View allAll Photos Tagged Expectation
Originally the line continued to P'yŏngyang and Sinŭiju, both of which are now in North Korea, or even to the South Manchuria Railway, linking the Korean railway system to the rest of Asia and Europe.
The Korean Empire intended to build the Gyeongui Line with its own resources at the end of the 19th century, but the project stalled due to lack of funds. Imperial Japan, which gained to concession to build the Gyeongbu Line from Busan to Seoul, also sought to gain control of the Gyeongui Line project as its continuation further north, recognising the trunk route as a means to keep Korea under its influence. The line was also advanced for military considerations in expectation of a confrontation with Russia, which came in 1904 as the Russo-Japanese War.
The first section of the Gyeongui Line opened from Yongsan in Seoul to Munsan on April 3, 1906.
After the division of Korea in 1945, trains stopped operating between the north and south halves of the country, meaning that southern trains probably terminated at Kaesŏng, which is now in North Korea but was at the time part of the US-administered southern zone. Northern trains would have terminated north of Kaesŏng.
After the end of the Korean War in 1953, southern trains were cut back to around Munsan (north of Seoul), with northern trains terminating at Kaesŏng. Around the same time, North Korea renamed the P'yŏngyang-Kaesŏng section of the line as the P'yŏngbu (P'yŏngyang + Busan) Line and the P'yŏngyang-Sinŭiju section as the P'yŏngŭi (P'yŏngyang + Sinŭiju) Line. The DPRK sector is now 100% electrifed, although the double track section spans only from Pyongyang to Sunan Airport.
Since the summit between the two Koreas in 2000, an effort has slowly been underway to reconnect the Gyeongui Line. Southern passenger service has been extended to Dorasan on the edge of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and tracks have been built across the DMZ itself. In October 2004, the Northern connection from the DMZ to Kaesŏng was finally completed. Simultaneous test runs along the rebuilt cross-border sections of both the Gyeongui Line and the Donghae Bukbu Line were set for May 25, 2006, but North Korean military authorities cancelled the plans a day ahead of the scheduled event. However, at a meeting held in Pyongyang, North Korea, on April 22, 2007, North and South Korea agreed to restart the project. On May 17, 2007, the first train, carrying North and South Korean delegations, travelled from Munsan Station in the South to Kaesong in the North. The first test run on the Donghae Bukbu Line took place at the same time. According to South Korean representatives, the North has agreed in principle to regular passenger and freight service along the two train lines.
At time there is no regular service across the DMZ anymore because of the political inner korean situation at time.
(source: Wikipedia)
DPRK, Oct. 2015
More of Miniature Oribana! Folded another miniature Oribana "Expectation of Dew", the same size 3 inches (7 cm) high as the one (posted earlier) that we presented to Moriki family, whose wonderful hand-made paper we used for this composition.
Starring models of this Oribana are Sanguinaria and Short Tapered Vase folded from washi called "Moriki Kozo".
The diagrams of this Oribana composition are published in our ORIBANA BEAUTY
www.oriland.com/store/collections/oribana_beauty/main.php
Happy folding!
When you buy something, the description often promise you more than you get, or the picture looks better than reality. This is just one example: A family expected a lovely summer holiday in a beautiful place, but they got something completely different!
Un bon repas s'impose, yeaah #lunch#foodporn#eatforabs#eatclean#healthy#allnatural #expectation#fitness #fitnessaddict#lifestyle
15 Likes on Instagram
3 Comments on Instagram:
reizzam: I really like your pics! :)
malekbenhalima: Thank you @reizzam
chinedu_nwoko: 👐👐
In freudiger Erwartung - morgen soll es soweit sein.../
In joyful expectation - she's expecting her child tomorrow...
six weeks later - A little girl is born!
Entire Ladakh Vally is really too good. Every second shot there would be an eye opener ! This particular place was very close to the Airport. The approach just ahead of the tarmac is breadth-taking. The plane has to maneuver between the hill range and take a virtual 90 degree turn while it makes the final descend down the runway. Leh is one place one would love to visit again n again n again ..............
The Grade I Listed City Walls of Chester, in Cheshire.
