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I found out that you can print multi-page images with Paint (Go Windows!) and copy PDF pages using Foxit PDF viewer. I've managed to put together 2 of the 13 pages required so far and taped together the tail piece (which is about as long as I am tall). http://www.flickr.com/photos/fishies_go_pook/7575690972/ | I found out that you can print multi-page images with Paint (Go Windows!) and copy PDF pages using Foxit PDF viewer. I've managed to put together 2 of the 13 pages required so far and taped together the tail piece (which is about as long as I am tall). http://www.flickr.com/photos/fishies_go_pook/7575690972/ | ||
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| + | Since building everything (cutting out the pieces took under a week thanks to help from my husband, Sully, with cutting out some of the pieces), i think i may have scaled it a bit wrong... 6ft t-rex is not 6ft tall. More like 5ft tall, so a little shorter than myself. It's at least 6ft long so I'll keep the name anyway... | ||
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| + | I've also been rethinking the painting and considering going for glow in the dark spray paint - this will glow if we have normal sunshine and also glow under UV light for evening effects. | ||
Revision as of 09:19, 10 August 2012
Crazy giant t-rex skeleton
I had one of these as a kid (I liked dinosaurs a lot /vastunderstatement). Found this http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-6-0-tall-Wooden-T-Rex-Model/?ALLSTEPS on instructables and decided to build it.
Ended up spending ages thinking of how to make it cooler for EMFCamp and decided on Rosco Fluoro paints (from Flints) and UV lights.
Since it's going to be in a field, I've looked into waterproofing the wood. I might need epoxy paint as a base coat (and it comes in spray cans on ebay). I need a white base coat for the best UV light effects anyway.
I found out that you can print multi-page images with Paint (Go Windows!) and copy PDF pages using Foxit PDF viewer. I've managed to put together 2 of the 13 pages required so far and taped together the tail piece (which is about as long as I am tall). http://www.flickr.com/photos/fishies_go_pook/7575690972/
Since building everything (cutting out the pieces took under a week thanks to help from my husband, Sully, with cutting out some of the pieces), i think i may have scaled it a bit wrong... 6ft t-rex is not 6ft tall. More like 5ft tall, so a little shorter than myself. It's at least 6ft long so I'll keep the name anyway...
I've also been rethinking the painting and considering going for glow in the dark spray paint - this will glow if we have normal sunshine and also glow under UV light for evening effects.