Tag: dinosaur toys

Tracking a vintage toy Dimetrodon

On February 21, Parks Canada announced the discovery of fossilized tracks of the Permian sail-backed mammal like reptile Dimetrodon (Bathygnathus borealis) in the red rocks of Prince Edward Island. A Dimetrodon walked through mud about 290 million years ago. That inspired my next project to recreate the classic paintings by artist Charles R. Knight of […]

A vintage toy wooly mammoth

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)

Recreating the Charles R Knight paintings with old Marx dino toys

Two Tyrannosaurus Rex hunt a triceratops in a recreation of the famous Charles R. Knight painting The original in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. A sabre tooth tiger (Smilodon), watches for prey in a recreation of the 1903 Charles R. Knight painting in the American Museum of Natural History. How the idea […]