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Cynthia Gomez, Standard-Times staff writer
Rochester firm helping creating fiberglass T-rex
ROCHESTER -- Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs are long extinct, but at the Fiberglass Specialties shop on one of the back roads of this quiet town, one of these creatures is being brought to life, piece by piece.
The creature, a 16-foot-high, 40-foot-long life-size model, will make its home at the Boston Museum of Science once it is completed. But for the time being, it stands at Fiberglass Specialties of Rochester, where it is receiving a fiberglass coating.
One of the few companies in the area to do custom work on this scale, Fiberglass Specialties was contracted by The Dinosaur Studio Inc. of Medford, which designed the dinosaur for the museum and cast the molds.
"I chose this company to do the fiberglass work because they are well-known at the Museum of Science for their excellent work," said Dan LoRusso of The Dinosaur Studio.
Fiberglass Specialties owner Jeffrey Gonsalves said his company made a large model of the sun for the museum a few years ago, and it makes large fish tanks and displays for aquariums around the country regularly.
"We are one of the only companies on this coast that do this type of work," said Mr. Gonsalves, as he stood on a wooden platform with half of his body inside the beast's open belly. "We do all the crazy custom projects, but this is the largest animal we have ever worked on."
Mr. LoRusso, who proposed the idea to the museum close to six years ago, has spent the past year creating a smaller, one-twelfth scale model, and making foam and rubber molds of all of the dinosaur's 200 sections.
Five weeks ago, the prehistoric creature's mold finally arrived -- in pieces -- at Fiberglass Specialties, where the pieces are being assembled and a one-quarter-inch-thick fiberglass coating is being sprayed on.
The final construction and sculpting of the T-rex will take place at the museum's exhibit halls, where dinosaur enthusiasts can watch the dinosaur's "skin" being sculpted into place.
Though no date has been set, Mr. LoRusso said he hopes to have the model at the museum in less than two weeks.
Visitors can watch the final processes from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, once the T-rex has been transported to the museum. They also can view the smaller model at the museum, as well as a fantasy-based film titled, "T-rex Back To The Cretaceous," in the Mugar Omni Theater.
The T-rex is slated to be finished by late May. Once it is finished, the dinosaur will be brown, gray and green, and it will boast 58 teeth cast from actual T-rex teeth and made from dental acrylics, and 4-inch diameter glass eyes.
It will replace an outdated model of about the same dimensions that sat at the museum for close to 28 years, said museum spokeswoman Carole McFall. Created by the Louis Paul Jonas Studios, the model was based on available scientific evidence that has become outdated.
New paleontological theories suggest that the T-rex stood differently than the old model depicts and that it did not drag its tail on the ground. These changes will be reflected in the new model.
The old model has been temporarily placed in storage, but eventually it will be erected outside the Mugar Omni Theater so people can continue to enjoy the model when passing by or visiting the museum, said Ms. McFall.
The public can follow the progress of the model's construction by visiting the museum's Web site at www.mos.org
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