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Found during a night hike in Iwokrama rainforest reserve.
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Yesterday the tire flew off my minibus, I cut the head off a pit viper and I was banned from a commercial flight by associating with a narco-trafficker. Today I am bushwhacking through the jungle in the remote trail-less backwaters of Guyana, waist deep in water and praying to make it through the rest of the day alive. What will tomorrow bring? God only knows. The adventure starts here- pbertner.wordpress.com/.
Scale Modelworld 2017 - Club Displays
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Amy Wilkinson, Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business, USA, Roberto Souviron, Co-Founder and Member of the Board, Despegar, Argentina, Maria Elena Provensal, Director of Operations, Incutex Company Builders, Argentina, Nicolás Shea, Founding President, Todos, Chile, Daniel Isenberg, Professor of Entrepreneurship Practice, Babson Executive Education, Babson College, USA, Mario Quintana, Secretary for Interministerial Coordination of Argentina at the World Economic Forum on Latin America 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
The first idea was to build the model without the rotor and do it digitally, then they wanted to incorporate a built rotor for the crash, so we built it and hooked it up to a powerful electric motor, but then the risk that something may go wrong during the shoot was considered too big and it was never used... Wingspan was, I think, about 3.2 meters. It was really scary when it started to turn!
Daily Design: March 7, 2011
When we see images of the earth and the moon, they are never in scale, because they are so far apart that it is not practical to portray them in scale. Subsequently, most people do not realize how far apart the earth and the moon actually are, so I made this graphic to better show the relationship.
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I also had on reservation thru Hogtrainz these two Atlas N Scale 40 foot well cars with the intent of putting a pair of twenty foot containers in these in lieu of leaving them on Micro Trains flat cars as those modern containers are not really transported on ordinary fifty foot flatcars.
Scaling a Bluefish
28 August 2013 -- 240/365
Providence, Rhode Island
I had eight straight hours of meetings today, including a four-hour block that ran right through lunch. Knowing I wouldn't get out during the day, I stopped at India Point Park on my way to work. Just as I arrived, this fisherman pulled in a good-sized bluefish. The blues were running strong at the time, as two other fisherman also pulled in blues while I was taking this photo. As you see in this photo, they scale the fish on the spot. They then tie a rope through its gills and mouth and hang it back in the water to keep it fresh. I asked if he had a problem with crabs taking hitting his fresh catch, and he admitted he hadn't thought of that possibility. In any case, despite there being no sign of the blues in local waters yesterday, it's clear from today's experience that they have arrived for their fall run.
Post processing started with a brilliant cold filter in Topaz Adjust. I then adjusted adaptive exposure, regions, and contrast. A levels adjustment was added in PSE.
In scale 1:2000 this was the smallest scale project we have done so far. Very distinct look with black landscaping and silver roads. Softscape was matte while hardscape was shiny black.
Model was built in 4 days for a competition.
Model by AMOD China:
So I was browsing Facebook ads last week, as I always do, and came across this - the S.H. Figuarts Tuxedo Kamen figure from the Sailor Moon line. With the ladies completed (ish.. I mean, they're not technically complete due to the Super line but whatever) I had resigned myself to only getting the rest if they fell into my lap.
The universe does some time provide, as this was also located in an area I frequent even during COVID and best of all, it was a whopping $35 CAD, or roughly $25 USD at the time of this writing.
Clearly I wasn't about to say "No" to this.
For the uninitiated, Tuxedo Kamen is the reincarnation of Princess Serenity's lover, Endymion. I'm gonna go ahead and presume that this particular tidbit is about as shocking as finding out Santa Claus is really whoever had time to run to the toy store.
As a character, he features more predominately in the first two seasons of the 90s show, and as an actual fighter much more useful in the 90s show as compared to his abilities in Crystal which thus far have been effectively a Kamehameha (I've only seen up to Season 2). Tuxedo Kamen is also armed with razor sharp throwing roses, and extending cane, and of course, a Masters degree in Slam Poetry.
Lets find out if they were able to capture all this in figure form.
