Make Your Own Rock Jumping Chameleon Pack Whatevers!

I figure everyone in the World probably wants to know how to do this, either for themselves or to impress their children, so here we go. One important factor when purchasing a dog, tiger etc to attach the head of your TRex  or raptor to is to make sure that the necks of both animals are approximately the same size. Here the tiger and TRex were close, but I wanted to blend them more so I added a mixture of sawdust and glue (also known as "pig poo") around the area.

STEP 1: Cut the head off of both animals, this is easily done with any old knife, make sure that the animals you buy are HOLLOW and this won't be a problem, if they aren't hollow, you'll probably need a saw.

STEP 2; (SEE PHOTO ONE) get Super Glue, I like the Dollar Store Super Glue Gel for this job and rim around the neck of the animal, push dinosaur head and tiger body together, hold for about a minute, add extra gel where needed and let dry to a ROCK HARD finish.

STEP 3: (SEE PHOTO TWO) Base coat the entire animal with a mixture of black and brown Dollar Store acrylic paint, brush off any excess paint, you don't want to put it on too thick! Let dry

STEP 4: (SEE PHOTO THREE) Do another light coat of just brown on the animal, you should see variation between the two colours, and once again, don't let any excess paint fill in the grooves of the fur or scales, we're going to need those for, wait for it and Ding Dong....

STEP 5:(SEE PHOTO FOUR) Do a very light "dry brush" coat of browns, sienna's, ochre and finally little white highlights on the teeth and claws. BUT WAIT!  What is drybrushing ?

Okay, this is very important and will make all of your models look great and you won't be a loser anymore, it's this easy. Mix some of the brown with a lighter colour, a sienna or ochre, then on a rag or your pants, remove a bunch of the paint from your brush, once you think there's only just the slightest amount of paint on your brush, lightly dust it over the figure and you will see the details of the animal's scales and fur really start to POP. You can add a little more of a lighter tone and continue to add subtle coats of drybrushing to the figure until you think it looks amazing.

And there you go! I've made four already, think you can catch me ?
A.Shay Hahn
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