Leyster's Collection (updated 29/03/24)

Leyster · February 27, 2021, 02:23:28 PM

SidB · February 27, 2021, 02:51:18 PM

Good display. I was quite pleased to get my Vitae Sinoceratops last year at a discount price during the time of Vitae's troubles. I liked its larger size over against the good but smaller Favorite one. But I think that the new PNSO figure tops both of these, IMO. I find the extreme rugosity of the Vitae's hide a bit unusual, though.

Leyster · February 27, 2021, 03:01:16 PM

Quote from: SidB on February 27, 2021, 02:51:18 PM
Good display. I was quite pleased to get my Vitae Sinoceratops last year at a discount price during the time of Vitae's troubles. I liked its larger size over against the good but smaller Favorite one. But I think that the new PNSO figure tops both of these, IMO. I find the extreme rugosity of the Vitae's hide a bit unusual, though.

The PNSO one isn't bad, but I dislike the pose/shape of the head (not saying there is something wrong, just that I don't like it aesthetically speaking), plus the PNSO has a vaguely JP-inspired paintjob and I'm afraid to be deathly allergic to the ugly blob that is Fallen Kingdom Sinoceratops and everything reminding me of it

Wich, given the spur in popularity that the movie caused, is a lot. The grey of the Vitae model is a welcome change from the almost onnipresent green Sinoceretopses.

SidB · February 27, 2021, 03:31:05 PM

Green power is on the wane.

Leyster · February 27, 2021, 03:48:48 PM

Quote from: SidB on February 27, 2021, 03:31:05 PM
Green power is on the wane.

This thing is 99% an imposter... so add being not eco-friendly to his sins

Gothmog the Baryonyx · February 27, 2021, 05:07:31 PM

Funnily enough I'm trying to sell that Vitae Sinoceratops, and plan on buying the PNSO when it comes here. But that's partly because the Vitae is so fragile, and also because the PNSO is a little smaller I assume.

Halichoeres · February 27, 2021, 05:15:35 PM

Looking forward to seeing what you choose to keep. This is a nice model. I normally don't buy resin figures, but I seriously considered this one. I can definitely understand the aversion to anything that calls to mind the JP/JW designs.

Leyster · February 27, 2021, 05:33:47 PM

Quote from: Gothmog the Baryonyx on February 27, 2021, 05:07:31 PM
Funnily enough I'm trying to sell that Vitae Sinoceratops, and plan on buying the PNSO when it comes here. But that's partly because the Vitae is so fragile, and also because the PNSO is a little smaller I assume.

Yeah, the Vitae is a bit fragile, but mine is inside a cabinet.

Quote from: Halichoeres on February 27, 2021, 05:15:35 PM
Looking forward to seeing what you choose to keep. This is a nice model. I normally don't buy resin figures, but I seriously considered this one.

Usually, neither do I (too risky to broke), but, since now I have a cabinet, I decided to give it a try.

QuoteI can definitely understand the aversion to anything that calls to mind the JP/JW designs.

It's expecially bad when a taxon is known to the pubblic only through Jurassic World. Like, I can't belive that a Doraemon film included a straight copy of JW's Sinoceratops.

Leyster · February 28, 2021, 09:16:20 AM

Binomial name: Ceratosaurus nasicornis, Marsh 1884
Classification: Dinosauria->Theropoda->Neotheropoda->Averostra->Ceratosauria->Neoceratosauria->Ceratosauridae
Time: Kimmeridigian-Tithonian (Late Jurassic)
Formation: Brushy Basin and Salt Wash Memebers of the Morrison Formation (present day USA)
Manifacturer and date of release: Battat, 1996 (2016 reissue)
Sculptor: Dan LoRusso
Scale: 1:30 for USNM 4735

Despite the too long and pronated forelimbs, I like this little fellow, it has a relaxed face I like on Ceratosaurus (too often represented as a gnarly monster) and the tail is adequately deep. It has the osteoderms along the back, too. Also I'm quite fond of the colour scheme used and that they didn't colour the horns and osteoderms too differently from the body.

Leyster · March 01, 2021, 11:31:44 AM

Binomial name: Yangchuanosaurus shangyouensis, Dong et al. 1978
Classification: Dinosauria->Saurischia->Theropoda->Neotheropoda->Averostra->Tetanurae->Carnosauria->Allosauroidea->Metriacanthosauridae
Time: Oxfordian (Late Jurassic)
Formation: Shangshaximiao/Upper Shaximiao Formation (present day China)
Manifacturer and date of release: PNSO, 2019
Sculptor: somebody in the atelier of Zhao Chuang
Scale: 1:26 for CV 00215. The model is based on the probably incorrect skeletal by G. S. Paul. Actual Yangchuanosaurus proportions were quite different.

