Amanda Bouldin’s Dinosaur Restorations
Amanda worked with Dinosaur World at both their Kentucky and Florida locations. These parks allow you to wander among hundreds of life-sized dinosaurs in a natural setting and included interactive play areas. Along with the theme park’s hundreds of dinosaurs, there were also numerous shows and exhibits including the area’s largest, interactive boneyard, the giant skeletal playground and the Prehistoric museum featuring an impressive collection of animatronic dinosaurs, prehistoric dinosaur eggs, raptor claws and everything dinosaur. These were busy parks and all of the work she completed was during operating hours, surrounded by active guests.
Amanda was employeed as a dinosaur restoration specialist. This position required multiple skills and the understanding of how and when to employ them. Each sculpture had to be pressure washed to remove grime and loose or damaged pieces. If in need of repair she would assess the level of damage and how best to fix it. Most superficial damage was quickly repaired with adhesives and painted. More serious damage was bolted back together or fiberglassed. For repairs she used liquid nails, bondo, and assisted in fiberglass application. To paint the dinosaur sculptures she used both an airless paint sprayer and multiple sized airbrushes with acrylic paint. Once ready for paint, a thicker coat of base color would be laid down with the airless sprayer. After that is dried she would work from light to dark with multiple colors and layers with various sized airbrushes. Once fully painted, eyes cleaned off with a straight blade, she would use the airless sprayer again to coat the sculptures in a sealing coat.
Some of her completed work can be seen here.
