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This is a rework of a recent post of mine that needed a better background.

 

Side Note: You may have noticed that I am no longer Pisco Bandito. We'll see how long that lasts. I hope all my flickr friends recognize me still! :)

c/n unknown.

NATO codename ‘Hind-E’

Reported to be operated by the 15th Army Aviation Brigade (15BrAA), based at Ostrov.

On static display at the Aviation cluster of the ARMY 2017 event.

Kubinka Airbase, Moscow Oblast, Russia.

24th August 2017

Commemorations are underway to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day Landings.

Codenamed Operation Overlord, it was the greatest armada ever known.

In the first 24 hours, more than 130,000 men landed from the sea and more than 20,000 from the air.

I do consider this my best VV to date.

codename: LILFUCKER

nickel-plated steel

23”H x 9”W x 7”D / 13 lbs

2019

Heavy Assault Mech

Codename "Kudu"

This is the last build of the trio, and it was the most challenging. I've been working on three different white mocs so I'm very limited in pieces, and it kinda shows, especially with his hands. However, figuring out how to build this guy was a ton of fun, the design process of the torso and shins was really entertaining. Also, 3D printed mask and balljoints!

Jean Elaine Grey was born the second daughter of John and Elaine Grey. She had an older sister, Sara Grey-Bailey. John Grey was a professor at Bard College in upstate New York. Depictions of Jean's childhood and her relations with her family have shown a stable, loving family life growing up.

 

Emergence of powers and joining the X-Men

 

Jean's mutant powers of telepathy and telekinesis first manifest when her best friend is hit by a car and killed. Jean mentally links with her friend and nearly dies as well. The event leaves her comatose, and she is brought back to consciousness when her parents seek the help of powerful mutant telepath, Charles Xavier. Xavier blocks her telepathy until she is old enough to be able to control it, leaving her with access only to her telekinetic powers.

 

Xavier later recruits her as a teenager to be part of his X-Men team as "Marvel Girl", the team's sole female member. After several missions with the X-Men, Xavier removes Jean's mental blocks and she is able to use and control her telepathic powers. She begins a relationship with teammate Cyclops, which persists as her main romantic relationship, though she also develops a mutual secret attraction to a later addition to the team, Wolverine.

 

Phoenix Force and first death

 

During an emergency mission in space, the X-Men find their shuttle damaged. Jean pilots the shuttle back to Earth, but is exposed to fatal levels of radiation. Dying, but determined to save Cyclops and her friends, Jean calls out for help and is answered by the cosmic entity, the Phoenix Force.

 

The Phoenix Force, one of the most powerful life forces in the universe, is moved by Jean's wish to save herself and her friends. It takes the form of a duplicate body to house Jean's psyche. The duplication is so exact that the Phoenix Force believes itself to be Jean Grey, and places Jean's dying body in a healing cocoon. This cocoon is later described as a Phoenix Egg.

 

The ship crashes in Jamaica Bay, with the other X-Men unharmed. The Phoenix Force, as Jean Grey, emerges in a new costume and adopts the new codename "Phoenix", with immense cosmic powers. Meanwhile, the cocoon containing the real Jean Grey sinks to the bottom of the bay, unnoticed.

 

Phoenix continues her life as Jean Grey with the other X-Men, joining them on missions and saving the universe. During "The Dark Phoenix Saga", Phoenix becomes overwhelmed and corrupted by her first taste of evil and transforms into a force of total destruction, called "Dark Phoenix", inadvertently killing the inhabitants of a planetary system, after consuming its star, and jeopardizing the entire universe. However, Jean's personality manages to take control and Phoenix commits suicide to ensure the universe's safety.

 

Revival

 

Upon its suicide by way of a disintegration ray, the Phoenix Force disperses into its original form and a fragment locates the still-healing Jean at the bottom of Jamaica Bay. In trying to bond with her, Jean senses its memories of death and destruction as Dark Phoenix and rejects it, causing it to bond with and animate a lifeless clone of Jean Grey created by the villain Mister Sinister.

 

Sinister created the clone to couple with Cyclops to create genetically superior mutants. Named "Madelyne Pryor", the unaware clone meets Cyclops in a situation engineered by Sinister and the two fall in love, marry, and have a child, Nathan Christopher Summers. Meanwhile, the cocoon is discovered and retrieved by the Avengers and the Fantastic Four. Jean emerges with no memory of the actions of the Phoenix/Dark Phoenix.

 

The Avengers and Fantastic Four tell her of what happened and that she was believed dead until now. She is reunited with the original X-Men and convinces them to form the new superhero team X-Factor, reusing her "Marvel Girl" codename.

 

Madelyne is angered over Cyclops's decision to lead X-Factor and neglect his family. Though Jean encourages Cyclops to return to Madelyne, he finds their house abandoned and assumes that Madelyne has left him and taken their infant son.

