Not quite dinosaurs but close, HLBS Co have released a range of deep sea divers and ocean dwelling creatures, including several prehistoric marine reptiles.
There’s not much else available for 25/28mm scale time travellers who like to get their feet wet.
HLBS Co used to have a Tylosaurus and an Elasmosaurus as waterline models and DZ MIniatures had a very large but utterly fantastic waterline Lipleurodon. If you see any these for sale you should first grab as many as you can and secondly let me know so I can grab the rest.
Steve Barber Models do some cavemen mucking about in the water and a Carcharadon Megalodon (rough translation “fecking huge shark with fecking huge teeth”) to gobble them up.
And Flagship Games have a Ictheasaur (sic), that at 8″ must represent one of the 15m giants such as Shonisaurus.
Not as desirable as the DZ Liopleurodon (why didn’t I buy it when it was available?!), but Invicta Plastics 1:45 range for the Natural History Museum includes a Pliosaur (Liopleurodon) as well as a large Plesiosaur and an Icthyosaur of similar size to the waterline one from Flagship Games.
The new HLBS figures are all relatively small apart from the Plotosaurus, which obviously re-uses some of the modelling of the old waterline Tylosaurus.
Do you happen to know whether the Plotosaurus is a multi-part kit? I got the last Tylosaurus that North Star had in stock. But it had two upper jaws and no lower jaw and although they promised to chase HLBS for a replacement part I haven’t heard anything yet.
I hope to make a trip to the NHM soon (hey I live in London I should go every week…) but they’re switching over to a new toy line from ToyWay so the Invicta line may become hard to find.
The Plotosaurus has a resin body, with four metal fins and a two part metal head. The head is very similar to the Tylosaurus one, but the mouth isn’t open as wide and there isn’t the third part inserted between the two jaws. The top half also has a peg which goes into the resin body for a more secure fit than the Tylosaurus.
The body had a very big moulding plug on one side which had to be cut away, but at least the resin is a soft one so this wasn’t as painful a process as it might have been.
I’ve found HLBS very helpful when dealing with them directly.
please send me when the lipleurodon lived by e-mail
Kiki- See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipleurodon