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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