

13 acres? Holy moly! I didn't realize you had that much land! Woohoo! Oh good, whew, I kept thinking in the back of my mind: Has the city been called on you? Good-good, I am thoroughly relieved at that. I'm out here in a rural community (cattle farming) and we do have restrictions on heights because we are backed onto a State Park. Well heck, this is good news and 13 acres. That's fantastic! Oh, trails and info-stops and ah, say, Backyard Terrors could have a 'Haunted Hike' on your land. That would be neat to do.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

13 acres? Holy moly! I didn't realize you had that much land! Woohoo! Oh good, whew, I kept thinking in the back of my mind: Has the city been called on you? Good-good, I am thoroughly relieved at that. I'm out here in a rural community (cattle farming) and we do have restrictions on heights because we are backed onto a State Park. Well heck, this is good news and 13 acres. That's fantastic! Oh, trails and info-stops and ah, say, Backyard Terrors could have a 'Haunted Hike' on your land. That would be neat to do.

Yep, over half of it is a large wooded area and fields, my grandfather used to raise a lot of tobacco but since has retired from it . This is actually his property. He and my grandmother took me and my brother in when my mom passed away in 98'. 

It's going to be awhile before I fill all of it up and I have to keep stopping to build benches, rest areas, mow paths, put down much, transplant things, clean pumps for the ponds, ect.. whew ! It's a lot for one guy to do.. lol I have a couple friends who build stuff but upkeep is all me.  Fortunately other than all that the Park requires very little in the way of workers. People come in, pay their donation if they want and continue through all on their own. 

We are close to the Cherokee National Forest but I've never seen a height restriction here before. There isn't much I can build too high anyway..I'm afraid of heights ! lol

We did consider doing a haunt here but outdoor ones require a lot of personnel and flat land..neither one is in abundance here.. lol  The Funhouse Haunted Attraction we operate at another local site can be ran with 4-5 people and it's 20 x 80' currently.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

The earliest aspect of how I make a dinosaur, this is my 1:1 Rex head rough design, has a 4" diameter eyeball and is roughly 61" long based on BHI 3033 " Stan ". Feel free to comment and weigh in the look..I see a few areas myself I need to correct.




All had drawn..I think an overhead projector would have paid for itself by now...

[wings]

http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/dbms-witmer/Tyrannosaurus-rex_3D-PDFs.htm

The above link is for a 3D PDF file, though this is based on FMNH PR2081; you can rotate the skull on your screen. This should help you in figuring out the overall shape of the skull. If your bandwidth permits then you should download the largest pdf (the 31.5mb one).

It is a bit hard to comment on what you have right now since the photo was taken in an angle.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Yeah I had to take at an angle..from the head to the desk here I only had about 6'..hard to get a pic from that distance of the whole thing.

I did some modifications and cut it out , I tried getting a less angled shot :



The red line at the bottom of the skull is a spot I think I went too deep on.

Thanks for the link, I downloaded a image file from there that has the skull from different angles and I was using the Stan skull replica they have in conjunction with Hartman's new 2013 Stan skeletal.  I tried downloading the PDF file you suggested but it wouldn't display on my computer ?

[Jetoar]

Wonderful! a T-Rex 

[wings]

... I tried downloading the PDF file you suggested but it wouldn't display on my computer ?

That is unfortunate maybe the document is not compatible with your current acrobat reader. Maybe an update could fix it?

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

... I tried downloading the PDF file you suggested but it wouldn't display on my computer ?

That is unfortunate maybe the document is not compatible with your current acrobat reader. Maybe an update could fix it?

That's a good possibility..I rarely upgrade anything on it..it's about a 2008 or so model.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

" Suki " the Suchomimus progress :