Completed Fixing a Lindberg Anklyosaurus

[smeagolthevile]

Hey, dont know how many of you have tried to put together this kit, but lindberg really... phoned it in. A butt load of fit issues, things not lining up right all kinds of issues.

The BIGGEST issue with it, for me, was that the head was not only that the back of the head was open (no back of the head put in the kit and not in the instructions either, so it wasn't that the part was missing) but that things like the horns on the head, and the underside of the skull cap were just... flat and had no definition, like they were two dimensional.

SO I went and took my sculpting clay and fixed those problems, also made some vegetation for him to be eating in a little base im planning for him.

Where I sculpted and where the plastic ended is self explanatory (gray plastic tan clay)

and the vegetation

 

[gordy]

I haven't seen that kit in ages! Nice work on the filling, things like that are great sculpting trials

 

[smeagolthevile]

Yea, its like they were made for sculptors to practice on. I was so tempted to just redo the whole head because it looks so akward, but im happy with the work I did on it, I think it came out great.

 

[Sambaman]

Ha! I started modeling like 38 years ago, and the kits I first started with were the Aurora dinosaur kits! I still have a fondness for some of these little beasties! Nice work fixing the issues with the head. I'm wondering if the leaf in his mouth, assuming it's going to stay there, if it should be drooping a bit to give it a little more realistic look? Keep us posted!

Jay H.

 

[smeagolthevile]

Yea, I was thinking about that too, im not sure what I am going to do with the leaf, could sculpt another one for the mouth but im not sure. Honestly I started this project thinking it would be a mental health build and it ended up being a boat load of work, so im thinking of just leaving it as is.

 

[theBaron]

I wouldn't be too harsh on Lindberg for this kit, Smeagol. It's older than I am (and I'm 46). It came to Lindberg's catalog from Life-Like/Pyro, if I remember correctly. This is actually one of the better kits from that series, as far as the texture goes, along with the Corythosaurus. The fit is awful, I concede. But it looks a little better than the brontosaur, the Triceratops, Stegosaurus and T Rex, which all had smooth surfaces, bad seams, and the 'Rex even had a little caveman hurling a boulder at him. But when I was a dinosaur-crazy kid of 4 or 5, these were the coolest things I had ever seen Built 'em all, with Duco Household Cement, too.

The other dinosaurs in Lindberg's catalog-the bigger Rex kit, and the raptor, and much later, and original designs, if I am not mistaken. And those are light-years ahead of the old Aurora snap-together kits, though I loved those kits, too.

But back to the kit--you're right, you're getting good use out of it as a test bed for sculpting techniques. If you enjoy it, that's the important thing.

Prost!
Brad

 

[TWOMOONS]

I built this kit and every other dino kit that was out there....and I still can't hold back a smile when I run across one. That's just the way it is...a wonderful part of my early modelling life. Does anyone remember the little cavemen with rocks in the Stegosaurus kit (Pyro)?
and: how many mispronounced this kit's subject dino as if it were part of the human body? Ank-lee-o saurus???
C'mon now...I still do it once in a while....

 

[smeagolthevile]

Oh im not putting the kit down, its a nice kit and for all the fit problems all it took was a hour or so with a needle file and sand paper to fix it all.

Speaking of it, I also have the Corythosaurus, I got them both in a ebay auction for about... 15$ with shipping, I thought it was a good price.

I love dinosaurs, always did. I have a poaster of the corys On my wall from when I was a kid. I also have the jurassic park raptor (the black box and the green box) and a Trex. I just looked at them, the black box is lindberg... dear lord hehe. The green is Revell snap tight.

 

[theBaron]

The Revell snap-together kit is the old Aurora kit. That was the one that I never got, it was the last of the series to be released, if I remember correctly. The raptor is a better model, which was developed after Jurassic Park was released, as was the other, larger, Lindberg T-Rex kit. They benefitted from the info that flooded the media in the wake of the movie. Even Tamiya updated the dino kits they had, and the later kits are more accurate than the older ones (their first T-rex is a tail-dragging tripod).

Looking forward to seeing your build of the raptor!

Prost!
Brad