 

Cyclops returns to X-Factor and he and Jean continue their relationship, but the Phoenix Force's impersonation, and his marrying Madelyne, damaged their mutual trust. The team's adventures continue throughout the series, culminating in the line-wide "Inferno" crossover. Madelyne reappears, now nearly insane and with powers awakened by a demonic pact, calling herself the Goblyn Queen.

 

Learning of her true identity and purpose as a clone created by Mister Sinister drove her completely insane and she plans to sacrifice Nathan Christopher to achieve greater power and unleash literal Hell on Earth. While attempting to stop her, Jean is reunited with the other X-Men, who are happy to learn that she is alive, particularly Wolverine, reminding Jean of her unaddressed feelings for him.

 

Jean and Madelyne confront each other, and Madelyne attempts to kill them both. Jean manages to survive only by absorbing the remnant of the Phoenix Force housed within Madelyne, giving her both Madelyne's memories and the Phoenix's memories from "The Dark Phoenix Saga".

 

Return to the X-Men and marriage to Cyclops

 

Unsure of herself since returning to life, Jean finds possessing the Phoenix Force and Madelyne's memories to be difficult. Cyclops proposes to her and she meets her alternate future daughter Rachel Summers (who goes by the codename "Phoenix" as well and is also able to tap into the Phoenix Force), but Jean rejects them both out of the feeling that they indicate that her life is predetermined.

 

Jean had learned during the Inferno event that her rejecting the Phoenix Force caused Madelyne to wake; Cyclops admits to Susan Storm Richards that Jean sometimes wishes that the Fantastic Four had not found her, and that he does not know how to communicate with her.

 

When X-Factor unites with the X-Men, Jean joins the Gold Team, led by Storm. During this time, she no longer uses a codename, instead being referred to by her civilian name. After some time, she makes up with Rachel, welcoming her into her life, and proposes to Cyclops and the two marry.

 

On their honeymoon, the couple is immediately psychically transported 2000 years into the future to raise Cyclops's son Nathan, who had been transported to the future as an infant in hopes of curing him of a deadly virus. Jean adopts the identity of "Redd" along with Cyclops ("Slym") and they raise Nathan Christopher for twelve years before they are sent back into their bodies on their wedding honeymoon.

 

Jean learns that a time-displaced Rachel had used her powers to transport them to the future to protect Nathan, and per Rachel's request, Jean adopts the codename "Phoenix" once again to establish it as a symbol of good after all the bad it had caused.

 

Meanwhile, her psychic and telekinetic abilities begin to grow and she begins using the iconic green and gold Phoenix costume again. Jean also met another alternate future child of hers and Scott's: the immensely powerful Nathan Grey, who accidentally revived the psionic ghost of Madelyne Pryor, leading to another confrontation between the two women.

 

Onslaught

 

In Bishop's original timeline before he ends up in the present he finds the X-Men's war room and finds a garbled distress signal from Jean about a traitor destroying the X-Men from within. Meanwhile, in the present, the X-Men begin to hear increasing news about a malevolent entity called Onslaught.

 

Jean first sees Onslaught as a psionic image with the rest of the X-Men after Onslaught coerces Gateway to kidnap Cyclops, Wolverine, Storm, and Iceman. He later appears to her again in a similar way after rescuing her and Gambit from Bastion and offers her a chance to join him.

 

Onslaught makes his first full appearance to Jean on the astral plane and shows her how humanity is closing in on mutants as well as revealing that Xavier was in love with her while she was a student to convince her to join him. He then telepathically brands his name to her mind when she refused and asks him his name.

 

When Juggernaut comes to the mansion with information about Onslaughts true identity but has a mental block preventing him from divulging it, Jean enters his mind and helps him to remember who Onslaught really is and to her horror she discovers that Onslaught is really Professor X, having gone insane ever since wiping Magneto's mind.

 

Professor Xavier calls the X-Men together for a meeting and Jean tries unsuccessfully to rally the X-Men against him before he manifests Onslaught. While Onslaught easily overtakes the rest of the X-Men, Jean escapes to the war room and sends out the distress signal that Bishop found in the future.

 

After a massive battle against Jean and the rest of the X-Men, Onslaught escapes to carry out his plans. After Onslaught nearly kills the X-Men they team up with the Avengers to make a plan to stop him, knowing full well that it may come down to them killing Xavier if the world is to survive.

 

Jean accompanies Cyclops, Archangel, and Psylocke to Muir Island where they and Moira McTaggert discover the Xavier Protocols, secret plans that Xavier made to kill any of the individual X-Men should anyone become a threat against the world. Meanwhile,

 

Jean's earlier distress signal makes it to X-Factor, Excalibur, and X-Force. After returning to New York, Jean works closely with Reed Richards to help build up defenses against Onslaught as well as to help create the psionic armor that could block Xavier's telepathic powers as seen in the Xavier Protocols.

