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Post by acroray on Mar 1, 2012 19:49:12 GMT -5
I shot a picture of it with the Life-Like edition. The Lindberg box is much bigger.  |
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Post by acroray on Apr 23, 2012 0:19:56 GMT -5
A couple of weeks back I put in some time building my new Lindberg stego. This latest version features the body texture worked into the original Pyro tooling for the Jurassic Park run, but it lacks the Pyro cave man - although he is featured in the instructions. The body texture is rather nice, but it is sparse in some areas, and smooth in other areas where it would have interfered with demold of the parts. Some of the alignment pins and the joining surfaces where the legs meet the body have been re-tooled, but the fit of parts is just as poor as I've always experienced with the kit over the decades. The tail is particularly bad. I had to use a lot of putty to fill in the gaps. Of huge help was some Mr Surfacer (1000 thickness) from Japan to finish off persistent seams and imperfections around the leg joints and back plate roots. This is a thinned grey putty available in various thicknesses. This is the thinnest version with a consistency and behavior similar to white glue, which can be brushed into cavities or laid in with a toothpick. VERY useful for organic forms or in areas where traditional putty would overpower thing or obscure textures. Note that the kit is cast in a grey that is about the same as the Testors Model Master primer and Mr Surfacer I've used on this guy.  |
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Post by scooke123 on Apr 23, 2012 22:28:57 GMT -5
Looks great so far in primer!
Steve
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Post by acroray on Apr 29, 2012 17:45:03 GMT -5
Well, I finished the Lindberg-release Stegosaurus. I tried to make a C.R. Knight-like colorway for it, since the kit is of a vintage mindset about the Stegosaurus. This was my reference:  I did a lot of drybrushing and washes to bring out the new hide textures Lindberg added to the kit. There's also some lines and texturing suggesting a softer, smoother underbelly so I painted that area in brown shades.  |
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Post by acroray on Apr 29, 2012 17:47:13 GMT -5
Another view. I wish I could have done a bit better on the base. It looks much muddier than I wanted, but the grass texture wasn't working with me very well.  |
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Post by acroray on Apr 29, 2012 17:48:41 GMT -5
One more. The textures came out nicely. The kit is a nice build and a good painting exercise, if you can get all the seams under control.  |
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Post by TAY666 on Apr 29, 2012 19:31:22 GMT -5
Nice.
That is a fun little kit. At least I had fun when I did mine.
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Post by acroray on May 7, 2012 13:06:20 GMT -5
I picked up the relatively recent Lindberg Corythosaurus #70280, 2006, green jungle background boxart. Once again, the vintage Pyro tooling still going strong & sharp on what is probably the nicest kit in the series. Lindberg added little tabs on the sprues identify part numbers. The tooling didn't have these while in Pyro/Life-Like's possession.
Strangely enough, not only has all the Pyro markings been struck from the molds, but Lindberg's markings as well. The only marking is "TM & C UCS/AMBLIN", presumably placed there during the Jurassic Park release, and never modified.
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Post by acroray on May 7, 2012 14:35:21 GMT -5
Here's the aforementioned 2006 Lindberg Corythosaurus, along with a much earlier LifeLike edition.  |
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Post by scooke123 on May 7, 2012 23:05:35 GMT -5
Like the colors on your Stegasaurus - turned out great!
Steve
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Post by acroray on May 9, 2012 0:53:36 GMT -5
Here's the Lindberg Stegosaurus edition from '87. He's still got the caveman, and the original smooth skin. Steggy's molded in a very glossy, dark chocolate brown. Got this guy for a couple bucks. He was opened, de-sprued and missing a spine-plate. A couple of observations I found interesting: It includes the timeline-poster included in the "World Of" LifeLike kits from nearly a decade before (at my estimate), but with all of LifeLike's info roughly pasted-over with Lindberg's info. The poster is also little more than a giant photocopy, with rough grey tones where there was duotone color in LifeLike's version. Also, there only seems to be 4 kits in this assortment: Steggy, Rex, Brontosaurus and Dimetrodon. This is my only example from this assortment, but photos of the box side on T-Rex I've seen picture only the same 4 kits. ('87 was the year I graduated from high school and moved on to college. My kit building passion was Japanese anime mecha. I remember really looking down on these dinos and Lindberg's lackluster presentation of them in comparison to the Japanese kits I was building at the time, while my childhood originals sat safely in a cardboard box in my parents' attic.)  |
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Post by acroray on May 9, 2012 0:57:38 GMT -5
What I believe are the only 4 Pyro-series dinosaurs offered by Lindberg in the '87 series, pictures on the Stego's box side as well as on the Rex's box.  |
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Post by acroray on May 28, 2012 16:12:03 GMT -5
Started working on Lindberg's recent reissue of the Pyro Triceratops. Cast in grey. Vintage tooling, unchanged. The sculpt is nice. Detailed yet conservative. Trike has a rhino-like hide and dated anatomic elements. The fit of the parts is overall much better than on the Stegosaurus, requiring only clipping of a couple of pegs. The sprue-points on the torso and horns are thick and problematic. There is some damage that'll need to be filled at the hump of his back which is almost as bad after careful clipping now as my childhood one suffered. Otherwise there will be very little filling that Mr Surfacer shouldn't be able to manage. Probably the worst will be on the head between the two horns, the top of the back, and the tip of his nose-horn.  |
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Post by acroray on Jun 3, 2012 18:31:55 GMT -5
Primer coat on the Trike's head. There was a rather bad seam between the horns that needed to be filled, as well as fixing the nose-horn since that was a messily-designed sprue attachment point. (I need to fill at the horn roots a bit yet.)  |
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Post by acroray on Jun 7, 2012 20:44:18 GMT -5
I picked up another earlier Lindberg Pyro Brontosaurus, which turned out to be from 1979 - the earliest Lindberg edition I have. It's molded in green, and the the cave-woman has been deleted from the kit.  |
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Post by acroray on Jun 7, 2012 20:45:08 GMT -5
My only Life-Like edition predecessor to this is in the white Pyro style box from the late 1960s/early 1970s, so I don't know if the cave woman was deleted by Life-Like in one of their latter editions, or if Lindberg deleted the piece.  |
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Post by acroray on Jun 7, 2012 20:47:33 GMT -5
This is what's pictured of the set from the 1979 Bronto's box. Lindberg's trend with the later 80s reissues I've seen was 4 per series as far as I've been able to tell from boxes and catalogs. So these four may have been the extent of Lindberg's series at the time from Pyro's original stable of 8 dinos.  |
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Post by desslock on Jun 12, 2012 6:44:48 GMT -5
My only Life-Like edition predecessor to this is in the white Pyro style box from the late 1960s/early 1970s, so I don't know if the cave woman was deleted by Life-Like in one of their latter editions, or if Lindberg deleted the piece. The cave woman was definitely gone by the early 70s. I had a bronto around then, and it didn't come with a cave woman. |
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Post by acroray on Jun 12, 2012 8:50:25 GMT -5
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Post by acroray on Jun 24, 2012 10:14:55 GMT -5
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