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Testing the new mesh parts for a sim build projects in my custom windlight settings. Space!
Also, first flickr post! Am I doing this right? <- social media newb
Build something with the intention of photographing it. After you have photographed it disassemble whatever it is that you created.
— Dan Winters
When I saw "James Cameron’s Avatar" back in 2009 I immediately wanted to build the helicopters. I had build the first version of the Scorpion a few weeks after the movie was released and hadn’t changed the design since then. Over the holidays I wanted to update the model, but I realised, that it needed a complete overhaul. So I started from scratch and this is the result.
UPDATE: I've added pictures without the stand.
In the late 1950s, Wolverhampton Council proposed a controversial and costly project to build a ring road around the town, to divert ‘through traffic’ away from the town centre. As with most towns in Britain, the huge increase in private car ownership was becoming a headache for the town’s planners.
As part of the town’s future road planning, it was decided that the building of the ‘Ring Road’ would also force the abandonment of the town’s trolleybus system, as the council wanted ‘no trolleybuses or trolleybus infrastructure’ to encounter the new Ring Road! This commitment would become a huge finical burden on the local rate-payers, so budgetary restraints were made where possible. Construction of the Ring Road began in 1961, but took almost three decades to complete.
Between June 1963 and March 1967, Wolverhampton Corporation Transport purchased 146 new double-deck motorbuses to replace the post-war trolleybus fleet. The financial enormity of funding the conversion program impacted on the quality of the new motorbus purchases, with savings having to be made. From 1965 – 1967, the Transport Department’s budget constraints forced them to opt for cheaper bus bodies to be fitted to the locally built Guy Arab V motorbus chassis that the council were duty-bound to purchase. Strachan (Coachbuilders) Ltd of Hamble, Hampshire became the new bus body supplier, but these budget built bus bodies for the Guy Arabs would soon prove to be sub-standard, resulting in short service lives due to structural fatigue.
On the demise of the town's last trolleybuses in March 1967, came the news that twelve high-capacity single-deck buses had been ordered. In July 1967, the ‘Transport Department’ took delivery of six AEC Swifts (708-713) and six Daimler Roadliners (714-719), all having Strachan built dual-doored bodies. This may have been seen as an extravagant purchase in lieu of the tax payers money recently spent on the trolleybus replacement fleet?
The buses appeared very modern looking, with large windows and spacious high-roofed interiors, being very similar in design to London Transport’s Strachan bodied ‘Red Arrow’ buses that had been new to the capital in 1966. The intension from the outset was to trial the concept of ‘pay-on-entry’ buses, with passengers paying the driver on boarding the bus.
The new buses were initially put to work on the No1 Tettenhall service to gauge public reaction to 'pay-on-entry, and assessing operational issues. However, after a few weeks the experiment was ended and crew-operated double-deckers reinstated to the route. Against all expectations, the costly experiment hadn’t been a success, having been met with mixed reactions from the travelling public who were not used to paying the driver on boarding, much preferring bus conductors to take their fares. It was also found that the ‘Cummins V6’ engined Daimler ‘Roadliners’ in particular, didn’t like the intense ‘stop and start’ work on this short urban service. Therefore a decision was made to redeploy these buses to rural services, such as the lengthy No17 and No31 routes to Bridgnorth in Shropshire. In this setting, the stops were fewer and the average speeds were higher, but as a cost saving measure the buses continued to be used as ‘pay-on-entry’ vehicles.
In October 1969, 708-719, along with the rest of the former Wolverhampton Corporation bus fleet, became part of the newly formed West Midlands PTE, whereupon they were renumbered 708N - 719N.
The first victim to early withdrawal was Roadliner 714N, which was lost to fire when working the No17 Bridgnorth service in November 1971. The following year, AEC Swifts 708, 711 were withdrawn and sold to Northampton Transport for further use.
The remaining buses continued to be allocated to Wolverhampton’s Bilston Garage, their duties staying much the same until the loss of the rural bus network in December 1973. The Midland Red taking over these services from WMPTE as part of a wider operational agreement between the two concerns.
Being relatively modern buses and suitable for one-man-operation, WMPTE continued to use the remaining Roadliners and Swifts, but with an eye to disposing of them when the opportunity arose as they did not fit the general fleet profile. Despite the Roadliners continuing to be mechanically troublesome, 716-719 received repaints into WMPTE livery in 1972 and 1973, and may have received body strengthen modifications in preparation? However, the AEC Swifts were never repainted out of their Wolverhampton colours.
