Fossil Barn Decorating?

[Bev]

In less than 4 years of fossil hunting I have somehow accumulated so many fossils that I have out grown the house, and now the garage, and am looking at housing my collection and supplies in the barn. I need your suggestions on how I should decorate this on the outside as I'm at a loss... :-(

Here is the overview of the barn.

European mount SD elk skull.

Horse barn entrance.

Fossil barn to be..

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That top triangle is where I'm thinking something should be. It is a little better than 3' high and almost 6' wide.

And if anyone has a better idea, I'm open! :-)

The horse in front has to go, as I backed into it last winter. :-(

So here is where I'm caught...

LOVE this T-red for $99 from Design Tuscano

http://www.designtoscano.com/search.do?query=dinosaurs

Too hard to mount up top, but could replace the horse. I would prefer a velociraptor or hadrosaur, but heck.

Then I was looking at the pterodactyl they have for $50 but it is so small -

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And there there is the raptor skeleton, 27" long, could be wall mounted, but it just wouldn't show up. Unless maybe I put a black oval board behind it, mounted it on that and hung it in the triangle.

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But then, we are Ordovician and not Jurassic here. So I was thinking how I could create a wood cut out of a Maclurites. Seems to be THE fossil of Fillmore County. :-)

Facing down of course.

I thought I would put one of my smaller display aquariums in there of fossils, my fluorescent fossil collection, my 8' fossil prep table and tools, etc. And I'd have a place for my 5 gallon buckets of fossils that need to come in for the winter.

What would YOU do????

And do you have any pictures to share of your fossil storage areas?

[sseth]

There are several companies that make aluminum casts that look like bronze. They come in raptor, T-Rex, Diplodocus, Triceratops, and more. They are relatively inexpensive. I would suggest looking at something like that.

What a fun project.

[Auspex]

I remember a post about an exhibitor at the Tucson show that had giant steel trilobite sculptures...

Something like that might look pretty good up on that gable!