Prehistoric Times: Spring 2014

64 Pages·2014·44.143 MB·English

by  Various

Writers in This Issue:
Phil Hore Pat Schaefer
Mike Fredericks
Dan Liebman Robert Telleria
Tracy Ford
www.prehistorictimes.com Randy Knol Allen Debus Richard Jones
Artists in this issue:
SSUUBBSSCCRRIIBBEE  TTOODDAAYY!! Shane Foulkes Wade Carmen John F Davies
Mike Fredericks
Bob Walters Meg Bernstein Ruben Partillo
Tracy Ford
Tiina Purin Mike Landry Raymond Marks
John Sibbick
Paul Passano Sergey Krasovsky Dana McGuire
Kevin Hedgpeth Davide Bonadonna Jim Martinez Steve Mancuse
Julius Csotonyi Phil Brownlow Nathan Rogers C W Gross
Jorge Blanco Trisha Brummitt Alex Klein Dan Holland
John Gurche Jacek Major Adam Lindholm J M Leonard
William Stout Tracy Kinney Xavier Berardesco Joseph J Ortega
James Gurney Betty Reid Martin Jim Kuether Bill Unsen
Subscribe Today! Visit our web site and use your credit card (through Paypal only) to
WWrriittee yyoouurr oowwnn ffuunnnnyy ccaappttiioonn aanndd www.prehistorictimes.com
subscribe, resubscribe or buy back issues
wwiinn aa ffrreeee oonnee yyeeaarr ssuubbssccrriippttiioonn.. Join the Prehistoric Times group for free on Facebook
All payments in U.S. funds. Credit card payment through our site only
Or mail your check/MO/cash to our address. Subscription Information below:
Prehistoric Times • 145 Bayline Circle • Folsom, CA • 95630-8077
Table of Contents
Prehistoric Times No. 109 SPRING 2014
$30 U.S.Only(one year, 4 issues)
third class postage. The PT Interview: Shane Foulkes. . . . . . . . . Liebman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
$35 U. S. first classpostage and Canada
Chasmosaurus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
$45 South of the border & across the Atlantic
Metal Sculptor Raymond Marks . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
$50 Across the Pacific
Dinosaur Gallery Live . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Publisher/Editor:Mike Fredericks
How to Draw Dinosaurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
145 Bayline Circle, Folsom, Ca 95630-8077
[phone] between 8-5 PST M-F Collectors Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fredericks . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
business hours only please.
Dinosaur Collector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Knol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 26
FAX [phone]
[email protected] The PT Interview: John Gurche . . . . . . . . . .Fredericks . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
www.prehistorictimes.com
What’s New in Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fredericks. . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Don’t forget PT is also available as an
app for your phone or computer Moa/Bullockornis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Advertising: Giant Dinos Invade Chicagoland . . . . . . . . .Debus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Full page - $150 b&w - $400 color;
Paleonews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
1/2 pg - $100 b&w - $300 color;
MPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Schaefer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
1/4 pg - $75 b&w - $200 color
Reader Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Mesozoic Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fredericks . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
PT logo by William Stout
Redone above by Thomas Miller 50 Years of Deaton Dinoramas . . . . . . . . . . .Telleria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
Front cover graphic design by Juan Carlos
Dino Shows Are Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
Alonso
4 Prehistoric Times No. 109 SPRING 2014
FROM THE EDITOR John Gurche’s lifelike hominin busts for the Once completed, the 2014 marks the 50
31,000-square-foot hall
Smithsonian Institution’s David H Koch Hall of year anniversary of
will have a new center-
Human Origins exhibit as described in his new book the Sinclair
piece: the Wankel T. rex,
Welcome to PT109 (not to be con- dinosaur exhibit at
“Shaping Humanity.” one of the most complete
fused with the famous patrol boat that the 1964/65 New
Tyrannosaurus rex
John F Kennedy commanded during York Worlds Fair
skeletons ever unearthed.
world war 2.) Spring has sprung
The beautiful Deaton dio-
which is very good news to the east-
rama discussed in Robert
ern U.S. where snow storms got pret-
Telleria’s article is being
ty crazy. Out here in California, it
permanently removed and
feels like Spring was here all Winter
a new mural or diorama is
long; I’m not complaining.
unlikely despite 50 artists
Modelers and readers of PT cer-
calling the museum offer-
tainly know the name Shane Foulkes.
ing to solicit their tal-
Shane’s Chasmosaurus sculpture is
ents...I certainly hope the
on our front cover plus we have a new
renovation is worth a five
interview with Shane inside. Shane
year wait.
