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BrittaM — Parasaurolophus finished
Published: 2011-07-10 07:48:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 1207; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 0
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Finally got around to fixing this guy to a nice wooden base. Parasaurolophus has always been one of my favourite dinosaurs.Super sculpey and acrylic paint over a wire/foil armature, 17 inches long.
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absolutely wonderful!
the duck billed dinosaurs don't get enough love.
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I lobe your color choices on this baby! Very nice work all around!
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Colour schemes are really fun to play with in sculptures. Though the actual painting part can be a little intimidating ;D
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yeah..but you can always keep painting until you like it!
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I usually do some coloured pencil scribbles or Photoshopping to experiment with colour schemes. Nothing quite like slathering it up with paint only to realize "CRAP! That doesn't work at all!" and have to reprime and repaint. Ugh!
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I dont reprime usually, I also like to use transparents in thin, subtil layers to give more depth, and I sometimes apply with a toothbrush splatter otr something to give some random spots. If you use thin transparent paints it is easy to paint over.
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I usually start with an opaque prime coat to have a solid base to work from, but I build up transparent glazes as well. Toothbrush spatters are awesome for textures, I use those all the time. I also "scribble" paint on with a fine liner brush.
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Nice work. It's interesting to see one of the less glamorous dinos rendered...T-Rex has been done to death, but you picked a species that was probably more common.
What did you cure this in? (17 in. long is too big for a toaster oven!)
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As much as I like the popular dinosaurs like T-rex and triceratops, there have been so many depictions of them they're almost stale from a creative perspective. Did a Citipati sculpt also, and I've got a long list of obscure dinosaurs I'm planning on sculpting.
I baked him in the regular home oven, not exactly the greatest thing to do. I recently built a large "oven" out of boards, foil, and high-wattage shop lamps to solve that problem. Takes longer to bake pieces but there's no sculpey fumes in your cooking space!
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Your first statement said what I thought.
As for firing him in your home oven, yeah, I wouldn't do it unless I cleaned it thoroughly afterward. What kind of lamps did you use, exactly? HID lamps or...?
Also, feel free to 
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I used plain old aluminum clip-on type lamps you can get in any hardware store (I think I got mine at Walmart for like $6 each) with regular incandescent lightbulbs, either 60W, 100W or 150W depending on what I'm baking.
I use them all the time for baking small pieces as well, or things like claws, teeth, horns, etc, that are so tiny the heatgun blows them away and it's not worth firing up the toaster oven. Just put them on a piece of foil on my desk and set the lamp right on top of them. Really convenient.
The only trick is you can't set temperature and things can burn easily if you let it sit too close to the bulb for too long. It isn't a problem for me since I just paint over it, but I see you do some beadwork with coloured polymer clay which you certainly don't want to turn black. Laying a piece of foil loosely over top of them could probably prevent burning if you'd try the light-baking route, or just keeping them at more of a distance and checking often.
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