The Face Off

Today our first medium sized model of our little dinosaur was due. We eventually had to decide on which prehistoric animal we wanted to enlarge for our project. While the Spinosaurus has more of a "wow" factor (and was actually one of my favorites as a kid), we decided to go with the mammoth in the end because of the structural stability. If we had gone with the Spinosaurus, there would've been far too many unknown variables, such as knowing if the head was too heavy or if the two-piece spine would work, to work with in the future.
     Manny turned out to be pretty decently structurally sound for his new larger build, despite his hips being able to move around.. a lot. We have decided to either design the attaching parts differently or to design a small part to attach to the back hips to stabilize the larger version.
     On a side note, we also need to make the slots smaller than the actual size of the wood to make sure they will fit snugly. The medium sized model was more wobbly than we originally thought it would be, hence the future change. (You can always sand down, but it's a bit harder to build it back up!)

Anyways, here's Manny. (Ice Age may or may not have been a slight source of inspiration.)