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~The outfit is from EFD called Sexy baby girl school girl outfit
~The hair is from Truth called Scout
~Closed eye lids are from L'Etre
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Mountain caracara (Phalcoboenus megalopterus), native to the Andes, ranging from southern Ecuador, through Peru and Bolivia, to northern Argentina and Chile.
Kickstarting it's journey to the suburbs of Chicago, Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 wakes up the city of Cedar Rapids on its long-anticipated coast to coast tour of the United States. With Ed Dickens at the throttle, the massive engine eases into trackspeed as it prepares to fly across the plains of Iowa.
The winter got kickstarted with a weekend-long snowfall and 49.6 cm of snow in my garden! And yesterday the sun showed itself again! What better on a Monday morning than to get up early, get outside in the cold on your snowshoes and watching the sun rise in the distance?
I had to get used to the cold though, -12 C and quite windy (hence the nice shapes in the snow) made my fingers freeze... But the colors were amazing this morning and I was lucky to capture the two clouds I saw coming. With the wind they were only in my frame a short time ;-)
The local skicenter already opens on Friday... May the winter be long, cold and white!
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Now. If you don’t know who Ed ”Big Daddy” Roth is, then you shall Google it. This man is the single biggest inspiration for me. My art, cars, drawings, paintings, MOCs, whatever is strongly influenced by what this guy did. This whole world of Hot Rods, Kustoms, Choppers wouldn’t be the same without that man.
The Rat Fink is surely one of his most notorious characters, and was a kind of anti Mickey Mouse, a figure that I can’t stand, therefore it’s easy for me to like this filthy green rodent.
The build was a pain. It took forever. This guy was literally years in making. I knew pretty long time ago that I’d use the BELVILLE plates for ears, I had those green safety rings set aside since I developed the SPONGE BOB FLYING DUTCHMAN, feet were lying around since early 2010 and so on.
The actual kickstart for building it was the appearance of a pic of a new LEGO Line, the Mixels. The eyes on my R.F. were for quite a bit made out of lever bases and looked awful. Now, one of those Mixels features a printed voodoo ball as eyes, and that seemed more than obvious.
I just drew two dots on a plain white ball, and went from there.
It took the better part of three months to build his face, half plate offsets, “bending” bricks, uneven connections, all that just to get the face “right”. The Rat Fink has something about thim, the silhouette, the slightly tipped head, I don’t know exactly what the hell makes him “Fink”… In the end it seemed to be slight things like blacking out the bricks in the mouth, shortening teeth in the front, adding a “tilt” to his ears, shortening the snout, lowering the head as much as I could, and trying to get the eyes as close to each other as possible…
I did’t entirely succeed in building the expression on his face I intended. I mean he’s fun, there are a gazillion drawings, sculpts, toys, compared to them he's as R.F. As he can be or more, but I have this one from Revell on my mind, and although he seems fine to most people he's not exactly the way I wanted, but for now I feel I did the best I could with the elements given and ideas I had.
The eyes from Mixels are not available yet.
My plan was to wait until April, but since I painted the dome for his belly anyway, I figured I do the same with the eyes, the base was spraypained using a mask, just a plain dot basically, and then the I added different blue shades, and a black dot using a brush and acrylics from citadel. At the end a spot with a white Edding, done. One set of the eyes features some bloody veins, but I don’t know about that just yet. Might be an overkill, then I could have also painted the hair on his ears and whatnot. The dot and the R.F. are in places LEGO elements would be printed anyway...
I also spraypained quite some elements again, the Rat Fink can’t be built in any known color as far as I am concerned. Best would be this “middle green”, but there are no bricks avaliable I could use, and it's odd when I paint an entire surface without at least mixing in some elements in actual color...
Some bricks were spraypainted over white, they seem to match the original colors way better. Actually to the point where you can’t tell what was painted, especially on the green guy because the spray has more shine to it, but stuff like the hinges and those BELVILLE plates I had just in very dark colors, what made me spray them many times, and therefore this strange dark shade.
Because of the painting the Hands on the green guy can’t be moved without damaging the surface. I tried Bricklink for strange colors, but the voodoo ball in green is something that will have to happen. Of course, this ain’t gonna be taken apart anytime soon, and I will try to replace the bricks as they come out. Maybe.