Following the premature exit of 708N, 711N (pictured) and 714N, the next to go was Roadliner 715N in July 1973 suffering structural faults to its Strachan built body. It was sold for scrap in May 1974 still wearing WCT green and yellow.
The remaining AEC Swifts came out of service between 1973 to 1974, and the last Roadliners were finally withdrawn between the end of 1974 and January of 1975. Some of these buses found new owners, but all eventually ended up being scrapped with the exception of 719N. Today, 719(N) survives at the Transport Museum Wythall, restored into WCT livery.
The picture taken by the late Dave Everitt, show AEC Swift 711N pulling out onto Railway Drive, as it departs Victoria Square Bus Station for Cheslyn Hay in July 1970.
As for the previously mentioned ‘Ring Road’, that has further relevance to this picture, as part of its Eastern section runs right through the location where this picture was taken.
Image scanned from the original 35mm colour slide.
I always wanted to use the 5.1mm Muji/LEGO hole punch. This set was only released in Japan and encouraged people to use the hole punch with LEGO - making any sheet of paper or even fabric legal within a build.
The structures for the dice were built very quickly from the transparent 42445 bar element that I bought from the LEGO store in a whole PAB box.
From there, days of work to work out the papercraft shapes and numbers, hand cutting each one and gluing the numbers down before studding them into the frames.
The past is beneath your feet;
here, you can create the future.
Think wider than your mind,
dream bigger than your world,
and build faster than you sink.
The new journey starts here.
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Just dancing around a few scooby siblings. This was such a fun day. :D
Happy Monday! :o)
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Closeup on upper body.
I wanted to build a system figure in the style of the mecha from Evangelion, and I think I did pretty well. He just did not want to stand up, and that's why there is the wooden drawer as the background.
I am a 100% a wham, bam, thank you mam type of builder. Pretty much what you see is what I built right out of the gate, but occasionally I have a few builds that I spent a little more time on and went back in and revised the design before taking the final pictures.
The Iron Giant was one of those builds, and only 1 of 2 that I have WIP pictures of. For this specific build the only reason why I took a picture was because I thought the cast shadow looked really cool.
Build from version a to version b:
* The head had zero change.
* The legs has some part changes, but pretty much remained the same.
* The arms and hand parts changed, but the overall layout and shapes pretty much stayed the same.
* The torso has the most change and was torn apart and built back up from scratch a 2nd time. This was one of the few builds that I actually ordered specific parts for instead of using what I had available in my office.
I do not have a big bag of assembly techniques to rely on yet so it took me a little while to figure out how to make the torso solid but still be able to keep the shaping I wanted. It took several hours, but i now have a torso that can be thrown against a wall (yes I did check the stability of the torso against a wall) and it won't break apart.
The most fragile part of the build is the fingers on the left hand (camera right). They were a pain to get on and will pop off when you move them around. I'm sure I'll figure out a solution for that hand if I ever go back and work on it again.
I love the Iron Giant movie and this build is still in my office, with no plans of being dismantled anytime soon.
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Two cars which I built recently. Quite happy with small builds... buying too much from BL can burn you out...
I realized recently that it has been far too long since I’ve done a build for the Isles of Aura.
I also have been wanting to get to the tree tutorial that I promised for the trees in my Allanar Forest
build. So I decided to hit two birds with one stone, and make an IoA build with the tree on it. Keep your eyes out for the tutorial which will be coming later this week!
Dear Journal,
I took advantage of the pleasant weather today to explore among some smaller islands not far from home. While I have been to all of them before, you never know what sorts of new plants or animals one might find. My trip was rewarded with the discovery of some nicely ripened mushrooms – dinner will have an extra treat tonight!
~Little John
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Hello again everyone.
This year has been both a difficult and busy one for me so I haven't had as much of an opportunity to get photos of my builds. I have also made, it seems, 2019 to be a year of primarily building vehicles of the United States Armed Forces (USAF).
Over the next week I hope to get some better photos of each vehicle so that I may upload them for all to enjoy, but don't quote me on that time period.
In this photo you will see my 2019 USAF builds of:
AH-64 Apache
UH-1Y Venom
AH-1Z Viper
CH-53K King Stallion
Lockheed U2
A-10 Thunderbolt II
MQ-9 Reaper
LCAC
Mk.2 PBR
4x Cougar HE 6x6 (1 IED stricken)
M777 Howitzer
M198 Howitzer
Isildur joins Elendil! Still plenty of rock work left, but the end of this project is in sight!
