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heading back home shortly after a wonderful little break in Malta, so looking forward to getting back to myself fully, although as you can guess I was never that far away.
This was one crazy move!
Mr Hall took his MXS-R dead verticcal before it coughed and spluttered to the edge of it's life. Then he let it free fall before regaining power and control over the plane. It was amazing to watch.
had to stop twice on my way down to the park yesterday morning to catch these crazy cloud formations
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Going back in time to the days of chic sunglasses and funky colored clothes... The curly hair styles and bright lipsticks.
Yes.
Those were the days of pure fashion and style.
Across every street and on every sidewalk, people exploded with expression and charisma.
Looking back towards Snowdon Ranger station which is on the banks of Llyn Cwellyn, taken from our Caernarfon-Porthmadog train as we travel along the Welsh Highland Railway.
22nd October 2017
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The kit and its assembly:
This is a real world model, despite the weird looks (see below), and an entry for the Arawasi blog's "Japanese Aircraft Online Model Contest 005 - Japanese Seaplanes & Flying Boats" contest in summer 2017. Even though whifs were allowed to enter, I used the opportunity to build a kit I had originally bought for a few bucks and stashed away in the donor bank: a vintage LS Model Nakajima A6M2-N.
The mould dates back to 1963(!), and the kit was re-issued several times, also under the ARII label. You get a tiny box, with only two sprues moulded in a pale baby blue, and the number of parts is minimal. It's truly vintage and pretty toylike at first sight. Consequently, you have to face some real old-school issues, e. g. moulded markings for the roundels on the wings, general mediocre fit of anything and lots of sinkholes and flash. Then there are toylike solutions like the single-piece propeller or separate, moveable ailerons with bulging joints.
The cockpit interior is non-existent, too: there's just a blank place for a dashboard (to be cut out from the printed BW instructions!), and a spindly pilot figure which is held in mid air by some pins. Furthermore, the kit was designed to take a small electric motor in the nose (sold separately) to drive the propeller. Wires, as well as respective internal ducts, and an AA battery holder are included.
Sounds scary? Well, maybe, if you just build it OOB. But all these flaws should not keep the ambitious modeler away because the LS Model kit is (still) a sound basis to start from, even though and by today's standards, it is certainly not a match-winner for a rivet counter-esque competition.
‘For its age and the typical solutions of its time, it is actually surprisingly good: you get very fine engraved surface details (more delicate than many contemporary moulds!), a pretty thin, three-piece clear (yet blurry) canopy and, as a bonus to the elevons, separate flaps – a unique detail I have never come across before! Proportions are IMHO good, even though the cowling looks a bit fishy and the engravings are rather soft and shallow. Anyway, on the exterior, there’s anything you can ask for to be found, and as another bonus the kit comes with a beaching trolley, which makes display and diorama fitting easier.
Thanks to the kit's simplicity, the build in itself was pretty straightforward and simple. Cleaning the parts and checking fit was the biggest issue. Upon gluing the old styrene showed signs of serious reaction to the dissolving effect of modern glue: it took ages for the material to cure and become hard again for further work!? Weird…
The many sinkholes and overall displacements were corrected with some NC putty/PSR, the protruding elevon/flap joints sanded away as good as possible, and due to the wobbly nature of the kit’s styrene I added blobs of 2C putty inside of the wing halves as stabilizers.
Some mods and improvements were made, though. After cleaning the OOB propeller from tons of flash the piece turned out to be pretty usable, and it was put on a metal axis. A styrene tube adapter was added behind the relatively flat engine dummy, so that the prop can spin freely – for the later beauty pics, because no CG effect beats IMHO the real thing.
A cockpit interior was created from scratch and donor parts, using the new Airfix A6M model's cockpit as benchmark. It’s not an exact replica, because not much would later be visible, but I wanted, as a minimum, “something” inside. A better pilot figure was used, too, and strapped to the new seat with thin strips of adhesive masking tape as seatbelts.
Under the wings, the hardpoints were simulated with some bits of styrene and wire as shackles, but left empty Under the stabilizer fin I added a lug(?), made from thin wire, too.
The elevons were fixed in place, the seams to the wings filled with white glue in order to conceal the gaps as good as possible. The movable flaps remained, though, adding life to the model. The dolly was also taken more or less OOB, since it fits well. I just improved it with some sinkhole fillings and some other details, including cushions on the float stabilizers, made from paper tissue soaked with thinned white glue, and a towing bar.
