In recent years, with the discovery of fossils in both the arctic regions (mostly Alaska) and the Antarctic, we’ve seen more paintings and videos about dinosaurs adapting to winter with white or almost white feather plumage. So far the dinosaur toy manufacturers have only offered warm weather dinosaur toys and models. When a March snowstorm […]
A big bull leads a family of triceratops on the summer migration. (Various manufacturers, mostly dollar store, repainted)
Late Jurassic Late Cretacious
The last day in the life of a Pachyrhinosaurus. The Pachyrhinosaurus is probably my favourite among the Ceratopsidae, even though it may not seem as attractive as triceratops or Styracosaurus. That’s because back in 1990, I covered the announcement of the discovery of the Pachyrhinosaurus bone bed near Grand Prairie Alberta in what is called […]
A dollar store protoceratops
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 […]
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 […]