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View from Red Head, New South Wales.
A small headland separates Diamond Beach from Shelly Beach. Red Head forms the southern boundary. It is composed of 250 million year old red shales interbedded with thin layers of volcanic ash together with fossil land plant remains (beachsafe.org.au). Further south is Black Head Beach, named after the Irish birthplace (Black Head, Antrim) of the first settler William Hoy, who moved to Black Head, New South Wales, around 1881.
This is the back side of a cool personalized area that they have in this store, if you can believe that! I'll save front view photos for future uploading ;)
The dominant geographical feature of this area is Mt Bryan at 936 metres (or 3,070 feet). Nearby is Mount Razorback which is 863 metres (or 2,831 feet.) Mt Lofty is a mere 727 metres!
Picture from the 2023 Central Coast Airfest in Salinas California. This newly restored P-47 was recovered from New Guinea and brought back to flight worthiness. She is a beautiful plane
Macy’s Razorback
Warhammer and Nexo Knights seem like a perfect match to me. I don’t play the table top games but I really like the vehicle designs and imagery.
Pointers from Jerac (www.flickr.com/photos/jerac/5164163208) and Slnine (flic.kr/p/q6dhmy) are clearly evident in this one, specifically the scale and design of the tracks.
I tried to come up with my own solutions to achieving the angles and offsets, and I hope it compliments their incredible creations.
Loch Ard Gorge, Great Ocean Road
I have no more words for this incredible heaven on earth.
blogpost of ALL photos from the Great Ocean Road! :)
xxx
The interplanetary racing pinnace in matching scale to the Rocinante.
Instructions are available here:
www.brickvault.toys/products/the-expanse-rocinante-and-ta...
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From Tom Clancy's EndWar, featuring detailed cockpit, retractable undercarriage, opening weapons bays, and detailed engines. Designed on commission.
BSF (Battlements and Spotting Frame) Razorback Type
The Razorback is a light-armored, front-liner frame developed for razor wire deployment and enemy spotting via a sophisticated sensor and flare suite. It features a chest-mounted anti-personnel gun, and a modular hardpoint on the right side of its hull, commonly outfitted with a 2 SUR (Single Use Rocket) launcher. While fairly mobile, the Razorback is not suited for extended combat. When under duress, the pilot can release up to 3 smoke cannisters from the left side of the hull to obscure escape.
Macy’s Razorback
Warhammer and Nexo Knights seem like a perfect match to me. I don’t play the table top games but I really like the vehicle designs and imagery.
Pointers from Jerac (www.flickr.com/photos/jerac/5164163208) and Slnine (flic.kr/p/q6dhmy) are clearly evident in this one, specifically the scale and design of the tracks.
I tried to come up with my own solutions to achieving the angles and offsets, and I hope it compliments their incredible creations.
This is the "Hummer" of the XXXI century. Yes, they still use shovels in the XXXI century. There's a place for five passengers if the fifth lies or for six if two of them are cramped in the back section (I stopped trying this in LDD, but I still believe it's possible) plus one (two seems to be nearly impossible) shooter. Four doors, one big hatch, motor hood and some big roof section including the windscreen - that's what can be opened here. Suspension is only on the front wheels and it is "not so much".
I think I like to build those 8-stud wide MRAPS much more than other vehicles... That should explain why I have much more of that stuff built.
Oh, and I added a flag :)
A-10C , no longer in service with the 188th Wing...retired in 2014. Shot by myself at Hillsboro, OR Airshow a few years back Another deep dive of my Hard Drive on a hot day.
The house on top of Razorback Mountain, (Sydney Australia.
(now demolished.) Locals said it was haunted, The cold foggy morning made it feel that way when I took this photo.
Taken on 35mm slide film, warming filter. Nikon F601 if I recall. Scanned into the computer recently.
A former Seaboard intermodal trailer is now used by Engineering forces at Tilford yard in Atlanta, GA. Hopefully this will be saved. Dec 14, 2017.
© Eric T. Hendrickson 2018 All Rights Reserved
Along the ridge, the sharp edges and bumps are caused by wind-blown spray, which hardens small areas of rock. The softer rock around these erodes away, leaving an uneven surface.
