Checking the 'Paint Your Own' Tab, I see we have seen quite a few PYO dinosaurs over the years, and none of them seem to be the same, although I'm sure many of them get more commercial, decorated issues too . . . a comparison job for another day! In the last few weeks I've encountered two new lots, and bought one sample, so here's a quick report.
I'm pretty sure I shot this set in Smyths, as part of their small early-learning/craft section as you enter, four reasonable sculpts and six paints including all three primaries, only a fiver here, and Google says they can be found in Giant Tiger and Walmart over the pond.
These were in The Range, where we've seen PYO dino's before, but these are new sculpts (or new packaging?) and there were three sculpts, different from the previous pair. A T-Rex and Dippy/Bronty type were left on the shelf, but I got the third . . .
. . . a Kentrosaurus or Chungkingosaurus, I think? It's not stipulated!
4 comments:
Have you painted one of these yet? I suppose you could get a nice looking piece if you used the correct colors.
No, I haven't, yet! But I did go back and get the other two yesterday, soon after Blogging them, i just though "Why did you only get one when they are next-to-nothing each?"!
H
Do we really know what color dinosaurs were?
Good question, a few years ago I would have said no, but I think the Chinese now, are getting such fine samples of skin from some of their deposits, that some guesses at colour can be made. Equally, decades ago the answer would have been 'like lizards' (some of which are quite colourful), but lizards survived, and we now know dinosaurs became birds, and many are now equally known to have been feathered, especially the latter ones, so if we look to birds for colour ideas, you have everything from Kingfishers, hummingbirds and parrots, through the black-white-greys of gulls, penguins and seabird, to the little brown jobbies in our woods, gardens and hedgerows? Schleich, Papo, Toyway and Co., are doing some very interesting colourways/markings, and even some of the cheaper dinosaurs now come with very clever schemes which have been given some thought . . . That set of six which appeared under several brands a few years ago, here on the Blog, are a good example!
H
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