 

When Jean senses that Xavier has been freed from Onslaught and is going to confront him on his own, she and Cyclops bring together the rest of the X-Men to back him up. The rest of the Avengers and Fantastic Four join them in a final stand against Onslaught before he completely destroys the world.

 

In a final act of desperation Jean finds Hulk and locks away Bruce Banner's mind, leaving only the Hulk in control so he can fight Onslaught unencumbered. With the vast majority of earth's heroes missing and assumed dead after Onslaught is finally defeated, Jean and Cyclops open their home to Quicksilver and his daughter and try to help the X-Men to get their lives back together.

 

New X-Men

 

Following Cyclops's possession by the mutant villain Apocalypse and apparent death, Jean continues with the X-Men, but is distraught by the loss of her husband. She later learns that she is an "Omega-level" mutant with unlimited potential.

 

Jean begins to suspect that Cyclops may still be alive and with the help of Nathan Summers (now the aged superhero "Cable"), is able to locate and free Cyclops of his possession by Apocalypse. The couple return to the X-Men as part of the Xavier Institute's teaching staff to a new generation of mutants.

 

While Jean finds she is slowly able to tap into the powers of the Phoenix Force once again, her marriage to Scott begins to fail. Jean and Wolverine address their long-unspoken mutual attraction, deciding it is best not to act on their feelings; Cyclops grows further alienated from Jean due to her growing powers and institute responsibilities and seeks consolation from the telepathic Emma Frost to address his disillusionment and his experiences while possessed by Apocalypse.

 

These therapy sessions lead to a "psychic affair" between Scott and Emma. Jean's discovery of the psychic affair results in a confrontation between her and Emma, though ultimately Jean realizes that Emma truly loves Scott.

 

Second death

 

In a final confrontation with a traitor at the institute (the X-Men's teammate Xorn, posing as Magneto) Jean fully realizes and assumes complete control of the powers of the Phoenix Force, but is killed in a last-ditch lethal attack by Xorn.

 

Jean dies, telling Scott "to live". However, after her funeral, Scott rejects Emma and her offer to run the school together. This creates a dystopian future where all life and natural evolution is under assault by the infectious, villainous, sentient bacteria "Sublime".

 

Jean is resurrected in this future timeline and becomes the fully realized White Phoenix of the Crown, using the abilities of the Phoenix Force to defeat Sublime and eliminate the dystopic future by reaching back in time and telling Cyclops to move on.

 

This leads him to accept Emma's love and her offer to run the school together. Jean then reconciles with Cyclops and fully bonds with the Phoenix Force and ascends to a higher plane of existence called the "White Hot Room".

 

Endsong

 

A weakened Phoenix Force returns to reanimate Jean. Jean tries to convince the Phoenix Force to let her go so they can return to the White Hot Room together, but once again the Phoenix Force takes over. Jean lets Wolverine find her and tries to convince him to kill her again before the Phoenix does more damage.

 

The Shi'ar track the Phoenix Force and make an alliance with Storm to find her and defeat her. Jean takes Wolverine to the North Pole before the Shi'ar can kill her and convinces him to kill her. He stabs her numerous times but Phoenix keeps reanimating her, prompting Jean to dive deep into the ice and freeze herself.

 

The Phoenix Force leaves her body and once again assumes Jean's form to tempt Cyclops to attack her so she can absorb his optic blasts and become strong again. When the Phoenix Force merges with and overwhelms Emma Frost, Cyclops frees Jean from the ice. Once freed Jean ejects the Phoenix from Emma and accepts that she is one with the Phoenix Force.

 

After feeling the love from the X-Men, the Phoenix relents and returns with Jean back to the White Hot Room. Before she departs, Jean and Cyclops share a telepathic emotional farewell.

 

Postmortem manifestations

 

Though she had yet to fully return, the Phoenix Force and Jean continued to manifest themselves, particularly the Phoenix through the red-haired, green-eyed "mutant messiah" who slightly resembles Jean named Hope Summers, and Jean briefly appears in a vision to Emma Frost from the White Hot Room, warning the X-Men to "prepare".

 

She again appears in a vision to Cyclops when he is overwhelmed by the power of Dark Phoenix, helping him abandon the power so that it can pass on to its true host. After Nightcrawler is fatally wounded by the Crimson Pirates, Jean appears to him along with Amanda Sefton and the recently deceased Wolverine to help coax him back to life.

 

Jean's spirit begins to manifest in a more straightforward and aggressive manner to the time-displaced Jean from an alternate timeline, seemingly training her for the arrival of the Phoenix. However, after the younger Jean begins to ignore her, she possesses the time displaced Jean and uses her as a means to ambush Emma Frost.