Wave energy channelled along the sides of the stack carves the deep smooth grooves just above sea level. With one wave every 14 seconds, there's a lot of erosion over a year, century or millennium.
The Razorback once extended much further out to sea. The force of the waves gradually eroded and undercut the base of the stack. Vertical cracks such as that clearly visible towards the outer end, were widened by rainwater, forming a line of weakness. Huge blocks of rock then collapsed into the sea, leaving rock shelf just under the sea's surface.
NR18, NR81 and NR99 work their way through Razorback with 2PS7 to Sydney.
2018-08-30 Pacific National NR18-N81-NR99 Razorback 2PS7
This rock stack is called 'the Razorback'. The sharp edges and bumps along its back are caused by wind-blown spary, which hardens small areas of rock. The softer rocks around these erodes away, leaving uneven surface.
Wave energy channeled along the side of the stack carves the deep smooth grooves just above sea level. With one wave every 14 seconds, there's a lot of erosion over a year, a century, or a thousand years!
The Razorback once extended much further out to sea. The force of the waves gradually eroded and undercut the base of the stack. Vertical cracks in the rock were widened by rainwater, forming a line of weakness. Huge blocks of rock then collapsed into the sea leaving the rock shelf you can see today.
The USS Razorback (SS-394) is a Balao-class submarine that saw service in the Pacific Theater during World War II. The name “Razorback” came from the Rorqual family of whales, which are characterized by throat grooves that extend from the throat to the flippers. This submarine, after a long and varied service, is now docked in North Little Rock (Pulaski County), as part of the Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum.
The USS Razorback was constructed at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine in 1943–44 and was launched on January 27, 1944. Between 1944 and 1945, the Razorback completed war patrols in the Pacific, which included being a member of an offensive group conducting patrols east of Luzon in the Philippines in support of the mid-September 1944 landings on Palau. It also operated in a group of submarines that patrolled in the Luzon Straits, where the Razorback damaged a 6,933-ton freighter on December 6, 1944, and sank an 820-ton destroyer and damaged another freighter on December 30. On February 1, 1945, the Razorback set out for the East China Sea, accompanied by the Segundo and the USS Sea Cat (SS-399), where it sank four wooden ships in three separate surface gun actions.
As a result of its World War II patrols, the Razorback won five battle stars, and it is also one of only two surviving submarines that took part in the formal surrender of Japan at Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. Following World War II, the Razorback remained active with the Pacific Fleet, participating in patrols off Japan and China. After being modified in the early 1950s to make it more modern and competitive against possible Soviet submarine threats, it provided antisubmarine training services for surface and air units off the West Coast through 1956. From 1957 until 1970, the Razorback returned to duty in the Far East, earning its first Vietnam Service Medal in 1965.
Following its final deployment, it was decommissioned on November 30, 1970, transferred to the Turkish Navy, and renamed the TCG Muratreis (S-336). Due to their classified nature, little information is available about the Muratreis’s duties while in the Turkish Navy, though it is known that it was involved in the 1974 Turkish invasion of the island of Cyprus.
The Muratreis was decommissioned in August 2001. The city of North Little Rock succeeded in buying the submarine for $37,500 in 2004 (with the sale being finalized on March 25, 2005), following the intervention of city officials and submarine veterans groups, specifically the United States Submarine Veterans, Inc. The city of North Little Rock arranged for it to be towed from Turkey at a cost of about $500,000, most of which came from private donations; it arrived at the Port of Little Rock on August 29, 2004. A celebration, called an “American Homecoming,” was held for the Razorback later that month to celebrate its return to the United States.
BSF (Battlements and Spotting Frame) Razorback Type
The Razorback is a light-armored, front-liner frame developed for razor wire deployment and enemy spotting via a sophisticated sensor and flare suite. It features a chest-mounted anti-personnel gun, and a modular hardpoint on the right side of its hull, commonly outfitted with a 2 SUR (Single Use Rocket) launcher. While fairly mobile, the Razorback is not suited for extended combat. When under duress, the pilot can release up to 3 smoke cannisters from the left side of the hull to obscure escape.
