Built out of the box it looks to me like "Bovine Cow" and I wanted something more like "Charging Rhino"...
To get the look I was after I started cutting and hacking up limbs and sticking them back together with blue tack in different poses until I started seeing something I liked. I then glued them together with cyano super-glue and filled the voids with sheet styrene.
It was about now I had my epiphany with Milliput, wonderful stuff. I copied the skin texture surrounding the surgery into the Milliput and while I was at it, added a bit of angst to his brow...
And then a coat of Tamiya fine primer to see where we stood...
I was going to mount him on a plain wood base but I decided to do something different. I used some light-weight Spackle to shape some ground and while wet, put in some of Tristans foot prints. I then painted it all and added the water in the stream with 5 minute epoxy.
My better half Su and I found some plastic ferns at the craft store. I cut them apart, painted, then re-assembled to what I wanted.
Tristan was painted with RAF colors. White on his belly, then Sky type "S", then Dark Green stripes and some leather spots.
A coat of Future and an oil wash to bring out the texture of his skin. I gave him gold eyes to shine and a pink tongue for a shot of color. I then put everybody together...
I have never done anything like this before, was huge fun. Now I'm looking for the T-Rex !!!
