Friend of the website, Waterrocketsrule sent me the link to these YouTube videos of the modified T.Rex he has created based on the original from the Flying Pig site. Nice work!
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Another fabulous stop motion animation by Michael42er. This terrifying scene of nature red in tooth and claw features the Apatosaurus being hunted down by two T.Rexes. Nice one Michael! There are more still pictures here.
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Something new for the website. As you can imagine I have quite a few paper models balanced precariously on every surface here at robives.com HQ. Last week a book fell on my Watch Mouse model and squashed it dead. True Love, who's tidiness borders on OCD levels is getting impatient. Time for action.
Here's the plan. I'll be adding an 'Originals' tab between 'Blog' and 'Publications' in the right right hand column and looking for new homes for my excess menagerie.
To start the ball rolling, I have four different colour T.Rex models and one mono all ready to go.
I've signed each one and have them packed carefully in a box of shredded recycle paper.
Can you provide a good home for one of them?
T.Rex OriginalI have four signed coloured T.Rex models looking for new homes. If you'd like one of them please send your name and address along with a donation for a minimum of £25UKP / $38USD. (inc shipping) Thanks for looking after them! |
Let me know what you think of the 'Originals' idea in the comments below. Too Much? Too Cheap? My plan is to choose a donation price based on the complexity of the project. For example, I have a combination lock which I'll be adding for £35/$49. Any other idea of how I should implement it? Thanks for your feedback!
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Michael42er has created this mashup of the TRex model and the flexible tail then created a stop motion animation that Ray Harruhausen would have been proud of! Fantastic work Michael!
There are more pictures in this comment post.
How did you create the skin texture Michael? It's nice!
Oh, and this is my 801st blog post. Blimey!
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Factosaurus!
Loads of T.Rex facts in an easy to make Zine format. Members can download the file for free, non members can download it for £1.99.
Print out the page onto standard printer paper. Make sure that you set the printer to scale the image to fit the sheet otherwise some of the facts will fall off the edge.
Cut out the sheet along the surrounding black line.
Carefully fold the sheet in half. Make the crease sharp and crisp by running your finger along it.
Unfold the sheet and place it face down on your work surface. Fold one side into the middle so that it touches the first crease. Make a nice sharp crease.
Repeat the process on the other side.
Open out the sheet and fold it in half long ways.
Open the sheet. With a sharp knife cut along the black line over the centre two panels.
Fold the sheet in half long ways, here's the magic bit.
Push the two sides inwards to make this cross shape.
Then fold it flat, your single sheet has been transformed into an eight paged booklet!
An opened out sheet the creases and cut lines look like this. Solid black lines are cut lines. dotted lines are valley folds and dashed line are hill folds.
Have fun!
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A Poseable Paper T.Rex to download and make. The finished model has moveable arms and legs as well as a head that moves up and down and an opening mouth full of slightly terrifying teeth.
The download comes complete with three duifferent colour T.Rexes and one for you to colour with your own design. The project is free for members. Non-members can download the parts for £2.50
Print the parts onto thin card (230 micron / 67lb) Notice that in the colour versions sheet two is printed on both sides. Print out the front, flip the card and return it to your printer to print out the back. Smaller T.Rexes can be made by printing out at a reduced scale. The young one above is printed at 71% normal size.
Score along the dotted and dashed lines and carefully cut out the holes before cutting out the pieces.
Glue together the four parts of the body carefully lining up all the edges.
Lift the tabs on the rear legs before folding the card in half and gluing it down to make double thickness card.
Carefully cut out both legs.
Glue the leg tabs to the feet. Notice the leg at the ankle slopes back a little. Use this to make sure you have the feet facing the correct way.
Fold up the tabs on the forearms before folding the piece in half and gluing it down. Cut out the forearms. Careful not to cut off the tabs!
Thread the hind leg tabs through the appropriate hole in the body. Glue one of the larger caps to the leg tabs. Make sure you don't get any glue on the inside of the body. A coffee stirring stick is useful for applying glue.
Move the leg as the glue dries to make sure that it is not sticking to the body.
Repeat the same process with the remaining three limbs.
Glue together the head.
Glue the two head inners into place with the tabs sticking out as shown.
Assemble the jaw.
Gently curve the tongue using a round pencil.
Assemble the tongue support.
Glue the tongue support into the mouth lining it up with the back of the jaw.
Glue the tongue to the tongue support. (Use tweezers to help) The tip of the tongue should be just in line with the end of the jaw.
Fit the head to the holes in the top of the body.
Fit the jaw onto the same tabs and glue the last of the caps to the tabs making sure that everything is free to move as the glue dries.
Glue on the eye.
And there it is. The most fearsome of the paper predators!
Try printing them out at different scales to make a family.
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Last step of any project, colour. Done.
I've printed out one model at full size and one at 71%. Everything lines up properly even with colours printed on the back of the sheets. Assembly photos done. Instructions next.
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The initial design was three pieces and had no tongue. Now its is a single piece plus a support to hold the new tongue into position.
You can just make out the support piece under the tongue in this picture.
Since the start of the year my father-in-law has been looking after the dog. (Thanks Jack!) I had her today. I don't know how I got anything done in the last two years! Blimey!
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Visit my FaceBook page and enter the caption competition to win a signed Papersaurus T. Rex!
Did you notice how I resisted the alliterative urge to call this post a posable papersaurus prototype project. I'm quite proud of myself :-)
I've been conducting further pipe based experiments over the weekend but the idea for this fierce fellow was irresistible so I'm treating it as thinking time.
The arms and legs can move independently allowing the T. Tex to be posed.
The upper and lower jaw both rotate about the same point at the top of the body allowing the head to move up and down and the jaws to open.
I've made a few changes to the parts as I put this model together so I'm going to edit the file as appropriate then put together another one to make sure that everything works. Then it'll be time for some colour.
I wonder if T. Rexes whistled, they are related to birds after all.
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