Chester city walls comprise the most complete Roman and medieval defensive town walls in Britain. The circuit, which measures almost 2 miles in circumference, is now a major tourist attraction for visitors to the city.
In around 74AD the Roman legion Legio II Adiutrix established a fortress in Chester. It was initially defended by an earth rampart surmounted by a wooden palisade and surrounded by a ditch. It was set on a base of logs and held together by branches and brushwood.
Starting in about 100 AD the earth walls were reconstructed using sandstone. The walls continued to be maintained throughout the Roman occupation, with major repairs undertaken during the 4th century.
Nothing is known about the condition of the walls between the end of the Roman occupation in the late 4th century and the re-founding of Chester by Æthelflæd as a burgh in 907 as part of the reconquest of Mercia by the Anglo-Saxons. The Anglo-Saxons certainly repaired the northern and eastern sections of the Roman walls. There is a reference to repairing the walls in the Domesday Survey.
The finance required for the upkeep of the walls was raised from duties levied on merchandise passing into and out of the city. The main gates were under the control of hereditary sergeants who collected tolls and organised watches on the walls.
In the expectation of the coming Civil War, repairs were carried out in the early 1640s, and further fortifications were added to the walls. The walls were heavily damaged during the siege of the city by Parliamentarian forces in 1645.
After the end of the Civil War, the walls ceased to have any military or defensive function, and increasingly became used for recreational purposes. In 1707 the City Assembly made a grant of £1,000 (£170,000 in 2019) to repair and re-flag the walls to make a walkway with an unfortified parapet.
Improvements in transport in the 19th and 20th centuries have resulted in further alterations to the walls. In 1846 the Chester and Holyhead Railway was built, cutting the walls and passing under the northwest corner. By the 1930s road traffic had increased and was causing severe congestion in the middle of the city. A new road was created to the south of the centre of the city, breaching the east wall to the west of the Amphitheatre. Following the Second World War traffic increased further and in the 1960s the Inner Ring Road was built to take traffic from Grosvenor Bridge to the west of the city centre.
Information Source:
La Laguna, Tenerife, 6/3/2021, with my phone, I saw this girl watching and wating the pass of manifestation against homophobya
Please view on black and large:
bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblack.php?id=2432408266&size...
A shrine dedicated to "Our Lady of Expectation" (Mother Mary was built in 1523 on top of the mount. It is believed that the altar of this shrine was built on the spot where St. Thomas was martyred in A D 72.
At the northern foot of the Mount is a gateway of four impressive arches surmounted by a cross bearing the inscribed date 1547. A flight of 160 steps leads up to the summit of the Mount. There are fourteen stations of the cross erected on the way to the summit.
In 1547, an excavation unearthed a stone cross with old Sassanid Pahlavi inscriptions on it. The cross, reputed to have been chiseled by the Apostle himself, became known as the 'Bleeding Cross' as it has stains resembling blood stains which reappear even after being scrubbed off. It is also supposed to 'bleed' afresh periodically. It first 'bled' publicly during Mass in 1558 and the last record occasion when it 'bled' was in 1704. Fr. Guy Tachard, a Roman Catholic priest has recorded about this as explained by then Vicar, Fr. Gasper Coelho. St. Thomas is supposed to have clutched this cross as he lay dying. When it was discovered, the cross was built into the wall being the altar of the church, which it adorns even today.
On either side of the chancel there are framed oil paintings depicting the twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. Above the altar is an oil painting of The Madonna, which is believed to be one of the seven painted by St. Luke the Evangelist and brought to India by St. Thomas. This picture of the Madonna is considered to be the oldest Christian painting in India. The shrine administration is in the hands of the newly formed Catholic (Latin rite) diocese of Chingelpet.
The Festival of Our Lady of Expectation is celebrated on 18th December in a grand manner. Saint Thomas day is celebrated on the 3rd of July in memory of his martyrdom.
During the Easter season, faithful climb the steps to the church, singing hymns and saying the "Way of the Cross" prayers. Petrus Woskan, an Armenian merchant paved the way with granite steps in order to make the climbing easy. It is also said that the oil paintings and beautifully carved Pulpit are also from the same Armenian benefactor.
