Lanthanotus' Collection of Prehistoric Life

[Shonisaurus]

¡Buenas fotos! ¡Me encanta aquel en el que Theri se defiende contra el Tarbosaurio (safari Tyranno) y se rasca la cara!

Nimravus are right in your comments. As you can see that you also saw the BBC mini series, it is magnificent.

Magnificent photos Lanthanotus has recreated the fight between the tarbosaurus and the therizinosaurus of the BBC series of dinosaurs. The two make a perfect couple to make dioramas.

Papo's dinosaur is a magnificent figure, in my case I'll have to wait at least until October to collect those figures. The wait is truly worth it. I congratulate you on the new acquisition.

[PhilSauria]

Great photo story! Literally Papo vs Safari Ltd! Now we have some idea where the scars on the rex came from. I see what you mean by the fine weather over there at the moment, highly conducive to staging prehistoric animal encounters. These and earlier images on assorted other recent posts and videos have sold me on this figure - I want one - but will have to wait until it becomes available over here, possibly later in the year I'm told by the local supplier. Why the delay?

[Reptilia]

Pretty nice shots, the first one in particular looks really like a real animal while stepping through the forest.

[Faelrin]

Awesome pictures of the Papo Therizinosaurus and Safari Ltd Feathered T. rex. They make for a pretty awesome combo it seems. I really do like the pics of it 'eating' the ferns too. Looks so natural.

[Lanthanotus]

Yesterday I received the CollectA Estemmenosuchus and the Papo Quetzalcoatlus. Took out the Estemmeno for some "outdoor" shooting (well, not exactly, it was indoors, Mannheim Luisenpark, Baumfarnhaus). Very nice figure, my only complain would be the lack of lips in the front and the somewhat weird coloration. Nevertheless, depite its size this figure and species called out for being added to my collection.

















The Papo Quetzalcoatlus, in the usual high quality sculpting Papo is known for. The pose is weird and I would have liked more vivid colors, but it is worth being added. A detail I really appreciate is the inside of the mouth, in upper and lower jaw.... the upper side shows two rows of backward facing hooked "teeth", the lower the forward protruded trachea, top notch!

[PlesiosaurusNessy]

Fantastic photos ! I like the new Estemmenosuchus a lot, he seems to be very hungry and the leaves of the tree fern very tasty,
he looks very happy in his new surrounding!
I am a great fan of Pterosaurs and Papo´s new Quetzalcoatlus is really a gem, a wonderful piece of art, super paint job!
Congrats to these two prehistoric animals!

[Shonisaurus]

Thank you very much for the photos  @Lanthanotus  are two high quality prehistoric animals.

Estemmenosuchus of Collecta is one of my favorite prehistoric animals and sincerely resembles completely the estemmenosuchus that I always wanted to have in my collection, when I have it in August or September I will keep it with the open jaw is more beautiful.

The same I can say of the quetzalcoatlus is my favorite pterosaur of Papo along with the pterosaurs of Collecta its details are surprising makes a good quintet with the therizinosaurus, compsognathus, acrocanthosaurus and iguanodon of Papo this year 2018.

My congratulations for your new acquisitions and my congratulations for the success of the corresponding sculptors of those two beauties of paleoart. Two figures of five stars for my part without any doubt.

[Reptilia]

The Collecta Estemmenosuchus is a great figure sculpt-wise, it'd be interesting to see a custom repaint of it.

[ceratopsian]

As usual excellent photos. Some very prehistoric looking foliage he is nibbling on!

The Collecta Estemmenosuchus is a great figure sculpt-wise, it'd be interesting to see a custom repaint of it.

I have commissioned Martin Garratt to do me one, so one will appear in due course.

[PhilSauria]

As always terrific images of the Etemm and the Quetz - that Quetz impresses me more each time I see a new batch of photos of it. It just looks so lifelike! And I'm a fan of the pose, for me it really sells how ungainly such a large creature like that would be on the ground in contrast to how majestic it must have looked in the air. We regularly see Pelicans not too far from where I live and those things are awesome enough gliding over head so what must have this animal looked like?!

