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The grand staircase around the Reading Room, The British Museum, London.
The shadows are from the giant rooflight that the Architect, Sir Norman Foster, designed to enclose the old courtyard.
I bought some new models for my n scale city. They don't make this kit any longer so I'm really thankful I bought it when I did. :D
Revell 1/24th Scale Routemaster London Double Decker Bus Build. Hood in place, or resting in place for now. Windows and more detail next such as the black wheel arches. Some how I need to make an RML 2294 decal for the hood. I like it though, very cool model.
Staircases basically completed.....YEAH! Looking forward to moving on to something else after spending a week on these.
One of my colleagues (who prefers to remain anonymous) is a model-making enthusiast. He is constantly looking for new and challenging projects. One of his ideas was to create scale models of cars made out of plastic customer loyalty cards from various shops. The open top Routemaster double-decker bus is made out of (about seven or eight) Kruidvat Jouw extravoordeelkaart cards. The trailer is made out of Open32 MyCard cards.
Construction materials used are a jigsaw, cutting blades, cyanoacrylate glue and contact adhesive. The wheels were purchased (a long time ago) at Wiking Modelbau and the window panes are bits and pieces of old stock. The license plate of the car is (by tradition) its year of construction. The models also have a few numbers written on the underside, which corresponds to the serial number of the blueprint the model was based on and also a serial number of the scale model itself.
This is actually a focus-stacked image enfused from ten individual photos (tutorial by Patrick David).
A "Behind The Scenes" photo can be seen here.
Wrigleyville in N-Scale.
With the Cubs winning the World Series Wrigley Field and the Wrigleyville neighborhood are very much in the news. I thought I would upload these images to show what the area looked like in the early 1970s when the Milwaukee Road ran right past the ballpark to interchange with the CTA at the Buena Yard in Uptown. I’ve been working on this diorama over the years and it is very much a work in progress.
I also model the Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E Line) farther south from Belmont Avenue to Wellington Avenue where it ran down the middle of Lakewood Avenue. I will post pictures of that diorama later.
My goal is to close the gap between the two dioramas-in a compressed way-and one day model the section around Racine and Roscoe where the Milwaukee Road went under the CTA Ravenswood Line and service a fuel dealer.
All of the buildings are scratch built using photographs and postcards of buildings in the area from the era. Some have since been torn down like the residence on Eddy Street, Franksville, Yum Yum Donuts, and the two commercial buildings on the east side of Clark south of Addison. The Standard Condenser building is now part of the expanded Cubby Bear sports bar complex.
The roadbed for the tracks was built up on cork with cardstock for the top layer and thinly cut strips of polystyrene for the spaces between the flangeways to simulate street trackage. By this date the Milwaukee Road had abandoned the southbound main in this area and used just the former northbound main. I tried to show an out of service track that is partly paved over for the former southbound main.
The cantilevered grade crossing signals are from NJ International. The track is Atlas as is the SW-1200 that Bill Denton custom painted for me in the number of an actual unit that was photographed by the Wrigley Field team track on one of the last days of service.
This view shows the out of service but mostly left in place southbound main, paved over in places. Like the prototype this diorama is also protected by cantilevered crossing protection.
The building on the far right is the former Franksville restaurant which was replaced by a McDonalds.
When looking at pictures, sometimes it's easy to forget just how large of a scale these wonders are. Here is another photo from The Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Florence, Italy
at Railay East, Krabi, Thailand. It's not a very clear shot of the rock climber (in red shirt, white pants) but I wanted to show this popular activity in the Krabi area.
Common name: Scaled Quail
Scientific name: Callipepla squamata
Distribution: Mexico, United States
Conservation status (IUCN): Least Concern
I think these are scale insect, whatever they are my poor Aloe was coated with sticky honeydew and these things. I consigned the plant to the worm bin. Luckily I had taken healthy cuttings.
20th June 2015 Home Stafford UK
Oystershell scale is a widespread problem, an emerging invasive insect posing a serious threat to conservation of quaking aspen in northern Arizona and beyond. A serious priority for researchers, oystershell scale monitoring and research is occurring on the Flagstaff and Mogollon Rim Ranger Districts with collaborators from NAU School of Forestry.
Photos are from a collaborative field trip with NAU School of Forestry and the USFS. We shadowed researchers and graduate students, visiting two test plots where possible mitigations for oystershell spread are being reviewed.
Photos and videos taken December 7, 2021 by Danika Thiele. Credit U.S. Forest Service Coconino National Forest.
Hacking a digital bathroom scale to use as a general-purpose weight sensor or input device.
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