 

Return

 

Strange psych occurrences around the world, which include a large bird flaring out from the sun and an explosion on the moon, raise red flags for the X-Men, who quickly launch an investigation of these events.

 

After a string of bizarre encounters with familiar enemies, many of them considered deceased, the X-Men come to one conclusion: the Phoenix Force is back on Earth. The X-Men also discover that psychics are going missing or falling ill, which prompts the team to investigate the grave of Jean Grey. As they find the coffin of their long-dead teammate empty, they race to locate the Phoenix before it can find a suitable host.

 

As it turns out, with the time-displaced teen Jean Grey out of the Phoenix Force's way, the cosmic entity has already resurrected the present adult Jean Grey. However, she doesn't recall her life as a mutant and an X-Man, and terrible visions from her previous life have left Jean unsure of the difference between reality and fiction.

 

As she lies inside of what appears to be a Phoenix Egg, the X-Men theorize that the strange psych occurrences are subconscious cries for help made by Jean Grey and that they must try to stop the Phoenix from merging with their old friend.

 

Old Man Logan is able to make Jean Grey remember her true life and she learns about the fate of her family and several of her friends, among them Cyclops. As Jean faces the Phoenix Force, she is finally able to convince the cosmic entity to stop bringing her back and let her go. Alive once again, Jean is reunited with her friends as the Phoenix Force journeys back to space.

 

Restored to life, Jean gathers some of the greatest minds on Earth together so that she can read their minds to plan her next move. Recognizing that there has been a sudden surge in anti-mutant sentiment, to the point where there are plans to abort pregnancies if the mutant gene is detected, Jean announces her plans to establish a more official mutant nation, making it clear that she will not establish a geographic location for said nation as past examples make it clear that doing so just makes mutants a target. To support her in this goal, she assembles a team including Nightcrawler, X-23 and Namor, but is unaware that her actions are being observed by Cassandra Nova.

 

House of X / Dawn of X

 

The adult Jean returns to using her original Marvel Girl codename and wears her second green-and-yellow Marvel Girl costume. She is sent as part of a strike team to outer space to stop a satellite near the sun from being used as a Sentinel factory.

 

Sentinels crush Jean's escape pod and she dies, but is resurrected into a cloned body. She is also a member of the Quiet Council, Krakoa's provisional government. Following the events of House of X, Jean briefly joins the Krakoan incarnation of X-Force, before resigning in protest of Beast's actions in Terra Verde.

 

Following through the tournament for the new host of the Phoenix Force, the Phoenix chose Maya Lopez, the hero known as Echo. As Maya, Jean Grey called out to her from Krakoa with a word of advice.

 

After Maya took on the Phoenix Force, Jean ordered Wolverine to leave her alone and return home, as he said he would kill anyone who took on the Phoenix Force. She then reached out to Maya as she flew off, and told the young woman not to go on this journey alone as the Phoenix prefers loners and isolated figures it can better influence to carry out its own agenda. Jean also told Maya if she wants to keep her soul as the new Phoenix, she has to make the Phoenix her own.

 

Powers and abilities

 

Jean Grey is an Omega-level mutant, and at her highest and strongest potential was fully merged with the Phoenix Force and with it was able to defeat even Galactus.

 

Empathy

 

Jean is a powerful empath, as she can feel and manipulate emotions of other people, as shown when her power first emerged as she felt her friend Annie Richardson slowly dying. Jean can also connect people's minds to the feelings of others and make them feel the pain they inflicted.

 

Telepathy

 

When her powers first manifested, Jean was unable to cope with her telepathic abilities, forcing Professor Charles Xavier to suppress her access to it altogether. Instead, he chose to train her in the use of her psychokinetic abilities while allowing her telepathy to grow at its natural rate before reintroducing it. When the Professor hid to prepare for the Z'Nox, he reopened Jean's telepathic abilities, which was initially explained by writers as Xavier 'sharing' some of his telepathy with her.

 

As an alpha-level telepath, Jean Grey can detect and read the thoughts of others, project her own thoughts into other's minds, form psychic links with other beings, control others' minds so as to manipulate their physical functions, mentally stun opponents with bolts of pure psionic force, cast near-flawless mental illusions, and project her mind and the minds of others onto the astral plane.

 

At close range, she can manipulate almost any number of minds; however, she can only take full possession of another's mind one at a time and can only do so if she is within that being's physical presence.

 

Jean is also one of the few telepaths skilled enough to communicate with animals (animals with high intelligence, such as dolphins, dogs, and ravens). As a side effect of her telepathy, she has an eidetic memory. Jean was able, through telepathic therapy with the comatose Jessica Jones, to grant Jessica immunity to the Purple Man's mind control abilities, despite his powers being chemical in nature rather than psychic.

