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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Tuesday, December 26, 2023

F is for the Flintstone's Flyer!

I could have spent the last couple of hours chucking a few posts up here to blow the record, but I'm going to that anyway before the month is out (I think this post equals the record?), but I was sent a bunch of card buses earlier and said I'd go through P-Z looking for the last of mine, which I've just done, only, one of them wasn't a bus, by any stretch of the imagination!

Somebody called Cleo (the printers?) for a Thornycroft of Gerrards Cross (not the HGV manufacturer!), for a chocolate egg! Well, Cream Eggs and Cadbury's Mini-Eggs will be in the shops by next Tuesday, you know it and I know it!
 
Scale is all over the place, but realism doesn't have to come first when you have prehistoric men using dinosaurs as earthmovers! Also, the artwork on the three sides doesn't tie-in, as it has on the buses, so just a bit of fun!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Creme Eggs were in the shops a couple of weeks ago. They don't even wait for Christmas to be over.

Hugh Walter said...

Hahahahahaha! I Shouldn't laugh, it's shocking, really! Cheers for the update Anon'!

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Hello. I helped with drawing the artwork on this Flintstones egg box. Was around 1990. In Fulham London. Hand drawn.. difficult to get Hanna-Barbera to approve!

Hugh Walter said...

That's fascinating 'How...', can you tell us anything else about the printers or the chocolate firm? Did you work on other novelty vehicles or interactive packaging? I used to work for the firm which made MacDonald's flags! I married them to their poles with a very temperamental glue-machine!

H