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Post by TAY666 on Jun 24, 2012 19:38:30 GMT -5
Dang Ray.
You've been a kit building machine lately.
Looks good.
Keep this up, and you're gonna run out of display space.
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Post by acroray on Jun 24, 2012 22:16:55 GMT -5
Heh-heh! :-) That is a concern!
Luckily, these guys are actually pretty small compared to Prehistoric Scenes!
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Post by TAY666 on Jun 25, 2012 17:38:44 GMT -5
Yes the are.
If I remember correctly, that trike could probably fit in rex's mouth.
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Post by scooke123 on Jun 25, 2012 18:12:04 GMT -5
I like the colors you painted the Trike - nice job!!!!
Steve
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Post by acroray on Jul 3, 2012 11:07:58 GMT -5
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Post by acroray on Jul 5, 2012 15:34:24 GMT -5
Pyro/Lindberg Trike gets a base of his own!  |
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Post by acroray on Aug 1, 2012 15:55:01 GMT -5
My newest Lindberg dino: the 1979 edition Tyrannosaurus. Lindberg picked up the line in 79 from Life-Like, and added their own mark to the kits. Interesting notes about the box art: there is additional texture and details on Rex's hide retouched in the photo. The same thing is done to the Brontosaurus and Stegosaurus kit box art in the set, seemingly to match their smooth, cartoon-like hide to the textures featured on the 4th kit in the quartet - the Dimetrodon. And while the cave man isn't pictured on the kit box, he is included in the kit. Rex is also positioned walking in the opposite direction on the base than it was originally designed to fit!  |
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Post by acroray on Aug 1, 2012 15:57:48 GMT -5
This edition of the Tyrannosaurus is molded in brown, which I believe will remain the color of Lindberg's Rex kits until the design is last released in the late 1980s.  |
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Post by acroray on Aug 27, 2012 23:00:57 GMT -5
I'm still slowly collecting and archiving the various releases of Pyro's herd of 8 dino kits. Recently I scored an unopened pair of Lindberg's 1987 re-releases. Here is Protoceratops. He seems to get the short straw from Lindberg. I don't see him offered much over the years. '87 saw the Pyro dinos in two sets of 4. The more common set had a cover photo featuring the built dino on some model railroad gravel. The seemingly less-common quartet - of which Protoceratops here was a part - has the built-up kits on a moody background featuring... an oasis? Palm tree silhouettes, anyway. Kinda nicely moody, but the buildups are really ugly.  |
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Post by acroray on Aug 27, 2012 23:03:33 GMT -5
The kit's instructions feature the "Pre-Historic Dinosaur" logo from Lindberg's 1979 series, and you get a really poor oversized photocopy of Life Like's "World Of" series timeline crammed into the box with the actual kit parts.  |
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Post by acroray on Aug 27, 2012 23:04:51 GMT -5
Interestingly, the parts are cast in a leaf green that instantly brings to mind the color of the dinosaur as presented on the white-box Pyro and Life Like editions.  |
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Post by acroray on Aug 27, 2012 23:07:40 GMT -5
One thing I found that was really surprising was that after nearly a decade in Lindberg's hands, there were no Lindberg legal marks on the it, and the old Pyro marks on one of the leg halves and one of the body halves were only partially struck off. My camera doesn't show it all that well, but to the naked eye the "Pyro Plastics Corp 1968" is clearly visible, and only shallowly and partially ground off on either part.  |
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Post by acroray on Aug 27, 2012 23:17:44 GMT -5
Here's the second quartet of the '87 release. I'm surprised some of these guys got bumped from the main set in favor of the Bronto, Rex or the hideous Dimetrodon. But that's probably because none of these 4 had bases or cavemen, and I'd speculate that the base and cave man Lindberg added to the Dimetrodon proved to be too expensive to apply to the rest of the series. These four are easily the best of the Pyro designs. Protoceratops here is a particularly nice, clean sculpt that would look nice simply glued together unpainted, due to the nice green plastic the kit is cast in.  |
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Post by Grimlock on Oct 21, 2012 19:20:08 GMT -5
When I emailed the owner of Lindberg asking about the "World of" accessories about 8 years ago, he had no frikkin clue they had even existed. He had no idea where the molds for those would be or who would have them.
It's too bad because they made rather dated and crappy models worth it. Well, except for the TRex one. Toss the TRex out and keep the diorama. Put in something better.
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Post by acroray on Oct 22, 2012 14:11:45 GMT -5
That's too bad. Life-Like obviously put a lot of research and effort into those, probably in an attempt to really improve on the limitations of Pyro's designs. Lindberg probably has them, but just doesn't know what they are. Unless Life Like had them in use at a separate sub-contractor somewhere, and never bothered to keep them after they were done with the World Of line.
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Post by Grimlock on Oct 23, 2012 22:09:49 GMT -5
Two totally different quality model sets in the same kit!
All they would need to do is get those accessories into production again, because they're certainly good enough for today even - and to update the dinos entirely, not just making a new head for Steggy.
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Post by artdecovampire on Feb 3, 2013 6:02:33 GMT -5
My recent Lindberg purchases, in the UK, have every one of the original kits on the back of the boxes except for the Rex. This is replaced by the T Rex they did from JP. They are also joined by the Velociraptor from JP but not the Dilophosaurus. they are all without the cavemen in the UK. They aren't commonly found in the model shops any more. I picked up half a dozen Stegs and Trikes last year in TK MAX of all places. Same goes for a whole load of PS re-issues. The Protoceratops is the rarest of these kids. I have a purple one from the 1970s. To this day I swear that the plastic was cheap and waxy and the head has never effectively stayed on!
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