I picked this book up probably 10 years ago. I don't remember where I got it but I remember being really excited. At the time all of my kids were under 12 years old so I thought it would be real cool to build with them, or just have them watch as it got made.
I also figured that, as a professional cook, working with chicken to build a cool dinosaur would be easy. Boy, was I mistaken. When I bought it I was not really thinking of the process as much as the final product, and it turns out this project is way more involved than I thought.
My main barrier at the time was the precision work that needs to be done gluing the bones together. Three whole chickens are needed for the project, boiled, cleaned and sorted, I can deal with all that. Holding a tiny bone and trying to glue it to another tiny bone...I'm out 馃拃
I simply don't have the patience or skill it takes to finesse something that. The project would be over pretty much at the beginning if that was my job and I knew it.
So the book has been on the shelf, and in & out of boxes, for the last decade or so. While I was cleaning my little book shelf the other day I pulled this book out and looked it over. I set it on the kitchen table for my 17 year old to see and started talking to him about it over dinner. He definitely has the skills I lack for to put this dino together.
We talked about it and we are going to give it a go! I'm collecting all the supplies, and there are a good number of them, before getting the chickens. Then the book says to process one chicken at a time, as you have to keep all the little bones organized as you take them apart.
So we will start with one chicken probably sometime next week and go from there. I'll keep you posted ;)