Painting and markings:
The reason why I settled for an A6M2-N is mostly the weird paint scheme which can be applied, while still being a real world model: a lilac livery!
As far as I could find out, the A6M2-Ns initially carried an all-over IJN Grey livery, which was later, in late 1942, modified with dark green upper sides for a better concealment on the ground, and the Hinomaru received white edges for better contrast.
Anyway, during the Aleutian campaign and more or less in between these two major standards, several aircraft must have received a special camouflage with lilac upper surfaces, and this model depicts such a machine, based on various profiles but no color picture as reliable reference.
The sources I consulted, as well as pictures of finished A6M2-N models, show a wide variety of shades and paint scheme layouts, though. Upper colors range from pale pink through more or less bright shades of purple to a pale, rusty-reddish brown (maybe primer?), while the undersides show a wide range of greys or even light blue. Some depictions of Aleutian A6M2-Ns as profile or model even show a uniform wraparound scheme! Choice is yours, obviously...
Because of the corny information basis, I did my personal interpretation of the subject. I based my livery more or less on a profile by Michele Marsan, published in Aerei Modelismo Anno XII (March 1991). The unit information was taken from there, too – the only source that would provide such a reference.
My idea behind the livery and the eventual finish was that the machine once was fully painted in IJN Grey. Then, the violet upper color was added in the field (for whatever reason?), resulting in a slightly shaggy look and with the light grey shining through here and there in areas of higher wear, e. g. at the leading edges, cockpit area and some seams.
Painting started with an initial coat of aluminum under the floats, around the cockpit and on the leading edges. Then the undersides and some areas of the upper surfaces were painted with IJN grey. The latter is an individual mix of Humbrol 90 (Beige Green/RAF Sky) and a bit of 155 (Olive Drab, FS 34087). On top of that I added a thin primer layer of mauve (mix of ModelMaster’s Napoleonic Violet and Neutral Grey, Humbrol 176) on the still vacant upper surfaces – both as a preparation for the later weathering treatments (see below).
The following, basic lilac tone comes from Humbrol’s long-gone "Authentics" enamel line. The tin is probably 30 years old, but the content is still alive (and still has a distinctive, sour stench…)! I cannot identify the tone anymore with certainty, but I guess that it is 'HJ 4: Mauve N 9', one of the line’s Japanese WWII tones which was later not carried over to the standard tones, still available today.
Anyway, the color is a dull, rather greyish violet, relatively dark (a bit like RAF Ocean Grey), and it fits well as a camouflage tone on this specific model. Since there’s no better alternative I could think of except for an individual mix or garish, off-the-rack pop art tones, I went with it.
After overall basic painting was done and thoroughly cured, weathering started with a careful wet sand paper treatment, removing the salt grain masks and revealing some of the lower IJN Grey and aluminum layers. While this appears messy, I found that the result looks more realistic than artificial weathering applied as paint effects on top of the basic paint.
The engine cowling was painted separately, with a mix of black and a little dark blue. The propeller received an aluminum spinner (Humbrol’s Matt Aluminum Metallizer), while the blades received aluminum front sides (Revell acrylics), and red brown (Humbrol 160) back sides. Two thin, red stripes decorate the propeller tips (Decals, left over from an AZ Model Ki-78, IIRC).
As a standard procedure, the kit received a light wash with thinned black ink, revealing the engraved panel lines, plus some post-shading in order to emphasize panels and add visual contrast and ‘drama’.
Decals and markings were improvised and come from the spares box, since I did not trust the vintage OOB decals - even though they are in so far nice that the sheet contains any major marking as well as a full set of letter so that an individual tail code could be created. Anyway, the model's real world benchmark did not carry any numeric or letter code, just Hinomaru in standard positions and a horizontal, white-and-red stripe on the fin.
The roundels actually belong to a JSDAF F-4EJ, some stencils come from a leftover Hobby Boss A6M sheet. The fin decoration was created with generic decal sheet material (TL Modellbau). Similar stuff was also used for the markings on the central float, as well as for the yellow ID markings on the inner wings' leading edges. I am just not certain whether the real aircraft carried them at all? But they were introduced with the new green upper surfaces in late 1942, so that they appear at least plausible. Another argument in this marking‘s favor is that it simply adds even more color to the model!
