ALICE IN WONDERLAND TOYS DISNEY

The big Nikon flopped on this one, so I had to shoot this with the Fuji and still went through 5 shots until I got a good one.

Is it really that complicated? Yes, the buildings and the cars are out of scale, but to a child, they're within scale. That's the image I was trying to convey.

My intentions here are to start building a small city on top of my father's old workbench. I had one when I was little, complete with train set, but that is long gone. I made another attempt in the 80's but needed the room for my ever growing cassette collection, so I moved it up to the attic. Part of it is still there and will be photographed eventually.

When I do build it, I might as well call it Mottsville. A word from my childhood that seems to have been applied to the trail and 90% of the woods in my later years.

These building I found in the Goodwill recently. It's a set called 'Churches Of the World'. They are very out of scale compared to the Hot Wheels cars, but if you forget they're churches and pretend they're just regular houses, they're suddenly within scale. That's what I would've done when I was 4 or 5 years old.

The cars come from all over. Most of my car collection was found on the street in the 80's.

I never did ID that big long car (LOL)

The ultimate kids toy! Now you know where my interest in aviation comes from. When I was just 5 years old my father, David Smith, built this ultra cool delta wing combat jet for me as a toy. This was in the 1960's and I was naturally the envy of all my mates. It had a padded seat, safety belts and the dashboard had real dials taken from a scrapped motor car. It was finished in metallic silver and, although the South African Airforce never operated delta winged jets, it had SAAF markings. The set of workman's grinding goggles made me feel like a real fighter pilot!