We were contracted by the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Germany to disassemble, clean, consolidate, and remount Brachiosaurus, Elaphrosaurus, Dicraeosaurus, Edaphrosaurus, Dysalotosaurus, and Kentrosaurus. In addition, a cast Allosaurus and an original plaster cast Diplodocus were also mounted. We completed several phases of the project in Berlin and employed a new laser scanning and printing technique to scan the fossil bones of Kentrosaurus and Elaphrosaurus. We were then able to print the bones and any mirrored bones we needed using our rapid prototype printer. At our shop, we constructed the armatures and mounted the skeletons using the prints. The original head of Brachiosaurus – a well preserved and priceless specimen – was also replicated using our 3D scanning technology. The armatures and mounting steel were sent back to Germany for the final fitting before installation.
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For the new Sant Oceans Hall at the NMNH, we mounted original whale skulls and casts of extinct whale skeletons.
–In 2011, we completed the L.A. County Museum of Natural History’s Cenozoic and Dinosaur Hall redevelopment. This is a wide ranging project that involved the disassembly, repair, consolidating, and remounting of many specimens including Allosaurus, Stegosaurus, Camptosaurus, and Platosaurus for display. We also reconstructed and mounted many new specimens using our 3D scanning and rapid prototype printing to make precise models of missing elements for specimens such as Struthiomimus, Thescelosaurus, and Paleoparadoxia. We also prepared out a Mastodon skeleton, Saurolophus skull, and Lambeosaurus caudals out of matrix material for eventual display. In addition, there were many other cast dinosaur and mammal skeletons mounted to complete the new displays for their reopening in 2010 and 2011.
We mounted a fossil Tyrannosaurus rex “Peck’s Rex” for the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. We’ve mounted many cast and fossil T. rex specimens, but this our first adult fossil T. rex. It’s a specimen that has some unique details: Peck’s Rex has its fossil furcula (wishbone), 3rd metacarpal (which is often missing), and a great number of gastral ribs or gastralia.