Allosaurus VS Camarasaurus Diorama

[dansdinosaurs]

Now that is a $200 maquette. I wish Sideshow would crank up the colors in more of these pieces.

 

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Complete agreement...a little more color variety would be nice. How about some mostly yellow dino with dar markings..ala the WWD Utahraptor.

 

[dansdinosaurs]

Cheetah style. But yes, that kind of contrast would be great.

 

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Yes, something along those lines..tweak it a bit with oranges and browns even.

I passed on the desire for more color to my contacts but I think color is left up to SS to decide..maybe they can pass along our request as an idea though.

I guess we could also flood the Ask Sideshow section with requests for more color eh ? ;D

 

[Mightytrex]

#117 I love this statue! I cant get enough of it! PICS

 

[Dyscrasia]

Nice pics~~

I'm extremely envious of all you folks

Anyways, my local retailer told me that he'll try his best to get the dio from the damn customs where the dio is on hold (I paid too much for this dio ), but even if I do receive it, it'll be sometime at the end of the year

 

[Agent0028]

Damn, this is a truly awesome piece. Thank you for sharing!

 

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Great pics !

I have some minor nitpicks having just got my mine up o nit's new and improved base..which I will show soon..

I see a lot of places where the detail went soft ..mostly on the female Allo...and I can't figure why the Camara doesn't at least have a few toes on the slipping foot...the whole foot doesn't fit well into the mud and kinda looks odd unless viewed from the male's side. Really it's a little weird just how the how the whole piece lays on it's side..I honestly think the whole thing would been much better if made with all the dinos upright i nthe moment before the fall.

I may be too emotionally invested being the Allosaurus fanboy I am this time..so it feels that way just right me off as too obcessed this time around..

 

[Atheris]

I dont want to sound negative, but im afraid it will come out that way. After seeing these pics Im glad I dropped this line...I had a feeling this would be the next piece to come with that washed out quick paint job look. The blood once again appears to be sloppy and put on in a rush. The base also looks like another rush job. SS needs to get new painters for this line, they are butchering these pieces.

Chris

 

[Scar]

I dont want to sound negative, but im afraid it will come out that way. After seeing these pics Im glad I dropped this line...I had a feeling this would be the next piece to come with that washed out quick paint job look. The blood once again appears to be sloppy and put on in a rush. The base also looks like another rush job. SS needs to get new painters for this line, they are butchering these pieces.

Chris

Must say I feel you're being un duly critical if you haven't seen this piece in person. It's ____ing stunning. Truly. And easily a personal favorite. If you're displeased, I say drop the line and save your money toward something you feel is a much more worthy purchase, but for me, this piece is the bees' knees. The gore SHOULD look like this (at least it should look the way that it does on my particular diorama). The strokes don't appear hasty, they don't look as if they are clearly-defined brushstrokes. They appear as wounds dripping from combat, with the combatants gently or viciously bleeding out from the struggle.

I'll be posting a full length review over the next 2-3 days, but suffice it to say that this is my second-favorite piece in the line, the first being the flagship T.rex VS Triceratops piece. I love the dioramas which serve as snapshots of the instances in combat when the dynamic moves from drama to tragedy, as so often is the case... as I'm thinking about it, I'll probably post my review later today. I'd like to get off my chest how very pleased I am that my fears (lack of detail on the Camara feet, sloppy final paint apps, lack of overall detail on the sculpts) were waylaid. It's my day off work today and I'd like to get a run in before the heat becomes too oppressive. Went out the other day when it was 90, returned when it was 100. This is the weather the gods use to kill the homeless, for all you diests out there.

 

[Dyscrasia]

Well, atleast I'm glad to see that a lot of folks here are not as nitpicky as the folks in our country. I actually have seen a lot of ppl around me dropping various lines from SS (and other companies) due to quality issues (mostly related to the paint jobs of the production pieces).

Regarding the price and the sculpt qualities of the dinos, it would definitely be better if the paint apps of the production pieces would match up with the prototypes, but that's pretty much unlikely unless these statues are produced somewhere else besides China (and that would boost up the prices).

