Zoe's Jurassic Christmas

[Vermin_King]

My son's girlfriend's little 6-year-old girl Zoe really likes my models and toys.

I gave her Star Wars figures for her birthday and while we were playing, I asked he what she wanted for Christmas. 'What are you going to make me?' 'What would you like me to make for you?' 'Dinosaurs!'

Here was the game plan:

Dinosaurs planned are the kamikami.jp dino's from web.archive.org/web/20061214035445/http://www.kamikami.jp/index.html

Patrick Pasques's Explorer from www.maquettes-papier.net/forumenpapier/topic6886.html

The Jeep, which I may have to upgrade at pauloomarcio.deviantart.com/art/jeep-wrangler-of-Jurassic-Park-185345302

The gate from PaperToys Clemper, which is only available from pirate sites, but I'll post the Wayback Machine link that no longer gets you a valid link, web.archive.org/web/20111111114226/http://papertoysclemper.blogspot.com/2011/08/welcome-to-jurassic-park-new-jurassic.html

Would it be inappropriate to add a goat or cow to the set? Probably

The trick to the dinos is to mirror print on the back so that you don't have the obnoxious white showing on the insides

After starting the project, Momir Farooq added Alien Trees to his Character Scale figures, www.momirfarooq.com/swcharacter/swcharacter3d.html

[Vermin_King]

The Jeep was a disaster and required a major re-work. The original model, Nedry's last ride, required me to print up new parts that would fit, so then I made a repaint of #10, the one they took to 'find my grandchildren', then I reworked it for an 'acceptable' #18, the one they took from helicopter to the visitor center.

It was such a pleasure to go back and do Pat's Explorer, as it always builds well

Then I needed to get busy on Dinos

[Vermin_King]

The dinos at kamikami did not have a velociraptor, so I grabbed the image off the back of a Brazilian phone card and came up with this little fellow

I'm not sure why the close-up doesn't show, so let's try a different route

[Vermin_King]

In between dinos, I started working on the trees, and decided they needed to be bigger. They also were more fiddly than they needed to be, so I reworked them.

EDIT-- not sure why I am having so many issues posting images today, but I will link to other images instead of doing attachments

[MacSongLi]

Now that's a great story, and you did a magnificent job, VK. Zoe is going to love the dinos and the vehicles. A very lucky girl!

Merry Christmas to you and your family.

Gary

[Vermin_King]

Getting closer to the wire, I gave my son a choice, Gate or more dinos.

He said Dinos.

Designed a Brachiosaur from an internet image at the Jurassic wiki

[Vermin_King]

Then my gf Kathy said I really needed a pterodactyl, so I came up with a pterosaur




Added some of the Papercruiser rocks to the tree bases, and now it is all boxed up and ready to go. I hope she is excited about these

[Seascape]

Looks great V-K. Bet she'll like it!

Merry Christmas!

Fred

[wideride]

I think she is a very lucky girl! Great job V-K! George

[spaceagent-9]

those look pretty good!