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  1. Craftman

    Jurassic Park gate with T-Rex under construction

    ...and it´s DONE! :-) I love it!! Hope you all think it looks ok!
  2. Craftman

    Jurassic Park gate with T-Rex under construction

    ...add the small wheels to the gate doors as they appear in the movie....
  3. Craftman

    Jurassic Park gate with T-Rex under construction

    Last final things to do, glue the doors on their hinges....
  4. Craftman

    Jurassic Park gate with T-Rex under construction

    Then glue the head to the picture of the body! Almost done! :-)
  5. Craftman

    Jurassic Park gate with T-Rex under construction

    ...and add some printed plants to cover the base of the gate making it blend in more with the background.
  6. Craftman

    Jurassic Park gate with T-Rex under construction

    Then glue it all together...
  7. Craftman

    Jurassic Park gate with T-Rex under construction

    ...to make something for the glued-on toe to stand on that will make the picture I added of a T-Rex body look like it is coming out of the picture.
  8. Craftman

    Jurassic Park gate with T-Rex under construction

    After that, time to fold the edges of the background...
  9. Craftman

    Jurassic Park gate with T-Rex under construction

    ...and add some hinges to them!
  10. Craftman

    Jurassic Park gate with T-Rex under construction

    Then "just" fold and glue some gate doors...
  11. Craftman

    Jurassic Park gate with T-Rex under construction

    ...but in the end it was worth it! :-)
  12. Craftman

    Jurassic Park gate with T-Rex under construction

    ...the text itself. So many small tabs to fold...
  13. Craftman

    Jurassic Park gate with T-Rex under construction

    The result turned out ok! But I still needed to add...
  14. Craftman

    Jurassic Park gate with T-Rex under construction

    I then started with the sign part of the gate, totally ignoring the outline of the tabs I had done before and just cut what seemed right. Like I said, I have never done anything like this before, trying to make a design, so it was a lot of trial and error! :-)
  15. Craftman

    Jurassic Park gate with T-Rex under construction

    Those small fires were tricky to make, but with time anything is possible!
  16. Craftman

    Jurassic Park gate with T-Rex under construction

    ...and then I folded the small fires and glued them to the gate parts!
  17. Craftman

    Jurassic Park gate with T-Rex under construction

    I folded the gate parts...
  18. Craftman

    Jurassic Park gate with T-Rex under construction

    Next, step, trying to make patterns for my gate. Basically I just printed parts of my background with added tabs. Some I made before the printing, some I just drew on with a pen. I needed both the parts of the gate and the parts on that gate to be constructed. My first ever try at doing my own...
  19. Craftman

    Jurassic Park gate with T-Rex under construction

    Thanks, Revell-Fan! :-) And thank you also for finding the link for that dinosaur, I added the info to the previous post just above yours, to "clif52"!
  20. Craftman

    Jurassic Park gate with T-Rex under construction

    Ok, on with the build! As said before I am doing my own version of the Jurassic Park gate. I need it to be open with free space to put stuff (perhaps a T-Rex...). So I used two official movie stills of the open and closed gate where I merged the two into one picture. On the new version I removed...