 

When Jean absorbed Psylocke's specialized telepathic powers, her own telepathy was increased to the point that she could physically manifest her telepathy as a psionic firebird whose claws could inflict both physical and mental damage. She briefly developed a psychic shadow form like Psylocke's, with a gold Phoenix emblem over her eye instead of the Crimson Dawn mark possessed by Psylocke.

 

Jean briefly lost her telekinesis to Psylocke during this exchange, but her telekinetic abilities later came back in full and at a far stronger level than before.[volume & issue needed] It was later stated that Jean has been an Omega Level telepath.

 

Telekinesis

 

Jean possesses a high-level of telekinetic ability that enables her to psionically levitate and rapidly move about all manner of animate and inanimate matter. She can use her telekinetic abilities on herself or others to simulate the power of flight or levitation, stimulate molecules to increase friction, create protective force fields out of psychokinetic energy, or project her telekinetic energy as purely concussive force.

 

The outer limits of her telekinetic power have never been clearly established, though she was capable of lifting approximately fifty tons of rubble with some strain. Jean was later stated to have become an Omega Level Telekinetic.

 

Psychic Energy Synthesis

 

Jean's younger self who had been brought from the past into the present by an older Hank McCoy eventually found an entirely new usage of her powers separate from the Phoenix Force. The teenage Marvel Girl learned she has the ability to harness ambient psychic energy and channel it into powerful blasts of force, which are a combination of both her telepathy and telekinesis.

 

Its potency is such that she can match and overpower the likes of Gladiator, magistrate of the Shi'ar, with relative ease. When using this ability Jean's whole body glows with pink psychic energy, obscuring her human form.

 

Telekinetic weapons

 

Under the tutelage of Psylocke, teenage Marvel Girl has learned the ability to create psionic weapons that damage a target either physically, mentally or both in some point. She showed skill in constructing multiple types of psionic weapons that differ in size, length and power which she uses in combat.

 

Phoenix Force

 

The relationship between Jean Grey and the Phoenix Force (and the nature of the powers she has) is portrayed in a variety of ways throughout the character's history. In the initial plotline of the Phoenix being a manifestation of Jean's true potential, these powers are considered her own, becoming Earth 616's first cosmic superheroine.

 

However, since the retcon of the Phoenix as a separate entity from Jean Grey, depictions of these powers vary; these include Jean being one of many hosts to the Phoenix and "borrowing" its "Phoenix powers" during this time, being a unique host to the Phoenix, and being one with the Phoenix.

 

She is later described as the only one currently able to hold the title of "White Phoenix of the Crown" among the many past, present, and future hosts of the Phoenix. Jean — both young and adult versions — is also the only character ever to force the Phoenix against its own cosmic will to do anything while not presently a host to its powers.

 

In one instance Jean forcibly ripped the Phoenix out of Emma Frost and imposed its status upon herself. Young Jean was able to keep her psyche anchored in the Phoenix's mind postmortem despite the Phoenix's own efforts to forcibly remove her after it murdered her. Jean then subsequently forced the Phoenix to resurrect her after manipulating the Phoenix's mental landscape against it.

 

Over the years, Jean's abilities while bonded to the Phoenix Force have fluctuated, but the Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Handbook has detailed what Jean is capable of as Phoenix:

 

While empowered by the Phoenix Force, Grey has total telekinetic control of matter at the molecular level, allowing her to manipulate atomic structures on a universal scale. She can generate any form of energy in seemingly unlimited amounts, as well as absorb energy from sources as great as a supernova or even convert her physical form to pure energy and back again.

 

She can also exist in virtually any environment without harm and create space/time warps to travel through hyperspace or traverse the timestream, and her telepathic abilities are also vastly enhanced. When using her power, the Phoenix Force will manifest itself around Grey in the form of a bird of cosmic flames, the size of the bird varying with the amount of energy she is using.

 

These flames can even manifest in seemingly impossible situations, such as the vacuum of space or underwater. This fire apparently does not require oxygen to burn, and burns so intensely that matter is consumed without by-products such as ash. The cosmic fire is a literal punctuation to the Phoenix's purpose to "burn away what doesn't work", as well as being described as "burning through lies and deception". The Phoenix Force can also resurrect the dead under some conditions, and absorb the life force from other sentient beings to bolster its own.

 

The Phoenix Force also seems to render its host unaging and, at least in some adaptations, enhances the physical strength of its avatar to superhuman levels; in certain incarnations, Jean, namely while acting as Dark Phoenix, seemed to possess some level of superhuman strength.

 

Resurrection

 

For one reason or another, Jean Grey (both young and old) has, on more than one occasion, been repeatedly resurrected by either the Phoenix or apparently her sheer force of will. In some depictions, these resurrections are immediately after she or whoever she is reviving is killed, while other depictions indicate that a resurrection must occur at a "correct" time, sometimes taking a century.