There are many literations of the Rat Fink, I made two. The green is the most popular, the grey version is inspired by the box art of the Revell kit from the 60es. I made that one because it seemed easier to find a certain “feel” of his face while using gray bricks. The green seems too dark, so I couldn’t really decide on contrasts, especially with the “grin” where that mudguard piece makes this finky curve. Funny enough, I had one in dark grey that was spraypainted just on the outside sitting there for forever, and so the inside of his mouth was dark. For the pics I painted a white brick very thorough and this shade disapeared...
That's it... I guess. I never write so much about my stuff because I never care. Built. That's it. I don't do notes, writedowns, it's rare that I even think while building. I laugh at people who talk about flow, shapes, balance, beauty and stuff like that. I build toys.
But this one was important enough to share some thoughts...
Published: Columbus Magazine Issue 13 2008
Frank Sinatra "I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU"
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taken in Venice - Nov '07
Take a look at my interview with my friend Julian (Freelance Virtuoso)
50 Most interesting slide show
btw : link to my PUBLISHED shots
Venice (Italian: Venezia [veˈnɛttsja] ( listen), Venetian: Venesia) is a city in northern Italy known both for tourism and for industry, and is the capital of the region Veneto, with a population of about 272,000 (census estimate 1 January 2004). Together with Padua, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area (population 1,600,000).
The name is derived from the ancient tribe of Veneti that inhabited the region in Roman times.[1][2] The city historically was the capital of an independent city-state. Venice has been known as the "La Dominante", "Serenissima", "Queen of the Adriatic", "City of Water", "City of Masks", "City of Bridges", "The Floating City", and "City of Canals". Luigi Barzini, writing in The New York Times, described it as "undoubtedly the most beautiful city built by man".[3] Venice has also been described by the Times Online as being one of Europe's most romantic cities.[4]
The city stretches across 117 small islands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy. The saltwater lagoon stretches along the shoreline between the mouths of the Po (south) and the Piave (north) Rivers. The population estimate of 272,000 inhabitants includes the population of the whole Comune of Venezia; around 60,000[5] in the historic city of Venice (Centro storico); 176,000 in Terraferma (the Mainland), mostly in the large frazioni of Mestre and Marghera; and 31,000 live on other islands in the lagoon.
The Republic of Venice was a major maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and a staging area for the Crusades and the Battle of Lepanto, as well as a very important center of commerce (especially silk, grain and spice trade) and art in the 13th century up to the end of the 17th century. This made Venice a wealthy city throughout most of its history.[6] It is also known for its several important artistic movements, especially the Renaissance period. Venice has played an important role in the history of symphonic and operatic music, and it is the birthplace of Antonio Vivaldi.
First outing with new Fuji X100F along London's southbank. Im hoping it will kickstart my photography as have been sorely lacking inspiration over the last few years. Im aiming for 31 passable uploads throughout March to force me into getting out and getting used to the camera.
Get the blood flowing ALREADY! My energy level has been so low these days and all the coffee in the world doesn’t seem to help. I’ve been soooo busy with work not only teaching but my trying to finish painting a 40ft set for our school musical, and staying on top of life at home. I feel like I just can’t get caught up with anything these days… JUGGLE JUGGLE JUGGLE I’m just counting down the days until spring break.
Thank god for date night.... The hubby and I are heading out to WILD FIRE! never been.. Heard it's delightful... It's good thing i worked out all week.... ;o)
In case anyone missed the news, Guy "V&A Steamworks" Himber recently announced a new Kickstarter campaign to follow up his recently-successful Cows vs Pigs project: Skulls
I had the chance to see the prototypes for the various skull designs at BrickCon, and they're all very well done and would definitely be useful to have for figs or work into builds.
Also awesome: the custom-printed BrickArms skull crate. The puffy printing really gives the skulls the vibe of a classic old school Trapper Keeper
It’s ramp season baby!
When I seen this Red Laser Kickstart figure I knew I had to track down a tech deck bike for him. The figure is awesome nice paint aps and quality, and the perfect fill in for a green shirt Snake Eyes. I highly recommend.
Taken on 15 Jun 2013 from the top deck of a First Olympian in Uffculme, we passed 17705 ML02RWV, a Trident of Stagecoach Devon.
Given that this service 1 was relaunched with new fleet and great fanfare in 2004, the appearance of older vehicles showed how it hasn't progressed as hoped
For the next three month, thirty startups work out ouf the transformed "ewz-Unterwerk Selnau" in Zurich
Craig from Kickstart garage built this off road XS650 and got it all tied up and took it out for a shoot. kickstart-garage.com/