has long been a part of this magazine,
We were sorry to hear
first showing his illustrations here
that sculptor Mike Jones
before beginning to sculpt. When I
passed away recently.
heard that his models have never been
Mike created a number of
on the front cover, I couldn’t believe
nice dinosaur sculptures for modelers over the years.
we had made such an oversight and
MOVING?? PLEASElet us know your new address the
decided to rectify that error immedi- Ricardo Delgado, Bob Morales and second you plan to move. I am continually amazed by sub-
ately. I interviewed Shane in this magazine long ago (plus Manny Macedo at the Creature Features scribers who move and never bother to let us know. The
just about every other sculptor) so I asked Dan Liebman, Dino Gallery Live in Burbank, Ca magazine is NOT forwarded and it costs us to resend the
owner of dansdinosaurs.com to interview Shane instead.
magazine later to your new “digs.”
Dan has his finger on the pulse of new dinosaur products
Also if you subscribed to PT by sending your payment
which he sells at his site, has hired Shane to create special
anywhere except directly to us, please know that we only
models for his company and gives fresh insight with his
received a paltry percentage of that payment. The people
questions. Shane’s answers are very forthright and infor-
you sent the payment to get the lion’s share of it. When you
mative and I’m sure you will enjoy his words almost as
(hopefully) renew your subscription PLEASE do it by
much as the photos of his beautiful models. Front cover
sending your payment directly to us. We are a very small
and interview layout by JC Alonso.
business and could really use your support. Thanks so
I’m also very excited to have world famous and extreme-
much.
ly talented artist John Gurche back in PT again. John
ARTISTS!PT does not pay for submissions but many
has an absolutely amazing new book out titled
artists whose work is seen in Prehistoric Times get paying
“Shaping Humanity” that shows how he created 15 The full Chasmosaurus model as seen on our
work from other sources. Please send jpg files of your art-
sculptures for the Smithsonian of most of the front cover, sculpted by Shane Foulkes work scanned at 300 DPI resolution. Send as an approx 4”
hominin species that we have found so far. I inter-
jpg with your name in the title of the image--example--
view John inside and show examples of much of this
Triceratops by John Smith.jpg to our e-mail address or
work. After you read my interview, go buy the book
send good copies (that you don’t need returned and that
(reviewed inside too). I guarantee you will love it.
aren’t larger than our 9 x 12 scanner bed) to our mailing
We feature Chasmosaurusthis issue. I had started
address in California. We need your art and info. For #110
to do my own illustration of this awesome dinosaur
Diabloceratops & Titanoboa/giant snakes (June 10.
but quickly decided, what’s the point when so many
2014) For #111 Baryonyx & Thylacosmilus(Sep 10 2014)
amazing illustrations are coming in from so many
Apatosaurus & Liopleurodon (Dec 10, 2014)
talented artists already. We also feature Moa and
Ankylosaurus & Glyptodon & Archelon (Mar 10, 2015)
Bullockornis. Again our very talented writer Phil
Thank you!
Hore has done his usual smash-up job of covering all
of these animals. Our Tracy Ford also talks about the
difference between Chasmosaurusspecies so we have that pretty well covered in this
issue. Allen Debus has written a very special article about the life-sized prehistoric
animals at the Chicago Worlds Fair of the 1930s. Part two will appear next issue.
Lucky Randy Knol (I’m so jealous or #mejealous) was at the annual Toy Fair event in
New York City and describes what he saw there. Bob Morales sent us numerous pho-
adtTSoliecsnslho loahe sfereaeif auaft eorttu reop rlksellwsa a yatit sht vceeaeht srsef ytusao nnngr ydiedc aoieornf sfio f nSfestrmraeosurim vrtih ni eedsfvwooeerns nmcwiatr aiinitbtn hiMio nGBngu u asyMrreobyuuaa mOr nxs kwi amd,r eitCpnnislsoayt sa Ntachnuaoadrnrt mEnpwolraaietncy f ssNBihentoeadsara eltra o dDnw mydeiweatahsnthco eyrwnrio,beh uw ione. hlgsRsi telMaoe.rb WrPPeeaCrdett WFCIEOFADTLREELE SETNICHG TEDN MTISFH FPNEEROMROW EAU!NL DLTL!Y!