 

During the height of the Psych Wars, Young Jean was able to forcibly make the Phoenix Force restore her to life, despite the Phoenix's adamant resolve not to do so, completely recreating her body after it had been vaporized.

 

After her body was taken over and completely devoured by a Poison, a small part of Jean's mind survived and, despite itself, was able to infect the whole Poison Hive and destroy it from the inside out, subsequently using nothing but her mind to reconstruct her body. This leaves Jean believing that she may not even be human anymore. This is not the first time Jean was resurrected without the Phoenix; in one instance, she was even able to fully resurrect herself after being clinically dead completely independent of the Phoenix Force.

 

In their most recent meeting, Jean tells the Phoenix Force that she should have died on the shuttle, and asks it to not resurrect her again.

 

Miscellaneous abilities

 

Jean Grey is a trained pilot and proficient unarmed combatant. She also has some degree of teaching ability, experience as a fashion model, and training in psychology.

 

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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.

 

Secret Identity: Jean Elaine Grey

 

Publisher: Marvel Comics

 

First appearance: The X-Men #1 (Sept. 1963)

 

Created by Stan Lee (writer)

Jack Kirby (artist/co-plotter)

 

Urf! While we are most often pleased and, at times, even amazed at the quality of these very small HeroClix figurines, the Jean Grey is not good. The head and face are far too large and that, combined with her expression, makes Jean look like a gargoyle. The paint ops are sloppy as well. Okay, ending complaints now.

 

See Jean in action in the Paprihaven storyline such as in issue 1474:

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/45624685874/]

 

And the inevitable event in 1484:

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/46055356464/]

 

See Jean in previous Bijou Planks appearances including BP 2018 Day 179:

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/41245771850/]

 

And BP 2019 Day 234:

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/48599086862/]

 

And BP 2019 Day 359:

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/49275025917/]

Codename Wife's effort from a good afternoon walk, capturing three old duffs in the same image!

 

D1935 (47805) 'Roger Hosking MA' and 47828 pass Scorton with the 1Z91 Appleby to Stoke-on-Trent leg of the 'Settle & Carlisle Circular' charter on 04 Sep 21.

a study for the mother goddess - project codename yggdrasill © Dino Olivieri

 

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c/n 34012843292.

NATO codename ‘Havoc-B’.

Reported to be operated by the 15th Army Aviation Brigade (15BrAA), based at Ostrov.

On static display at the Aviation cluster of the ARMY 2017 event.

Kubinka Airbase, Moscow Oblast, Russia.

24th August 2017

c/n unknown (2nd prototype)

NATO codename:- Homer

The amazing Mil V-12 remains the largest helicopter ever built.

The first prototype flew in 1968 and in 1969 it set eight world records, four of which still stand. In 1971 it left Russia for the one and only time when it attended the Paris Air Show.

This is the second prototype which first flew in March 1973.

Strangely, both carried the registration 'CCCP-21142'.

The type never went into production as the need to transport ICBMs (InterContinental Ballistic Missiles) had reduced.

The first prototype was retired to the Mil factory, while the second has been on display at Monino since August 1975.

Originally in standard Aeroflot colours, it had now been repainted in a rather 'green' looking version of the scheme.

On display at the Central Air Force museum, Monino, Moscow Oblast, Russia.

27th August 2017

c/n 173011502.

Built 1973.

NATO codename ‘Coot-A’.

This is the ELINT electronic and radar reconnaissance version of the classic IL-18 airliner. At least 12 of this model have seen Russian Air Force service.

The aircraft carries no serial or code, but does have its c/n on the base of the fin in very small numbers. Prior to 2010 it was coded ’20 red’.

It is seen departing Kubinka Airbase, Moscow Oblast, Russia.

24th August 2017

Czech Air Force Mil Mi-24 - given the NATO codename 'Hind'.

 

Snapped at Fairford Airshow 2015.

 

The Mil Mi-24 (Russian: Миль Ми-24; NATO reporting name: Hind) is a large helicopter gunship and attack helicopter[1] and low-capacity troop transport with room for eight passengers. It is produced by Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant and has been operated since 1972 by the Soviet Air Force and its successors, along with more than 30 other nations.

 

In NATO circles, the export versions, Mi-25 and Mi-35, are denoted with a letter suffix as "Hind D" and "Hind E" respectively. Soviet pilots called the Mi-24 the "flying tank", or летающий танк (letayushchiy tank). More common unofficial nicknames were "Crocodile" (Крокодил or Krokodil), due to the helicopter's camouflage scheme,[2] and "Drinking Glass", (Стакан or Stakan) because of the flat glass plates that surround the Mi-24's cockpit. (From Wikipedia)

 

codename: HERMES

nickel-plated steel and dyed stone

22"H x 8"W x 23"D / 29 lbs

2020

Triumph Dolomite (1976-80) Engine 1493cc S4 OHV

Production 70,021 (1500 + 1500HL Dolomites)

Registration Number YPE 438 T (Guildford)

TRIUMPH ALBUM

 

www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/sets/72157623847263736...

