Megaladapis of the Euarchontoglires

[Mahnmut]

Back to recreation.

This one doesn´t fit any of my other threads, so here I go.

As I recognised that I already built or modified models of many of the existing orders of mammals I started to look which ones where still missing.

I got:

Metatheria: Thylacoleo

Xenarthra: Thalassocnus, Tamandua, Glyptodon

Afrotheria: Hydrodamalis, but no Proboscidean yet.

Laurasiatheria:

(Cet-)Artiodactylia: Syndioceras and loads of whales

Carnivora: Odobenus

Perissodactylia, Chiroptera and insectvora are still missing,as are some others.

rodents: Ceratogaulus is on the way to the printer

 

Primate coming now: Megaladapis, one of the giant lemurs of Madagaskar.

 

I could not find good pictures of the bones, only several perspectivically distorted fotos of the same two mounted skeletons (on in a somewhat strange quadrupedal stance and one really nice upright one tha nonetheless doesn´t show every bone I need.

So if you know where to find good images of this guy or gal, I´d apreciate it.

For now I got this far:

 

 

[Mahnmut]

Going 3d.

The skull I finished some weeks ago, morphing in Blender from a howler monkey, which is astonishingly close to begin with (and a lama for the eye sockets 8) )

The hands are human, just longer.

Pelvis will need some work, still looking for good reference images, but also using a human scan as base.

The rest of the postcranium I will adapt from a cave bear toy to save printing cost.

Best Regards,

J

[Mahnmut]

3d printed head arrived today.

It´s is slightly bigger than expected, so I will have to adapt the plans for the postcranium. I think it will look good sitting on a branch.

Cheers, J

[Mahnmut]

Still no progress on Megaladapis because the parts I intended to repurpose don t match in scale.

 

But her come the Glires, rodent in that case:

Ceratogaulus, based on sceletal scans of beaver and molerat, printed via shapeways.

Aloha,

J

[Mahnmut]

Finally, a model again. Megaladapis as promised.

I repurposed the spare ribs @lormouth provided with the Epidexipterix, the spine and limb bones  are made from fimo,  skull and pelvis are selfmade and 3d printed as well as some distorted human hands.

Sounds a bit Frankensteinish. But I think the model is coming along nicely after a long time in hibernation. (aestivation).

With that primate finished, there is still a perissodactyl missing in my menagerie, but I just cannot find good references for the Chalicotherium hands and feet.

Best Regards,

J

[Mahnmut]

Aloha.

I consider Megaladapis nearly completed after a long time on the list.

The flash-foto makes the paintjob look odd and shows all the crevices I missed.

This magnificent climbing PiglikeKoalaLemur extinct a sad 500 years ago is sitting incongrously on a piece of Araukarioxylon from the Trias of at least its former habitat, Madagascar.

Best Regards,

J

 

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