Re: Carnegie _T.rex_ vs. Battat _T.rex_

[Larry Dunn <majestic_cheese@yahoo.com>]

--- Christopher Srnka <theclaw@sprintmail.com> wrote:
> OK, more fun with toys...I was comparing my Battat
> T.rex figure with the
> new Carnegie T.rex figure of the same scale. 

(snip)

> I like them both
> (they're much better than
> just about anything else even close to that price
> range), but I like the
> sculpt and paint job of the Carnegie version a bit
> better...

Strongly disagree on the sculpt quality.  The Battat
_Tyrannosaurus rex_ is the only strictly accurate
_Tyrannosaurus rex_ sculpt available today (as it
includes Horner's work on the restoration of the
forelimbs, which no other model does).

It's also floating around in not one but two versions
-- one with the AMNH skull, the other with Stan's
skull.  If you don't like the Stan skull, take it up
with [INSERT NAME OF HIGHER POWER HERE], not Battat!

I think the Battat version looks perfectly plausible
as a real animal, the goal of any dinosaur sculpture
and a real rarity for Tyrannosaur restoration.

You have to go to the expensive resin sculpts like
McVey's Tyrannosaur or Trcic's (both of which are
ultra-cool) to get a model as nice, and neither of
them has the forelimbs as restored by Horner.

The sculptor of the Battat _T. rex_, Greg Wenzel, is
considering doing a sculpt of a T. rex in 1/35th scale
as a resin model.  With the mouth closed!  Let's hope
he decides to make time for it.  It would go great
with his superb _Triceratops_.

Enough model talk.

===
Larry

"I've been ionized, but I'm okay now."

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