Hanna-Barbera Productions "The Flintstones" Model Sheets - Pt 1

Model sheets were used by animator's as an aid to accurately draw the characters of an animated show. Per The Flintstones, A Modern Stone Age Phenomenon by T. R. Adams:

"From the paneless windows that make it so easy to gossip with your neighbors and eavesdrop on your wife, to scenes of Dino welcoming his master home, animating Bedrock was a challenge, a time-consuming team effort to produce some fourteen thousand individual drawings per episode. Each show utilized the skills of over two hundred artists and technicians, took about five months to complete, and required, by studio calculations, 6,300 coffee breaks...

...Each episode did, however, begin at the same point - with model sheets. Essentially mug shots of the cartoon world, these pages showed front, back, and side views of each character, relative height and size, and all identifying marks - in Wilma and Barney's case, whether or not their eyes have pupils..."

This first batch of model sheets was culled from  The Flintstones Fandom website but subsequent posts will be model sheets in my collection.

Ed

Payton Products, Inc. Little Green Army Men - Pt 93 80mm Ringhands Pt 1

Payton made a very limited series of 80mm ringhand type GI's copied from Pecos. There were only the four poses shown below and at least four colors (only three of which I have): light blue, metallic blue, olive green, and white. Accessories were molded in the same colors as the figures but my small collection only has metallic blue and white. They too were limited as well and were molded in two sprues:

1st sprue:

-Web belt #1 with grenades hanging from it

-Rifle

-Helmet

2nd sprue

-Web belt #2 with pistol holster hanging from where the grenades would be on belt #1

-Submachine gun

-45mm pistol

-Helmet

Payton used an odd method of attaching the rifle and machine gun to the figures. Other manufacturers' ringhands relied solely on the shape of the hands themselves to hold any weapons. Payton, on the other hand, molded small pins on either the hands or the chest that fit into corresponding holes in the accessory.

Ed

Apparently Kent Owen Sprecher's Toy Soldier HQ is up and running again. This shows the full complement of figures and accessories

Courtesy Toy Soldier HQ

Notice the pin sticking out of the palm of his hand

This figure has the pin sticking out of his chest

LEGO Set No. 76388 Hogsmeade Village Visit (2021) - Pt 10 (Final) Dean Thomas

The last figure included in LEGO's Hogsmeade Village Visit set is Dean Thomas.

Ed 

1st Face

2nd Face

'The Flintstones' Movie Press Kit

Found in The Cave along with the other press kit I posted a couple of days ago. Here's another offering from Turner Home Entertainment (T.H.E.) who owned Hanna-Barbera and all the rights to the distribution of their products back in 1994. This was the press kit for "The Flintstones" movie. While the press kit I posted two days ago was rather weak, this one is a bit more like the press kits I'm familiar with however, instead of including a bunch of photo stills, this one contained one still and eight 35mm slides. My kit also does not have the film synopsis, cast of characters, or actor biographies typically found in the better kits. Some of the old school kits would also have copies of the original script! This one was also full of inserts advertising movies T.H.E. was trying to push back then.

Ed

I don't have a slide copier so these were placed on the scanner and the settings adjusted.

Insert 1

Insert 2

Insert 3

Insert 4

I have yet to figure out how to successfully splice images together.

Every direction or video I've read for doing it in Photoshop hasn't worked for me and trial photo imaging software has never worked worth a hoot!