129: Nanmu Studio 本心楠改 Shunosaurus Review

Nanmu Studio is well-known for producing Jurassic Parkesque dinosaurs, and are thus a favourite for many who love JP-style dinosaurs. They have however produced non-JP dinosaurs, and today I’m happy to show you one such offering: The Nanmu Shunosaurus family. Shunosaurus is one of those unique sauropods that add some variety to what is an often uniform bauplan – a tail club. It’s also a Chinese sauropod that along with others like Mamenchisaurus and Omeisaurus highlight the difference in dinosaur variation that can exist simply from differences in geography and hence, ecology. This is a lovely scene of family and normalcy: a mother and baby visiting a water hole, with animals having to give them a wide berth – even predators like a crocodile that has to slip away out of discretion. Both the mother and baby are nicely painted and sculpted, and together illustrate the fact that dinosaurs were living animals, living lives that were not always about killing or being killed. It’s a pleasure to see