[Shonisaurus]

The quetzalcoatlus honestly has always reminded me more of the African marabou than the pelican. For me, my pelican in the pterosaur version is undoubtedly the ptedodaustro.

[PhilSauria]

Yes, good comparison with the Mariubou. I was thinking more in terms of something larger than the usual birds you see flying overhead, and yes I have made the Pterosaur comparison before with maybe a Pteranodon.

[Halichoeres]

That is some pretty cool detail in the Quetz's mouth.

[Lanthanotus]

Recently added the Vitae Chilantaisaurus. Taken in account the known remains of the species I found the sculpt of the head a pretty strong guess and still lacking the definite Allosaurus model I deceided to transform the figure... shortened lower jaw and shortened and changed angle of upper jaw slightly. Glued together, filled in the microscopic gaps with Fixit Sculpt and sculpted teeth and added some bulk to the snout. Repainting was required and so I changed all the striking blue stripes to a more natural and camouflage brown.

[IrritatorRaji]

Gorgeous custom! I love the recolour, while I do love the blue, I'll admit that browns used in this manner look far better

[PhilSauria]

Yeah great custom! Maybe we'll finally see that definitive Allosaurus from Eofauna, when and if they get around to releasing one.

[BrontoScorpio]

Recently added the Vitae Chilantaisaurus. ... Repainting was required and so I changed all the striking blue stripes to a more natural and camouflage brown.

You did a marvelous Job Lanthanotus on this repaint.
I really want to take on some repaintings myself - But I haven't got the faintest clue of how to do so -
Could you tell mein few lines how you did it and show me your working tools and paints ?
Thanks

[Halichoeres]

Nice makeover, it looks great!

[Lanthanotus]

Thanks to you all

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I really want to take on some repaintings myself - But I haven't got the faintest clue of how to do so -
Could you tell me in few lines how you did it and show me your working tools and paints ?
Thanks

Sure thing.... 1st off, here's the tools and materials I use...


(new scalpel, blade 10, tweezers, wooden sticks with custom tips (round, spatula, pointed, scooped), 2-component Fixit Sculpt,... not shown here are super glue (cyanoacrylate), paints and brushes)

First step is to view the figure carefully and imagine what you want it to look at and then deceide where to cut through or off.

I heated the figure's head in scalding hot water to allow for easier and smoother cutting. In the case of the Chilantaisaurus I first cut off the lower jaw right before where it widened to the cheecks. I than shortened the cut off part of the jaw for approximately 2.5 mm. Then I took the scalpel to the upper jaw which was cut in an angle to allow to lower the front part of the snout when reapplying. Next step was to cut off the according slice from the figure part, rather than the snout part as the whole bulk and mass of the figure in hand makes it much more easier to carefully slice away material until the desired angled is achieved, just hold the snout part to the figure after each slice to deceide when the right ammount of material is taken away.

Next is to glued the cut off parts to the figure with just a tiny bit of super glue. In case of the Chilantaisaurus the work could have stopped here as the gaps and steps resulted from cutting and slicing where just that small, from usual viewing distance they were only noticable to the keen eye. However, I wanted the definite Allosaurus, so those gaps where carefully filled with the tiniest ammount of Fixit (just knead 1 part of each component together) by applying the mass with the wooden tools, to sculpt the missing teeth where the cuts are, the scalpel was used too. I also added a narrow and low ridge to the upper part of the snout.

Then I waited a day for the Fixit to cure thoroughly and repainted the figure with Citadel acrylics (Tallarn Sand and XV-88). Paint was only applied to the original blue stripes and to the white gaps and ridge made with Fixit.

PS: In larger figures or figures intended to be played with (my son often borrows figures for playing with them) I use wire to connect cut off parts back to the figure's body. The wire (1 mm steel) is heated and melted into the material before Fixit is applied and sculpted.

[ceratopsian]

Congratulations on an excellent job.