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I got this little mini-figure as a subject from one of my fiancee's subscription services. I think it was a NerdBlock crate, actually. Anyhow, I decided to just have a little bit of fun with this guy and put him in front of the camera.
He turned out better than I thought! I think that the background blur enhances his skin tone and I think that the framing was dynamic enough to make it seem like a more action-like figure rather than just a static one. Not to mention the fact that this little guy is cool in the first place!
I've bought this set for 75€. With an L-Motor, Battery/Receiver Box and Remote Control this seemed good value for money. Seemed.
This is a chinese as you can get, when you order a pint of lager and get a glass of horsepiss. Yes, it's yellow and has foam on top, but you'd be a wee bit disappointed - as I am.
1st they did not understand the special properties of a shay, which runs on two bogies to tackle tight radii. This has no bogies, it's a rigid rame loco. The front and back wheelsets don't even touch the rails when you put it on the R40 circle that comes with the kit.
2nd the electric part. It's on or off, like in the good old days with my 4,5V Lego trains, but at double speed. If you want to watch the peculiar power train with moving pistons and turning cogwheels - you can't. The loco is too fast, and the pistons are just a blur.
Without friction tyres it takes a few seconds of spinning wheels until the machine gets into motion.
3rd cable management.
This thingy comes with about 20-25cm (10") of four core cable, but it doesn't exist in the instruction booklet. You have to guess where it should go, and at the end you're left with one big loop. Yes, there's room in the driver's cab, but where do the fireman and the driver go? And they don't even make any arrempt to hide the plugs. Only one in my pictures because I didn't bother with the light, but there are two 4-core cables.
Recommendation? Definitely not. 2 of 5 stars.
Toy Project Day 3916
A picture from my backyard yesterday.
There was of course no trace of that snow within twenty minutes of taking this picture.
I've bought this set for 75€. With an L-Motor, Battery/Receiver Box and Remote Control this seemed good value for money. Seemed.
This is a chinese as you can get, when you order a pint of lager and get a glass of horsepiss. Yes, it's yellow and has foam on top, but you'd be a wee bit disappointed - as I am.
1st they did not understand the special properties of a shay, which runs on two bogies to tackle tight radii. This has no bogies, it's a rigid frame loco. The front and back wheelsets don't even touch the rails when you put it on the R40 circle that comes with the kit.
2nd the electric part. It's on or off, like in the good old days with my 4,5V Lego trains, but at double speed. If you want to watch the peculiar power train with moving pistons and turning cogwheels - you can't. The loco is too fast, and the pistons are just a blur.
Without friction tyres it takes a few seconds of spinning wheels until the machine gets into motion.
3rd cable management.
This thingy comes with about 20-25cm (10") of four core cable, but it doesn't exist in the instruction booklet. You have to guess where it should go, and at the end you're left with one big loop. Yes, there's room in the driver's cab, but where do the fireman and the driver go? And they don't even make any attempt to hide the plugs. Only one in my pictures because I didn't bother with the light, but there are two 4-core cables.
Recommendation? Definitely not. 2 of 5 stars.
Toy Project Day 3916
From the Government House in Sydney, Australia. Yes, I've moved my adventure to a new country! It's been amazing so far.
(Also, no editing here other than cropping!)
I take photos of this little bunch of croci in the garden every year. This year it's wide-angle with the Canon S90 and a macro adapter that's meant for a Lensbaby.
It's not particularly sharp, but the lensbaby glass isn't known for its resolving power.
Too bad he was chosen to explore inside that ship, eh?
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Remember how I said I was building a robot for engineering? Well here it is! We just had the final competition on Saturday, so I figured I'd upload a picture while saving them to my computer for the project. I know this thing can do a lot, even if it doesn't look like it, or if it didn't act like it during the competition. :P
I can further explain what the robot does/did if anyone wants me to. Otherwise, I don't feel like writing that out right now. :P
I've bought this set for 75€. With an L-Motor, Battery/Receiver Box and Remote Control this seemed good value for money. Seemed.
This is a chinese as you can get, when you order a pint of lager and get a glass of horsepiss. Yes, it's yellow and has foam on top, but you'd be a wee bit disappointed - as I am.
1st they did not understand the special properties of a shay, which runs on two bogies to tackle tight radii. This has no bogies, it's a rigid rame loco. The front and back wheelsets don't even touch the rails when you put it on the R40 circle that comes with the kit.
2nd the electric part. It's on or off, like in the good old days with my 4,5V Lego trains, but at double speed. If you want to watch the peculiar power train with moving pistons and turning cogwheels - you can't. The loco is too fast, and the pistons are just a blur.