Adjoining the church, is the convent of the "Holy Apostles Convent", managed by the priests of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary (FMM) order. Attached to this there is a home for the physically and mentally challenged children run by the nuns of the convent.
Yesterday we had the first decent sky in what seems like ages, lots of people were out taking photos. I went to Farley Mount, one of the few high points in Hampshire, four miles west of Winchester. Lots of people were up there, the seats were all taken. Here two friends hurry to the top like myself lest they miss the setting sun, the light catching their leather boots The view is south towards the Isle of Wight.
This was taken in the vicinity of Union Square, on 14th Street in Manhattan...
***************
This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.
That's all there is to it …
Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.
Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.
As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"
A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."
As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"
So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".
Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"
Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.
Oh, one last thing: I've created a customized Google Map to show the precise details of each day's photo-walk. I'll be updating it each day, and the most recent part of my every-block journey will be marked in red, to differentiate it from all of the older segments of the journey, which will be shown in blue. You can see the map, and peek at it each day to see where I've been, by clicking on this link
URL link to Ed's every-block progress through Manhattan
If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com
Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...
Series:
Rodeo without Rodeo.
CREDITS:
photo by: me
editing: me
camera: Sony DSC-H5 (BacK)
location: Rinconada de Silva (V Región, Chile)
More of Miniature Oribana! Folded another miniature Oribana "Expectation of Dew", the same size 3 inches (7 cm) high as we presented to Moriki family, whose wonderful hand-made paper we used for this composition. And Yuri's origami shadowbox frame is perfect to display this little treasure!
Frame size is 6-3/4 inches (17.5 cm), depth is 2-1/8 inches (5.3 cm).
Starring models of this Oribana are Sanguinaria and Short Tapered Vase folded from washi called "Moriki Kozo".
The diagrams of this Oribana composition are published in our ORIBANA BEAUTY
www.oriland.com/store/collections/oribana_beauty/main.php
Happy folding!
There was some expectation of aurora-sighting on May 28, so I went upta Turner ME in hopes of seeing the lights, but they hardly appeared. Still, it was enjoyable watching the setting, just-past-new, moon getting closer to the horizon.
At this point in the moon's orbit, almost between Earth and the sun, the sunlit half of the moon is mostly facing away from us and all we see is a brilliant, bright thin crescent. And yet so much sunlight is reflecting off the earth towards the moon and then bouncing back to Earth, that that reflected light illuminated the nightime side of the moon enough to appear as a very red-disk in this 5-second time exposure.
It's the same principle as the way a full-moon lights up our earth when that full-moon is up in our nighttime sky.
On the horizon, you can see four lights to the left of the moon; these are from the wind-turbines at the Spruce Mountain Wind Project in Woodstock ME, about 20 miles distant from my Upper Street, Turner ME, location.
This single-image photo was taken with a Canon EOS 6D Mark II camera, with a [very high] ISO of 25600, 5 second, f/7.1 exposure, daylight WB, 105mm focal length. I did no additional post-processing.
[C 6Dii 0086] Alt Tags: Canon EOS 6D Mark II
I've seen artfully joined images on Flickr. Here is my submission.
(The moon was from a different shot.)
I have a background as an illustrator, so I don't usually do photoshoped images since it's does feel like it's "cheating" and not especially challenging to me, but I've been thinking about the fact that Flickr is partially energized by people's desire to find beauty and meaning in the world (at least this is the case for me). For instance, a great movie is an elaborate fantasy where we suspend our disbelief and become immersed in thoughts and emotions that are triggered by a massive collection of skillful tricks. The idea of a photograph as being an absolute factual record is dead since the advent of digital editing, but people still have the expectation that a photo is strictly a statement of fact.
As noted, I've seen some of these creations and been "tricked" by accepting as fact the elements shown together. I have no problem with folks creating visual fantasies such as this as long as they are up front. Thus the title of this shot "Empire Dissemblance". Astronomically, this shot might not be possible... the photo of the Empire State building was shot facing roughly southwest. The moon was from the west at different times of the year.
The ones that seem offensive are those that make no note of it being a fabrication. I saw one a couple of weeks ago with tons of comments and faves. Closer inspection showed that the moon was upside down! Another beautiful one that got very high in "Interestingness" had a crescent moon where a cresent moon couldn't have been due to the position of the sun.
