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  1. Old Collingwood
    Imagine that - but the twist is the KGL rifleman has an advanced laser weapon from the future 😄 OC.
  2. Old Collingwood
    Evening all, in my last post I explained I have been painting all the bodies different sections - its going quite well but taking time, I have also put one of my 28mm 1/56 scale figures - just shows the different size between him and the 1/12 Rexy. OC.
  3. Old Collingwood
    Greg you have done an amazing job on that craft and all the small additions are Incredible. OC.
  4. Old Collingwood
    Looking really nice Alan. OC.
  5. Old Collingwood
    I would have said the Green on the Right as the other one looks a wee bit to bright. OC.
  6. Old Collingwood
    Evening all, nothing too exciting to report - I spent a couple of hours painting all the pieces with a watery Buff Acrylic colour using my largest Brush - finding space on my table for all the drying pieces.......was a challenge. I foregot to take any pics as it was getting late, but I will take some pics later today - will throw in one of my 28mm figures to show you the size of this monster. OC.
  7. Old Collingwood
    So much detail - and like Yves said - Superb. OC.
  8. Old Collingwood
    Got me thinking about the scales I have been working in - 1/1250 (did a few metal ships) 1/700 / 1/350 / 1/56 / 1/32 and now 1/12 with Rexy. I have also been toying with the crazy idea of doing a dio with this later on, anyone seen the Jurassic World films - remember the scene where a skeleton T Rex gets trashed by a real Rex then a Raptor is swinging on one of the skelton sections - will have to see if Santa comes this year, mind you getting a 1/12 Veloceraptor is not easy - aint found one yet. OC.
  9. Old Collingwood
    Evening all, a small update, still working on the skull - there is some quite noticable seams so I started to clean these up using my blade sand paper and my files, the PVC plastic so does not like being cleaned up as it just creates little strands, I then decided to give the whole shull a coat of Buff, I applied this quite roughly as there will be several washes to be applied. The teeth will need a bit more tidying as the paint just brought the tiny strands out, reminds me of the old Airfix soft plastic that was real akward to clean up. OC.
  10. Old Collingwood
    Looving your updates Kevin - really nice work, so much fine detail my friend. OC.
  11. Old Collingwood
    Been studying my paint/weathering procedure with the build - lots of different oppinions on how to paint skeletons, what I may go for is a base coat of sand then different shades of washes then some lighter highlight dry brushing, interesting days as I ahve never built a skeleton before. OC.
  12. Old Collingwood
    Thank you kindly Mark, yep its just a skeleton, its quite a clever sonstruction , one length of square section metal I think it might be light steele or aluminum, and all the ribs slot on to this, its quite strong but can be bent to shape by hand, I am doing a more level stance with one of the legs more forward to distribute the weight. OC.
  13. Old Collingwood
    Very nicely done Alan, really coming out well. OC.
  14. Old Collingwood
    Thanks Ken. OC.
  15. Old Collingwood
    Thank you kindly. OC.
  16. Old Collingwood
    Thank you Alan. OC.
  17. Old Collingwood
    Thank you Andrew. OC.
  18. Old Collingwood
    Evening all, some quite good progress today - I concentrated on the head/jaws, firstly I made sure that the upper/lower joining areas was a flat as I could make them with my fine files, then I got my drill out and used my finger drill and ligned the upper/lower and drilled through (very slowly) with a 1.5mm then a 2mm, I also used my 5.5mm to counter sink the top to hide the screw head by counter sinking - so here goes I used my strongest screw driver and mananged to get a secure connection, all was needed was a bit of Vallejo putty - and set aside. Quite pleased with the result in an area I had little faith in fixing. Here's the pics - OC.
  19. Old Collingwood
    Thank you kindly Mike. welcome aboard my little prehistoric journey. OC.
  20. Old Collingwood
    I am going to have to try to use what I have around the house, looks like the only real major mend is the top to bottom jaws at the back near the throat, this is where perhaps a pilot hole drilled from underneath on both jaw bones, going up into the upper jaws, then a slightly wider start in the holes (to hide the screw heads) and Two slightly wider screws used to join the back of the jaws together. OC.
  21. Old Collingwood
    Thanks Ken, its new ground for me. OC.
  22. Old Collingwood
    Thank you kindly brother, will look forward to your build when it arrives. OC.
  23. Old Collingwood
    I think the trouble with this "kit"? is that Its and educational thing designed to be snapped to gether, and not a scale model kit. OC.
  24. Old Collingwood
    Hi Ron, what I have been able to do is bend the main metal spine rod from just aft of the pelvis where the pelvis bone section will be fitted, the last tail section slots onto this, I have checked now and it will fit in my case on one of the shelves. Big test will be to see if I can join both jaws with a screw underneath both sides? OC.
  25. Old Collingwood
    Evening all, I started on this today, but I have already run into a couple of problems - the first problem was trying to bend the tail so it would fit inside my display case, the last sections of the tail are made in Three sections (already pre formed) they but together with Two internal rods, so I super glued the Three tail sections but trying to bend the sections just opens up the joins (I dont know what kind of plastic its made from but it feels very soft almost with a memory so it just bends back) so none of my glues will work. The main section has a metal rod running through the middle and the spine sections just drop onto this. The head is made of Two sections that have Two square pegs that fit together, trouble is there is twist when clicked together - so I decided it would be better to cut the lugs off sand flat then I tried to glue these together (No way) will it play ball and glue. So a re think - I could possibly drill through the jaws and try to fix Two screws from underneath (might work) then see if my plastic filler will work on the jaw joins, that leaves the issue of not being able to bend the tail. Who said modeling was easy. OC.

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