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Dino Skeleton Anonymous
Dear crafters, I've got a question.

You've probably all heard of those wooden dino skeleton puzzels (see pic)

Do templates exist of the pieces (please post or link), and how does one print them out in sizes up to 10x normal size (with the use of a normal A4 printer)?

I've heard of rasterbating (sp?) how does this work? Need a special program, or will Photshop do?
>> Anonymous
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This was the pic I wanted to show, and above is the only template (of a T-rex) that I found
>> Kratos
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I don't have any dinos but I have a phoenix I can open and scan the pieces of if anyone is interested.
>> zer0
>>118633
do want
>> Anonymous
>>118636
seconded
>> M.
To op : I don't think rasterbating is what you want to do, as it is preferably used to make posters using raster-like printing techniques. Basically instead of pixels, ink spots of various sizes are used to recreate, from a distance, the original picture.

What you could do if you want to make these bigger is scanning and vectorizing the pieces so you can resize them as much as you want. And if you do have anything to share, please do.

And seconded on the phoenix !
>> Anonymous
I've only put together a couple of these, but I really don't think this'll work.
The slots are made so that something as thick as wood would fit snugly. If you use anything else, it's going to be wobbly.
And if you use normal paper, I doubt it would be strong enough to even support itself.
>> Anonymous
well, I just want to enlarge the pieces so I can draw them on big wooden panels to make a giant dino skeleton puzzle

I have that stegosaurus skeleton puzzle, so I should just scan every piece and vectorize them and stretch them out over several A4's?

I atleast want it 1 meter in hight. but how do I get the large pieces (like the leg and the spine) on several pages?
>> M.
>>118650
You can use foamcore cardboard instead. Think 2 layers of bristol card sandwiching foam (duh) coming in various thicknesses.

>>118656
If you're going to vectorize just the outline of the pieces, you'll only have to use the appropriate options in your program before printing.
>> board 1 Kratos
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here's the untouched versions. my CS3 isn't running at the moment so I had friend piece them back together and I'm working on making a black&white version. If anyone is quicker with photoshop than me then feel free to edit them yourselves :)
>> board 2 Kratos
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ignore the creepy googly eyes. i forgot to remove them before i scanned the board.
>> board 3 Kratos
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>> Instructions 1 Kratos
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>> Instructions 2 Kratos
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that's it. hope the pics aren't too big but I didn't want them so small that the print couldn't be read or the pieces be too small.
>> Anonymous
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Some ideas: when using normal printer paper, just don't cut out the slots to the width they are in the wooden type, just clut a slit instead, then glue. Use something like spray paint, blend colors--oranges, yellows, reds etc together.
Hold up each side as it dries, do the other.
Sprayupaint makes a nice solid seal, as my experience goeth.
Voila, firebird

You can just make the images of the wood grayscale to save ink colors.

???

Profit!
>> zer0
>>118729
Thanks much mate