My latest vintage toy repaint, a 1950s Louis Marx Toys wooly mammoth, photographed in the first day of snow in Kitimat, BC, December 8, 2918. (Normally we get snow in the first week of November not the second week of December)
The next series in my project of reproducing Charles R. Knight paintings using the Louis Marx toys from the 1950s that used the paintings as models. The hadrosaur (duck billed dinosaur in this case an Edmontosaurus as it was reconstructed at the time). The second is the ankylosaur-clade Panoplosaurus (although the toy manufacturer called it […]
This continues my project of photographing old Louis Marx toy dinosaurs. Most of the photographs are based on Charles R. Knight paintings. The Marx company, however, created these two as perching, probably easier to produce and for the children of the 1950s to play with. So here we have a day in the life of […]
I am continuing my project of taking photographs of my childhood Louis Marx models of dinosaurs and other ancient creatures. Here is the toy pterosaur, Rhamphorhynchus, based on the famous painting by Charles R. Knight. The toy is repainted to match as possible to the painting.
