PNSO dinosaurs

[acro-man]

Yes, it's a Giganotosaurus.

Release date... you never hear from PNSO

[Josesaurus rex]

Yes, it's a Giganotosaurus.

Release date... you never hear from PNSO

Good!! Thanks Acro-man for your time. Regards. :-)

[Simon]

The 1:35 scale scene on the corner of my (very big) work desk .... (The 'big boys' aka Chunkingosaurus and Big Trike are elsewhere due to size..

[danmalcolm]

Great comparison shot. I've got the huanghetitan, and Wilson is en route. Doyle looks enormous- is the model genuinely 1:35? Looks like 1:30 or even 1:25 ish. A shot with papos triveratops would be appreciated if possible.

[Shonisaurus]

Doyle and Wilson look magnificent. Thanks Simon for your pictures. 

[danmalcolm]

Yeah those 3 models are probably the best looking representations of their species (or in the huanghetitan's case, family), just wonderful to look at... crazy that the huanghetitan isn't a "big boy"

[ceratopsian]

Finally I succumbed and risked buying one of the expensive limited edition PNSO models.  I saw the Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus offered on eBay by a seller in the USA with an excellent feedback.  It's very heavy, so shipping (and customs) was expensive. (He has in fact advertised here on the DTF since I purchased the model.)  I had a few unpleasant moments when I tried to slot it into the base, as the feet seemed miles off and I thought it would never fit together.  The seller gave me some helpful advice, saying he had had difficulty initially slotting his into place but careful positioning and flexing did the trick.  I put it aside and came back to it a couple of days later when I had a free morning to take my time and experiment cautiously.  This time round, all went well.  The key was to get the forelimbs into position above their slots, then try the feet.  Then the forelimbs clicked securely into place.  It was nerve-wracking, as I was worried about exerting too much pressure and breaking it.  But in the end it wasn't really pressure that was needed, more careful positioning.



I snapped the photo in my dining room - it's now moved into my new glass cabinets.  They aren't up and running really yet, as I want the carpet fitted in the room before I move the models in, just in case there is any reversing into the cabinets by the workmen and any jiggling of the contents!

[BrontoScorpio]

Hi,
Your the 1st one I hear buying this model - Congratulation  - that is quite an investment .
could I ask about the size of it, especially about it's weight ?
and along with the box and shipping box ?

[ceratopsian]

Hi there - it was certainly a treat and one that I won't repeat too often!  Size-wise: the tough outer plain PNSO cardboard box came in at around 17.5 inches by 12 inches. Within that, there was the attractive white "show" box with an image of the model.  The model itself stands about 12 inches high.  Weight - I really don't know, other than very heavy indeed, and it's not something I can weigh easily. It's not so much the animal as the base.  I can tell you that the postal charge within the USA (to the Global Shipping Centre, from where it was posted onto the UK at international shipping rate) was marked on the box at around $23.  The person to ask re weight might be wjrmonkey, who recently joined the DTF and who sent it to me.  He must have had it weighed to work out the shipping.

[Roselaar]

Seems it was well worth the effort, it's a grand model!

[Simon]

Great comparison shot. I've got the huanghetitan, and Wilson is en route. Doyle looks enormous- is the model genuinely 1:35? Looks like 1:30 or even 1:25 ish. A shot with papos triveratops would be appreciated if possible.

Actually, Doyle is an accurate 1:35 representation of a "Trophy Bull" Triceratops - (remember the 8.5' - 9' long Triceratops and Eotriceratops skulls that have been found).  A 10-tonne animal that would have made even "Sue" look a little small.

The Huenghetitan, to me, was always just a generic 1:35 representation of a upper-end titanosaurid, and viewed that way it fits PERFECTLY with these two guys.  I am keeping my fingers crossed that we get the PNSO 1:35 Amargasaurus and Spinosaurus this year.

(Sorry I can't do a Papo comparison because I do not own any Papos.  I only collect PNSO's dinosaurs.  Sold off all of my other collections about 4 years ago...)

[Reptilia]

Simon, could you post a closer and clearer shot of "Wilson" and "Doyle" together?

[Simon]

Simon, could you post a closer and clearer shot of "Wilson" and "Doyle" together?

Let me grab my wife's smart phone.  The photo last night was done with my own "semi-smart-phone" and the results showed. it  My good camera is nowehere to be found.  Stay tuned.

[Simon]

OK.  Here's some more pics below.  If you think of "Doyle" as a 10-tonne "Trophy Bull" with a 9-foot skull (at least 3 such skulls have been found - one is a giant T. Horridus skull that is at BYU, another is the Eotriceratops skull), it doesn't look too big - see the overhead comparison shots.

Also take note of the clear plastic rod that I cut down to size that helps TRex "Wilson" to stay perfectly upright even when its 110 degrees Fahrenheit outside:

[Reptilia]

Thank you for the pictures Simon. I find "Doyle" quite an improvement for PNSO, especially for its dynamic pose. I think they should paint the eyes of their models a little different though. Let's see what they'll do with future models.

[Simon]

Thank you for the pictures Simon. I find "Doyle" quite an improvement for PNSO, especially for its dynamic pose. I think they should paint the eyes of their models a little different though. Let's see what they'll do with future models.

If the prototypes like the Amargasaurus and Spinosaurus (among others) that we have already seen upthread are any indication, PNSO will be "knocking our socks off".

To me, Zhao Chang has ascended into first place among the many fine paleo-sculptors whose work I follow.  Of course Zhao's work to date has seemed a bit uneven, but that is because (like Kazunari Araki), he has sculpted figures at different scales and for different "niches" - some purely as inexpensive toys, others, more recently, as resin-quality pieces.

The fluid life-likeness and motion that he has been able to infuse his figures with (think: Chunkingosaurus, both of the Triceratops versions, Hueghetitan) is stunning.  Theropods of course are more difficult in this regard because if one leg is up in the air the figure will need a wire to hold it up and won't stand on its own....as it is I had to fashion a rod to "help" "Wilson" from sagging in the SUmmer heat ...

[acro-man]

Congrats on Ceratopsian for getting that fabulous Tsintaosaurus!
This is one of those rarest of the rarest models by Zhao.
I am pretty sure it will make a good pair with the upcoming lying Tsintaosaurus ( if only they are of the same scale...)

Simon's solution is by far the best one I have heard.
After heat water treatment and steel-peg-in-the-leg failed the mission, the clear-plastic-rod-support looks quite feasible.
My Wilson will be leaning on his walking stick for the rest of his life, but at least he will be standing anyway.

[ceratopsian]

Congrats on Ceratopsian for getting that fabulous Tsintaosaurus!
This is one of those rarest of the rarest models by Zhao.
I am pretty sure it will make a good pair with the upcoming lying Tsintaosaurus ( if only they are of the same scale...)

Simon's solution is by far the best one I have heard.
After heat water treatment and steel-peg-in-the-leg failed the mission, the clear-plastic-rod-support looks quite feasible.
My Wilson will be leaning on his walking stick for the rest of his life, but at least he will be standing anyway.

Thank you re the Tsintaosaurus.  Let's hope the upcoming one will "fit".  If it's smaller, I can always follow the line that one is an old, massive specimen, the other much younger and smaller!

Bipeds really are  a problem.  I too might have to follow Simon's solution with "Wilson".  I have a suspicion that he is leaning slightly against the wall of his current cabinet.  A rod would be better when he moves to his home in the new cabinets.

[Shonisaurus]

By the way is the tsintaosaurus resin or PVC? The figure is nice.

[ceratopsian]

The Tsintaosaurus I bought is resin.  I assume that the one acro-man mentioned as forthcoming will be PVC.