Painting Practice - The Dinosaurs

When I picked up the Presidential busts from Safari Ltd I also grabbed these dinosaur skulls, just to make the shipping charge a little more bearable. Unlike the presidents though I'm going to have to strip these down. It looks like they went through the commercial version of the dip method and its pretty thick. I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with these, but they might make nice additions to dioramas

Here is the dino skull lineup:

Dilophosaurus, Carnotaurus, Triceratops

Parasaurolophus, Dracorex, Diplodocus

T-rex, Nigersaurus, Brachiosaurus

Brachiosaurus Front, Velociraptor, Oviraptor
I was looking online to identify the first one in this lineup and every picture of the set only shows 11 skulls and then I realized that I managed to work the Brachiosaurus into two shots.

Painting Practice - The Busts

I have been toying around with the idea of painting busts, there are plenty of really nice ones out there but I still have an ungrounded fear of painting in scales larger than 28mm. So someone mentioned on the Reaper Forums that Safari Ltd had a tub of presidential busts (part of their Toob line) that would be a good to practice on. Twelve dollars nets you eight presidents so its definitely a worth while investment. From the looks of them all I really need to do is wash them really quick and they will be ready for the airbrush. Of course this reminded me that I have a bunch of Lord of the Rings busts in the same scale. Those, however, need to be stripped of all their paint before I can commence work on them. The presidents though will be ready whenever I am!

The line up in order.

Washington, Adams and Jefferson. With all the revolutionary history reading I have been doing my respect for Adams has really grown and my respect for Jefferson has really fallen off. 

Jackson, Lincoln and Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt. Jackson is not one of my favorites but I'm a big fan of Lincoln and Roosevelt.

In the more modern bent, Franklin Roosevelt and Kennedy. Two more of my favorites. Franklin is part of the Manhattan Roosevelts while Teddy was part of the Oyster Bay Roosevelts.