Jim, think you're right, of course, that the Animals cover foto shows a model made off the actual Gwangi mold. I've never seen these 2 fotos together, but they are so similar it leaves me thinking: does the Prehistoric Animals cover reflect a prototype version made for the film or an earlier museum exhibit figure that he decided to elaborate for the film? The notched fingernails in both pix look strikingly similar. But the movie Gwangi was subsequently customized into an Allosaurus by acquiring 3-digit paws, & Ray apprently endowed the puppet, post-fabrication, with his patented "soft throat" treatment. In any case, it strikes me that Gwangi's shape & fine details represent what could be said to be Hayward's own style as much as, say -- in contrast -- the allosaurus in ONE MILLION YEARS BC looks like an exact reproduction of Harryhausen's character drawings & his personal predilection for big, dragonish scales (a la Rhedosaurus). For those reasons -- fool business call or not -- Hayward may have had unusually proprietary feelings about his Gwangi sculpture that emboldened him to project images of it into the mainstream, i.e. "admire my baby."

BTW, is that the same dangling fern in both these pix?

Ted, I would be curious to see the quote(s) from that interview wherein, as you suggest, Hayward implied that closer connection to stop mo than was his due. Possible for you to scan the article for us?

And, please, Jim, would love to see some always-welcome snaps of the NHMLondon/Invicta dinos. One of their very last pieces, BTW, was an all-time fave of mine: an elegant, vividly elephant-like Brachiosaurus (very un-Hayward like, only wish I knew whose work it was).

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