With only four months notice, we molded, cast, mounted, and installed a 40 foot long bronze Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. The commission involved producing waxes and a ceramic shell mold, casting in bronze, assembly, chasing, sandblasting, and patinating. The stainless steel support armature was also made in our shop. A first of its kind, the 6,500 lb skeleton was unveiled at the 2001 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology conference in Bozeman.
Category: Museum of the Rockies
Peck’s Rex
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.