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Germany, Hamburg, Miniatur Wunderland, Airport, besides the realistic simulation for take-offs & landing, there is a large advanced car-system, which moves not only vehicles, but also airplanes. On the 14-meter-long runway, aircraft models be accelerated on an invisible sledge in real-realistic terms & be lifted from the runway by two guide shafts, disappearing in a “cloud-wall”.
The Miniature Wonderland is the largest model railway in the world.
Besides the ships & a few other items, the scales of cars, figures, most buildings etc. of the Miniature Wonderland are adapted to 1:87, the HO gauge of the trains.
Not only the trains are moving, also many cars, ships, airplanes taking-of & landing. Everywhere are buttons to press installed, to start single functions, like on the “Elb-Philharmonie”, pressing the button, half of the building will open-up & the wings are swinging to the sides like a huge portal to have a look inside of the building.
The lighting mood changing permanently & softly from day to night, night to day; the daylight span stretches over a longer time, then the night lightening.
Ever since the year 2000 the Miniatur Wunderland has been steadily growing. Work on the first theme-worlds started on December 15th, 2000 & finished on August 16th, 2001. Further theme worlds are in the planning until 2028.
The arrangement is steadily growing, actually sections are 9 completed model layouts; Austria, & Knuffingen, Central Germany & Hamburg with airport, harbour & the new Elb-Philharmonie, the USA, Scandinavia, Switzerland & Italy. The cost of building until 2017 this fantastic Wonderland, which makes the eyes of all ages shining is approximately 16 million €, estimated until the year 2028 this will probably 20 million € & amounting to over 900,000 working hours.
Every single building, landscapes, figures are etc. are hand-made to exact scale & detail in their own workshops.
Just a few facts until 2016;
floor space 10,000 m², layout size over 2,300 m², track Length approx. 20,000 mtr.
Trains approx. 1,300, wagons more than 17,000. Longest train 14.51 mtr. Buildings & bridges 6,000,
lights over 400,000. Figurines over 400,000, kidnapped Figurines yearly 3,500.
Cars 11,000, trees 200,000
Staff 360 & 64 computers to run the set-up.
Construction Cost approx. 25,000,000 €
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Using 318 magic and travis bricks to fit parts that do not follow brick math. Non purists can cut the support tubes to length for perfect fit.
Kodachrome collection slide.
Airline : CanJet
Aircraft : Boeing 737-201/Advanced
Registration : C-FJCJ
MSN/LN : 21667 / 548
Location : YYZ / CYYZ - Toronto Pearson Int'l Airport
Photographer : Thomas Kim
Date : February 2000
Box 7
Shippensburg slapped new stickers on most all of their trucks in the last few weeks. No repaints or WM trucks at this point, I don’t think they’ll paint any yet as they need every single truck they can get to run at this point and more and more keep getting transferred out and more and more of their routes sit uncollected.
A couple more pickups from yesterday. I had Warduke as a kid and have been meaning to pick one up for ages.
Shippensburg slapped new stickers on most all of their trucks in the last few weeks. No repaints or WM trucks at this point, I don’t think they’ll paint any yet as they need every single truck they can get to run at this point and more and more keep getting transferred out and more and more of their routes sit uncollected.
British Rail spent a long time in the 60's/70's developing a 155mph tilting train to speed up services on the West Coast Mainline. When the first ones were introduced rather prematurely at the end of 1981 there were some problems, compounded by the usual pathetic sniping from the press. This resulted in their withdrawal very shortly afterwards. The prototypes were quietly slipped back into service in 1984 and ran without problems - but it was too late and the project was scrapped. Now most fast services on this line are operated by Italian Pendolinos. So they made use of BR's pioneering research and have now made the money!
When I photographed this unit at Preston in September 1982 presumably it was still doing trial running.
This is just a better picture. In the correct colour scheme, I don't think that this guy would look out of place in the death star trench run ;)
Operated by: Advanced Disposal, Saint Paul, MN
Unit Number: 132532
Body: McNeilus
Chassis: Mack MRU
Vehicle Type: Front load refuse vehicle
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An Advanced FEL seen on 34th Avenue in Minneapolis, MN
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The F124 Sachsen class is Germany's latest class of highly advanced air-defense frigates. The design of the Sachsen-class frigate is based on that of the F123 Brandenburg class but with enhanced stealth features designed to deceive an opponent's radar and acoustic sensors. The class incorporates an advanced multifunction radar APAR and a SMART-L long-range radar which is purported to be capable of detecting stealth aircraft and stealth missiles.
Although designated as frigates, they are comparable to destroyers in capability and size and were intended to replace the Navy's Lütjens class. They are similar to the Dutch De Zeven Provinciën class, in that both are based on the use of a common primary anti-air warfare system built around the APAR and SMART-L radars as well as the area-defence SM-2 Block IIIA and point-defence Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) surface-to-air missiles.
