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The kit and its assembly
This project/model belongs in the Luft '46 category, but it has no strict real world paradigm - even though Luftwaffe projects like the Ju 288, the BMW Schnellbomber designs or Arado's E560/2 and E560/7 had a clear influence. Actually, “my” Hü 324 design looks pretty much like a He 219 on steroids! Anyway, this project was rather inspired by a ‘click’ when two ideas/elements came together and started forming something new and convincing. This is classic kitbashing, and the major ingredients are:
● Fuselage, wings, landing gear and engine nacelles from a Trumpeter Ilyushin Il-28 bomber
● Nose section from an Italeri Ju 188 (donated from a friend, leftover from his Ju 488 project)
● Stabilisers from an Italeri B-25, replacing the Il-28’s swept tail
● Contraprops and fuselage barbettes from a vintage 1:100 scale Tu-20(-95) kit from VEB Plasticart (yes, vintage GDR stuff!)
Most interestingly, someone from the Netherlands had a similar idea for a kitbashing some years ago: www.airwar1946.nl/whif/L46-ju588.htm. I found this after I got my idea for the Hü 324 together, though - but its funny to see how some ideas manifest independently?
Building the thing went pretty straightforward, even though Trumpeter's Il-28 kit has a rather poor fit. Biggest problem turned out to be the integration of the Ju 188 cockpit section: it lacks 4-5mm in width! That does not sound dramatic, but it took a LOT of putty and internal stabilisation to graft the parts onto the Il-28's fuselage.
The cockpit was completely re-equipped with stuff from the scrap box, and the main landing gear received twin wheels.
The chin turret was mounted after the fuselage was complete, the frontal defence had been an issue I had been pondering about for a long while. Originally, some fixed guns (just as the Il-28 or Tu-16) had been considered. But when I found an old Matchbox B-17G turret in my scrap box, I was convinced that this piece could do literally the same job in my model, and it was quickly integrated. As a side effect, this arrangement justifies the bulged cockpit bottom well, and it just looks "more dangerous".
Another task was the lack of a well for the front wheel, after the Il-28 fuselage had been cut and lacked the original interior. This was also added after the new fuselage had been fitted together, and the new well walls were built with thin polystyrene plates. Not 100% exact and clean, but the arrangement fits the bill and takes the twin front wheel.
The bomb bay was left open, since the Trumpeter kit offers a complete interior. I also added four underwing hardpoints for external loads (one pair in- and outboard of the engine nacelles), taken from A-7 Corsair II kits, but left them empty. Visually-guided weapons like the 'Fritz X' bomb or Hs 293 missiles would IMHO hardly make sense during night sorties? I also did not want to overload the kit with more and more distracting details.
Painting
Even though it is a whif I wanted to incorporate some serious/authentic late WWII Luftwaffe looks. Since the Hü 324 would have been an all-weather bomber, I went for a night bomber livery which was actually used on a He 177 from 2./KG 100, based in France: Black (RLM 22, I simply used Humbrol 33) undersides, and upper surfaces in RLM 76 (Base is Humbrol 128, FS36320, plus some added areas with Testors 2086, the authentic tone which is a tad lighter, but very close) with mottles in RLM 75 (Grauviolett, Testors 2085, plus some splotches of Humbrol 27, Medium Sea Grey), and some weathering through black ink, some panel lines with a mix of matte varnish and Panzergrau, plus some dry painting all over the fuselage.
Pretty simple scheme, but it looks VERY cool, esp. on this sleek aircraft. I am very happy with this decision, and I think that this rather simple livery is less distracting from the fantasy plane itself, making the whif less obvious. ;)
All interior surfaces were painted in RLM 66 (Schwarzgrau/Black Grey, Testors 2079), typical for German late WWII aircraft. In the end, the whole thing looks a bit grey-in-grey, but that spooky touch just adds to the menacing look of this beefy aircraft. I think it would not look as good if it had been kept in daytime RLM 74/75/76 or even RLM 82/83/76?
