Are there any kits out there that are accurate replications of full dinosaur skeletons - ones you can put together, preferably with instructions and a description of what each bone is?
I’ve done a little googling to no avail. The closest thing I could find was an ended eBay auction. I emailed the seller but haven’t heard anything back yet.
You want an accurate kit? I’m afraid those are pretty much nonexistant. You can find reasonably accurate pre-assembled skeletons at http://dinostoreus.com/
If you want to find actual kits, your best bet might be to contact the folks at Link & Pin Hobbies or Mike Frederics at Prehistoric Times Magazine ; if anyone will be able to locate accurate skeletal kits, it would be them.
Yeah. Ideally each individual bone would be seperate (rather than 1 “spine piece”, 1 “foot piece”, etc.) and I’d put it together.
Non-existant, huh? I thought for sure there’d be some kind of demand for this.
Yes, there is something of a demand, but it’s among a relatively small group of people. One problem is that the cost of an accurate bone-by-bone kit would be pretty high (the cost of even some of the less accurate dinosaur sculptures I’ve seen is pretty high already). Another problem is that you’d have to have a pretty detailed assembly diagram and some ingenious ways of articulating the bones on some sort of wireframe. It probably would be out of the price range (and difficulty level) of casual kitbuilders or dinophiles.
I’m betting that there are some sculptors out there (Keith Strasser comes to mind) who would be willing to make a custom kit for you, but the cost would probably be WAY high for that kind of job.