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Morning light shining through Mexican fence post cactus
A mid-winter visit to Tohono Chul Park (January 27, 2014)
RAW file processed with Olympus Viewer 3.
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This is an example of Elizabeth Petcu's latest porcelain work. The Bray Institute of Further Education holds an end of year show which opens on the 24th of May this year (2011). All the faculties in the school will exhibit, not just Fine Art but also woodwork, fashion design, garden design, CAD design, interior design and so forth. It is an exciting time for all involved.
As the morning dew rises, traces of the earth's moisture remain trapped under the last green leaf of the summer. Translucent. Autumn's decay has begun.
The grashopper (with one leg missing) visited our solar light. As it turned out the insect was exhausted due to the current drought. We provided some drops of water which it all sipped immediately.
I re-carved Patty's lips and after giving her an MSC coat I realized there were some white marks crossing her lips.
I tried to sand them away, but then I realized they were internal so I'd have to sand too much, most probably altering her factions or even breaking her face.
I didn't do anything I wouldn't do usually, so I can't understand what happened,
I'm so thrilled about this. I've never felt comfortable customizing translucent blythes (I don't like the plastic quality), and after this, I think I'm done with them.
K20D • Tamron SP 90mm f:2.8 Di Macro
sur soufflet - on bellows
Dörr Combi TTL Macro Flash
A way to see Flickr in Black : Greasemonkey and Flickr in mostly Black...
You will see an other world!
Takara Legends Targetmaster Windblade.
Windblade is a relatively recent addition to Transformers lore. If you've watched the recent web series for the Prime Wars trilogy, she's one of the main characters. If you're look a bit further back, she was featured prominently in the comics, and received a toy after being the winner of the first toy design for mass production based purely on fan input.
Unfortunately, as Windblade has a very vibrant and colourful deco, the Transformers Generation toy didn't quite capture the character fully, and I missed the boat on the Legends release. With Windblade recently being featured in the Titans Return line, I immediately preordered the Legends edition as soon as I had a chance.
Like all of the Deluxes in the last wave of the recent Legend entries, Windblade has been deemed to be a Targetmaster, one of those characters with a little bot buddy that transforms into a weapon.
Fundamentally, the two toys are the same. Based off the Triggerhappy toy for transformation, but strangely doesn't share the articulation that the other toys enjoyed. Most notable would be the lack of waist movement. Other changes over her Generations appearance are that she is now a Headmaster, and that you can no longer remove the fan off the top of her head.
However, the two do differ in several ways, none of which should be overly surprising:
- Takara has the collectors friendly packaging
- Takara has more/different paint applications, translucent plastic, and the base red plastic is a richer colour
- Takara comes with the Targetmaster
- Takara comes with the sword the first Generations/Legends toy came with instead of the twin blades the Hasbro version comes with.
- Takara costs twice as much.
Obviously, there is quite a significant different in jet mode, with the fuselage being completely different colours as is the canopy, and the Takara version has painted VTOL fans. Also, the Titan Master/Head Master is missing some paint on the small robot face as well as on the arms and legs.
What I didn't expect was how subtle the changes in robot mode were.
The crest under her neckline is painted dark blue on Hasbro versus the translucent blue plastic used on the Takara. Takara version has blue knee paint applications and fully painted hands.
Even more subtle is her face - unlike the Generations toy, both have opted to go with the softer, more anime inspired face that the Legends version. The gold crest on the top of her head is slightly different, and you'll notice that the paint apps under her eyes are larger on the Takara, and that the Takara version is slightly smiling over the more neutral look of the Hasbro version. IIRC, Hasbro like neutral expressions on everything they make.
The blue paint apps on her eyebrows and sideburns, for lack of better terms, actually exist on both figures, but are very dark blue on the Hasbro to the point where I only noticed them when doing these pictures.
Unique to the Takara version is the Targetmaster. This is the first Targetmaster Legends I've purchased, so I don't know if the part is repainted from another figure or anything like that, and it certainly doesn't act anything like the Targetmaster I got with my Cyclonus years ago. It does have spiffy paint work, and decent articulation for a piece of that size. I'm thinking perhaps of the production costs for this piece (and possibly because of looks) the Targetmaster version went and reused the original Legends weapon rather than went with those twin blades the Hasbro one came with.
Overall, I feel the Takara version looks nicer, but the difference in robot mode isn't as great as it was on the Generations toy. Is it worth the extra $20 CAD? Ehh.. it depends - if you display in jet mode, the looks are significantly different ,but if you display in bot mode, it's going to come down to whether or not you like the extra pieces that the Takara version comes with.
Handmade sterling silver band inlaid with green chrysoprase and black onyx. The 3 pieces of translucent chrysoprase appear to "glow" when you hold the ring in the sunlight. The ring is about 10mm wide and is a size 10+ or a snug 10 1/4. The ring has a fairly low profile and is very comfortable to wear. If you would like to wear this ring as a wedding band, a matching ring set could be made by special order. If green is not your thing, then other colored stones are also available by special order and can usually be completed in less than 2 weeks.
If you are not familiar with chrysoprase, here is some information about the stone. Chrysoprase normally occurs as an apple green colored variety of chalcedony, commonly known as quartz. The chysoprase in this ring came from Australia, but chrysoprase can also be found in Brazil, the Ural Mountains, and the U.S. It is often mistaken for Imperial jadeite because of its similar green color. Chrysoprase is a 7 hardness on the Moh's scale, so it makes a good durable stone choice for rings.
Collection of marbles: Palma (2009)
At Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, translucent marble is used to dramatic effect throughout the exhibition space.
Chad Los Banos designed, Boker produced SubCom Fixed blade with translucent G11 scales and GITD epoxy. Short scale allows the knife to fit the stock sheath.
adhering purplish 'semi-translucent' plastic to our automatic door
the other side is green, btw
(took this on the way out of office)