One year in the mid- Sixties the Christmas Cards I gave to my Mum and Dad and Sibs were made easy by one of my fave toys that year: Mist-O-Matic, a sort of paint spray tray that created a mist of colour, which covered templates and left shapes on pieces of card. My top Xmas card design was the Santa head above, which I would recognise anywhere. A 'spin-off' of the better known Spiro-Matic, Mist-O-Matic is easilly in my top ten [non-space] toy list. Wotan and I waxed lyrical about this and other paint toys earlier on the blog. What we have still never managed to find is a picture of another Sixties classic paint toy, Paint Witch, which were a sort of witch hat topped thick pens. They were so cool. Anyone got a picture?
I loved this gift as a kid,
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Don't know of a modern version of MistoMatic but you can get the similar spiral paint set at Argos catalogue number 934/ 9401 for around a tenner!
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