Dino-lizard creature cake

So, I got a cake airbrush for Christmas from my wonderful hubby. My son's 3rd birthday was a few days after Christmas, so I figured his cake would be the perfect cake for me to practice on.

My boy LOVES dinosaurs. I decided to make him a dinosaur cake... although it turned out looking more like a dino-lizard creature than a dinosaur...

I usually don't get requests to make 3D carved cakes. I knew this is what I wanted to do for my boys cake. I was a tad worried, since I have never carved a dinosaur before (or dino-lizard creature). It was actually really fun to put his body together. Next, I covered him in white fondant, allover.... details and all. I then quickly wanted to airbrush light green and blue spots on him, but of course I couldn't get the airbrush to work correctly (this being the first time I ever even opened the package.... so totally my fault). Since my airbrush idea failed, I decided to paint him green with my gel colors. Meanwhile my sister (she's great :) ) worked on fixing the airbrush... and got it working!... just a tad too late. I was, however, able to spray his spots on (instead of paint). The colors must have been too dark on top of one another, the blue spots actually looked black. Due to my lack of planning and poor time management, I
was unable to apply his spikes alongside his back, which would have been the 'dinosaur' giveaway. Without his back spikes he was just a dino-lizard creature... which my boy (and everyone else) LOVED!!