in all of the great “Dinosaurs” videos of the 1980s written by Richard Jones who pro-
duced them. We thank Joshua Ballze for helping us get this for this issue. And yet, all
of that only scratches the surface of all the goodies in another jam-packed issue. I
thank all of these talented writers and everyone else that wrote and sent art and infor- A
d
tmwaetniotyn ytoe amrsa koef pthriosd auncointhge Pr Tg raenadt iIs sSuTeI. LI LR EabAsLolLuYte lmy elaonv et hdaot.i nIgt hita.s I b aemen v meroyr ea wthaarne design
athgaati nit. could not happen without all of you contributing and just reading it, so thanks by M
WoWrlhdes nF Ia iwr aws aas kinid ,t omwyn f aamndil yI vwisaist etdh rNilelewd Ytoor kse Ce ittyh.e Itl ijfues-st iszoe dh adpinpoesnaeudr st haatt tthhee ichael S
ASinnncilvaeirr sOairly E oxfh tihbeit .N TYhe W yeoarrl dw’sa sF a1i9r.6 Y4 easn, dI If meeel nvteiorny tohlids. b1e9c6a4u swe a2s0 1a4 g irse tahte y 5e0a ry efoarr tevens
many other things now celebrating their 50 year anniversary like the arrival of the
Beatles in the US and the introduction of the Ford Mustang.
Read a great article about artist Charles R Knight at this site:
http://underpaintings.blogspot.com/2014/03/words-of-wisdom-charles-r-knight.html
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History’s dinosaur hall will close
April 28 for a $48 million makeover. Most of the specimens won’t reappear until
2019, when the Fossil Hall at the world’s second-most-visited museum is reopened.
Prehistoric Times No. 109 SPRING 2014 5
MMEESSOOZZOOIICC Last issue we asked PT readers to come up with funny cap-
tions based upon the photo on the left. The winner:
“We haven't had a dinosaur since the last one tried to eat
our milk cow.”
Sam Mueller of Sheridan, Wyoming won a PT subscription
MM AA II LL
than once when I was trying to track down the actual
year when a particular discovery came out. Each issue is
an excellent balance of art, collector sharing and scien-
tific information, and as always is just plain fun to read.
--Mark Hallett, Dallas , OR
Dear Mike, Greetings from
Wyoming. Your publication
just continues to go from
strength to strength and I look
forward to every issue. I do
Hi Mike, I just finished reading the new PT and really appreci- feel that I must correct a bit of
ate the space and very nice layout you made for my dinosaur misinformation that appeared
stamps feature as well as my other artwork in the magazine.. I was in the last issue, however. In
naturally interested to see how James Gurney tackled his assign- his interview, sculptor Bob
ment…I don’t think there was so much cloak and dagger stuff Morales states that the Theory
there - I didn't tell my family about it until after the first 12 months! of Evolution is no less reli-
I must have seen David Krentz’s work (Walking with Dinosaurs gious or theologically based
3D) on the sides of some of the double-decker buses over than belief in Creationism.
here…...there were ads everywhere promoting the movie last year This simply isn’t so. Like any
up to Christmas and the museum had a major tie-in. I didn't get to other scientific theory, evolu-
see the movie but saw ads here and there. Amazing images…This tion is accepted not on faith,
is a recent drawing of a baby Ichthyosaur [communis] - drawn from © John Sibbick but rather because it is sup-
a prepared fossil found in Dorset on the south coast; part of a series www.johnsibbick.com ported by hypotheses that have
of studies I've been doing over the last few years..Of course -it is a been tested and confirmed.
bit old school in composition but was designed for a small dinosaur exhibit Religious and theological beliefs - including Creationism - are not.
in a farm along the south coast Isle of Wight. The painting shows a typical Creationists hardly ever suggest hypotheses that could be used to test their
Lower Cretaceous scene with all the Wealden suspects. The bottom section model of paleontological history, and on the rare occasions that they have,
of the scene is a little bare because, as it is displayed, it has scale models of their predictions have been soundly falsified. For example, if the creationist
trees and a small 3D landscape in the front so the painting is seen through model were correct, we ought to have found cockles, mussels and scallops
it. All the best, John Sibbick, Isle of Wight, England in the Burgess Shale, mastodons and rhinos in the Morrison Formation, and
dromaeosaurs and ornithomimids in the White River Badlands. And yet, in
150 years of fossil dig-
Fred Snyder made this great dinorama out of
Got my new issue Mike! You've got to believe how much I look forward pinecones and plastic ferntops and modeling greenery. ging in the American
to this, and how inspiring it is to see the excellent art and (drool) those mod- West, not one of these
els. Three of the features I often enjoy most are Phil's featured article on a finds has ever turned up!
