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Si el Dr. Emmett L. Brown hubiese tenido una bicicleta para viajar en el tiempo, seguro que hubiese sido como esta belleza.
Marco de aluminio, llantas Weinmann DP3000 Horquilla de Carbono.
High Speed eventually became a maker of some seriously good and licensed 1/64 models after many years of making typical low end Chinese castings. Such as a shame they no longer exist and also a shame that to many collectors they will always be synonymous with producing a range of very brittle little vintage cars. Usually seen in Readers Digest packaging but many other mail order companies used them too, they have survived in huge numbers despite said frailties because invariably they were bought by adults. They are virtually worthless now but can be viewed as being a little bit charming although as a child and even now I thought that most of the castings all looked pretty alike!
This 1907 Peugeot looks very much like the Fiat, Rolls-Royce, Simplex and Vauxhall which were also offered! Part of a six vehicle Readers Digest set recently found in a charity shop and given to me because of my well known love of vintage cars......;-p
Mint and boxed.
It's been a while since I built any Star Wars, but the Rey's Speeder set tempted me back (mainly for that mask/goggle piece).
I'm fairly happy with the back half, though the engines on the side are a little fragile. The circular piece on the front would probably be better with some kind of turbine printing on it, but I'm away from home, so this had to be built using only parts from Rey's Speeder and Geonosis Clone battle pack.
"I like that one."
"That one? With the rust?"
"It'll clean up."
"And the mismatched engines, and the missing panels across most all of the thing?"
"Pretty sure the engines are a pair, just... yeah, it'll need some work. But you're looking at what it is, not what it could be."
"What I'm looking at is a deathtrap."
"Glass is always half empty with you, huh?"
"This glass is shattered and in pieces, lad. In fact, you'll note the lack of a cockpit canopy at all, glass or otherwise."
"Look, you've got to start somewhere. And why not here?"
"Hey, it's your decision in the end. Your credits. I just don't want it to be your firey death."
"You're all heart, old-timer. I think we can make it work."
"You think I can make it work. Still, I said I'd be your mechanic, so I guess I'd better prove I've still got the touch when it comes to racers."
"And I'll show you I can pilot them."
So this was a pretty quick build, it may well be that some kind of racing speeders will form the next display I do. I wanted to try a narrative of sorts with this, starting from a junkyard scrapper, and gradually improving and refining until we get something sleek and advanced.
In terms of the build itself I've tried to go as greebly as I can for exposed engine bits, and fresh off my ADU builds I've put those spoiler parts back to work as intakes. Nothing hugely complicated here, but I'm satisfied with the skeletal appearance and think that it came out alright. Plenty of room to iterate on this.
I was trying to keep it as small as possible, it's about 18ish studs wide and long, so hopefully I'll be able to fit builds of that/similar size into this year's SHIP, which I'm envisioning as something of a mobile home/workshop/garage such as one might find on a Star Wars-inspired racing circuit series.
(I think I just want to build something that looks like a LMH/LMdH prototype racer but in space. Honestly, the Ferrari 499P already looks like a spaceship that just happens to have wheels!)
I am still (very) slowly trying to get some color Schlieren high speed photography. As far as I am concerned, it is a lot harder to do that than it is to do the high speed crap that I do.
At this point, I am kind of thinking that it may never happen.
This is not Schlerien photography, just high speed photography of glass under crossed polarizers. It does have some tiny bit of the colorful beauty of Schlieren photography.
In this picture you can see the impact of a pellet shattering glass and creating shock waves in the target. Since the shock waves in glass are much (8X) faster, getting the exact moment is much more a matter of chance.
This is a nice chance.
Cheers.
My son playing seven strings.This photo is from 2010. I did some new processing with Silver Efex Pro.
Amphetamines by Quote Catalog.
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Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure 20
canon 17-40 f4
Aperture f/9.0
Focal Length 17 mm
ISO Speed 100
Singh-Ray reverse 2 stop
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This is my entry for the LSB 2017 Overkill Oval category. Not much more to say about it other than it is highly weaponized and is based on the same General Magnatronics turbine drive as Lil' Bub. A popular technique for winning races with this speeder is to fire the guns while spinning in a circular motion as soon as the race starts, thus eliminating 90% of the competition right away (as well as most of the area surroundings and spectators).
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Photograph taken at 10:57am on Saturday 9th March 2013 off the A5 and A4086 at Llynnau Mymbyr (also known as the Capel Curig lakes), two lakes located in Dyffryn Mymbyr, a valley running from the village of Capel Curig to the Pen-y-Gwryd hotel in Snowdonia, north-west Wales.
This is actually a single lake originally called Llyn Mymbyr, with a maximum depth of 30 feet and three quarters of a mile in length with a delta that has built up midway along the north shore, hence the plural name. The river feeding the lakes is the Nantygwryd (or Nant-y-gwryd), which has its source at Llyn Cwm-y-ffynnon, also marked on maps as the Nant Gwryd, which is a tributary of the Afon Llugwy. The two rivers join at Capel Curig.
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Nikon D800 Focal length 24mm Shutter speed 1/100s Aperture f/10.0 iso200 Mirror Up RAW (14-bit) Size L uncompressed. Manual exposure. Auto white balance. RGB Adobe. Matrix metering. Single point auto focus.
Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED IF. Jessops UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Manfrotto 055XPROB tripod. Manfrotto quick release plate 200PL-14. Manfrotto 327RC2 Grip action ball head. Sandisc 32GB Ultra Class 10 30MB/s SDHC Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit. Matin DL-6399 All weather protective/insulated rain cover.
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LATITUDE: N 53d 6m 6.42s
LONGITUDE: W 3d 55m 8.78s
ALTITUDE: 195.0m
RAW (FINE) FILE: 103.0MB
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"I like that one."
"That one? With the rust?"
"It'll clean up."
"And the mismatched engines, and the missing panels across most all of the thing?"
"Pretty sure the engines are a pair, just... yeah, it'll need some work. But you're looking at what it is, not what it could be."
"What I'm looking at is a deathtrap."
"Glass is always half empty with you, huh?"
"This glass is shattered and in pieces, lad. In fact, you'll note the lack of a cockpit canopy at all, glass or otherwise."
"Look, you've got to start somewhere. And why not here?"
"Hey, it's your decision in the end. Your credits. I just don't want it to be your firey death."
"You're all heart, old-timer. I think we can make it work."
"You think I can make it work. Still, I said I'd be your mechanic, so I guess I'd better prove I've still got the touch when it comes to racers."
"And I'll show you I can pilot them."
So this was a pretty quick build, it may well be that some kind of racing speeders will form the next display I do. I wanted to try a narrative of sorts with this, starting from a junkyard scrapper, and gradually improving and refining until we get something sleek and advanced.
In terms of the build itself I've tried to go as greebly as I can for exposed engine bits, and fresh off my ADU builds I've put those spoiler parts back to work as intakes. Nothing hugely complicated here, but I'm satisfied with the skeletal appearance and think that it came out alright. Plenty of room to iterate on this.
I was trying to keep it as small as possible, it's about 18ish studs wide and long, so hopefully I'll be able to fit builds of that/similar size into this year's SHIP, which I'm envisioning as something of a mobile home/workshop/garage such as one might find on a Star Wars-inspired racing circuit series.
(I think I just want to build something that looks like a LMH/LMdH prototype racer but in space. Honestly, the Ferrari 499P already looks like a spaceship that just happens to have wheels!)