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Model: Elizabeth
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Photographer: Justin Bonaparte
Second Place Winner Classic Cars - Planet Earth Transportation
February 2012
Antique Car Show Smithville, N.J.
I'll be honest: 2021 sucked. In many ways I am blessed, with my family and friends and I had a few good moments in the summer, again, with family and friends. However, I struggled with the limitations due to the pandemic and with the effect it had on my work and my general well-being. Fortunately some changes are at hand in terms of work, with my role changing.
When it comes to LEGO building this was an unusual year too. I built a lot less than last year and I couldn't muster much interest in building large or complicated aircraft models. Instead I turned my attention to building smaller things. I built a few 1/22 scale cars, but all of my other builds were minifig scale, with me trying my hand at some minifig scale military vehicles / missile launchers, as well as civilian trucks and earth-moving equipment.
A few highlights in the collection are the XV-15 tiltrotor, powered with Circuit Cubes and the Teracruzer TEL/ Mace cruise missile.
I'm not sure what next year will bring, but I am looking at a 1/22 scale helicoper, a British AA recovery truck and a new minifig scale aircraft.
Model: Victoria Bell
Photographer: Justin Bonaparte​
I couldn't resist posting this photo today. It was taken on the fourth of July, 2014 at the parade in Paris, Idaho, but I used it as #17 in my 1 to 100 project. The owner and driver is Vaughn Pugmire, and we went to his 90th birthday party today. He is a great guy who has given us rides in his two restored Model A's, and used to bring us lots of fresh vegetables from his big garden. He can't manage a garden anymore, but is still fun to visit with.
Brodsworth Hall, near Brodsworth, 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, is one of the most complete surviving examples of a Victorian country house in England. It is virtually unchanged since the 1860s. It was designed in the Italianate style by the obscure London architect, Philip Wilkinson, then 26 years old. He was commissioned by Charles Sabine Augustus Thellusson, who inherited the estate in 1859, but the original estate was constructed in 1791 for merchant and slave owner Peter Thellusson. It is a Grade I listed building
George Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull, bought the Brodsworth estate from Sir John Wentworth in 1713 and rebuilt the house in the Georgian style, but lost his money in the South Sea Bubble crash of 1720 and was obliged to take the position of Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. His second son Robert, later Archbishop of York, took up residence on the estate instead and made a number of improvements to the house and grounds. On his death in 1777, the house was left empty, and, after his eldest son became the 10th Earl of Kinnoull in 1787, he sold the estate in 1790 to Peter Thellusson (1737–1797) of the Swiss banking family.
Peter Thellusson had come from Geneva and settled in England, becoming a director of the Bank of England. This role saw him provide loans to slave ship and plantation owners. As these slave owners defaulted on debts, Thellusson amassed interests in Caribbean plantations and became a tobacco and sugar importer. He wrote an unusual will, unsuccessfully challenged by his family in the Thellusson Will Case, whereby his fortune was put in trust to be untouched for three generations. Peter Thellusson's grandson Arthur Thellusson, married the daughter of another Antigua slave owner, Sir Christopher Bethell-Codrington. The Thellussons were slave owners in Grenada and Montserrat as late as 1820.
One of the two eventual beneficiaries was the 5th Baron Rendlesham. The other was Peter's great-grandson Charles Sabine Augustus Thellusson who, in 1859, inherited half the bequest plus the Brodsworth estate with its Georgian house. He demolished the existing house and commissioned the present one, which was built in two years between 1861 and 1863. A keen yachtsman, he also commissioned four yachts, the last two being, successively, the largest in the world. He was appointed High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1866–1867. He and his wife Georgiana left four sons, all of whom died childless, and the house therefore passed to each son in turn. The third son, Charles Thellusson, leased the mineral rights to the Brodsworth Colliery Company and also rented them the land for the construction of Woodlands model village to accommodate the miners. In addition he paid for the construction of All Saints Church (1913) for the village. He was also responsible for the introduction of electric light to the hall.
After the First World War, spiralling costs resulted in the owners closing off parts of the house. On the death of the youngest son, Augustus Thellusson, in 1931, the house passed to his nephew, Captain Charles Grant-Dalton (1882–1952). He was High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1942–1943.
The last resident of the house was Sylvia Grant-Dalton (wife of Captain Grant-Dalton), who fought a losing battle for 57 years against leaking roofs on the mansion and land subsidence from nearby coal mining. After her death in 1988, Her daughter, Pamela Williams, gave the Hall and gardens to English Heritage in 1990. The contents of the house were purchased by the National Heritage Memorial Fund and transferred to the ownership of English Heritage. It was decided to conserve the interiors "as found" rather than replacing or restoring them. They demonstrate how a once opulent Victorian house grew "comfortably" old.
Designed in the Italianate style by Philip Wilkinson, the Hall is constructed in ashlar limestone, some quarried on the estate, with lead and slate roofs. Stonework, windows and interior fittings were reused from the older building. The building is "T" shaped with the servants quarters forming the upright. The main block, forming the cross-bar, is 2-storey rectangular range having 9-bay frontage. The house has more than 30 rooms, ranging from grand reception rooms with original furnishings to the servants' quarters. The house is surrounded by Victorian period gardens, which are used for special events throughout the summer.
The house is noted for Charles Sabine Thellusson's collection of paintings and sculptures, including a large collection of Italian sculptures bought at the Dublin International Exhibition of 1865.
Model: Correen Bo
MUA/Hair: Robert Starks
Photographer: Braxton Klavins
Styling: Robet Starks & Braxton Klavins
Model: Victoria Bell
Photographer: Justin Bonaparte​
This was a still-life set-up that I took a close-up of and then processed in Topaz Software to make it appear authentic. It involved two plastic model tanks set up inside a lightbox.
Model: Lott Kalee
Photographer: Bram van Dal
1/60 F1.8 640 85mm
Location: The Veemgebouw in Eindhoven. This location includes the ground floor of a vershal, where small shops sell their products, a nice location with different atmospheric delights, a location is a Wine & Nut position.
In this entire shoot, I made use of the light that enters the building through the windows and the present can light.
You can play here quite nicely with the environment and by putting objects of focus in the foreground (repoussoir), give more depth to an image.
This location I will visit often.
Inspired by a couple of model kit builds I've seen in recent years, most recently at Bricktastic where somebody took the Concorde set from 2023 and put it in a 'box' with sprues and all. This has been on my list ever since, but since I've seen model kit MOCs for planes and Bandai figures, I thought I'd try my hand at a car. Everything here is Lego asides from the Citadel paints (which I was unable to convert into brick form, and not for lack of trying 😛), although admittedly the sprues are among the most fragile things I've built in recent memory.
C&C welcome as always.
This is the adult stage of a lifecycle of creatures made from epoxy putty, painted with acrylics and varnish.
Model: Victoria Bell
Photographer: Justin Bonaparte​
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Model: Lott Kalee
Photographer: Bram van Dal
1/1000 F1.8 1000 85mm
Location: The Veemgebouw in EIndhoven. This is very diverse location, where you can make beautiful atmospheric pictures, small shops focused on food.
This photo I made in a pub that is present at this location. On the left you have big windows where the light comes in and I played by vignetting in post processing with the light.
Model: Vera Rovers
Photographer: Bram van Dal
1/180 F / 2.5 500 Canon 5DmkIII Sigma 85
The photo was taken at the same location as an earlier photo where Vera is sitting on the stairs. In this photo she is closer to the lighting, making the light more intense and the background darker.
The daylight that shines into the building through a window ensures that her hair, forehead and nose bridge are nicely accentuated.
By turning her body to the shadow and her face to the light, she has direction where the light ends up.