given animal, Tracy's "How to Draw Dinosaurs" and "Dinosaur Meanwhile, the evolution-
Paleontology: The Year In Review"-- this last has come to my rescue more ist model predicted that
we would find birds with
teeth, dinosaurs with
© John Sibbick feathers, horses with toes,
www.johnsibbick.com snakes with arms and
whales with legs. And we
have! Creationists will
sometimes counter by
pointing out that, say, Archaeopteryxwas not directly ancestral to modern
birds, but they’re missing the point. If Evolution is bogus, how do evolu-
tionists keep
making such
Mark Ryan displayed his dinosaur
collection at the Minneapolis Library accurate predic-
and it was enjoyed by all tions? Keep up
the good work
and best wishes
for you and
Prehistoric
Times in this
new year. Open
sky! Russell J
Hawley, Tate
Geological
M u s e u m ,
6 Prehistoric Times No. 109 SPRING 2014
Casper College, Wyoming.
Alex Klein paleo punks
Thanks Russell, like yourself, Bob Morales has long been a
friend of this publication and I never considered editing his com-
ments in my interview with him even though I certainly realized Moa by Adam Lindholm Age 13
they were controversial. It is for that same reason that I am happy
to run your letter as a rebuttal but this will be the end of it. A few
years ago, Mesozoic Mail unfortunately became a forum for the
evolution/creationist debate. It swiftly got to the point where PT
readers begged me to drop it and move on - editor
Hey, Got my issue and
wow! Of course they are
always top notch. I am
doing a series of
scrimshaw pieces I
am offering for
Xavier Berardesco
sale to fund my
Asbury Park Middle School
D i n o s a u r
E d u c a t i o n
Program for
C h i l d r e n ' s
Hospitals and low
income area
schools. Here is
Archaeopteryx
etched into a piece
of mammoth tusk
Mr. Mason and Tyler Lanno present Mr. Wronko's
bark. The bark is
Cretaceous War Zone Project at the American Museum of
sanded till a win-
Natural History in New York City.
dow of creamy ivory is exposed. It is then polished to a glass like finish. A
drawing is made and then the lines are etched. The lines are filled with ink
Dear PT, I happened to stumble across some Marx Prehistoric Times triv-
to add the color. This project took 14 hours. It is
ia: In the deleted scenes section of the Bonus features of the BluRay/DVD
2.5 x 1.5. Do you think readers would enjoy read-
of the Dark Shadows movie, there is a scene where Johnny Depp is sitting
ing about working with fossil ivory? There is
on the floor talking to a kid, and spread around them are an assortment of
Mammoth, Mastodon, and Fossil Walrus to be
Marx Prehistoric Times dinosaur toy figures. What is unusual is that the fig-
worked. Also, let me know if anyone would be
ures are in an extra large scale, similar to the three classic Marx Flintstones
interested in acquiring some of my work. Thanks,
(Hunting Party) dinosaur figures. I guess they
Don Meadows,by
were custom made for the movie. Thanks,
Steve Riojas and some
George Sonoda, Arlington Hts., IL
by Martin Garrett.
Darn you George, you got me so interested,
Author of OF ICE
I had to go buy the BluRay myself. I paused
AND STEEL and EPI-
the picture and they are playing with a few
TAPH torpe-
regular sized Marx dinos, Aurora Prehistoric
[email protected]
Scenes models, an Invicta Plesiosaur, a Safari
Very Nice work, Don, and I admire your
Ltd Spinosaur, a stuffed pink Triceratops
work for children. A number of PT readers
and, like you said, eight huge Marx dinosaurs
tell me that they use prehistoric animals in
that appear to be perfect reproductions; just
some way or another to help children’s chari-
many times larger. I agree with you; probably
ties. I love it. I show your e-mail here so people
custom made for the film, but it’s a mystery.
can get in touch with you-editor
Oh, the magic of Hollywood - editor
Above: The Paris
Museum for the gallery of
Paleontology and compara-
tive anatomy
Left: View of the gallery
of vertebrates
Right: French PT sub-
scriber Jean-Marie Leonard
sent us these photos from
Paris, France. (seen here
next to their Triceratops
skull)
Prehistoric Times No. 109 SPRING 2014 7
The PT DinoStore
Vintage dinosaur collectibles for sale from PT magazine
1. “Dinosaur Collectibles” price guide co-written and signed by PT editor $49 18. hollow dinos
