Tyrannosaurus Shop Talk

[Danvarner@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/3/99 8:08:22 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
majestic_cheese@yahoo.com writes:

<< 
 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.
  >>
  
   I think that it would be very interesting to hear from Larry and Chris and 
anyone else (especially Holtz and Brochu) about the correct modeling of 
Tyrannosaurus; common errors to be avoided, new information from new 
specimens,etc. I emphatically urge this not to turn into a discussion of who 
is a better sculptor type of thing. A glance at Prehistoric Times magazine 
reveals many ideas of what everybody's favorite dinosaur (all right, almost 
everybody's) looked like. I'd love to hear some observations based on the 
evidence and from people familiar with the problems involved visa-vi anatomy 
and dinosaur science. For instance, what is the Horner (or Matt Smith?) 
Tyrannosaurus rex arm vs. the others issue and what is the current state of 
the art idea(s) about same. Also information about websites with skeletal 
material or models would be useful. Dan Varner.