The set comes pretty well packed. Released in 2015 at a MSRP of 5,000 Yen, it was about 600 Yen or so more expensive than the ladies themselves. In the set you of get the figure, four total face plates (eyes closed, eyes open, mask on with eyes revealed, mask on with eyes covered over - for when he was still mysterious), a rose, that locket that featured promaninetly in Season One during his search for his past, his cane, various posing hands, and a posing stand.
Tuxedo Kamen looks pretty good, and doesn't have any of the issues with a disproportionate face or strange gaps on the side of the head. Sculptors, to me, focused on maintaining the lines of his tuxedo rather than maximizing articulation
Size wise, he scales fine with the original Sailor Moon, but I think if anything this figure shows that the Super version really was made too tall. Also, because of the non existent scaling standards, Tuxedo Kamen will undoubtedly look like Sagat next to most of your Figuarts.
Colour wise, I'm not sure what else needs overhauling. I say that in the sense that the recent "anime colour" reissues have brighter colours to make them more accurate to their screen counterparts. I mean, I guess you could make the white and skintone brighter, but honestly what can do you about the black.
Technically, Tuxedo Kamen has two head sculpts - with and without the top hat. In order to secure the hat to this head, that sculpt has giant plastic knob underneath it, which looks hilariously like a Fez.
The base, for.. reasons, is a repainted standard SHF rectangular piece. I get that it's black for the purposes of Tuxedo Kamen, but when everyone is transparent, it really doesn't fit in.
Oh yes.. can't forget about the cape. It's... mostly terrible. The whole thing sits on a frame that allows for some articulation but overall you're not going to be able to do some of the more classic poses involving the cape. Lets not forget the sheer weight and size of the cape making posing very difficult.. you're gonna want to use that stand if you're displaying with the cape on.
This poor bastard definitely needs a wired cloth cape.
Tuxedo Kamen has the same points of articulation as the ladies - ankles, single jointed knees, hips with pull down function, waist, mid torso, shoulders with some collapse, single jointed elbows, wrists, neck, and head. Due to the design of the body, range of motion at the ankles and shoulders is severely limited, as is the mid torso joint.
Overall, you can get some elegant looking poses out of the figure, but there's zero chance you're getting anything dynamic looking.
Paint wise, due to the relative simplicity of Tuxedo Kamen, there les chance of messy or uneven paint apps. Yes, there is still some uneven masking along the blue parts, but it's not as distracting on the ladies. I will admit that the paint on the actual mask itself seems a bit haphazard, and colour matching between the waist piece and the rest of the outfit isn't quite perfect.
Decal work on the faces is well done.
Build quality is quite good, and feels superior to any of the Senshi, even at the hips. Joints are tight, limb sizes are correct, and there are no issues with tolerances. Finishes on the parts themselves are smooth, with seams generally well taken care of.
Alright.. I think that about sums it up. Stylish looking figure, terrible cape, above average posing options. It's really too bad the cape ended up the way it did, as it really is like Batman's in that it's part of the character design.
Replicate Designs produces Architectural Scale Models and Custom Displays along with props for advertising, movies and more.
I found some super tiny scale mail on the Ring Lord website and decided to give some miniature pieces a try. This is the first prototype for a scale mail bikini top for a MSD ball jointed doll. These dolls are about 1/4th scale to human size.
This project took about 7 hours, but I was teaching myself as I went along so I imagine as I get better at this process that future bikini tops wont take as long. The most difficult part was adding stabilizing rings to the bottom edges of the triangles as, as this scale, the rings are so small that they are barely wide enough to hold the extra rings and the scales at the same time. If I can get the hang of this in a more timely manner, I will offer some of these in my shop when I am ready to re-open it. As for now, though, I have barely enough time to get prototypes and chores done while working full time and school is starting this next week so who knows if I'll be able to get much else made.
Here Danny is modeling for me, Daenerys is an Iplehouse Cecile head on a Doll Legend MSD body. I made her yarn dread wig, all her jewelry and her velvet skirt myself. Her eyes are custom made from: www.safrindoll.com/ Her face up and body blushing were done by TatsuKitty from Den of Angels.