And as a side bonus, we had a power interruption today that gave me some time to finally clean off my Lego table.
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The Kymin, a National Trust Property
During the Picturesque movement it became fashionable to build summerhouses at sites with spectacular viewpoints. With one of the best views around, the small two-storey circular Georgian banqueting house that stands on top of The Kymin, was built in 1794 by the Monmouth Picnic Club.
اليوم 11/2/2008 الساعة 3.30 مساء كنت على طريق الكورنيش ، اشاهد منطقة الابراج فلا اجد شيئا
سبحان الله من الشيرتون الى برج البنك التجاري كلها لا تظهر
كأنه وقت الشروق والدنيا ضباب
Chalybion californicus
Distribution / Verbreitung: Mexico to Southern Canada (Great Lakes Region)
The name "mud" dauber refers to the nests that are made by the female wasps, which consist of mud molded into place by the wasp's mandibles. The nest is a simple, one-cell, urn-shaped mud structucture that is attached to crevices, cracks and corners. Each cell contains one egg. Adults of both sexes frequently drink flower nectar, but they stock their nests with spiders, which serve as food for their offspring. Mud daubers prefer particular kinds and sizes of spiders for their larders. Instead of stocking a nest cell with one or two large spiders, mud daubers cram as many as two dozen small spiders into a nest cell. Chalybion californicum, the blue mud wasp, is most famous for its predation of black widow spiders. To capture a spider, the wasp grabs it and stings it. The venom from the sting does not kill the spider, but paralyzes and preserves it so it can be transported and stored in the nest cell until consumed by the larva. A mud dauber usually lays its egg on the prey item and then seals it into the nest cell with a mud cap. It then builds another cell or nest. The young survive the winter inside the nest.
Die Weibchen bauen ihre „Mörtel"-Nester aus feuchter Erde oder feuchtem Lehm. Die urnenartigen Nester werden an Pflanzen, Mauern, überhängenden Felsen und dergl. an einer geschützten Stelle, wie etwa an einer Nische, angebracht. Häufig kann man die Nester an Gebäuden entdecken. Die erwachsenen Tiere sind Blütenbesucher und fliegen häufig Pfützen an, um Material für den Nestbau zu beschaffen. Die Brut wird mit Spinnen versorgt. Diese werden nicht spezifisch ausgewählt, wobei pro Zelle je nach Größe der Beute mitunter bis zu zwei Dutzend Spinnen enthalten sein können. Die Wespe sticht ihre gefangene Spinne und lähmt sie. Die Spinne wird im Nest untergebracht, die Wespe legt ein Ei darauf ab; die Nestzelle wird dann mit Lehm „zugemauert" und die Wespe baut die nächste Zelle. Die aus dem Ei ausschlüpfende Larve frisst die mit ihr eingemauerte lebendige, gelähmte Spinne. Die jungen Wespen überwintern im Nest.
[Source / Quelle: Wikipedia]
We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
The words comes from Joni Mitchell and they concern the music weekend that defined a generation: Woodstock. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock
In July of 1969 we landed the first men on the moon and it seemed that even outer space was no longer a limit to human achievement. On August 15-18, exactly a month later, nearly half a million young people arrived on Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, New York (40 miles south of the eponymous Woodstock). They were there as Joni Mitchell’s song describes it,
I'm going on down to Yasgur's Farm
I'm gonna join in a rock and roll band
I'm gonna camp out on the land
I'm gonna try and get my soul free
“Try and get my soul free”. The Hippies were known for wanting to explore their inner space, and Woodstock was going to be the pinnacle of Hippiedom (“An Aquarian Festival of Peace and Music”). It turned out far from that ideal. The weather was terrible, the planning haphazard, facilities dangerously inadequate, and serious drug abuse was rife. The only thing these festival attendees seemed to have in common was an opposition to the Vietnam War. But you can’t build a viable culture merely opposing something. The Garden of Eden that Joni Mitchell envisaged turned quickly into a pile of mud, overflowing toilets, and drug overdoses.
If that description seems a little harsh then look up the Isle of Wight Festival that took place in Britain a year later (26-31 August, 1970). That ended in a full scale riot. 1970 was also the year that Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin died of drug overdoses in close succession. But if we’re really looking for a marker of the end of Hippiedom, then look no further than the free Rolling Stones concert at Altamont in California (6 December, 1969). www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFJPdpwVaWk
300,000 people were there and the security hired was the infamous Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang. In the literal bloodbath that followed, the dream of a generation of peace and love came crashing to the ground.
