Photographs of a pair of toy microraptors, one from PNSO and the second Zabwaka Figurka. The microraptor was a unique four winged dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the early Cretaceous, related to later larger Dromaeosauridae like the movie favourite Velociraptor. The microraptors were abundant in the period 125 to 120 million years ago. Examination of the fossils […]
A Dinosaur World velociraptor in a rain storm.
A dollar store protoceratops
In the 1950s, the Louis Marx toy company based its toy hadrosaur on one of Charles R. Knight’s first dinosaur images for the American Museum of Natural History, painted in 1897. The toy looks nothing like our modern understanding of the hadrosaur, although the image was still prevelant as late as the 1950s. Knight created […]
The next in my project series recreating Charles R. Knight paintings using the Louis Marx toys from my childhood. In this case, a Sabre-toothed Cat or smilodon stalks a ground sloth (probably Megatheriidae) Of all the toys I have painted for this project, for some reason the brown paints did not adhere completely in the […]
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.
Andre Norton’s Free Trader series was one of the favourites for science fiction readers for decades beginning with Sargasso in Space beginning back in 1955. When I began reading science fiction as a kid, the classic rocket ship on book and magazine covers and in TV and movies was a sharply pointed, aerodynamic, finned and […]
After too many weeks of cold, wet northern British Columbia west coast weather I was looking at modelling shelf and had the idea that if Luke Skywalker was living on an island in the middle of the ocean on the Jedi planet Arch-to, he had to deal with the same oceanic winter weather as does […]
