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Cát Bà ist die größte Insel in der Halong-Bucht im Norden Vietnams. Sie gehört zu einem 1994 von der UNESCO eingerichteten Biosphärenreservat und beherbergt seit dem Jahr 1986 einen Nationalpark Vietnams, den Cát-Bà-Nationalpark. Wikipedia
With TN804, New Oxford Street 29/9/99
New to WD as M952 12/83
Transferred to Capital as 359 7/99.
Withdrawn 3/02 and transferred to First Huddersfield for spares.
Sold for scrap 10/02.
Dusting off and repairing old and previously unrevealed models for my upcoming Mad Max display at LEGO Shows Kuwait 2019 (Oct. 15th-19th).
So I am on the final week of my 365 self portrait project. Finally! For a long time, I had toyed with the idea of giving a week of this project to a music album of my high school days- seven pictures for seven songs off one album- so I am going to take this last week to do that. The difference is it won't be songs off just one album. I'm picking one artist, seven songs. Hopefully I go out with a bang.
This is the first of the set of seven. The song is "Sleep Alone" by Bat for Lashes. You can listen to it here.
Have you ever walked a Polar Bear?
If so... you would know how hard it is!
I need to thank Jo for sticking with me and this idea on this very cold day!
It was freezing and there was a lot of wind what made it hard to keep warm.
Have a great week!
(My last of this 365 project)
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Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though its breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, youll get by
If you smile through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
Youll see the sun come shining through for you
Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
Thats the time you must keep on trying
Smile, whats the use of crying?
Youll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile
Thats the time you must keep on trying
Smile, whats the use of crying?
Youll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile
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For The Rogue Players (Smile Campaign) and Theme of the Week (Many Faces of Me).
Explored! 05/28/09
Billy the Border terrier laments his lack of opposable thumbs when it comes to pulling his Christmas cracker.
Me : “RICKY! Do NOT touch anything! I'm cooking dinner.."
Ricky : “I'm NOT touchin' anything! I'm stretching my arm.."
Me : “Well stretch the other arm! The one that's not near the platter Aunt Diana baked for us!"
Ricky : “Paige and Gillian keep eating stuff. They're gonna eat it all.."
Me : “I don't want anyone eating anything right now. If you see them coming in to grab snacks, you can tell them dinner is on its way."
Ricky : “Can I yell at them?"
Me : “Yes, you can yell at them."
Ricky : “Muahahahaa!! GIRLS!! Did you see the delicious fudge that's in the kitchen??"
Me : “Ricky.. Behave. Santa is watching you.."
Ricky : “Still??"
You WILL have a good Christmas!
Happy Christmas to everyone, and may the Christmas Spirit be with you! ;)
Today. Another capture from Rosewood Beach and my last saturday post of project 365.
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Since 2013 I’m running more and more into trucks from the US. From the start of my hobby I’m interested in these and it already started when I saw movies like “Smokey and the Bandit” as a kid. I was really awed by these US truck but I actually didn’t make a lot of them so far on scale 1:13. Some ten years ago I made two Kenworths K100 and they’re still in my collection. However, one with a hood it didn’t have and that actually is a “real” US truck some say.
Not long after I finished the red K100 recovery vehicle I started building a Peterbilt 359 chassis and cab. But shortly after we moved to another house and I didn’t continue that model for some reason. It was put on the shelf for years and covered with a layer of dust. I did a few 1:17 models in a meanwhile but I felt scale 1:13 is more my area and after seeing a few nice 359s I cleaned the chassis and started rebuilding it in 2022.
About the livery I didn’t had to think about that long. It had to be black. Not a scaled up version of the Black Cat from the Model Team series, but one in an existing nostalgic paint scheme. And not in vintage LEGO colors, apart from black of course. In a meanwhile I collected quite some dark red elements and that combines very well with black. The original truck I’ve seen has a white stripe along the dark red sections but I did that in tan instead since it wasn’t meant to build an exact replica of an existing truck (as far as I know anyway).
The good thing of older vehicles is that many have been restored and on Youtube you can find a lot of walk arounds. I found a channel of a Canadian guy that helped me a lot finding all necessary details, like the drive train, spicer gearbox, etc. It’s a 1980 model more or less and it’s powered it by a CAT 3408 V8 engine. A white one in this case. It has two gear levers; there’s a spicer gearbox between the gearbox itself and the drive train. Both levers are put onto the gearbox/chassis and that means there are two holes in the cab’s floor.
The truck is built in modules. After the chassis and engine I started building the small day cab. The challenge here is to make it in a wedged shape, together with the hood. From the top it’s clear to see. In the past I did a few European bonneted trucks (yes bonneted, they’re European) like a Scania L111 and a Volvo NL12 but the hoods are made with stepped side panels. That actually also had to do with the sloped top; that would give it some weird and messy looks. I would like to have it clean instead. The one on the Pete has a flat top thus easier to build with wedged side panels then. To give it my own signature I made the wheel arches with a bunch of 1x5 Technic lift arms. It could have been done with arches too but as wanted to have a full round arch around the front wheels and I did it like this. I think it turned out very well.
The cab interior took some time to build. It’s quite a narrow cab and there isn’t much room to reconstruct a proper dashboard that fits and meets the real thing. But ultimately it fits and it has a full regiment of meters. Fun part of the cab are the doors; they also fit in the K100. The sleeper pod doesn’t look that difficult to build at first sight but the roof has quite some round shapes and I needed to put that on the model too. It’s a walk through sleeper with one large bed, some storage spaces and open doors on both sides. The sleeper pod can be removed from the chassis easily.
And then the chrome parts. An American truck needs chrome for sure. In the past I would have made it in grey but nowadays it doesn’t look right. There are quite some chrome components on the truck; grille, front bumper, steps, stacks, rear wheel arches, sun roof, mirrors and stuff on the roof. It isn’t cheap but definitely gives the right looks to the truck. If you compare it to the Black Cat model alongside the Pete on one of the pictures you can clearly see the difference.
It was quite obvious that I would build a flatbed trailer behind the 359. I started with a 48 ft. version but extended it to 53 ft. I actually didn’t know why as it doesn’t fit in my boxes I discovered a bit later. A 48 ft. version would have been and I found out just before I went to a large event with the model. Anyway, I took a Fontaine combo trailer as an example. I picked some large plates and old pieces for the inside construction of the floor and had the trailer finished within two weeks or so. It has a wide spread layout and fits best to a truck like this. The reflection lines on the sides are cut out from thin original reflection lines.
The reason for building a flatbed was because I took over a box full of half round bright orange panels. That could serve as a couple of pipes to load onto the trailer. However, to make a full load over the full length of the trailer I didn’t had enough of those since I was just half way. I ordered roughly some 250 more. Since only the trailer is about 125 cm long (4 ft) you can imagine I needed quite of lot of those and I didn’t want to buy 35 Titanics …
The entire combo reaches a length of 177 cm (5 ft. 10”).