Why is it that we can’t find our way back to Paradise? Perhaps that’s the fatal flaw of Ego, believing in the first place that we have the resources to achieve the impossible dream. One of my pet hates is the motivational phrase, “You can achieve whatever you want. There are no limits.” Well the physical universe says otherwise. And in fact if we try to defeat the laws of gravity, entropy and thermodynamics we’ll find ourselves reduced to the stardust that Joni Mitchell was alluding to. In the end death awaits us all. It’s not a question of if, but when and how, and we can’t even always choose the latter.
But one day two thousand years ago, a Jewish teacher named Jesus of Nazareth was arrested and nailed to a Roman cross. Beside him were two thieves. One of them dared Jesus saying, “You say you are the Son of God. If so then, save yourself and us.” The other thief in a moment of repentant reflection answered him, “We deserve our fate, but this man has done nothing wrong. Now is the time to fear God.” And Jesus looked over to this man and said to him these words of hope, “This day my friend, you will be with me in Paradise.”
We’ve just got to get ourselves back to the Garden.
“Woodstock” performed by Crosby, Still, Nash and Young (still the best version).
7500px x 4790px. 25in x 15.967in. 300ppi.
This weeks song is "Build" and is the third song on Healy's Unwind album. For this photo I used the line "Venus like other lands." I took this at the McKormick Ranch RailRoad park because I wanted to use an open feild so that I could shoot with as wide of a lens as possible. This photo fits into my concentration because it shows a surreal world and it uses similar editing techniques (lightroom sliders and curves) that I have previously used. To edit my image I layered the same image three time and rotated two of them 90 degrees (clockwise and counterclockwise). From there I used the pen tool to select and mask the section near the bottom middle so that I could get it to look as if the world was collapsing or turing (an inception based idea). From there on out I mainly focused on some shadow and lighting adjustments and added the sun flare with the render tool and the birds were a brush which I downloaded online.
“More wine son! Don’t be shy, we are celebrating after all!”
It seemed Baron Locklear possessed not the capability for an ‘inside voice’. He was already on his second glass and feeling its effects, although the former northerner showed no outward signs. “The new lands will be ours for the taking soon enough!” Locklear turned to face the visiting councilman Captain Ramsey, who currently held the Baron’s ear in all things New Roawia. “Oh cheer up Ramsey, the our new ally Ivanovich and his pet are just what we needed to turn the tides in our favor.” He guffawed at his obvious pun, and Captain Ramsey humored him a strained smile.
“While I agree with my lord Baron, I feel I must remind you that Lenfald is still colonizing the isles unopposed. As we capture ships, they capture the unknown wealth of the islands,” He sipped from his wine to allow the point to take hold. “I wish to submit my proposal to you once again, we must al---”
“Enough!” Locklear interrupted. His face suddenly cold and commanding. “I am mulling over your plan. Your ability to make the most out of any situation is why you are here enjoying my best vintage and the luxury of my summer home. But do not overstep yourself.” It was the Barons turn to pause for effect. Locklear’s face turned once again to a grin and he barked a hearty--if not heartful--laugh. “Come! Join my family in the garden.”
He led him to the garden with a hand around his shoulders like old friends. Out of the side of his mouth he spoke in a hushed tone to the veteran pirate, “Ill tell you what Ramsey, convince my wife of this plan and we shall talk...”
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First of all, I absolutely cannot take all the credits for this moc, I'd say about half of them goes to Mike Psiaki for his incredible model and the no less incredible instructions.
Well, of course, if you build a Tie fighter, you'll soon have the urge to have its most famous counterpart, so here it is. And well, it's now very difficult not to look at what Psiaki did while building your own. So I ended up picking what I liked the most, Including the whole nose and S-foils mechanism.
In the end I'm not completely satisfied with it. For instance the cockpit part looks very messy. But I do like it a lot in dark blue. I really didn't want to do another Red one, too mainstream I guess...^^
Hope you enjoy ! C&C are Welcomed as usual !
