2018 Matchbox Calendar images

[matchbox_n_molars]

Happy New Year Greetings one and all!
In a separate thread Ghosty asked if I might be able to share the images from the 2018 Matchbox calendar I put together. It seems New Year's Eve might be a good time to comply with his request.
Here they are:
January is a simple salt barn scene I created out in my back yard last winter:


February is rather self explanatory:


March- There is a chain of more than 150 United Dairy Farmer stores across the Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky tri-state area near my home.


April- a local loading dock


May- a modified vintage photo


June- a scene created within a photo along Vermont's Rt 7- sorry, but I have a hard time not including a 57b Impala each year.


July- My NZ Kiwi, now living in Cincinnati, friend Bob Richards pilots a handsome Rolls through the carriage house archway at Shelburne Farms, Vermont. If I had a photo of you Ghosty, this WOULD have been you.


August- JJ Enk, a vintage Matchbox aficionado from the Chicago area is a train engineer so very qualified to pilot the Stephenson's Rocket across the Little Miami Railroad bridge in Morrow, Ohio.


September- Camaro nut Paul Barron trades in his bow-tie for a vintage Jaguar upgrade for his visit with Cliff


October- crossing Lake Champlain from New York to Vermont on the Essex Ferry. Cadillac Tim Kissel moves into place to get a photograph of that handsome 27C.


November- Mason, Ohio's Main Street Sweets gets a Nestle's delivery just in time for the holidays. South Australia's Fos Wilson came out of retirement for this opportunity.


December- Garriss' General Store is a New Jersey landmark. Santa stopped to make a holiday delivery.

[petethesweet]

Great calendar you should get a few made up & sell them to the boys. Pete

[ClOwY]

I totaly agree
Gary

[matchbox_n_molars]

I made 30 copies this year and they've all been distributed around the globe.
Sadly it has become somewhat of a chore getting our US postal service to ship these internationally without complications. For years they were shipped as a "large envelope" with no customs form required. This year, in spite of the fact that they still were packaged in a large manila envelope, the first three post offices I went to insisted they needed to be shipped as a "parcel" because the spiral binding was thicker than the pages of the calendar itself. As a parcel it would have been in excess of $20US to ship them to Europe or Australia. Thankfully the fourth post office still sent them out as a large envelope, half the price of a parcel.
I don't want to get into "selling" them either. I'm not an attorney but my guess is that as soon as I'm selling them I have to worry about Mattel being upset about my use of the Matchbox name.
So I'm afraid the best I can do is to share the photos here and welcome you to use them to assemble a calendar of your own at your local print shop.

[GHOSTHUNTER]

Greg, these are simply great. You show some really artistic flair and thechnical ability.The subject matter is brilliant and the Rolls picture is simply superb, gave me a gret big smile, something that is lacking with me lately, so thank you very much for putting these up on the forum.

A happier Ghosty.

[radar]

Yeah much appreciated

[kerbside]

I too do a desk calendar for three of my collector friend, it is where you insert a photo in for each month. This year I decided on putting photos of the "Major Models" in.

I have done them since 2011 like Greg I find they become rather fussy at the post office, the one I send to Greg because of the metal spine on it I have to put a customs label on the padded bag as it is going from Australia to America.

The other two go one to Victoria and one to South Australia, and then I do one for my self, I do manage to fit them into a padded bag. As yet my one from Greg has not arrived the post is just so slow, I am looking forward to it.

George T.

[Tinman]

Some pages from previous years (sorry about the glare on some).

[Tinman]

This year, in spite of the fact that they still were packaged in a large manila envelope, the first three post offices I went to insisted they needed to be shipped as a "parcel" because the spiral binding was thicker than the pages of the calendar itself. As a parcel it would have been in excess of $20US to ship them to Europe or Australia. Thankfully the fourth post office still sent them out as a large envelope, half the price of a parcel.

I had the same trouble with some booklets I was making. I switched from manila envelopes to some white (thin) cardboard pleated envelopes and that ended the problem.

[GHOSTHUNTER]

Thank's Joe for posting some more of Greg's excellent work.

Seems there is very little standardisation with moving letters and parcels around our little planet, I mean, its not as if it is a new invention so you would have thought they could have got it sorted by now...

Ghosthunter.