Post by hypnotator on Jul 21, 2013 10:50:23 GMT -5
Aurora’s pièce de résistance! _
This is actually a Monogram reissue, and my third attempt at painting her. The Monogram version is moulded in dark green plastic, and when I bought this kit in the late ‘80s I went with that, splashing a lighter green wash over it. Soon after that I decided to make her look like the Aurora version and did her in orange red, but again with washes.
Since those days my model painting techniques have improved, and she has sat there for twenty years, such a big, noticeable thing, needing a paint job to do her justice.
I had forgotten what a difficult kit this is to build and paint, being so large. I went with straight-from-the-tin colours because you just can’t mix bespoke colours in the kind of quantity needed here.
It didn’t work so well with the yellow direct on the red, and I got so fed up painting the eyes, trying to cradle this huge thing on my lap all the while. It’s so easy to break the toe claws off as they stick out, and I did this twice, but she looks so much better than she did.
The head is less formidable viewed straight on.
I had this kit when I was a kid, and I had endless fun taking the top of the head off and sitting Darth Vader inside her head. She was a droid in these instances, and the stormtroopers would ride the Styracosaurus and Triceratops.
Like all the Prehistoric Scenes kits, the T Rex has limited articulation, which means that there are cracks you can’t putty, but I think they are beautifully engineered, and few have dared to do properly articulated model kits since.
When I was a kid, this was the biggest toy I had ever seen, apart from maybe Action Man’s Training Tower. These days she has a rival or two on my shelves, like this bloody enormous Ashley Wood Heavy Bramble.
I thought it would be fun to pose them together, but it’s hard to get them both in shot!
If Bramble is deprived of his bazooka, my money’s on the lady!
She is back in the display case at last. I’ve been renovating her since autumn.
Some box shots, not mine, as the reissue has a boring photo, but I love the old Aurora painting.
This is actually a Monogram reissue, and my third attempt at painting her. The Monogram version is moulded in dark green plastic, and when I bought this kit in the late ‘80s I went with that, splashing a lighter green wash over it. Soon after that I decided to make her look like the Aurora version and did her in orange red, but again with washes.
Since those days my model painting techniques have improved, and she has sat there for twenty years, such a big, noticeable thing, needing a paint job to do her justice.
I had forgotten what a difficult kit this is to build and paint, being so large. I went with straight-from-the-tin colours because you just can’t mix bespoke colours in the kind of quantity needed here.
It didn’t work so well with the yellow direct on the red, and I got so fed up painting the eyes, trying to cradle this huge thing on my lap all the while. It’s so easy to break the toe claws off as they stick out, and I did this twice, but she looks so much better than she did.
The head is less formidable viewed straight on.
I had this kit when I was a kid, and I had endless fun taking the top of the head off and sitting Darth Vader inside her head. She was a droid in these instances, and the stormtroopers would ride the Styracosaurus and Triceratops.
Like all the Prehistoric Scenes kits, the T Rex has limited articulation, which means that there are cracks you can’t putty, but I think they are beautifully engineered, and few have dared to do properly articulated model kits since.
When I was a kid, this was the biggest toy I had ever seen, apart from maybe Action Man’s Training Tower. These days she has a rival or two on my shelves, like this bloody enormous Ashley Wood Heavy Bramble.
I thought it would be fun to pose them together, but it’s hard to get them both in shot!
If Bramble is deprived of his bazooka, my money’s on the lady!
She is back in the display case at last. I’ve been renovating her since autumn.
Some box shots, not mine, as the reissue has a boring photo, but I love the old Aurora painting.