Anyway, I might do more of these in the name of artful creativity, but I will always note that it is fake.
I rarely upload images from my assignments but this one is from over a year ago and thought I'd process it in B&W. I really like the expression and concentration of the soloist.
Rara vez subo imágenes de mis trabajos. Aunque me apeteció convertir esta imagen de hace algo más de un año al B&N. Me encanta la expresión y la concentración de la solista.
================================
Please don't use my images without my permission, which you might obtain if you contact me. Thanks.
Por favor no use mis imágenes sin mi permiso explícito, algo que puede obtener si se pone en contacto conmigo. Gracias.
================================
love everything about this. chrome, alinement. the element of expectation as to who might sit upon the chair.
Press 'L' for large or Press 'F' for fav
Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr | Google+ | Website | **Download my Wallpaper on Facebook**
I appreciate all your comments, favs and notes, but Do NOT use any of my photos without my permission. If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to send me a Flickrmail.
________________________________________
© Charles F. Hu Photography. All Rights Reserved.
I made a new friends recently. You can read all about him in my blog if you wish
postcardsfromireland.blogspot.com/2018/06/my-new-friend.html
This photo was taken on Lexington, between 62nd and 63rd St.
***************
This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing vanything, walk both sides of the street.
That's all there is to it …
Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.
Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.
As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"
A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."
As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"
So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".
Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"
Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.
Oh, one last thing: I've created a customized Google Map to show the precise details of each day's photo-walk. I'll be updating it each day, and the most recent part of my every-block journey will be marked in red, to differentiate it from all of the older segments of the journey, which will be shown in blue. You can see the map, and peek at it each day to see where I've been, by clicking on this link
URL link to Ed's every-block progress through Manhattan
If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com
Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...
Lowaldie.
Farmers took up land here in 1912 with the expectation of a rail siding on the Tailem Bend to Brown’s Well railway. Lowaldie siding opened in 1913 after protests to the railways as they had not planned for a siding at Lowaldie. Lowaldie station finally closed in 1974. A town of 72 allotments was surveyed in 1913 with parklands and suburban lands beyond. By 1916 only two allotments had been sold! The first building in town was a stone Post Office shed. One allotment was set aside for an institute and the locals began amassing money but very slowly. In 1919 they purchased the Post Office stone shed for an institute. It served this purpose from 1920 to 1925. In 1920 the institute was hired out for Methodist church services but this stopped with a year or so for want of a good sized congregation. The building was sold in 1927 to a new postmaster. It remained the Post Office until 1958. A school opened in the Institute in 1922 but closed at the end of that year. The Lowaldie School was then started up a few miles out of town in a rural location to the north of the town. It operated from 1930 to 1940 before final closure. Nothing remains on that site now except for a memorial cairn. In 1934 the residents began to plan for a second institute which was built of limestone and red bricks and it opened in 1935. Sporadic Methodist church services were held in the new Lowaldie Institute from 1936 through to 1970. From 1930 the town parklands and suburban lands were leased to broad acre farmers for cropping. Only two residential allotments were ever sold in Lowaldie.
Model : Laurie Mayran
Make-up : Esther Perli
Hair : Christophe Versolato (Bruno Flaujac)
Stylist : Diva
Assistant : Benoit Jacquot
light : two elinchrom flash.
Place : le Palladia
With the cooperation of Marina Muller - Reyan Events.
ID: M00028-60
Title: 'India Office Official Record of the Great War'.
Illustrator: "Girdwood, H.D (H D Girdwood)"
Provenance:
22 April 1921
Caption: Gharwalis [sic] lining a reserve trench in expectation of a German attack. 1915.
Notes: The photographs appear in a variety of sizes, shapes and colours including shades of blue, green and brown. They record scenes of military life as experienced by the Indian and British armies in France during the First World War. The battle scenes are not real but staged from maneouvres.
Source identifier: Photo 21/(72)
British Library Shelfmark: Photo 21
If you wish to purchase a high quality copy of this image, please place an order at Images Online imagesonline.bl.uk. The details from the above list should help you locate the images.
Another tribute to Gustav Klimt.
This was a fun piece to do because of the crazy decorative patterns.