1. Collectibles
2. Linde 1950s Coffee Premium plastic dinosaur figs 7 from Austria. $12ea.
book
3. Rare 8th Linde figure to complete above set: Rare Rhamphorhynchus $45
4. Marx orig. sm/med 50s/ 60s dinosaur toy figs (green, brown, gray) $5
5. Marx orig. Krono, T-rex (pot-belly or slender) $39, Brontosaurus $34
6. Marx original second series dinos/mammals $12 each, set of 8 - $79
7. Marx 45mm cavemen (6 diff) $7 ea Marx 6” cavemen (6 diff) $15 ea.
8. Abbeon porcelain 5”dinos Ptero, Proto, Styrac, Bront, Anky, Coryth @ $45
9. Multiple (MPC) dinosaur plastic figures many colors $5-10 each (inquire) 11. Sinclair banks
10. JH Miller waxy plastic 50s Woolly Rhino, Mammoth/Mastodon or Stego $65
20. SRG
11. Sinclair 1960s green plastic 10” brontosaur bank $24
12. Sinclair 1934 Dinosaur book $25 & Sinclair1964 Worlds Fair booklet $15 17. Sinclair bagged set
13. Sinclair 60s colorful Hardback “The Exciting World of Dinosaurs” $44
35. Palmer
14. Sinclair hollow dinosaurs 64 NY World’s Fair dinos in several colors @$35
2&3. Linde
15. Sinclair rare hollow NY Worlds Fair Brontosaurus looking backward $66
16. Sinclair album and complete stamps set1935 $35 or 1959 $20
17. Sinclair 60s solid Worlds Fair dinos (6 diff. various prices) (bagged set $79)
18. Hollow, dimestore plastic dinos, 60s/70s six different $8 each (see photo)
8.
19. William Otto La Brea tar pit bronze saber-toothed cat 4” figure 1960s $99 Abbeon
20. SRG Small metal dinosaurs pterosaur $59, T. rex, Tricer, Dimetro, Tracho, Bronto or
Stego $35 ea. SRG Large metal Tricer, Tracho, or T. rex $69 each
21. 60’s Japan Porcelain Dimetrodon, Stego, Bronto, T-rex or Protoceratops 5” @$24 35. Palmer
22. 1960s, salt & pepper shakers, bone china, intertwining neck Brontosaurus $39
23. Nabisco silver prehistoric mammal cereal premiums early 1960s $10 ea. All 8 $75
14. Sinclair hollow dinosaurs
24. Nabisco/Fritos dinosaur premiums, gray (60s) $5 each, 1950s green & red $10 ea.
12. 1934 Book
25. ROM (Royal Ontario Museum)plastic dinosaur figures. $15 ea, Pteranodon $25
26. View Master Prehistoric Animals 1960s comp. 3 reels/booklet nm $24
27. Topps complete set of 12 - 2” plastic dinosaur figures Nice! Early 90s. $25
29. Animals Of The Past Golden Stamp Book 1968 - $39
30. Teach Me About Prehistoric Animals Flash cards 1960s $49 23. Nabisco cereal prehistoric
31. Brooke Bonde 60s dinosaur trading album w/ set of cards attached $59 mammals
32. Rare Bandai motorized Dimetrodon or Brontosaurus model kit in box @$45
33. Pyro white box MIB dinosaur model kits, Proto, Dime, Stego, Tricer, @$39
29. Stamp Book
34. Lifelike Neanderthal Man plastic model kit Mint in box 70s - $45
9. MPC
35. Palmer 1960s Mastodon skeleton or Brontosaurus skeleton $39 each MIB
Multiple dinos
36. Sinclair Oil 1960s dino chrome metal tray $69
37. Marx Linemar 1960s one inch metal dinos. T. rex $24 ea.
38. Golden Funtime 1960s Dinosaur trading cards unpunched in book $89
PT back issues 103- $1231, 33, 41, 42, 52, 66, 74, 75, 76, 78, 85, 92 - 102,
104-108 only $7each on sale (PT issue prices include shipping)
Please add $6 shipping in U.S. • Call or e-mail me about 27. Topps dino set
38. condition. 37. Marx 19. Otto sabertooth 36. Sinclair chrome
1960s Mike Fredericks Linemar tiny tray 1960s
Golden Prehistoric Times metal T. rex
Funtime
dino 145 Bayline Cir.
trading
Folsom, California 95630-8077
cards in
book [phone] 30. Flash cards
31. Brooke Bond
[email protected]
24. Nabisco dinos
22. 1960s salt & pepper 34. Lifelike 24. 1960s
shakers w/ intertwined necks. 5” Neanderthal Japan
long each. man model 26. 60’s Viewmaster
25. ROM plastic dinos 7. 6 inch Marx large cavemen
13. Left:
Sinclair 1960s
16. Sinclair 1959 Oil
hardback
dino stamps & album
8 Prehistoric Times No. 109 SPRING 2014

10 Prehistoric Times No. 109 SPRING 2014