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1/72 scale model.
Photographed at the East Midlands Model Show, Hinckley, Leicestershire.
Photo Ref; SNC13387
I had an advance order on three Atlas ACF 3560 Covered Hoppers from Atlas's newest run of these cars. My three cars arrived from BLW today. Here is Atlas 50 002282 Southern Rd# 99001. I do note that this car does not have the FRA Lube Plate Data labels which backdates this car to around 1974, but that's not going to stop me from running this in a NS train.
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As everybody noticed I had a dreadful weekend and I realized I was going into a depression (again!), so I decided to change drastically the way of living my life.
The photo of this scale is the symbol that I have to change, I must starting losing some weigh! Every week I intend to post a new photo of my weight, then I can see if I'm having progress or not.
The other things I decided to change are:
- Sleep and wake up early (I usually go to sleep at 2am and I get up at 10:30am)
- Spend less time on my computer (just here at flickr I spend the average of 3 hours a day - that means I'll have less time to make comments in my contact photos.).
- Read and study more
The worst part is to cut down some of my time here, but I really need it because I'm feeling overwhelmed by flickr. So my flickr friends, sometimes you may not find my comment in your photo, but that doesn't mean that I didn't see it. I'll open every single recently uploaded photo because I really love to see photographs, but I have to leave some comments behind because I noticed that sometimes I spend more than 2 hours to see all the photos and to leave a comment on them.
So don't give up on me, because I love you all and I'll never give up on my flickr friends!
Without an expansive shot of the inside of the Railyard Shops, THIS sign gives a pretty good sense of scale.
150 ton crane. Enough said.
Held July 5-8, 2016, at the International Aeromodeling Center in Muncie, Indiana. Photos by Jenni Alderman.
Just arriving today from N Scale Enthusiast is this Intermountain Norfolk Southern "Honoring Our Veterans" Centerflow hopper and a flatcar with two turbine generators that I do not know who the manufacturer is. I wanted the Veterans car due to the high presence of the Armed Services in the Norfolk VA area. I have family that has served and currently serving. I appreciate all of those who have served. I continue to support the Navy as a Civil Service worker. I do not know if NS has a prototype that NSE followed or if this is a design NSE came up with. The flatcar is in a Micro Trains box. I am thinking the flatcar is a N Scale Kits model as I have not seen Micro Trains hint at making a model of this flatcar. I saw a video on Youtube of a train carrying these generators. The car shifted in the box so I need to reglue two things and add some more cushioning.
The 'scales' on the Millennium Bridge by Frank Gehry in Chicago are getting a patina that creates a strange 3D looking landscape.
much better big on black:
This is a museum model of one of the first mosques in the world. It was established and built by the Islamic Prophet Muhammad upon his arrival to Medina in 622 AD. The mosque itself was built as an open air building also serving as a community center, a shelter and a religious school. After erection of the mosque itself the following step was building houses for the new migrants.
The reference material is scarce, and therefore the research was a challenging and exciting journey that we took along with the client's researchers. The research was set not only to determine the look and feel of the mosque and surrounding buildings, but also the construction techniques (mud brick construction in particular), the utility items and proper vegetation that was typical for the era and the place. We would like to think this journey resulted in establishing a quite accurate look of the Prophet's Mosque and the surrounding area.
We created a model where every element is telling a part of a story. The mosque building represents how it looked at the early stage - right after it was built. In a close proximity to the Mosque there are a few finished houses of the residents of Medina. Also there are a few houses under construction representing an ongoing process of building the houses for the migrants settling in Medina. There are utility items - tools, pots, cads, plates, baskets, hides and oil lamps arranged in the courtyards and mosque's shelter area - all carefully crafted according to the reference materials. Typical oriental clay ovens are placed in the houses' courtyards. The construction sites display arrangements demonstrate the process of making mud bricks, along with appropriate tools and molds. The model also featuring proper vegetation, including date palms and Calligonum - a shrub native to Medina.
The model was designed using our 3D capabilities. We built it by traditional machining and manual fabrication, using structural composites and other modern museum grade materials. For vegetation we used only the highest quality model palm trees, bushes and shrubs. For the roofs we used several hundreds of single model palm leaves which we ordered from Europe, from the only provider. These palm leaves took the model to the next level of quality - none of the very few existing models of the Prophet's Mosque featuring such realistic palm leaf roofs.
This model is illuminated. We hired a team of engineers, which put together a system of various amber lights, designed differently for each object - houses, ovens, lamps in the shelter and torches at the construction sites. The electrical scheme includes a circuitry which cause the lights to flicker and for the lights in the ovens to flicker and float to simulate the burning coals.
This model earned the client's recognition for the high quality, rich content, and its educational and cultural value.
Participant at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa 2013. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Faruk Pinjo