Robin - Goodfellow's Collection ( Collection "Tour" from page 113 )

[Lanthanotus]

Yeah, well, I do not doubt those scientific findings and there's a lot people around the globe that know such things better than me...

What I do not understand in this regard however is, how those people can miss the obvious problems with those reconstructions, as it's physically impossible to have it bipedal with a bulk of bones and organs and jaws in front, but a skinny tail like that in the back.

However, I don't want to spoil this thread with off topics

[ZoPteryx]

Really great model!  I love the facial expression it has, looks almost gentle.

If it truly was a full biped, the skeletal reconstruct aswell as the model needs a lot more bulk in the tail....

... that being said it is nevertheless an impressive model

As Robin said there is a very good consensus that Postosuchus was a true biped, but you're right in that the tail is not nearly bulky enough, same for those skeletals.

Well, those skeletals are by Peters, so a skinny tail is probably the least of their issues. 

[RobinGoodfellow]

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I apologize to all the viewers of my online picture galleries: I didn't remove any old photos from my albums.
It's just Flickr that's experiencing some technical problem so a lot of my pictures seem to be "No Longer Available".
But they don't.
I hope Flickr will be ready again soon.. 
Sorry 
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[RobinGoodfellow]

..some vintage paleo-art in my collection: The Panini stickers album (directly from my childhood  ).
                                                               (the original italian edition, of course..)



Front Cover


The large "tables"









The rear cover (...really far from "mint" state...  )



Good old times.... 

If you are interested in the full album, here it is:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/130140542@N03/albums/72157651984553802/with/16548054543/

[Lanthanotus]

I loved this book as a child and just bought it again few months ago. The German edition however was no sticker book, but rather a dinosaur book with lots of great - and very retro - paleo-art, but I see it missed a lot of the great pictures shown here. I've seen them before on your album, Robin, but thanks for posting them once more

[RobinGoodfellow]

The Panini stickers album was taken from a book (in my collection):











Could it be the book you're talking about?

[Lanthanotus]

Yes indeed, though published as two editions, "Saurier - Tiere der Urzeit" just included the "dinosaurs", dinosaurs and pre-dinosaur prehistoric creatures, another edition - I don't recall the title - included the post-dinosaurian era. I don't have that in my possesion, but seeing it now I definetly remember the Smilodon pictures

[postsaurischian]

Lanthanotus, you delude yourself. Both (The Panini stickers album & the hardcover book) are exactly the same in the German editions.
I had completed the whole sticker album as a child, but sold it many years ago. The book ("Bunter Kinder Kosmos") I still have.

[tyrantqueen]

I love the artwork in that Panini sticker album. It's glorious. I need it.

[postsaurischian]

  I should have kept the sticker album. I gave it away in my "non-Dinosaurs teenage break" (only music and girls in my head).
After I had gotten back to Dinosaurs in my mid-twenties I regretted having given away a lot of things .
So my advice to the DTF youngsters is: If you seem to loose interest in our hobby one day, you still better keep the collectibles for a while! The obsession might come back. I know of a few people who did experience the same.

[Lanthanotus]

Lanthanotus, you delude yourself. Both (The Panini stickers album & the hardcover book) are exactly the same in the German editions.

I didn't know there was a sticker book, I just know the hard cover books and they do not include these "Wimmelbilder" (is there a proper translation for this term?) shown in post #1129

[postsaurischian]

Lanthanotus, you delude yourself. Both (The Panini stickers album & the hardcover book) are exactly the same in the German editions.

I didn't know there was a sticker book, I just know the hard cover books and they do not include these "Wimmelbilder" (is there a proper translation for this term?) shown in post #1129

Yes, the "Wimmelbilder" are only in the sticker book, but the hardcover includes both - Dinosaurs and prehistoric Megafauna. Maybe they split it into two in later editions.

[Patrx]

That art may be out-of-date, but it is absurdly lovely and detailed. Check out the tangled plants on the stegosaur's tail, for example.

[CityRaptor]

Well, another old book to track down for the artwork.

[Reptilia]

I had that book when I was a child. Talking of misconceptions, it states like a fact that Stegosaurus had two brains. And yes, lovely retro paleoart in it.

[RobinGoodfellow]

Apparently other DTF members like vintage paleo-art like me... 
So I decided to entirely scan my oldest book "Guarda e Scopri gli Animali della Preistoria" FMZ - 1971  ( or " Bunter Kinder Kosmos " in Germany ).
You can fully view the complete book on Flickr.

Some small preview:

   






























Full book illustrations (61 pages) here
https://www.flickr.com/photos/130140542@N03/albums/72157686640668410/with/23503670088/

I hope you like...

[Reptilia]

Yes, I clearly remember this book. The illustrations are outdated now, but still beautiful, and by the way had a huge impact on my mind as a child, as I think on everyone's ever exposed to such type of books at a very young age. I was particularly fascinated by the Cynognathus, because it was described as a "dog-reptile", and that sounded so weird and interesting to me. Thanks for uploading, and bringing up the memories.

P.S. I just realized that the Smilodon is basically identical to the Papo one, the first version, maybe they took inspiration from these illustrations. I wonder who is the paleoartist here, possibly Zdenek Burian?

[Shonisaurus]

What good memories I have of this book! It was one of my earliest books of prehistory in my childhood and for me perhaps the favorite.

Thanks to books like that I became fond of dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. By the way the rhamphorhynchus of Safari is clearly influenced in the illustrations of this book. In fact its colors with identical. 

[RobinGoodfellow]

I wonder who is the paleoartist here, possibly Zdenek Burian?

Paleo-Artists:

[RobinGoodfellow]

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(for info about figures, please follow the link at the end, clicking on picture you're interested)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/130140542@N03/albums/72157686031711803/with/35136001506/