Independence Hall - Philadelphia
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Clothing-
Shirt: Villena - Sheer Ruffle Top
Jacket: Villena - Vinyl Puffer
Skirt: evani. - Millena Skirt
Tights: Villena - Fishnet tights
Shoes: REIGN - ROGUE Stomper Plats
Accessories -
Handcuffs: Villena - Handcuffs
Choker: Villena - Sheer Choker
Waist Bag: evani. - Milena
Body -
Head: Catwa - Lona
Body: Belleza - Freya
Skin: Pumec - Dasha (January)
Eyes: {S0NG} Misu
Hair: DOUX - Air
Nails: Astralia - Stiletto
Background -
Photoset: FOXCITY - Choices GG12-17 (Group Gift)
here is the simple version possible to build with all pieces in existing colour(white) - its just a bit pricey ...one day soon^^
Along with the builds, highlights for me this year were being part of Team Jigsaw and the madness that was the MocAthalon, Brickworld 2013 Chicago and hanging out with everyone there (so many awesome builders! and meeting new awesome builders!), doing some pretty cool commissions, graduating high school, celebrating my 18th birthday, losing my build buddy - Walter :( and being a part of CoWLUG's show at Denver Comic Con and the Longmont Museum. Time for a nap!
1. Bioshock Infinite Songbird, 2. Ninjago - Kai's Blacksmith Shop Exterior, 3. Ninjago Hopper, 4. Imagine Designs Cover, 5. Santa Mech: He Sees you when you're sleeping..., 6. Ninjago Dragon Arena, 7. Ninjago - Training Dojo Exterior, 8. Longmont Museum Right Corner View, 9. Mr. Peanut Assassinated by Mistake, 10. Helminthophobia - Room, 11. Basilisk War Droid Head On, 12. Micro Museum Instructions, 13. Mass Effect Reaper
Created using Mosaic Maker
Bricksboro Beach is a collaborative project built by 11 members of the Brickish Association for the Great Western LEGO show held in Swindon on October 3rd and 4th of 2009.
It started with Ed Diment (Lego Monster) and I discussing ideas for building a 'thirties airport with hangars, planes from that era and a nice art-deco terminal building. We soon started discussion adding more art-deco buildings and not long after that we decided to drop the whole airport idea and go for a beach community similar to Miami Beach.
Ed coordinated the build and got more members involved: Stuart Crawshaw, Mandy Dee, Annie Diment, Naomi Farr, Jonathon Goldsworthy, Ian and Julie Greig, Doug Idle and Darren Smith. Many of the minifig scale MOCs that I've built in the last two to three months were intended for this project and I think all of us involved are justifiably well-pleased with the end result of all of our work.
Similar to parts of Miami Beach, Bricksboro Beach is a peninsula with the ocean on one side (on the right side in this picture) and a bay on the other (to the left).
The Jack model, build from the destroyed Valiant ReFrame, It is piloted by the Valiant´s Pilot son, Named Jack, Born blind, he was only able to see using the Valiant´s sensors. After Joker completed the contract of ending Valiant, He spared the kid, Joker even took him under his wing, training the unknowing son of the man he killed. As a gift, he recovered the remaining of the Valiant ReFrame, and rebuilt it for Jack, that way he could be able to see again.
The new Valiant Jack Mr-Frame was built with speed in mind, equipped with a pair of HF machetes that can be fused into a double-sided weapon. Joker became paranoid for his student, and designed a cockpit with a vehicle for access and escape, and created the defense bot BL-1, Nicknamed “Belias” as a body guard, there is a special configuration that comes from fusing Belias with Valiant, This “Belias” mode is considerably strong, but is considered weaker than the other Members of the Flush.
Jack fighting style is like a weaker version of Joker, but he was also trained by the other members, making him a “Jack of all trades, master of none”, and If he is borrowed the power from the flush, he becomes temporally the stronger member.
-Build notes –
So, I wanted to create a build inspired on Valiant, and I set the story myself some time ago without knowing, and this set up is awesome, also, I wanted to try a fusion build, and it looks really cool if you ask me, it is inspired on Belias from Final Fantasy XII, hence the demonic look and the 4 arms. I love that It has so different looks, and it all fuses together without having to remove or add any parts, and the fac that It can hold the other weapons make it look even cooler.
The cockpit was also an interesting idea, having a vehicle that adds and removes the pilot is a fun concept and I like how it works.
So, what do you think, do you like it_ let me know in the comments.
Days precious days
Roll in and out like waves
I got boards to bend I got planks to nail
I got charts to make I got seas to sail...
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Dry dock #1, on the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, Ca. is the oldest dry dock on the west coast built in 1891…It was constructed of concrete and granite and sits at 525’ long, 122’ wide and 35’ 9” deep…just to the right sitting in dry dock #2 is the Liberty ship Jeremiah O’Brien, built in 1943 and a rare survivor of the 6,939-ship 6 June 1944 D-Day armada off the coast of Normandy, France…