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Post by Supersaurus on May 23, 2009 9:51:16 GMT -5
A baby Velociraptor hatchling sculpt as seen in Jurassic Park. This neat little prop was used in the lab scene during the guests tour around the parks visitor centre. Egg measures approx 8 inch. As you can probably tell, I have created a quick mock-up of the egg and dinosaur to work out the proportions. Once I'm happy I've got everything looking good, I will start an egg in clay. UPDATE!Here's the Raptor sitting in the egg for comparison. Looking at the movie stills, I feel the egg I did is slightly over-sized. It is currently 8" in length so I may reduce it to 7 1/2 inches to get the head looking just right sticking out of the top. It is all very rough right now as you can see, this is not to be the actual model I will be finishing, only a quick mock-up. The egg actually looks smaller in these pics comapred to the head, and in a way, right. But in life, that's not the case unfortunately. I wondered if the movie image shows the egg with the narrow end up, or the fat end? How would birds or dinosaurs hatch in life? Is there some kind of rule that they always break out in a certain area of the egg first (i.e. wide end of egg)? Mabe the embryo grows in a certain position and the head is always near the wider end of the egg?? Any ideas people?
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Post by giu3232 on Jun 15, 2009 15:01:59 GMT -5
Great work!
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Post by bladeofthemoon on Jun 19, 2009 1:37:18 GMT -5
You know ? I can't think of 1 dinosaur egg fossil I've seen that had a large and a small end... ?
These in the film were artificial so it prob doesn't matter really... ;D
Let's look at from a technical or practical point of view...For stability the bigger end should be on the bottom...it would just work out better. For the sake of canon, I believe the one in the film has the pointed end up .
Hey Giu ! heard anything about Roostercat's new pieces ? I'm waiting to get one of the baby dinos from him...and I can't wait to hear a price on the 1/1 Rex head he is doing...since it's a kit..it might be in my budget ! ;D
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Post by Supersaurus on Jun 20, 2009 6:22:15 GMT -5
Thanks for the info!
I'm not certain, but I think fossil Raptor eggs had a slightly narrow end. I've seen replica casts and they look exactly like the ones Grant's holding at the base of the tree in JP. These seem to have a narrow and wide end also.
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Post by bladeofthemoon on Jun 21, 2009 4:11:52 GMT -5
I keep thinking of Titannosaur, Protoceratops, Oviraptor eggs when trying to recall images of dino eggs...I don't believe any of those had really diff ends on them.
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Post by Supersaurus on Jul 26, 2009 18:28:26 GMT -5
Added the oil-based clay now. I can start working on the finer details and start the egg also. I have the eyelids to fill in and a lot of skin wrinkles to make.
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Post by jpdude11 on Sept 5, 2009 11:25:03 GMT -5
have you finished it yet?
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Post by Supersaurus on Sept 5, 2009 14:18:36 GMT -5
I will add updates and new pics to my threads when I have them.
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Post by giganotosaurus on Sept 5, 2009 19:17:40 GMT -5
dinosaur eggs weren't supposed tobe that big in reality right? I'm pretty sure the t-rex egg was barely bigger if it was bigger than an ostrich egg.
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Post by Supersaurus on Sept 6, 2009 4:54:45 GMT -5
Some dinosaur eggs were 15 or more inches long, such as the larger carnivores. These were very oblong in shape.
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Post by jpdude11 on Sept 6, 2009 10:29:48 GMT -5
sorta like an oversized chicken egg?
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Post by giganotosaurus on Sept 6, 2009 17:04:53 GMT -5
I heard, the biggest dinosaur egg belonged to a sauropod.. it was probably barely bigger than a Ostich egg. That I read on JPinstitute.
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Post by Supersaurus on Sept 6, 2009 17:21:07 GMT -5
These 18" long eggs belong to Macroelongatoolithus xixiaensis.
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Post by giganotosaurus on Sept 6, 2009 17:25:03 GMT -5
Dang that is huge! is Macroelongatoolithus a sauropod? and when was the egg discovered?
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Post by Supersaurus on Sept 6, 2009 17:40:49 GMT -5
I think they're Carnivore eggs, and are from a site in the Xixia Basin, China.
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