Completed » Edmontosaurus

The Edmontosaurus kit and base are completed as my non-entry into our forum’s Creature Feature contest. Since the last update chronicled the painting of the dino, this final update/galley will focus on the groundwork. I took an unfinished round wooden jewelery box from Micheals and finished it with an Ebony…

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In Progress » 1/20 Edmontosaurus » Paint

Despite some setbacks, the Edmontosaurus is just about done. My initial basecoat had melted away causing me to have to strip and reprime it. I had originally primed it with Duplicolor Self-Etching Primer then basecoated with Krylon Ivory. This looked great until my next step. I had applied a thick…

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New Contest » Creature Feature!

Because we’ve not done it yet and it’s good to expand our horizons/learn new techniques that “Creature Feature” is our next FichtenFoo Forums contest. So no robots or “pure” looking humans. Just monsters, aliens, dinosaurs, animals, mutants, vampires, werewolves, frankies, zombies and the like. Cyborgs depends on the cyborg. Star…

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In Progress » 1/20 Edmontosaurus

Here’s the start of my non-entry into the FichtenFoo Forums “Creature Feature” contest. I’ve been considering trying a dinosaur kit ever since I happened upon a copy of Amazing Figure Modeler Issue #31 which happened to have dinos as the theme of the month. The work was pretty inspirational, but…

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