Leyster · March 02, 2021, 05:23:29 PM

Binomial name: Carnotaurus sastrei Bonaparte, 1985
Classification: Dinosauria>Theropoda>Neotheropoda>Averostra>Ceratosauria>Neoceratosauria>Abelisauroidea>Abelisauridae>Brachyrostra>Carnotaurini
Time: Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous)
Formation: La Colonia Formation (present day Argentina)
Manifacturer and date of release: Carnegie Collection of Safari LTD, 2011
Sculptor: Forest Rogers
Scale: 1:23 for MACN-CH 894. Note that the model is based on the probably incorrect skeletal featured in Bonaparte, 1985 and so it does not reflects the true proportions of Carnotaurus

Despite being a 10 years old models (damn, time is really running out!) and being based on an outdated skeletal that does not represent what is currently believed to be Carnotaurus' apperance, I'm quite fond of this model, it has an intricate paintjob and beautiful detail. Not to metion that, when released, it was top score of Abelisaurid models.

Halichoeres · March 02, 2021, 07:35:11 PM

That Carnotaurus really is nice. It reminds me a little of the Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth. When you refer to the proportions, do you mean the legs being too long? That's the main thing I notice, although I'm not particularly an expert on theropods.

Leyster · March 03, 2021, 09:31:16 AM

Quote from: Halichoeres on March 02, 2021, 07:35:11 PM
That Carnotaurus really is nice. It reminds me a little of the Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth. When you refer to the proportions, do you mean the legs being too long? That's the main thing I notice, although I'm not particularly an expert on theropods.

I agree! Now that you made me notice it, there is a bit of resemblance! And, for once, it's nice to see a Carnotaurus that is not red-coloured.

This was the skeletal in Bonaparte et al 1985, legs were based on Xenotarsosaurus (only Abelisaurid with leg bones known at the time).

This is the most recent restoration, using the proportions of the closely related Aucasaurus

The new Safari and probably the Collecta (although the caudofemoral area is a bit undermuscled and, not owning it, I have not checked its proportions) are closer to the modern view.

SidB · March 03, 2021, 01:19:09 PM

We can count on Doug Watson to do his homework.

Leyster · March 03, 2021, 03:53:56 PM

Quote from: SidB on March 03, 2021, 01:19:09 PM
We can count on Doug Watson to do his homework.

So true!

Binomial name: Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai Currie, Langston and Tanke, 2008
Classification: Dinosauria->Ornithischia->Genasauria->Neornithischia->Marginocephalia->Ceratopsia->Neoceratopsia->Coronosauria->Ceratopsoidea->Ceratopsidae->Centrosaurinae->Pachyrhinosaurini->Pachyrostra
Time: Campanian (Late Cretaceous)
Formation: Wapiti Formation (present day Canada)
Manifacturer and date of release: PNSO, 2020
Sculptor: somebody in the atelier of Zhao Chuang
Scale: 1:25 based on TMP 86.55.258, which the model cleary represents.

Here you can read my review of this model. It's in italian, but an online translator will do the work.

Loon · March 03, 2021, 05:21:40 PM

Nice to see that Pachyrhinosaurus in hand, it definitely looks far nicer that the promo pictures.

Leyster · March 03, 2021, 05:57:31 PM

Quote from: Loon on March 03, 2021, 05:21:40 PM
Nice to see that Pachyrhinosaurus in hand, it definitely looks far nicer that the promo pictures.

Yes, the promotional photos are quite unflattering. The body could use some more work (it's a bit lumpy), but I love the head sculpt, it makes the Battat one pale in comparison.

Stegotyranno420 · March 03, 2021, 06:05:10 PM

L @Leyster sorry to bother, but can you show what an accurate yangchuanosaurus looks like. I tried searching, but i cant decide or find out if its right or not

Leyster · March 03, 2021, 06:24:43 PM

Quote from: Stegotyranno420 on March 03, 2021, 06:05:10 PM
L @Leyster sorry to bother, but can you show what an accurate yangchuanosaurus looks like. I tried searching, but i cant decide or find out if its right or not

Like this. Upper is CV00215, supposed subadult, lower is CV00216 (ex "Yangchuanosaurus magnus"), adult. The weird thing with Yangchuanosaurus is that CV00215 has the head 9% shorter than the femur, while CV00216 has a head 86% longer than the femur, giving really strange proportions to the animal.

Now: why companies keep copypasting a Yangchuanosaurus head on an Allosaurus-like body? Because G. S. Paul, on his influential "Princeton field guide to Dinosaurs", likes lumping taxa. What he calls "adult Yangchuanosaurus" is in fact the holotype of Sinraptor hepingensis (ZDM 0024). If you own the book, you can check that the skeletal is the same that was figured in this illustration and labelled "Yangchuanosaurus hepingensis".

Being Paul higly influential and Yangchuanosaurus quite an obscure animal that no one revised, everyone takes for correct Paul's skeletal, while in fact it doesn't even represent this taxon.

Here is a really, really good model of what CV00216 should look like (source: https://jaggedfangdesigns.artstation.com/projects/1n0Z9L)

Stegotyranno420 · March 03, 2021, 06:28:53 PM

Woah, Thanks very much L @Leyster I look forward to see more figures in your collection , and them being examined, it reminds me of the YDAW show i always watched.

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