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I wanted to buy some nice toy dinosaurs to my nephew (and niece, who was born after I got these) but they are neither easily available nor cheap in this country. Instead I ended up buying some cheap plastic toy dinosaurs that weren't that accurate but had nice detailed sculpts (a photo of two of them in their original looks here ).

I knew I could improve upon them with a bit of paint, and even ended doing some sculpting on a cheekless Euoplocephalus that's not featured in these pics. I wanted them all to have unique and colorful but realistic-seeming color schemes. It was a fun experiment in miniature painting, because these things were really small, with the biggest of them being less than 10 cm (4 inches) long.

My nephew is still very young and hasn't really gotten into dinosaurs, but I'm hopeful he or her sister eventually will. Until then I'm keeping them safe, as well as a couple of larger, better dinosaur toys whose paint jobs I may yet end up improving a bit before I hand them over.

Description
I wanted to buy some nice toy dinosaurs to my nephew (and niece, who was born after I got these) but they are neither easily available nor cheap in this country. Instead I ended up buying some cheap plastic toy dinosaurs that weren't that accurate but had nice detailed sculpts (a photo of two of them in their original looks here ).

I knew I could improve upon them with a bit of paint, and even ended doing some sculpting on a cheekless Euoplocephalus that's not featured in these pics. I wanted them all to have unique and colorful but realistic-seeming color schemes. It was a fun experiment in miniature painting, because these things were really small, with the biggest of them being less than 10 cm (4 inches) long.

My nephew is still very young and hasn't really gotten into dinosaurs, but I'm hopeful he or her sister eventually will. Until then I'm keeping them safe, as well as a couple of larger, better dinosaur toys whose paint jobs I may yet end up improving a bit before I hand them over.