It felt really satisfying to finish that old cat figure, and then I remembered two figures that have been lurking in the back of a cupboard for years, and thought it was finally time to put them together on a finished base.
The two figures are Lex and Tim from a scene from Jurassic Park. Lex was made in 1994, and Tim the following year in 1995. They were intended to be part of a scene with Dr. Grant, stopping to look at a nest of empty dinosaur eggs. 'Malcolm was right....life finds a way..."
I never enjoyed making contemporary doll clothes, and the two kids had the most contemporary outfits I'd ever made. Plus they were all torn and dirty from their harrowing encounter with the T-rex in the rain and mud. And Tim had been partly electrocuted. They were supposed to be a mess.
Unfortunately, Dr. Grant was never made, so the piece was never finished, and the two kids have been in a cupboard ever since. Which seemed like such a waste, since they were highly realistic, and really should be out on display. So I thought I'd just make a base with the two of them at the edge of a dinosaur nest. Which meant I needed empty eggs.
After thinking about how to make strong, empty egg shells, I got the idea to cover some small wooden Easter eggs with foil, then cover one end of the egg with a thin layer of Aves Apoxy Sculpt. It worked perfectly. The foil came right out of the insides of the shells....
The two figures are Lex and Tim from a scene from Jurassic Park. Lex was made in 1994, and Tim the following year in 1995. They were intended to be part of a scene with Dr. Grant, stopping to look at a nest of empty dinosaur eggs. 'Malcolm was right....life finds a way..."
I never enjoyed making contemporary doll clothes, and the two kids had the most contemporary outfits I'd ever made. Plus they were all torn and dirty from their harrowing encounter with the T-rex in the rain and mud. And Tim had been partly electrocuted. They were supposed to be a mess.
Unfortunately, Dr. Grant was never made, so the piece was never finished, and the two kids have been in a cupboard ever since. Which seemed like such a waste, since they were highly realistic, and really should be out on display. So I thought I'd just make a base with the two of them at the edge of a dinosaur nest. Which meant I needed empty eggs.
After thinking about how to make strong, empty egg shells, I got the idea to cover some small wooden Easter eggs with foil, then cover one end of the egg with a thin layer of Aves Apoxy Sculpt. It worked perfectly. The foil came right out of the insides of the shells....
The insides of the egg shells had the impressions of the wrinkled foil, and I really didn't feel like sanding them, then remembered that the shells from hatched birds have all kinds of dried blood veins on the inside. I expect dinosaurs would have been no different. So I painted the inside of the shells with reddish-brown paint, wiped away the excess with a damp paper towel, leaving just the veining from the foil impressions. Then I rubbed a bit of paint on the outside, and splatter-painted them. After all, who knows what colour dinosaur eggs really were? After a coat of varnish they looked very believable - just like quail eggs.....
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