Anyways, I don't think the paint apps are THAT bad, they pretty much look like the prototypes even though some of the details and vibrant colors are lost and it isn't much of a problem when you see the pieces in person. And I really don't want to see a lot of ppl dropping this line...

 

[dansdinosaurs]

There will always be some loss of detail - in this case, I think the male Allo could have done with more attention to the head - but I do think this one resembles the prototype more than most others. This piece owes much of its visual power to the overall scene and scale, so it really delivers on that front.

 

[mikkipog]

I dont want to sound negative, but im afraid it will come out that way. After seeing these pics Im glad I dropped this line...I had a feeling this would be the next piece to come with that washed out quick paint job look. The blood once again appears to be sloppy and put on in a rush. The base also looks like another rush job. SS needs to get new painters for this line, they are butchering these pieces.

Chris

enough already! let it go. you've already decided to drop this line after having all these issues, and sold off most of your dinosauria collection, we already know that. but there are still a lot of people who are really genuinely very happy to be collecting these pieces. as what others have already stated, it would really be foolish to expect the exact same quality of the prototype paintjob from a mass produced product. i agree that this being a high-end line, we should get our money's worth (which we believe WE ARE getting from dinosauria), even dyscrasia is willling to pay even three times more of the regular price for these pieces, but to get the kind of quality your delicate taste is craving for, buy dinosaur kits and have them customized. but i don't think it will cost close to how cheap you could ever get to having pieces of this good a quality.

 

[Scar]

There will always be some loss of detail - in this case, I think the male Allo could have done with more attention to the head - but I do think this one resembles the prototype more than most others. This piece owes much of its visual power to the overall scene and scale, so it really delivers on that front.

Actually, I feel the male Allo was done spectacularly, though the female Allo could have benefited from a bit more detail on the head. It took me by surprise, for a piece not rendered by Taboada, that there was so very much detail packed into the male Allo in particular. Very, very pleasantly surprised. I'll go much further in depth in the coming hours.

 

[dansdinosaurs]

Both Allos seemed to lose a bit of detail, but I think this has more to do with the factory molding, rather than the artists themselves. The artistic lineup is, to say the least, sublime in each project.

 

[Scar]

Still have to say the male Allosaurus in particular vastly surpassed my expectations. It actually does have quite a bit to do with the styles of the individual artists as opposed to the factory level process. Taboada is known for his intricacy, whereas Krentz wished he could have put forth that sort of detail in the Styracosaurus which was rather smooth by comparison to, say, the Carno. You can see Taboada's style shine through in the parts of the dio in which he was involved (such as the finer creases, folds, protuberances, and scars) while the poses, particularly of the Allosaurs, and the expressions are very evocative of Jorge Blanco's work. It's an excellent example of collaboration on the part of so many deft artisans.

 

[dansdinosaurs]

So you'd credit Taboada with the intricacy of the Carno? 'Cause I want another piece to look like that.

 

[Scar]

Oh yes, very much so. He's well known for the finer details.

 

[dansdinosaurs]

I hope they give him another one to work on, then. It looks like a taxidermy piece.

On a related note, I'll be getting Krentz's advanced dinosaur drawing tutorial DVDs soon. I saw the preview clip on Gnomon's website, and knew I had to get them for the store.

https://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/83/dinosaur-Drawing%3A-Anatomy-and-Sketching

 

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

The female Allo lacked a little detail on the head/neck and the end of the tail which was really smooth in contrast to the male's. I think the Camara's head on the running Allo side was a little soft as well..as Dan said I think this was due to the molding or paint..not the sculptors themselves.

I know Jorge did the Tupuxuara, I believe he's doing the Stego as well..and of course the Apato. I've no clue what Adrian's next piece will be..his last was the Velociraptor VS.

The Spino by McVey will certainly have the detail as well..just by looking at it...Krentz's Rex looked fantastic detail-wise as well..I hope he finds time to do another as well.