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Tiny T-Rex: Leg Modification

Having recently built a herd of Tiny T-Rexes from cardboard, I finally discovered they didn’t stand quite right because their feet don’t reach the ground.

The smaller orange outline is the original foot:

Tiny T-Rex - 100mm - foot comparison
Tiny T-Rex – 100mm – foot comparison

The larger red outline came from a bit of node editing:

Tiny T-Rex - 100mm - reshaped foot
Tiny T-Rex – 100mm – reshaped foot

I tweaked the original body to include the realigned foot shape to ensure the feet don’t get pried apart, as we’re not bound by anatomical accuracy.

None of which matters for cardboard bonded with copious amounts of hot-melt glue, but I had smaller plans:

Acrylic Tiny Rexes
Acrylic Tiny Rexes

The center piece is 6 mm translucent gray acrylic from the longsuffering IBM Printer Stand, with armor from 3 mm yellow on the left and a mix of 3 mm green / 1.5 mm transparent green on the right, held together with 3M 300LSE adhesive sheet.

They are insufferably cute:

Acrylic Tiny Rex - detail
Acrylic Tiny Rex – detail

Red eyes, because why not?

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