Haolonggu just keeps us delighted and surprised their choice of genus for each of their offerings. We’ve had a few long overdue models, like the Pentaceratops and Edmontonia. Today is a bit of an unusual one. It’s a stegosaur, but more precisely a dacentrurine stegosaur. And in fact, the namesake of that group!
The colours are really nice, especially in the plates as befits the model of such an animals. We see definite improvements in the paint application especially in the body, and the sculpting is HLG’s usual standard.
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Mateus, Octávio; Maidment, Susannah C.R.; Christiansen, Nicolai A. (2009-05-22). “A new long-necked ’saurop