Re: dinosaur reconstructions ...

[pss1nw@surrey.ac.uk (Nigel Woodger)]

>  If you REALLY want to see nice vinyl, look for the KAIYODO models.  VERY
>VERY NICE!  Similar prices, more dinosaurs (they gots hadrosaurs, my favs!),
>2 scales, and they are very hard to find.
>They're out of Japan.
>   I don't gets no comission talking about these guys, and I don't work no
>how with them.
>
>Betty Cunningham(Flyinggoat@aol.com)
>
>In the UK these models are availible from Tyrannus Imports, For those (like 
me) on very tight budgets a realy interesting range of models is availible 
from a company called Glencoe, these are reissues of 1960's models of 
skeletal reconstructions which are (I Think) based on AMNH exhibits (T.Rex, 
Stegosaurus, and as it is called on the box, Brontosaurus) as these are 
1960's reconstructions the T.Rex drags it's tail and the "Brontosaurus" has 
a very Camarasaurid head but they do represent state of the art 
reconstructions prior to the current re-evaluation of dinosaur gait and 
carriage, and could be the basis of several  interesting conversion projects 
(articulating the "Tail Dragging" Rex to a "Bakker Stance" would be a real 
challenge and yeild dramatic results)-They are in two scales REx and Steg 
1:24 Apat(Bronto) 1:35, These models cost about 10 pounds in the UK but are 
probably cheaper in the states 
(I have no connection with Tyrannus or Glencoe)Gotta go 
        Spike