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Pterodactylus antiquus - life-size model.
Styrofoam, wire, baked clay, air hardening clay, papier-mache, synthetic fur.

It took 5 weeks from the very beginning with printing the first life-sized pictures to the final details like adding and painting the fur (actually it's called "pycnofibers"). Pterodactylus is the most famous pterosaur, and its fossil has primarily been found and described as far back as 1784 in Solnhofen limestone in Bavaria, Germany. This guy is walking along the beach of the late Jurassic sea about 150 mln years ago and looking for something to have a bite. A polychaete worm seems pretty good for that.

Description
Pterodactylus antiquus - life-size model.
Styrofoam, wire, baked clay, air hardening clay, papier-mache, synthetic fur.

It took 5 weeks from the very beginning with printing the first life-sized pictures to the final details like adding and painting the fur (actually it's called "pycnofibers"). Pterodactylus is the most famous pterosaur, and its fossil has primarily been found and described as far back as 1784 in Solnhofen limestone in Bavaria, Germany. This guy is walking along the beach of the late Jurassic sea about 150 mln years ago and looking for something to have a bite. A polychaete worm seems pretty good for that.