 

The Dolomite was the final addition to Triumph's small-car range (codenamed Project Ajax), which had started in 1965 with the Triumph 1300. The later model, introduced in September 1970 as the Triumph 1500, featured a remodelled front and rear, styled by Michelotti, and a larger 1,493 cc (91 cu in) engine.

 

In 1976, with the manufacturer effectively nationalised and following recommendations in the government commissioned Ryder Report, the Dolomite and other similarly bodied ranges were rationalised . Taking over from the Toledo model, the 1300 and 1500 Dolomites featured an identical looking body to the outgoing Toledo, except for the lengthened body which gave the larger boot of the original Dolomites. The 1300 and 1500 base models retained simplified fittings, including single, square, headlamps, basic instrumentation and seats, with the wooden dashboard and carpeting of the Toledo. There was no two-door option as there had been for the Toledo, and the shorter-boot bodyshell of the Toledo ceased production. Standard equipment included reclining front seats, cigar lighter, "fasten seat belt" warning light, driver's door mirror, twin reversing lights and a dipping rear-view mirror. The dashboard design was the same as that fitted to the facelifted Toledo of 1975. There was no overdrive or automatic transmission option. The Dolomite 1500 offered identical specifications to the Dolomite 1300, apart from the seats, but with a 1,493 cc (91 cu in) engine and twin carburettors. Overdrive and automatic transmissions were offered as optional extras.

 

The more luxurious 1500HL shared the same engine and transmission as the base 1500, and the luxury fittings of the 1850HL the extra spec included a rev counter, volt meter, separate fuel and temperature dials, clock, adjustable steering column and driver's-seat height adjust, head rests, front seat rear pockets, rear centre arm rest and walnut door cappings on all four doors and twin head lights

 

The new 1500 models replaced the previous front-wheel drive layout with rear-wheel drive, at a time when most manufacturers of smaller cars were concentrating on front-wheel drive cars, this change was widely considered a retro-grade move But left Triumph with a completely rear-wheel drive model lineup and significant cost savings.

 

Diolch yn fawr am 65,512,986 o olygfeydd anhygoel, mwynhewch ac arhoswch yn ddiogel

 

Thank you 65,512,986 amazing views, enjoy and stay safe

 

Shot 06.05.2018 at Catton Hall Car Show, Catton Hall, Walton on Trent, Derbyshire Ref 133-597

   

The Gokurakucho, codename 'Shambhala', is a spaceship equipped with a spectral device. With this it is enabled to ride the rays of light and travel them across the universe. Another ability of the spectral device is the invisibility cloaking. Therefore this spaceships needs no weapons as it is mainly a stealth ship for espionage or smuggling action.

 

Encouraged by Uspez Morbo's Vibe Fighter.

I had this idea some time in my head and finally seeing Uspez great fighter I had to converse my slumbering idea into shape and colour. Also this is (hopefully) a development beyond my first attempt...

 

Thanks also to nnenn who patiently encouraged me to improve my stands.

Openjourney,Deep Dream Generator,Photoshop, A Combination of Two Openjourney Images Blended in Photoshop and then put into Deep Dream Generator.

codename - atpbag!

 

and it worked really well :)

 

now blogged

codename: SAMURAI

brass-plated steel and oak

15"H x 10"W x 29"D / 41 lbs

2016

codename: HERMES

nickel-plated steel and dyed stone

22"H x 8"W x 23"D / 29 lbs

2020

Place: Taichung

 

Although they seem nearly extinct in Taipei/Xinbei, I found quite a few of these in Taichung: the third generation Mitsubishi Minicab (1976-1982), codenamed L100.

After Opération Daguet, the codename for French operations during the 1991 Gulf War, this Diorama was created during the Portes-Ouvertes at Base Aérienne Saint Dizier-Robinson in 1992. Jaguar-A A-130/11-YK EC-4/11 French-Air-Force/ Armée de l'air. St.Dizier-Robinson Open-House, 21-06-1992. (Scanned from Negative)

Big thanks to [cornflakes] for trading me this savage splaser.

codename: FROG

nickel-plated steel

8”H x 11”W x 6”D / 15 lbs

2020

NATO codename "Fishpot". The Russian Su-9 was a two-person attack mecha (one pilot and one navigator), utilising an antigrav (антигравитационный) engine which allowed the vehicle to hover a few inches above the regolith. These craft were thus restricted to the relatively flat terrain of the lunar maria. Owing to their compact design, the Fishpots could be aligned in a row to form a defensive wall against the American forces.

