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Just to give some sense of scale to Bruce's models, here he is posing with a scratchbuilt 1/10 scale Carcharodontosaurus
at the London Scale Model Show 2001. This critter is 4 feet long!
A marvelous close-up of Carcharodontosaurus. Bruce builds his models by working up plans from photographs
and diagrams of fossils, then builds a wire and cardboard skeletal structure. This in turn is then covered with paper
mache to give the model shape (with light weight), and then all external features, including the skin, are made from Milliput.
Skin texture is added using home-made skin impression stamps, again based on fossils. As you can see, the results are
very realistic!
Carcharodontosaurus escapes from the Chatham-Kent Museum, where he was part of a temporary exhibit from July
2001 until August 2002. The real Carcharodontosaurus lived in Morocco approximately 110 million years ago,
and was around 13 metres (40 feet) long.
Carcharodontosaurus on the attack! Great photography helps to bring a great model to life. I wouldn't
want to be on the receiving end of that ...
Some of Bruce's models really get around. This 1/15 scale Allosaurus made the trip to a palaeontology conference
at the Field Museum in Chicago, and had his picture taken out front. This model is a little under 2 feet long.
When hunger strikes! Allosaurus stumbles across a lounging Stegosaurus and charges for the attack.
This sort of scene might have happened in Colorado or Utah 145 million years ago.
The reverse angle of the Allosaurus attack, showing the Stegosaurus rearing in fright.
I think just about everybody would recognize Stegosaurus as one of the most well-known dinosaurs, due to its
strange plates and spikes. This shot highlights Bruce's distinctive paint scheme. That's one of the great
things about dinosaur modeling - nobody can prove you wrong regarding the colours and patterns you choose!
This is Albertosaurus, a tyrannosaur that lived in Alberta approximately 75 million years ago. This 1/15
scale model is one of my favourites of Bruce's work, thanks to the wonderful facial expression. It measures approximately
2 feet long.
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