Without friction tyres it takes a few seconds of spinning wheels until the machine gets into motion.
3rd cable management.
This thingy comes with about 20-25cm (10") of four core cable, but it doesn't exist in the instruction booklet. You have to guess where it should go, and at the end you're left with one big loop. Yes, there's room in the driver's cab, but where do the fireman and the driver go? And they don't even make any arrempt to hide the plugs. Only one in my pictures because I didn't bother with the light, but there are two 4-core cables.
Recommendation? Definitely not. 2 of 5 stars.
Toy Project Day 3916
These are some more prints from my black and white film class last semester, from a project about abstraction. The pictures were all taken on my trip to Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon over spring break this year. I created the effects in parts 2-4 using light blocking material and double exposures (not at all digitally), which I can explain further if anyone cares.
Just wanted to post these sometime because I think they're cool!
This is something you want to see on a rallye car, not on a steam loco. Behold the ladder for the personnel to get into the cab. Yes, none.
I've bought this set for 75€. With an L-Motor, Battery/Receiver Box and Remote Control this seemed good value for money. Seemed.
This is a chinese as you can get, when you order a pint of lager and get a glass of horsepiss. Yes, it's yellow and has foam on top, but you'd be a wee bit disappointed - as I am.
1st they did not understand the special properties of a shay, which runs on two bogies to tackle tight radii. This has no bogies, it's a rigid frame loco. The front and back wheelsets don't even touch the rails when you put it on the R40 circle that comes with the kit.
2nd the electric part. It's on or off, like in the good old days with my 4,5V Lego trains, but at double speed. If you want to watch the peculiar power train with moving pistons and turning cogwheels - you can't. The loco is too fast, and the pistons are just a blur.
Without friction tyres it takes a few seconds of spinning wheels until the machine gets into motion.
3rd cable management.
This thingy comes with about 20-25cm (10") of four core cable, but it doesn't exist in the instruction booklet. You have to guess where it should go, and at the end you're left with one big loop. Yes, there's room in the driver's cab, but where do the fireman and the driver go? And they don't even make any attempt to hide the plugs. Only one in my pictures because I didn't bother with the light, but there are two 4-core cables.
Recommendation? Definitely not. 2 of 5 stars.
Toy Project Day 3916
These are some more prints from my black and white film class last semester, from a project about abstraction. The pictures were all taken on my trip to Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon over spring break this year. I created the effects in parts 2-4 using light blocking material and double exposures (not at all digitally), which I can explain further if anyone cares.
Just wanted to post these sometime because I think they're cool!
This is a quick-and-dirty prototype (kind of) of the gauntlet I've been working on. This is how it will appear at A-kon this year (with a proper outfit, of course), but I would like to completely overhaul it when I have time.
Not all of the metal pieces are riveted together (as they're supposed to be) and rivets do fly off every now and then if I'm not careful, but if I move my arm enough, no one can tell.
;P
It's not too terribly dexterous, but I can hold (and drink!) a Coke easily.
Sheng Yuan have smashed it with this beauty, a fully transparent orange minifig for the Human Torch. The quality is remarkable and the effect is just perfect. Will upload some close-ups of the parts soon.
A nice idea to use the longer limbs from the Woody fig for Mr Fantastic.
With the basic LEGO-style bigfig for The Thing, I'm just waiting until a trans-clear fig hits the streets to complete this bunch.
Got some other foreign figs which are pretty cool so will post those when I have a better photo setup.
Limbs and other attachments, being attached. Great build, very fiddly, but no unscheduled rapid disassembly events so far.
These are some more prints from my black and white film class last semester, from a project about abstraction. The pictures were all taken on my trip to Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon over spring break this year. I created the effects in parts 2-4 using light blocking material and double exposures (not at all digitally), which I can explain further if anyone cares.
Just wanted to post these sometime because I think they're cool!
These are some more prints from my black and white film class last semester, from a project about abstraction. The pictures were all taken on my trip to Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon over spring break this year. I created the effects in parts 2-4 using light blocking material and double exposures (not at all digitally), which I can explain further if anyone cares.
Just wanted to post these sometime because I think they're cool!
I've just published an omnibus edition of my three steampunk novels. This sees revised versions of Red Mercury, Neptune Rising and Titan's Fire gathered together into a single volume. It's available now in both ebook and print on Amazon.
For the next 3 months all royalties will be donated to Kipawa, a charity supporting a school in Kenya.
If you fancy a bit of old-fashioned adventure with a dash of steam-driven sci-fi, then please give it a go and help out a good cause.
More details here: redmercurysteampunk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/all-together-n...