Markings and registration wwre puzzled together from an Authentic Decal aftermarket sheet for a late He 111 and individual letters from TL Modellbau. The "F3" code for the fictional Kampfgruppe (KG) 210 is a random choice, E (red) V marks the individual plane while the red E and the control letter "V" at the end designate a plane from the eleventh squadron. My idea is that the Hü 324 would replace these machines and literally taking their place in the frontline aviaton units. So I tried to keep in line with the German aircraft code, but after all, it's just a whif...
Drew Leshko, NUT HUT. Archival paper, dry pigments, enamel, wood, clay, wire, plastic, inkjet print: 16 in (h) x 30.5 in (w).
Drew Leshko, HID AWAY. Archival paper, dry pigments, enamel, wood, clay, wire, plastic, inkjet print: 16 in (h) x 23 in (w).
As a result of evaluating the Alexander bodied Olympians, LRT ordered - ECW bodied Olympians. I recall there was some controversy about this or possibly a subsequent bodying decision, allegations of bids being undercut...anyway, the next few orders were for buses that looked like this, even thought the latter batches had Alexander bodies of a similar appearance to the Lowestoft product.
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Paradigm (Conrad Shawcross, 2016), forecourt of the Francis Crick Institute, Camden, London. Commissioned by the Francis Crick Institute, funded by the Wellcome Trust, engineered by Structure Workshop Ltd, fabricated by Benson-Sedgwick Engineering Ltd and curated by Artwise.
At 14 metres tall, this is one of the tallest sculptures in central London. It comprises a twisting stack of tetrahedra that grow in size.
GOC Hertfordshire's walk on 13 April 2019, an 8.3-mile point-to-point walk from St Pancras Station to Paddington Station via Somers Town, Fitzrovia, Marylebone, Mayfair, Hyde Park, Marble Arch and Paddington, which was attended by 37(!) people. We viewed 90 artworks out of a target list of 95. You can view my other photos of this event, read the original event report, find out more about the Gay Outdoor Club or see my collections.
A table lamp at Paradigm Coffee House, a place where both the furniture and the customers are eclectic by nature. It is a favorite place of mine.
Saw this poster on FaceBook, and I know it is a banal self-evident statement- but I had never looked at what I was doing in that particular metaphorically way, and it changed me- before I thought of myself as hiding from the problem and hoping it wouldn't find me, but now I realize that in stalling, or running, I can never get past the problem. I have started running toward problems instead of away.
“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. – Keynes”
Dismissal for this Week Macro Monday challenge!
Macro Monday project – 08/12/13
“Round”
Property of The Aspen Institute / Credit: Kris Tripplaar
Speakers included:
Margaret Low, President, AtlanticLIVE
Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers
Mitch Landrieu, Mayor, City of New Orleans with Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor in Chief, The Atlantic
Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots, X with Derek Thompson, Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Richard Besser, President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with Martha Raddatz, Chief Global Affairs Correspondent, ABC News
Joelle Emerson, Founder and CEO, Paradigm with Liza Mundy, Contributor, The Atlantic
Christopher Ruddy, CEO, NewsMax Inc.with Steve Clemons, Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic
Tom Wilson, Chairman and CEO, The Allstate Corporation
Michele Norris, Founding Director, The Race Card Project with Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor in Chief, The Atlantic
Adam Neumann, Co-Founder and CEO, WeWork with Derek Thompson, Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Dennis Muilenburg, Chairman, President, and CEO, The Boeing Company with David Bradley, Chairman, Atlantic Media
Walter Isaacson, President and CEO, The Aspen Institute
David Ignatius, Opinion Writer, Washington Post, and Author, The Quantum Spy with Mary Louise Kelly, Contributing Editor, The Atlantic
Angela Hwang, Global President of Inflammation and Immunology, Pfizer
Guy Primus, Founder and CEO, The VR Company with Alexis Madrigal, Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Melanie Whelan, CEO, SoulCycle with Alison Stewart, Contributing Editor, The Atlantic
