Reaper Minis have released a pic of some Dennis Mize sculpted Raptors.
Green Raptors
Posted on in Dinosaurs, Miniatures.Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Avarice
Posted on in Dinosaurs, Miniatures.Quick update on some previously mentioned dino-mini-goodness items:
Jeff Valent Studios have a cool pic of a painted version of their T-Rex.
Dragonblood Miniatures now have The Hunter on pre-sale. (I’m hoping the promised riderless version materialises.)
Drool
Posted on in Dinosaurs, Miniatures.From TMP news item, there’s a great new dino miniature coming from Dragonblood Miniatures. According to comments from the manufacturer, a version without the rider is planned.
You need help…
Posted on in Dinosaurs, Doctor Who, WWW.… if you’re the person who ended up on the SFSFW web site after searching for “centaur bestiality”.
The word ‘bestiality’ appears exactly once on the site, on the same page as the word ‘centaur’ though not at all close together. I’m afraid that the searcher would most likely have been disappointed.
Other search terms that somehow ended up at the SFSFW in the first half of June include:
- “disadvantages of being vertically challenged”
- “lap dancers devizes”
- “why gamers should go to anime conventions”
- “why does pooh have mr sanders on his door”
- “inca drawing of dinosaur killing a man”
The worrying thing is that the society has such wide interests that all of these, except possibly the lap dancers (especially as GZG are not based anywhere near Devizes), are topics that we could cover.
But the number six term overall was “emperor dalek”, only just behind “troublesome trucks” and “bob naismith”. Will it be higher by the end of the month?
Bubbling Ooze!
Posted on in Dinosaurs, Miniatures.The John Winter sculpts from Iron Wind Metals that I mentioned a while back have been released. It looks like the Mini-Rex is smaller than I imagined. Smaller even than a Nanotyrannus. Might work well in 15mm or 10mm.
Potentially useful for La Brea type dioramas are the Bubbling Ooze.
Prehistoric Pages
Posted on in Blogs, Dinosaurs, Miniatures.I’ve created a page listing various 25/28mm Dinosaurs and other prehistoric miniatures. It’s a work in progress and but will probably grow into some sort of monster listing with pics and reviews.
This is the first time I’ve used the Page feature in Word Press and I’m sure I’m missing out on all sorts of features I could be using to make it better.
Going down…
Posted on in Dinosaurs, Miniatures.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.
More Dinos!
Posted on in Dinosaurs, Miniatures.Couple of bits of dino-mini goodness from Iron Wind Metals, who have rereleased some more of the Ral Partha Prehistorics range; and they’ve announced a deal with John Winter to produce a range of miniatures that will feature at least one dinosaur.
It seems a bit cartoony and it’s hard to judge the size but it looks like it could fall between the available Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosuar miniatures. So, Daspletosaur anyone?
Guess what? Dinosaurs!
Posted on in Dinosaurs, Games, Magazines, Miniatures.The newly described South American raptor, Neuquenraptor argentinus, indicates that either the deinonychosaurs had a longer history than was thought, or that South America was not as isolated from the nothern continents. Or both. Anyway cool new dino with totally unpronouncable name.
Meanwhile, Copplestone Castings have released a Young T-Rex, which like the earlier Velociraptors seems to be heavily influenced by the Tamiya plastic kit version, and a pair of Gallimimuses.
And Jeff Valent Studios have re-released their “Raptor Like Dinosaurs” and have a very nice looking Tyrannosaur and Syntarsus available for pre-order. I’m not too taken with the Raptors which a bit cartoony and a bit Jurassic Park, but the new ones look amazing. This is the first time anyone’s done a Syntarsus in wargaming scale (or any scale as far as I know) and I was recently thinking that it was a shame that the same dozen or so genera keep on getting sculpted again and again when there are several hundred genera that have never been done. I’m not sure about the feathers though – as an early Jurassic Coelophysoid it’s a quite distant from those dinosaurs known, or even suspected, to have had feathers.
Prehistoric Times Issue 70 arrived last week. Lots of lovely pics as ever but for me the highlight was the well deserved fisking given to pterosaur crank David Peters by S. Christopher Bennett.
Finally, there’s Dino-Opoly. The complete absence of any reference to Parker Bros on or inside the box suggests that the subtle rule changes (start with $1630 rather than $1500; money from taxes, etc. go into a pot which is collected by the next player to land on Free Parking.) are a way to avoid paying any licensing fees. Sneaky.
Played one game. Lettice won. 🙁
More dino miniature photos
Posted on in Dinosaurs, Miniatures.Here are some more dinosaur miniatures, two that are waiting to be painted and one that’s finished. The hunter figure in each is from the Foundry 28mm Darkest Africa range.
From left to right we have Baryonyx (DZ Miniatures), Iguanodon (DZ Miniatures) and Tyrannosaurus imperator (HLBSCo). Only the last of these is currently available from the manufacturer.
