Client:	The Customer Company, Cheaper! Discount Grocer
	Contractor:	Cheaper Inc.
	Designer:	John Roscoe
	Sculptor:	William Kreysler & Associates, Inc.
	Location:	Benicia, California

K&A Scope of Work: Model enlargement, fabrication, reinforcement, painting, installation.

Project Description: Dixie, the 80 ft long apatosaurus, made the 60-mile journey from the K&A shop in Petaluma to her home along Interstate 80 in Dixon, California, suspended from the belly of a helicopter. Digitally enlarged from a 12" scale model, Dixie is an example of K&A’s state-of-the-art sculpture enlarging technology, utilizing computer imaging and computer controlled milling. Wooden slices were cut using the scanned and enlarged computer image, then diagonal laths were laid to give shape and support for the fiberglass layer. Since the surface was to be very highly textured, the initial fiberglass required no fairing or smoothing. A filled resin "skin texture" coating was applied over the rough fiberglass and painted. Dixie was later moved to her current home at The Customer Company's headquarters in Benicia, CA.

Progress Photos:

12-inch maquette	Applying diagonal laths to CNC milled cross-sections	Fiberglass skin is applied over the laths	The two halves are now joined

Internal steel support frame	Dixie's neck is attached	The long ride home

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Last updated: 09/21/06