The trail along the sharp, craggy spine of the Razorback Ridge is infamous for its awesome 360 degree views right across the Victorian alps, and especially in Winter where the isolation and tranquility really kick in.
Clear skies and calm conditions made for a enjoyable (albeit slow-going) snowshoe out along the ridge towards Mt Feathertop, where I'd been planning to make camp for the night & make the most of shooting a sunset and sunset. However, the very nature of the alpine environment surrounding me meant the weather had other ideas.
In the dark, early hours of the morning a swift change in weather blasted in - a rude awakening. Checking the forecast on my phone showed very little hope for improvement, and rather pointed towards the opposite, indicating deteriorating conditions including stronger winds & squalls and rain - not fun up on an exposed ridge.
It's the only time I've ever decided to pack up camp in the dark and retreat under headlight & GPS tracking, but I'm glad I made the decision to do so as I dodged some really nasty alpine weather. And hence a memorable moment in my landscape shooting career and I can't wait to head back :)
"The Rattler II, more commonly known among its pilots as the Razorback, represents a step forward for Cobra ground attack, and deserves fear and respect. This new-generation ground pounder carries a wide array of smart and conventional ordnance and retains the original Rattler's overall toughness and VTOL capability. Whether flying close air support, COIN, or tank hunting, the Razorback means business, and if it comes to a close in air battle, it is quite lethal to any aircraft that isn't able to detect and destroy it at long range.
The classic Rattler was a tried and tested machine, but several drawbacks of the design led Cobra to revamp the venerable ground attacker to improve its efficiency. Most notably, the manned rear turret has been replaced by a remote turret in the belly, and now serves its primary mission of ground attack. The 30mm gatling cannon in the nose proved too powerful a weapon for the Rattler, and has been replaced by a pair of 20mm gatlings, which fire ammunition that takes far less space, and thus can be carried in greater quantities. With its signature 30mm tank shredder gone, the Razorback relies more on bombs, rockets, and missiles for destroying the heaviest armored targets, and it carries these in ample quantity underneath its wings, in addition to air to air missiles for self defense. While not primarily designed for air to air combat, its maneuverability and fearsome weaponry make it a dogfighter to take seriously at short ranges. The Razorback is faster than any helicopter, and can out turn most fast jets that decide to take it on in its element at low altitude."
This one is a real classic - the Rattler is one of the most recognizable Cobra vehicles - as far as Joe iconography goes, this is the Cobra equivalent to a TIE Fighter. It was just a matter of time before I had a go at one myself. The classic Rattle is basically a shrunken down A-10ish VTOL, with a different engine configuration and a gun turret added.
www.yojoe.com/vehicles/84/rattler/
I love the idea of the Rattler, but I thought the toy itself ended up looking very chibiesque, and too small for its crew, with an outsize cockpit. Also, the turret mounted behind the cockpit doesn't look very useful to me, since the tail and the tail engine are going to prevent it from effectively covering the rear sector. I could have removed the turret entirely, but decided ultimately that it would be interesting to mount it underneath the aircraft, to be used against ground targets.
I wasn't quite sure how much I wanted to stray from the original, and as a result this one went through various permutations, including one with forward-swept wings. I considered leaving the tail engine off entirely, but decided it needed it in order to look sufficiently Rattleresque. I kept the VTOL capability through the swivel wings, but ended up splitting the jet nozzles to to offer a little more stability.
Thanks to Matt H. for encouraging me to rework the engines from my original design - it ended up turning into a full wing redesign and I'm so much happier with the way they look now.
BSF (Battlements and Spotting Frame) Razorback Type
The Razorback is a light-armored, front-liner frame developed for razor wire deployment and enemy spotting via a sophisticated sensor and flare suite. It features a chest-mounted anti-personnel gun, and a modular hardpoint on the right side of its hull, commonly outfitted with a 2 SUR (Single Use Rocket) launcher. While fairly mobile, the Razorback is not suited for extended combat. When under duress, the pilot can release up to 3 smoke cannisters from the left side of the hull to obscure escape.