David Shulkin, U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs; and Kevin Vigilante, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Booz Allen Hamilton
William Schindler, Associate Professor Of Anthropology, Washington College with Ross Andersen, Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Martin Baron, Executive Editor, The Washington Post with Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
Atlantic’s president Bob Cohn
Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) with Steve Clemons, The Atlantic
Mark Bertolini, Chairman and CEO, Aetna with Matt Thompson, Executive Editor, The Atlantic
Spencer Rascoff, CEO, Zillow Group with Gillian White, Senior Associate Editor, The Atlantic
Matt Hiznay, Cancer survivor and PhD candidate; Ted Johnson, Biopharmaceutical researcher, Pfizer; and Lori Reilly, Executive Vice President, Policy, Research and Membership, PhRMA
General (Ret.) David Petraeus, Member and Chairman, KKR Global Institute
Christina Tosi, Founder and CEO, Milkbar with Derek Thompson, The Atlantic
Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury with Major Garrett, Chief White House Correspondent, CBS News
Robert Costa, National Political Reporter, The Washington Post, and moderator, PBS’s Washington Week; Glenn Thrush, White House Correspondent, The New York Times; and Katy Tur, Correspondent, NBC News, and Author, Unbelievable: My Front-row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History with Margaret Carlson, Columnist, BloombergView
Feng Zhang, Co-Inventor, CRISPR; Core Institute Member, Broad Institute with Ross Andersen, Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) with McKay Coppins, Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), U.S. House Democratic Leader with Jonathan Karl, Chief White House Correspondent, ABC News
J. Craig Venter, Co-Founder, Executive Chairman And Head of Scientific Strategy, Human Longevity, Inc. with Matt Thompson, Executive Editor, The Atlantic
Lisa Melcher, CEO, and Tina Stride, President, The Hope Dealer Project with Alison Stewart, The Atlantic
Mirza Cifric, Co-founder and CEO, Veritas Genetics; and Todd Stottlemyer, CEO, Inova Center for Personalized Health
Madeleine Albright, Former U.S. Secretary of State with Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Stefanie Joho, Cancer Survivor and Patient Advocate, and Luis Diaz, Head of Solid Tumor Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Department of Medicine with Ross Andersen, The Atlantic
Rohit Prasad, VP and Head Scientist, Alexa Machine Learning with Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic
David Isay, Founder and President, StoryCorps with Alison Stewart, The Atlantic
The perils of being an historian of science in the working world! My keyboard was customized while I went for my 20th cup of tea of the day.
Paradigm Mall - 1, Jalan SS 7/26A, Kelana Jaya - 4sq.com/f7CmfZ
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Drew Leshko, TYDOL. Archival paper, dry pigments, enamel, wood, clay, wire, plastic, inkjet prints: 15 in (h) x 41.5 in (w) x 6 in (d).
#3 from the series.
This is Tomb of Ghazi Khan
He was the founder of geographically important city of Pakistan, Dera Ghazi Khan.
Its mysterious building, Inside of building reminds scenes of the movie THE MUMMY and its not a joke.
Our world can heal itself...and so can we.
Dream Entry:
5/26/10
"There is a creature which lies in the dirt at the water's edge. He has no hair and is covered with gooey blue skin. I can see under his slimy surface that he has veins, but he is very moist with raw shiny flesh. I know he is dying because the environment around him is dying too. Toward the end of this vision, things turn around and he begins to heal. All the slimy blue flesh begins to dry up and turn into beige flakey skin. He seems to be highly intelligent, healing himself quickly now until he can stand up."
Drew Leshko, BIG SKY. Archival paper, dry pigments, enamel, wood, clay, wire, plastic, inkjet print: 16 in (h) x 36.75 in (w).
The infamous Paradigm Daleks!
Introduced in 2010, this radical redesign of the Daleks was rather controversial in the fandom. They were absolutely massive in comparison to the previous designs, and had a noticeable hump back.
For my take, I scaled them down to be only slightly larger than the previous dalek designs, as well as lessening the hump. I'm very proud of how this came out and how it fits in with my other dalek designs