"Triceratops (15mm scale)" Topic

Two different bodies, two different heads, either of which will go on either body so you will get up to four different unique poses for a herd!

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Coming later this spring to Mystri Island -- the reptilian hunters know the ways of these beasts and will at times jump on their backs and direct them into battle, "steering" them by twists to the head crest.

Triceratops was a very large animal, these models being about 90mm long! (About 3 1/2".)

Finally! Something I *don't* feel the urge to have IMMEDIATELY. Very nice models, though, and I imagine I will pick up a few at some point ;)

No worries on that count, as they are not even cast yet!

No fair! No fair!

Somebody has been keeping up with current dino research for his sculpting.

These may force me to switch to 15mm for Tusk gaming.

If these don't, Dave, maybe what hunts them will! You probably know the fellow I'm referring to ….

The "raptors" that were also made (six poses of Deinonychus) also reflect current science and so may surprise some folks. They are not the plucked chickens of jurassic park!

Go on Impala – you know you want to…

Looking forward to the Raptors!

Jeff

Added to my list as well…

Oh dear – that list is growing!

Cheers,
Ben.

The triceratops are tops! I'll have to have a herd. I'm looking forward to the feathery raptors.

Again a must have for my low fantasy Dark Ages

Looks pretty nice

I feel some Dino Riders coming on!

The "raptors" that were also made (six poses of Deinonychus) also reflect current science and so may surprise some folks. They are not the plucked chickens of jurassic park!

Raptors – with guns!

I know, you've already got the Garn, but I've wanted raptors with guns ever since that JP scene where the beastie picked up the shotgun – I just wanted her to shoulder it and start blasting away.

Heck, those Mystri Island Lizardmen with webgear and AK47s would do in a pinch…

If there are raptors with guns, can Turok be far behind?

I would LOVE to have Jurassic Park style Dilophasaurs. I know they never had a crest, but they would be soooo awsome.

I'd buy a handful in a heartbeat.

Cheers,
Ben.

Actually they did have a crest, what they didn't have was a frill, or at least there's no evidence for it. The biggest problem with the JP dilophosaurs was size -- it was a large animal, considerably larger than a man. Spielberg apparently thought that having them large would confuse them with his oversized velociraptors, so he shrank them. Making them small also makes them initially appear harmless, making a poison attack more of a jolt to the viewer.

The JP movies were a mixed blessing for dinophiles. My favourite JPization is the spinosaurus, which most paleontologists think stood in the water and hunted the huge fish off the shore, it's head and teeth are gharial-like, adapted for catching fish, but the movie has it running around killing everything that moves!

This isn't limited to JP, but another fave of mine is the way predators let out all these screams as they are launching their attacks. Yeah, right.

"This isn't limited to JP, but another fave of mine is the way predators let out all these screams as they are launching their attacks. Yeah, right."

Dinos making random monster noises even infects the otherwise excellent "Walking with Dinosaurs". Any allosaur, raptor, tyrannosaur, etc runs around hissing, growling, roaring seemingly at random. Would'nt it be quiet if it is hunting? I like scenes where a hadrosaur is eating in a clearing and the t-rex shows up, moves slowly into the clearing, and then roars so the hadrosaur runs away. No wonder they're extinct!

"This isn't limited to JP, but another fave of mine is the way predators let out all these screams as they are launching their attacks. Yeah, right."

Dinos making random monster noises even infects the otherwise excellent "Walking with Dinosaurs". Any allosaur, raptor, tyrannosaur, etc runs around hissing, growling, roaring seemingly at random. Would'nt it be quiet if it is hunting? I like scenes where a hadrosaur is eating in a clearing and the t-rex shows up, moves slowly into the clearing, and then roars so the hadrosaur runs away. No wonder they're extinct!

"random monster noises"

lol

"I feel some Dino Riders coming on!"
If someone made this line, I'd buy it, though it'd be best suited for 6mm scale I'd think, but yeah, consider it purchased in a heartbeat.

6mm Dino Riders!
To be honest, using that scale never occurred to me. That's brilliant- plenty of space for different troop types and even aerial units :-)

It's official, I want it, and if I could sculpt more than an ooze, I'd be working on it right now.

Ah yes, I did mean the frill on the Dilophosaurus.

Your Triceratops look quite accurate to current thoughts on the animal – I really appreciate that.
I too look forward to the raptors. 15mm dinos are easy buys for me.

Cheers,
Ben.

Luckily for me, I don't have rules specifically for dinosaurs yet, so I'm not in a hurry for 15mm dino minis. However, these trikes look good, and I can't wait to see the Deinonychus.

My favourite JPization is the spinosaurus, which most paleontologists think stood in the water and hunted the huge fish off the shore, it's head and teeth are gharial-like, adapted for catching fish, but the movie has it running around killing everything that moves!

This is apparently because the paleontologist who was advisor to the movies was Jack Horner, and Horner has said that he is "sick of T. rex." So he is on something of a campaign to move that dinosaur out of the spotlight. As spinosaurus was a predator, and was quite a large animal indeed, he urged Spielberg (the producer of JPIII) to have it replace the T. rex as the force-of-nature dino, and Spielberg, a man who knows absolutely nothing about dinosaurs, readily agreed.

Why it couldn't have been something like giganotosaurus or Carcharodontosaurus, I don't know -- perhaps because Spinosaurus looks distinctively different than those two big carnosaurs, both of which would (very superficially) resemble T. rex, possibly confusing the popcorn munchers.

Not to play dino fanboy, but I'm not sure how any of those animals would have done in a straightup fight with T. rex, though they were arguably larger. Both of them appear to have used the old Allosauroid tactic of biting, slashing with slender knife-like teeth, then waiting for shock and blood loss to set in. T. rex's anatomy suggests it bit its prey with rounded teeth (like railroad spikes) and crunched down hard on it, crushing it in its jaws (at 13,000 newtons pressure, T. rex had the most powerful jaws of any animal that has ever lived, including the bigger carnosaurs). There are Triceratops skulls that have been found to have been torn to pieces by T. rex jaws!

and I can't wait to see the Deinonychus.

Are you suuuuure? What I mean is, I wonder if everyone's ready for dinosaurs as they really looked ….

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The above image is actually a reconstruction using an advanced technique that determined the colors of the feathers on this dinosaur, so this is essentially exactly what it looked like.

Of course, it's a smaller dinosaur, and they tended to have more feathers, but the dromaeosaurs were not all that different!

Are you suuuuure? wink What I mean is, I wonder if everyone's ready for dinosaurs as they really looked …

Yes, I'm sure! The more accurate, the better IMO.

*cough* LOOK WHAT I FOUND *cough*

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Silly Dino Riders thread.

Thanks for the link, Glenn M! Those Deinonychus look great! I would certainly buy a pack or two.

So much for the reveal.

The other three poses (there are six) are open mouth, so you get a good mix.