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Marking the 2nd Anniversary of the war in Iraq. Protesters marched along 42nd Street to the Recruiting Station in the middle of Times Square where 29 of them layed down in front of the station in an act of civil disobedience. They were arrested and led off in handcuffs.
Plant industry employees, retirees, volunteers and park rangers recently spent a few days in the Great Smoky Mountains to mark ginseng roots with a special dye to make it easier to prosecute ginseng poachers. It is now a felony to illegally harvest ginseng roots.
Brighter Lines provide theFleet Line Marking service. Their professionals used designed paints on playgrounds, football grounds without any risk and damage to the surface. Brighter Lines aims to satisfied there customers and fulfill their requirements. They used the best colorful paints for designing and layout of the playground and football pitches. Their line marking is lightweight, waterproof, reliable and user-friendly.
Chelsie marking a Pocillopora head to be examined during the Reef Assessment and Monitoring program expedition in 2014. Photo by: Toni Parras/NOAA, 2014
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110627-O-ZZ999-005 PACIFIC OCEAN (June 27, 2011) -- Lt. Jeremiah Harkema marks off pallets on a window in the flight control tower as a MH-60S Sea Hawk flies by. Cleveland is the flagship for Pacific Partnership 2011, which will visit the islands of Tonga, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and the Federated States of Micronesia. (Photo By Kristopher Radder)
The kit and its assembly:
This mild what-if Hellcat is more or less a remake of a similar build, a fictional F6F-6 in late-WWII Netherlands markings. Some time ago I read about RN Hellcats in the SEAC theatre and that photo-recce F6F had been re-painted in an overall medium blue scheme, and it took a while to find out more – esp. about the blue tone that had been applied. I initially thought it had been FS 35164 (USN Intermediate Blue), but trustworthy sources claimed that it had been an improvised/mixed color, what made a build even more attractive. Another odd “variant” for photo recce Hellcats provided by the same source claims an apparently all-over glossy black scheme, intended to reduce drag through the shiny finish.
Since I had a leftover F6F-5 kit in store as a basis I eventually took action and procured a set of brass gun barrels for an A-1 Skyraider (the same that I has used on my first F6F-6 build, too), and started the build. The kit is/was, however, a Mistercraft reboxing of the Heller Hellcat (a mold from the Seventies…), which I had originally procured only because of its vast and exotic decal set.
This kit turned out to be a HUGE disappointment. The bright blue plastic is poor and takes ages to cure after glueing. Details are all raised and limited, but that would be acceptable for the kit’s age and low price point. But the fit is …horrible, esp. the separate cowling and the fuselage/hull intersection, which left me with 1mm (!) gaps and other misalignments that required massive PSR to bridge and compensate.
Another special horror: the cowling and the engine. Sane designers would have mounted the engine block to the bulkhead/front wall of the hull and then place the completed cowling over it, held by locator pins or other mounting aids. But not in France! The engine block has to be glued onto pins that are molded into the front(!) ring of the cowling, and esp. the lower ones remain well visible. I tried to mill them away and just use the upper pair, but that turned out to be so shaky that I had to add struts to the rear cylinder bank to stabilize the motor block which hangs, more or less, in free air(!?). But even then, the problems do not cease: the cowling turned out to be too wide, leaving gaps outside of the cooler flaps, and that hull and wing section (which consists of the lower fuselage half, see above) do not match was not helpful either. The lack of any orientation aids worsens the fight with the hardware. I eventually added a blob of putty to the engine block’s rear and to create more adhesive area and tried to glue the cowling to the hull as flush as possible, but it required several PSR turns to blend everything together. In hindsight I also regretted that I opened the cooling flaps a little to make the model look a bit more life-like – since the cowling does not align well with the rest of the hull this discrepancy became even more obvious, but I left it that way.
My conversion measures were limited and circled around the propulsion system: a new 4-blade propeller, left over from an Academy P-47D, mounted on a metal axis and inserted into the engine block. Since I wanted some more external difference to the F6F-3/5, I decided to extend the fin at the tip. It's just a subtle change, maybe 3mm net, done with 1mm plastic sheet and some PSR.
The gun barrels are aftermarket brass pieces (see above), outfitted with flame dampers – I think these were more expensive than the whole Heller kit itself!
I also sanded away the dubious underwing hardpoints, since they appear very primitive and toy-like, just like the six missiles which neither look like American HVARs nor like British 60 lb. RP-3 missiles.
Instead, for long-range reconnaissance missions in the PTO, I gave the Hellcat a pair of drop tanks on the inner wing stations, both procured from Academy P-47 kits.
Camera port fairings behind the wings’ trailing edge, scratched from styrene sheet and PSRed in/onto the hull, with openings that were later filled with ClearFix, would set the -P variant apart from its standard brethren (and somewhat hide the loss of many surface details due to the massive PSR work all around the hull…).
Freedom Day: Social Hike at Northern Farm
Northern Farm is a nature reserve that feels like you are far away from the bustle of Johannesburg.
Putting up a bar advertisement on the construction fence . . . Meanwhile their pooch patiently waits clutching it's Frisbee. This wall has become popular for posters recently.
street marking
Magdeburg / Germany
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Could this be the work of aliens from another planet? Or maybe enemy spies? Is there a tribe of literate urban big foots? Big feet, maybe?
Spitfire IXB in the 222 Squadron markings worn by this aircraft when provided to the unit at Duxford on the same day as MH415 also flying today in its 222 Squadron markings, taxiing in after landing at Duxford after the finale of the September 2022 Battle of Britain Airshow - a 20 fighter flypast of a modern "Duxford Wing" commemorating the controversial formation led by the legless legendary pilot Douglas Bader. With few visiting aircraft on this occasion the backdrop was clear, very much as it must have been in 1940, so photographing the recovery of the many Spitfires and Hurricanes in the rural setting was an enjoyable part of the show. The survival through WWI and subsequent foreign service of these two Spitfire IXBs to be both airworthy in 2022 at their original base is downright amazing.
NS 16E thunders through Kendalville amid the rain with a trio of Catfish at a location 379 rail miles from Buffalo.
Bob Rose in the "Cash Grab" booth at the Wilton Manors Out of the Closet (OTC) Block Party & Insti-Test Launch Marking the 5th anniversary of Wilton Manors OTC in Wilton Manors, Florida on Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 at the Hagan Park/City Hall parking lot in Wilton Manors, FL. (Mitchell Zachs /AP Images for AIDS Healthcare Foundation)
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The portable laser marking system for either Ytterbium Fiber or CO2 lasers system used to mark on Auto Glass
One of Roadsky Traffic Safety customers recently contract a road marking project. The road marking equipment they use are all from Roadsky. We took a video of the entire project process.
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