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crafts project -- advice sought
Folks,
Could you help with the following questions or give me any leads? It's
not a scientific, research or teaching problem, but I'd appreciate any
advice you could provide.
I'm working on making some dinosaur flatware. I.e., I'm making silver
dinosaurs (bas relief) that will be soldered onto the handles of
spoons/forks/knifes so I'll end up with a stegosaurus place setting, a
triceratops place setting, etc. I've completed several dinosaurs so
far, but have run into problems with "fitting" certain dinosaurs onto
the limited area of a fork/spoon/knife handle. In particular, any
dinosaurs that are about as tall as they are long (counting tail) when
shrunk end up with the heads/details being really tiny. Getting around
this raises the following questions. (Please ignore the issue of whether
a given creature is a "dinosaur)
a) Is it scientifically accurate/acceptable to show the tail
of a Tyrannosaurus Rex bent around and along side it's
body?
b) Is it scientifically accurate/acceptable to show a
Tyrannosaurus Rex "running", i.e., bent over with its
head/neck extended horizontally and it's legs in a "running"
position?
c) Is it scientifically accurate/acceptable to show the tail of
a Brachiosaur bent around and along side its body?
d) Is it scientifically accurate/acceptable to show the neck and
head a Brachiosaur bent in any of the following positions --
looking over to one side, looking behind it, or head/neck
extended as if "running"?
Two more questions:
e) Do you know where can I find a scientifically accurate
rendition (either a 2-D picture or 3-D model) of?
i) ankylosaur
ii) dimetrodon
iii) duck-bill dinosaur
f) I've chosen the following dinosaurs so far, based partly on
familiarity and partly on their having widely differing
silhouettes so that when reduced to the size of a fork
handle, they can still be distinguished from each other. Can
you recommend any others with really distinctive shapes?
i) tyrannosaurus rex
ii) stegosaur
iii) triceratops
iv) plesiosaur
v) mososaur/pliosaur/tylosaur
vi) brachiosaur
vii) pteranodon
viii) brontosaur/apatasaur
ix) ankylosaur -- need picture, model
x) dimetrodon -- need picture, model
xi) duck-bill dinosaur -- need picture, model
Thank you,
Karen