Papa 695s Dino Rumble

[Guest]

I'm going to have to be geeky again ......

Fossilised herbivore dung from the late cretaceous period, of which the tyrannosaur and triceratops were still active, contained at least five different types of grasses.

The evidence comes from finding tiny crystals (phytiliths) ... These grow in plant cells and can survive digestion.

The evidence was confirmed by an C. Stromberg who is an expert in phytiliths at the Swedish museum of natural history.

The grasses have been confirmed to have been several metres tall.

[eddiesolo]

I'm going to have to be geeky again ......Fossilised herbivore dung from the late cretaceous period, of which the tyrannosaur and triceratops were still active, contained at least five different types of grasses.

The evidence comes from finding tiny crystals (phytiliths) ... These grow in plant cells and can survive digestion.

The evidence was confirmed by an C. Stromberg who is an expert in phytiliths at the Swedish museum of natural history.

The grasses have been confirmed to have been several metres tall.

Nerdy Freakoid...

Si

[papa 695]

Lovely jubbly ..... Nice chopping about skills there Ian

I'm going ( try ) to change the head so that it's chin is horizontal to the ground giving it a looking forward roaring type look

[eddiesolo]

I'm going ( try ) to change the head so that it's chin is horizontal to the ground giving it a looking forward roaring type look

The body is more in align when moving, keeping the centre of gravity around the hips, so head, spine and tail are roughly in alignment.

Si

[Guest]

Nice idea .... Could you cut a 'v' out the neck, then reverse it so the thick ends t'other way round making the head look up, it'd fill the gap almost spot on too.....

Can you understand that, or does it read all befuddled?

Si .... ''New scientist'' is full of this sort of stuff, plus I have a subscription to a taxonomy site that often offers papers on palaeontology........ Plus of course I'm a nerdy freakoid

[papa 695]

Nice idea .... Could you cut a 'v' out the neck, then reverse it so the thick ends t'other way round making the head look up, it'd fill the gap almost spot on too.....I was/am going to do it that way Colin shouldn't need much filler then

[Guest]

Looking good Ian

[papa 695]

Well this will be T-rex's final stance [ATTACH]71209.IPB[/ATTACH]

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Still plenty of work to do to make the alterations look natural but I think he looks ok

[mossiepilot]

Missed the beginning of you build Ian, looking really nice so far, and cracking work on the repositioning.

Tony.

[Guest]

That looks a really natural stance (for what we know? )

Nice bit of chopping and changing there Ian

[Andy2035]

Hi Ian,

These look great, I'm glad you mentioned the bit about the white tac, I thought this would have to be the unluckiest T-Rex ever, just about to snack down and gets hit with a meteorite...

Andy...

[Guest]

I thought this would have to be the unluckiest T-Rex ever, just about to snack down and gets hit with a meteorite... .

Good job my tablets waterproof mate, spat coffee at that remark....brilliant!!

[Guest]

Lovely work Ian. Looking very good so far!

Polux

[flyjoe180]

This is great work Ian. T Rex looks rather menacing there, as (s)he should.

[papa 695]

Got the base colour on the Triceratops [ATTACH]71374.IPB[/ATTACH]

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And T-rex is looking like the Joker from Batman at the moment [ATTACH]71380.IPB[/ATTACH]

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