Model: Elina Z
The kit and its assembly:
This build is the combination of ingredients that had already been stashed away for a long time, and the “Red Lights” Group Build at whatifmodellers.com in early 2021 was a good motivator and occasion to finally put everything together.
The basis is an ARII 1:72 Cessna T337 model kit – I had purchased it long ago with the expectation to create a military Skymaster from it, but I was confused by a fixed landing gear which would make it a 336? Well, without a further concrete plan the kit preliminarily landed in The Stash™…
However, the ARII model features the optional observation windows in the doors on the starboard side, in the form of a complete(!) fuselage half, so that it lends itself to a police or firefighter aircraft of some sort. This idea was furthermore fueled by a decal sheet that I had been given from a friend, left over from a 1:72 Italeri JetRanger, with three optional police helicopter markings.
The final creative element was the real-world “Pelican” conversion of six O-2As for the US Navy, as mentioned in the background above: the front engine was replaced with a longer nose and the engine configuration changed to a pusher-only aircraft with a single powerful turboprop engine. This looked so odd that I wanted to modify the ARII Cessna in a similar fashion, too, and all these factors came together in this model.
My Arii Cessna 337 kit is a re-boxing from 2009, but its origins date back to Eidai in 1972 and that’s just what you get: a vintage thing with some flash and sinkholes, raised (but fine) surface details and pretty crude seams with bulges and gaps. Some PSR is direly necessary, esp. the fit of the fuselage halves is cringeworthy. The clear parts were no source of joy, either; especially the windscreen turned out to be thick, very streaky (to a degree that I’d almost call it opaque!) and even not fully molded! The side glazing was also not very clear. I tried to improve the situation through polishing, but if the basis is already poor, there’s little you can do about it. Hrmpf.
However, the kit was built mostly OOB, including the extra O-2 glazing in the lower doors, but with some mods. One is a (barely visible) extra tank in the cabin’s rear, plus a pilot and an observer figure placed into the tight front seats. The extended “Pelican” nose was a lucky find – I was afraid that I had had to sculpt a nose from scratch with 2C putty. But I found a radome from a Hasegawa RA-5C, left over from a model I built in the Eighties and that has since long fallen apart. However, this nose fitted almost perfectly in size and shape, I just “blunted” the tip a little. Additionally, both the hull in front of the dashboard and the Vigilante radome were filled with as many lead beads as possible to keep the nose down.
The kit’s OOB spatted, fixed landing gear was retained – even though it is dubious for a Cessna 337, because this type had a fully retractable landing gear, and the model has the landing gear covers actually molded into the lower fuselage. On the other side, the Cessna 336’s fixed landing gear looks quite different, too! However, this is a what-if model, and a fixed landing gear might have been a measure to reduce maintenance costs?
The propeller was replaced with a resin four-blade aftermarket piece (from CMK, probably the best-fitting thing on this build!) on my standard metal axis/styrene tube adapter arrangement. The propeller belongs to a Shorts Tucano, but I think that it works well on the converted Cessna and its powerful pusher engine, even though in the real world, the SA-550 is AFAIK driven by a three-blade prop. For the different engine I also enlarged the dorsal air intake with a 1.5 mm piece of styrene sheet added on top of the molded original air scoop and added a pair of ventral exhaust stubs (scratched from sprue material).
Another addition is a pair of winglets, made from 0.5 mm styrene sheet – an upgrade which I found on several late Cessna 337s in various versions. They just add to the modernized look of the aircraft. For the intended observation role, a hemispherical fairing under the nose hides a 180° camera, and I added some antennae around the hull.
However, a final word concerning the model kit itself: nothing fits, be warned! While the kit is a simple affair and looks quite good in the box, assembling it turned out to be a nightmare, with flash, sinkholes, a brittle styrene and gaps everywhere. This includes the clear parts, which are pretty thick and blurry. The worst thing is the windscreen, which is not only EXTRA thick and EXTRA blurry, it was also not completely molded, with gaps on both sides. I tried to get it clearer through manual polishing, but the streaky blurs are integral – no hope for improvement unless you completely replace the parts! If I ever build a Cessna 337/O-2 again, I will give the Airfix kit a try, it can only be better…