The above image was taken on Friday 27th September 2013 at the new inaugural Welshot Chester Advanced academy evening. The evening was really good fun with plenty on hands on lighting setups with guidance from the Welshot team.
The model this month was infact a good friend of mine called Ashley Fayth. Ashley is an amazingly talented singer/songwriter from Newfoundland, Canada who last year released a brilliant album called “Wonder Wonder” (I highly recommend a listern!).
For more information about Ashley Fayth see the following links:
Web: www.ashleyfayth.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Ashley-Fayth/142417978964?ref=ts&a...
Twitter: twitter.com/ashleyfayth
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/ashleyfayth15
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Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the gate:
“To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods,
From Horatius at the Bridge by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (1800–1859)
In around 506 BC a large Etruscan army lead by Lars Poresna, King of Clusium, marched on Rome. Among their number was Rome’s recently deposed King, Tarquinius Superbus, who hoped that following a successful campaign, he would be returned to the city’s throne.
Having recently engaged an army of Tarquin’s in an indecisive battle at Aricia, the Romans were expecting an invasion and hastily attempted to construct a fort on the Janiculum, a hill on the western side of the Tiber. However, owing to inadequate scouting, the troops stationed at the fort were surprised and overcome by the Eutruscan force, which proceeded to occupy the hill.
From the Janiculum, Porsena’s army launched an attack and advanced on Pons Sublicius. The Roman forces were now in disarray and the future of the newly formed republic looked bleak. However, just as all seemed lost a soldier named Horatius Cocles, accompanied by two others, namely Titus Herminius Aquilinus and Spurius Lartius (which, intriguingly, are Etruscan names) stepped forward to defend the bridge, using its narrow width to reduce the effectiveness of the large enemy force that bore down upon them. There they fought while to their rear the citizens of Rome gathered and, using but hand axes, began to chop down the bridge. Herminius and Spurius retreated as the bridge was almost destroyed, but Horatius fought on until the bridge had fallen, leaping into the river in full armour and swimming its width while coming under enemy fire. The attack was thus repulsed and Porsena forced into an unsuccessful siege of the city.
That, at least, is how the story goes according to Rome’s poets and historians. There have however always been questions about the story’s veracity and even Livy, whose history was as much about promoting Augustus Caesar’s legitimacy as it was about recording past events, casts doubt over some of its claims. It’s likely that Porsena succeeded in capturing Rome, for a short period at least (though there is no evidence to suggest that Tarquin’s throne was ever restored), and that Horatius’ exploits were later invented as a means of masking past defeats and promoting the idea of Rome’s inherent superiority. The Romans were, after all, skilled in the art of propaganda, a modern Latin word with ancient roots.
Whatever the truth, I think it makes for a fun little MOC.
You may notice that I’ve avoided using the familiar Roman Minifigure helmets and armour. This is because during this period the Roman Army was still fighting in the Greco-Etruscan style, where the phalanx was the master of the battlefield. This is over a hundred years before Rome comes into conflict with the Samnites and subsequently adopts the maniple system and around 400 years before Marius implements his reforms. The army was therefore vastly different in appearance and style to the one most people are familiar with. This is why I’ve gone for the Corinthian helmets, Hoplon shields and bronze and Linothorax type armour.
Finally, I’d like to quickly thank my mate Tim, who put me onto the Babington poem and helped push me towards depicting this piece of Roman history / myth. He also helped me out with some superb advice on photographing the model. He has a Warhammer blog over at Blogger; which if you’re interested is well worth checking out as apparently he’s known to be a bit of a wizard with the painting and landscaping and stuff.
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A radical approach to recording this scene. A conscious decision to edit this picture in a slightly Avant-garde style in which i used the low winter sun to create a silhouette of the two Class 66 locomotives crossing Ribblehead Viaduct. The subtle glints on the locos really caught my eye which led me to include the powerful sun rather than exclude it.
66419 and 66557 were travelling light engine to Leeds from Carlisle Kingmoor.
Operated by: Advanced Disposal Services, St. Paul, MN
Unit Number: 241557
Body: Labrie Expert
Chassis: Peterbilt 320
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Seen on route in the Fort Road/West End district of Saint Paul.
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Manufacturer: Cascade Model: Icon 64
Former Veolia ES recycle cart (obviously) now in use for yard waste collection in Saint Paul. These are the standard carts Advanced uses when St. Paul customers sign up for the seasonal yardwaste collection. For whatever reason they only put an Advanced Disposal label on one side to re-brand.
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For some reason this cart is being used for garbage, it should be used for recycling.
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