The cockpit interior was painted in a light khaki tone (a mix of Humbrol 159 and 94), while the flaps' interior was painted with Aodake Iro (an individual mix of acrylic aluminum and translucent teal paint). Lacking good reference material, the beaching trolley became IJA Green, with some good weathering with dry-brushed silver on the edges and traces of rust here and there (the latter created with artist acrylics.
Close to the (literal) finish line, some soot and oil stains were added with graphite and Tamiya's 'Smoke', and the kit finally received a coat of matt acrylic varnish (Italeri); to the varnish on the engine cover a bit of gloss varnish was added, for a sheen finish.
Rexall Neon Sign. This drugstore sign on Main Street in Louisa, across from the courthouse in the preceding photo, takes me back to when I was growing up in Ohio; perhaps the fact I'm nearing a milestone birthday plays a role, as well. The small white lettering above the S in drugs says "The Ohio Thermometer Co., Springfield, Ohio". The Art Deco-style lettering on the building suggests it may be older than I am. I love the old look and feel still found in the downtown areas of a lot of smaller towns and cities. This photo was taken last Saturday, rather early in a day of photography with Flickr friend Tim Carrier (tcpix). The shadow of the utility pole on through the X on this side of the sign made it less appealing than the more even light on the opposite side, but the blue sky from this side made up for it (and the dodging tool in Aperture helped minimize the shadow).
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The parents took turns bringing back a variety of prey items to feed their hungry youngs awaiting in the nesting tunnel which the parents painstakingly excavated earlier.
It was unclear just how many chicks were inside the nesting tunnel. Judging from the frequency of every about 1/2 hour and the number of food items brought back by the parents suggested at least 2-3 chicks were nesting
The exact number could only be determined during the fledging period when the young kings start to leave the nest one by one. That certainly would be a spectacular sight to watch, which I hope to witness one day.
It really makes me wonder how the chicks comsume such large food items. To put that in perspective, it's like for us to swallow a 10kg piglet at one go cause' they have got no teeth to chew their food.
Because all these feeding activities happen inside the confine of the nesting tunnel we have got no clue how they do it. Hopefully one day technology would helps us to learn more about them by allowing us to 'see' just what's going on inside the 'secret' chamber without causing any harm to them. And I would be there to witness that :) Until then we would be one step closer to understanding nature's secret.
special note : these birds were captured in such intricate details only during their nesting period when you could approach it with amazingly close distance. The parents at all costs had to bring up their young during which they would returned to feed the chicks. They would perched at the exact same spot, stayed for a couple of seconds before disappearing into the nest hole with a rich variety of food source each time, only to emerge moments later to repeat the whole process all over again.
I have only seen it once during non-nesting period, and it was like a thousand miles away. One more inch closer, it would vanished in thin air.
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If you would like to be portraited, you're welcome. Feel free to contact me. Thanks all!
*news: sto per intraprendere un progetto fotografico di beneficenza, chiamato "unconditional love", per raffigurare persone ritratte coi propri cani (o gatti), da cui trarre un photoblog, un'esposizione e, magari, qualcosa di stampato, il tutto a favore di un canile vicino a Torino.
Se vi facesse piacere essere ritratti, contattatemi. Grazie a tutti.
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The second of the two guest engines at the Pontypool & Blaenavon Steam Gala was GWR 2-8-0T numbered 4270, the very powerful tank engine usually resident on the Gloucester Warwickshire Steam Railway. In its initial incarnation 4270 powered coal and steel workings in the Welsh valleys and may well have visited this piece of railway back then.
On 9 September 2017 4270 is seen climbing the last few yards into the station at Furnace Sidings with the 17.46 departure from Coed Avon, it will terminate here.
After a full 8 days off and it was just local runarounds today and i used Attain Travel S3 YN14EDV a Scania K320 / Irizar I4 C70F. She is seen in the ayrd during my walk round check at 06.45hrs
I don't think I've ever seen people fishing here before. Do fish wander in this far during high tide?
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Seen over the pits in Yeovil depot on 13th May 2006 are a pair of London immigrants. 46115 is a standard Pointer Dart, in from Thamesway where it had worked the 214 in central London. More interesting still is 67316 ODZ8916, one of the first low floor buses, being a Lance SLF with Wright Pathfinder bodywork.
Like 46115, it dates from 1993 but amazingly, was still going until recently at Bath depot, undertaking a range of services around Wiltshire and Somerset.