Codenamed Operation Iceberg. Largest amphibious assault in the Pacific. Diorama complete, Thanks to al for following the progress !!

My OOAK Taeyang made for reinarayne

 

He supposed to be someone of jrock/goth subculture, prototyped after Toshiya of Dir en Grey. His original outfit design was created by reinarayne

 

Custimization done: curved lips and nose, full face-up, Volks body, acrlylic eyes, eyeslashes, pierced ears, black and blonde (for day life) wigs, outfut.

Because the new BrickArms M2HB demanded it!

 

I replaced the racking nob of the M2HB with the BrickArms Minigun Handle to give the weapon a hand-held feel.

Codename: Kids Next Door - R.O.A.D.S.T.A.R

 

'Really Old Auto Dislodges Surfboards To Aerially Rock'

 

I've been meaning to build this for a while now. I was a big fan of the animated series Codename: Kids Next Door back in the day. It was a show on Cartoon Network that focused on a secret organisation of kids fighting evil Adult Supervillains using 2x4 technology (Weapons, gadgets and vehicles cobbled together from household appliances, cars, planes, boats ect)

 

The show was very imaginative, with a lot of parodies of pop culture films.

 

Roadstar was my personal favourite vehicle (It's a flying vintage car. What's not to love) though it was only shown in a few episodes. But on the whole the series itself holds a very special place in my heart for it's creativity and character arcs

 

#codenamekidsnextdoor

c/n 4160664506112.

NATO codename ‘Fullback’

This aircraft is named ‘Oleg Peshkov’, after the Russian Air Force Lieutenant Colonel killed when his Su-24 was shot down over Syria in November 2015.

Seen on static display at the Aviation cluster of the ARMY 2017 event.

Kubinka Airbase, Moscow Oblast, Russia.

24th August 2017

Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings (Operation Neptune, commonly known as D-Day). A 1,200-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault involving more than 5,000 vessels. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel on 6 June, and more than two million Allied troops were in France by the end of August

 

Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France

codename: ATLAS

brass-plated steel and stone

19"H x 12"W x 13"D / 29 lbs

2019

codename: BREAKDANCER

brass-plated steel

18"H x 14"W x 12"D / 27 lbs

2017

c/n 34001212081, l/n 07-08.

Built 1985.

NATO codename:- Halo-A

Refurbished at Kubinka (121ARZ) in early 2016 and now on display in Area 1 of the Patriot Museum Complex.

Park Patriot, Kubinka, Moscow Oblast, Russia.

25th August 2017

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23ML N223ML all covered up at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport, Florida

 

NATO codenamed 'Flogger' she is ex Czech Air Force serial 3303

 

IMG_1649

Marzan Empire

Classification: Melee

Armaments:

(2) SW-MACHETE (Kurosawa recolor)

 

Pilot: Codename: GHOST

 

The latest version of the Kurosawa series, the Sword Kai is a stripped down version of the Hyper Kai that goes back to the roots of the design with a much increased mobility rating.

 

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After numerous successful campaigns against Marzan supply lines, a tired Empire decided to give in and parley with the mysterious pilot of the QU-KRSW, codename: "GHOST".

 

While many of the Marzan Aristocracy and upper military echelon questioned dealing with a war pirate, numerous deals and a heavy offering of food, money, war supplies, and of course, Quorus was supplied in exchange for GHOST un-officially working as an independent agent for the Marzan Empire, freely doing as he pleases as long as he does not interfere with Marzan business.

 

His previous reFrame, the QU-KRSW, has been retrofitted with a new design, machine improvements across the board, as well as a huge upgrade to its weapons loadout.

 

As a safeguard, Marzan engineers were tasked to install a remote detonator inside the Quorus core power chamber to prevent GHOST from crossing them although it's highly likely that's been long diffused by the pirate legend himself.

 

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reFrame Version 3.0 frame (instructions) now available

  

For those interested in LEGO mech building, I also have an eBook from 2015 called Mech Wars 2015 Instructional Primer. It contains some things I wrote about basic mech building, a bit about my Mech Warsuniverse, and all my early models from 2014-2015. If you’re looking for a resource that could help you start or even improve your mech building skills, you might find this eBook useful.

 

Polish Su-22 8309 departs from Fairford following the 2023 Royal International Air Tattoo. With these venerable Cold War-era machines coming to the end of their opertaional life, it is uncertain whether we will see one again in the UK.

 

Aircraft: Polish Air Force Sukhoi Su-22M4 8309 (NATO codename "Fitter") from 40th Tactical Squadron.

 

Location: RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

codename: GOLEM

nickel-plated steel

20”H x 13”W x 9”D / 28 lbs

2021

codename: STONER

patinated brass-plated steel

23”H x 11”W x 8”D / 22 lbs

2018

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