Lanthanotus' Collection of Prehistoric Life

[Lanthanotus]

Quite a while since my last update... my whole workspace/desktop area has been "remodelled" in early summer because I had to get rid of one big husbandry tank and all of my Black Tree Monitors (unfortunately) to make room for the Borneon Earless Monitors (fortunately). So this left me with one big husbandry tank for the Roughneck, two smaller paludariums for the "water worms" with a lot of space above them and a much spacier and lighter workspace. Now also the cabinet for my collection recives more light and I took the chance to assort my figures anew. Still, most of my collection is in the attic, but now there's quite a different set on display....

From bottom to top there's first the marine life, from Cambrian to Cretaceous. The fossil bearing plates are Solnhofener Plattenkalk with some ammonites and shells we found this summer. The broken plate in the back may contain some bone from a medium sized land dweller. The Thallasomedon is a work in progress, the neck is far overbend since months to force the very flexible neck into a smoother pose than the default 100% straight one.


Pre- and dawn of the dinosaurs epoch.


Mesozoic era.


Cenozoic era on top.


My beloved sauropods, though I have more on display on my desk.


This year's diorama contest entry,.... I just love this Psittacosaurus sculpt. Emu egg in the back.


Shelf at the wall...


... and husbandry tank.

[Jose S.M.]

Very nice! It's a great collection displayed beautifully.

[Everything_Dinosaur]

Beautiful compositions, well done you!

[Fenestra]

I enjoyed watching that.
Very nice set ups.

[BrontoScorpio]

Like your "Pre- and dawn of the dinosaurs" set.
What is this Edaphosaurus infront of the Bullyland Edaphosaurus and what is this nice tree between them ?
In the next set - the "Mesozoic era" - I don't recognize this Sauropod - is it a repaint of a collectA ?

[Lanthanotus]

Thanks for all the kind words

That Edaphosaurus is a Shapeways by GN Models, the tree in between is a self made Cladoxylopsidae, the sauropod is CollectA's Daxiatitan, I just repainted it to have it as an Argentinosaurus surrogate (may make a better photo on the morrow).

[BrontoScorpio]

you're Talented.
I'll need your advice soon enough having accumulated too many kits or unpainted figures to color -
without having any experience or talent what so ever ...

[BlueKrono]

What is the sauropod in the Mesozoic era diorama?

[laticauda]

Love how you have it spread out.  Giving a chance for each animal model to shine. 

[tanystropheus]

This year's diorama contest entry,.... I just love this Psittacosaurus sculpt. Emu egg in the back.

How did you mod the Psittacosaurus?

[ZoPteryx]

Great setup, I like how each shelf is like a mini diorama.  Nice and uncluttered too! 

[Lanthanotus]

Thanks, yes, I cannot stand a too cluttered space, so I rather change the display from time to time.

@ BlueKrono: CollectA Daxiatitan, great sculpt, aweful paint job as so many CollectAs, but nothing that can be helped

@ tanystropheus: Just cut and glued (well, and a bit of paint at the tail fan). When seen from close there's some small gaps, but I didn't use any Fixit or so to fill them in cause it was only really intended for the photo shooting for the contest and having different colored seams on the figure would have required painting.

[BlueKrono]

Ah, I didn't recognize it. I thought Daxiatitan was green? Did you repaint it?

[Lanthanotus]

Yes, I did....
...I began photographing my collection figure by figure today, so I might aswell start right now to show them....here we go (scale bar is divided by cm, it will show up in all photos for comparison):

[Jose S.M.]

 That's an incredible improvement! It looks beautiful, I wish you could pass me some of that talent 

[Neosodon]

What did you paint it with? Just regular old modeling paint?

[BlueKrono]

That looks great! I much prefer models where each osteoderm is painted individually.

[Lanthanotus]

Thanks... well, seeing other works here on the forum I deem myself mediocore at best, in fact I guess I could make it better, but can't be bothered to have several layers of wash etc., so I most times limit my work on each figure with a pattern of non mixed colors and one layer of wash.

On this however I had another pattern before but wasn't happy with it and scrubbed it off again. I use acrylic paint from Games Workshop (Warhammer) because they offer a great variety of colors, especially as I do not like to mix colors on bigger figures - if you need to continue work to a later point it's hard to get the color right. In this model the only mixed color is where the tail tip changes from sand to white.

[postsaurischian]

  Beautiful collection!

The repaint on the Daxiatitan is excellent. It looks like a Favorite model now .

[Lanthanotus]

Thanks

so next comes....

Kaiyodo Dinotales Sauropelta and selfmade fern.