Ceratopsian's custom paints and everything else: new 9 Oct. 2024

[Takama]

Is it just me, Or does the Chasmosaurus look like Mojoceratops? (Which may be a species of Chasmosaurus)

[postsaurischian]

  Beautiful pictures of the new PNSO ceratopsians!
      Gotta get them, too .

[acro-man]

Just look how detailed these little things are!

[Halichoeres]

These are pretty impressive little figures! Your photos show them off to good effect.

[ceratopsian]

Thank you for the various comments on the PNSO new ceratopsians.  I agree with @Jose S.M. that they are an improvement on their previous mini-ceratopsians.  Yes, I still like the old ones but the new issues have greater bulk and greater detail.  PNSO has upped their game.  @Takama: I think that the argument has been made that Mojoceratops should be sunk under Chasmosaurus, so I would expect the two to look similar.

Today's offerings:  first of all, a shot of the PNSO "bronze" effect Triceratops head.  I didn't want the theropod heads but was quite keen to have this.  It's isn't a recent arrival but was ordered way back in August.  It had a rather fraught history.  When I opened the box, one of the horns had snapped off at the base.  I suspect it broke not in transit but rather when the person putting it into its snug box (custom-cut polystyrene) forced the top section down onto the bottom when the horn wasn't quite in the right place.  PNSO was excellent and sent out another free of charge - I think they wanted to know themselves if it was suitable for long distance travel.  The second one was perfect - though not completely free, as this time round the package attracted the attention of customs!  Anyway, I now have a pair.  I am inherently lazy and haven't yet glued the horn back in place - I think it should glue well without obvious flaw.  I don't use mine as a bookend but as a stand-alone display.  I would be a bit wary of using it as a bookend, at least with heavy books, just in case they shoved the bookend across and the horns impacted with my shelf end.

[ceratopsian]

I have accumulated quite a collection of the DTF's own Jetoar's line, Paleocreatures.  His style is very distinctive and to me very appealing.  This summer two more joined my collection.  The first of them is his Garjainia:







And second is Vancleavea.  I liked the idea of having one in my collection because it has turned up in the Petrified Forest National Park - somewhere I visited a couple of years ago.  A well-preserved and articulated specimen with its osteoderms in life position was found at the Coelophysis Quarry on Ghost Ranch - not somewhere I've visited but a site that carries a resonant link to my childhood when I was first learning about dinosaurs.









That's all for today - I shall go off and nurse my wretched cold!

[Shonisaurus]

First of all, as I always do, I congratulate you on your new acquisitions of prehistoric animals from the paleo-creatures of Jetoar. Incidentally, the figures of Jetoar are figures apart from beautifully sculpted (I have a fabulous kosmoceratops) are totally obscure and very rare (some unpublished).

[ceratopsian]

I have his Kosmoceratops too - it was the very first thing I bought from him.  I too like the way he often produces obscure species that are hard to find in other lines.

First of all, as I always do, I congratulate you on your new acquisitions of prehistoric animals from the paleo-creatures of Jetoar. Incidentally, the figures of Jetoar are figures apart from beautifully sculpted (I have a fabulous kosmoceratops) are totally obscure and very rare (some unpublished).

[RobinGoodfellow]

I also like Jesus' work.
For sure I'll add some of his new models to my collection soon.. 

[Halichoeres]

The new Paleo-Creatures figures are very nice; I'll have to place an order soon myself. Nice to see in-hand photos of the bookend, too. I assume it's bronze-painted polystone. A bit too light to properly serve as a bookend?

[ceratopsian]

....Nice to see in-hand photos of the bookend, too. I assume it's bronze-painted polystone. A bit too light to properly serve as a bookend?

Yes.  It's fairly heavy but not really heavy enough.  I would trust it with a few paperback novels but not a line of hefty hardbacks.

[ceratopsian]

It's been a long time since I updated my thread. Seeing laments recently that a lot of collections threads were fizzling out made me dig out the camera.  My excuse is that last autumn, I signed up for some language classes and the Sunday mornings when I tended to take photos disappeared as I did homework.

I like the CollectA Supreme/Deluxe pterosaurs but not their factory paint jobs.  When their Caiuajara reached Britain earlier this year, I had Everything Dinosaur send it to Martin Garratt for a repaint.  It is now sitting in my cabinet with its companions, the CollectA Dimorphodon and Guidraco.

Here is the Caiuajara:

[Shonisaurus]

How cool that figure of caiuajara! Is beautiful. Surely if Collecta adopted those dyes of paintings for this pterosaur, collectors would value more that figure of that rare prehistoric animal.

[Fenestra]

Very nice!
I personally don't dislike the colours CollectA picked for the Caiuajara, but the "eye" on the headcrest makes the figure look very artificial.
This new paint job gives it a much more natural look.
Congrats!

[Nimravus]

Beautiful, much better than the paint colours chosen by CollectA. It looks much more natural! Congrats

[RobinGoodfellow]

The repainted figure looks really great. 
Congrats 

[Shonisaurus]

It does not look like a PVC figure with that repainted, it looks like a polyresin figure. It has been great.

[ceratopsian]

Thank you for your kind comments on the Caiuajara.  And I agree with @Fenestra - the real problem for me with the original scheme really lay in the eye spot.

Having once picked up my camera again yesterday, I found time to manage some more photos today.  This time I'm showing a small diorama of two Dryosaurus with their eggs by the Chinese artist SenSen.  This was a limited edition that came out in 2018 (and I've now had it some time).  I was especially attracted to it because I like dioramas involving nests or juveniles; because I like dioramas suggesting some sort of living behaviour rather than a static statue; because Dryosaurus isn't often made into models; and finally because it was small!  (Space is at a premium these days.)

As usual, I ordered a raw kit and asked Martin Garratt to build and paint it for me.  I asked him to make the two animals different from each other, but clearly a pair of the same species - I asked for one to be more showy.  I don't mind though which you think is the brighter animal, whether male or female.  I was especially thrilled with Martin's interpretation on this occasion and it's one of my favourite acquisitions.

Here it is:











(I'm quite amused by this photo, as it looks as though they are looking curiously into the camera!)



And finally, two shots of the little "credit-card" certificate that came with the model:

[Killekor]

Both the cajuajara and the Dryosaurus pair look really nice! In particular I like how the couple look quiet.

Killekor

[Shonisaurus]

The couple of dryosaurus is lovely.