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With the end of the 2020 RHTT season in sight wagons and MPVs have started to return to their off-season bases.
An example is todays move - 3Z06 from Mossend to Wigan Springs Branch - which was formed of MPV twin set 98910 and 98960. The pairing is seen passing Cartland shortly after starting their journey.
NOTE: Scottish Government travel guidance was adhered to during this outing. I traveled alone in a private vehicle and remained within my council area (South Lanarkshire).
The spread wings of the Crested Caracara provide a subframe for the second Caracara at the top of a cell tower they have frequented over the past week or so. Before they move on, I will take as many pictures as possible. By the way, I’m not really sure if this counts as “subframing.”
Yokosuka Naval Base / 2022.11
Vessel list:
HTMS Bhumibol Adulyadej (FFG-471) / Bhumibol Adulyadej-class frigate / Royal Thai Navy
HMCS Vancouver (FFH-331) & HMCS Winnipeg (FFH-338) / Halifax-class frigate / Royal Canadian Navy
INS Kamorta (P28) / Kamorta-class corvette / Indian Navy
INS Shivalik (F47) / Shivalik-class frigate / Indian Navy
HMNZS Aotearoa (A11) / Replenishment oiler / Royal New Zealand Navy
HMAS Stalwart (A304) / Supply-class replenishment oiler / Royal Australian Navy
HMAS Hobart (D39) / Hobart-class destroyer / Royal Australian Navy
PNS Shamsheer (FFG-252) / Zulfiquar-class frigate / Pakistan Navy
PNS Nasr (A47) / Type 905 replenishment oiler / Pakistan Navy
RSS Formidable (F68) / Formidable-class frigate / Republic of Singapore Navy
Here is a little free base i whipped up for my Ratrod (also a free download at Rebrickable), requested by Pioneer4x4. Hope you dig it!
This is now up on Rebrickable!
"the white volcano with no weather side;
the lightning flashing at its base"
-- Marianne Moore, "An Octopus"
Moore was referring to her experiences on Mount Rainier in the 1920s, but she could have easily been writing about Mount Baker. "An Octopus" is a tough poem, and I'm not sure it holds up in its entirety, but it has flashes of brilliance.
Each of the modules has at least 3 connection points to create numerous combinations throughout the nation. All of them start with the command center and the auxiliary modules are attached to varying points. The three different options shown are just a few of the possibilities.
This would have been the base of a cooling tower that was never built for a nuclear power plant that was abandoned midway through construction.
J'ai modifié le code couleur et modifié les différents modules pour y ajouter une grand panel trans clear.
J'ai modifié les éclairages aussi afin qu'ils puissent être actionnés derrière les rochers à l'arrière du MOC
Concreted
Saturday morning and me and my Father in law concreted the base for our greenhouse.
We mixed the concrete ourselves. It took 1.5 tonnes of limestone chippings, (just over) .5 tonne of building sand, and 9.5 bags of cement.
Though the perspective doesn’t look like it on this photo, the base is 8’6” x 8’6”, for the 8’ x 8’ greenhouse.
(The greenhouse arrived on Friday! The delivery time was 10 days, but it came in 4 days.
My weather app at lunchtime yesterday said that we could expect rain at 7.00pm. So it wouldn’t need covering …
At 1.30pm I set off to the football. Once I got inside Turf Moor it started raining… then barely stopped until nighttime. I wasn’t a happy man.
Fortunately, due to its sheltered position the rain hasn’t affected it.
I’ll erect the greenhouse in 7-10 days, once the concrete has fully hardened.
Stacksteads
Lancashire
La octava maravilla del mundo , muestra una de sus caras mas linda en el amanecer. lo recomiendo para todos los que visitan estas hermosas tierras
Tyseley-based Class 47 No. 47773 heads Vintage Trains 'Polar Express', 1Z07 1218 Birmingham Moor Street - Whitlocks End, through Bordesley on 22nd December 2023. The train is passing beneath the Camp Hill Line, which at this point is on a rising gradient of 1-in-85 from Bordesley Junction (out of frame to the right). Copyright Photograph Johan Whitehouse - all rights reserved
The base of the Stirling Falls, at Milford Sound. So extraordinary.
Added to theCream of the Crop pool as most favorited.
Slightly effected by fire, this giant sequoia dwarfs other tall trees growing nearby. The fence at its base is about waist high, so one can see the enormous size of this massive Sierra Nevada conifer.
The article below originated from:
Traditional Building Magazine
Updated: Jan 6, 2020
Original: Feb 2, 2016
Originally built in 1916, the Palm Beach courthouse was a tour de force of Neoclassical architecture. The architect Wilber Burt Talley designed a granite base, brick and stone façades, soaring Indiana limestone columns and Corinthian capitals that held up triangle pediments, and a dentil molding below the cornice. The four-story, 40,000-sq.ft. the building housed the county government offices and records, as well as the jail.
Almost immediately the courthouse ran out of space, and 11 years later an addition was constructed 25 feet to the east. Talley again served as the courthouse architect, and the 1927 addition was similar in appearance and used many of the same materials as the original building. In 1955, the two buildings were connected with usable rooms to accommodate the growing county.
Yet another addition was required in the late ’60s; it was completed in 1969. The architecture firm Edge & Powell delivered a brick building that nearly doubled the square footage to 180,000 sq. ft. This time, the addition was less than sympathetic. In fact, the 1916 and 1927 buildings were lost in the center of the new construction, which wrapped around them completely.
The building was utilized for 36 years in this configuration, until 1995, when a new courthouse opened across the street. Expansions had plagued the 1916 courthouse almost as soon as it was built, and this was no exception. “After the new courthouse opened, the old one was slated for demolition,” says Rick Gonzales, Jr., AIA, CEO and principal at REG Architects. “Since I knew about the 1916 courthouse, I recognized the potential of the site and got in touch with preservation specialists in the area. It took some time, but a group of us eventually convinced the county to fund a feasibility study, which we conducted in 2002.”
Gonzales talks about stimulating interest in the project: “We would go to the new courthouse to sell our idea and walk people up to the windows to look at the old site,” he says.
“‘Believe it or not, there’s a building inside that building,’ I’d say. That really piqued people’s interest.”
The county agreed to fund the project, and demolition of the additions began in January 2004 and was completed two years later. “It took a long time because it was a selective demolition,” says Gonzales. “We needed to be careful to salvage many of the materials from the 1927 building to use in the restoration of the 1916 structure. It resembled the original, so we took everything we could for reuse.” A number of materials were recovered, including limestone, granite, wood windows, doors, marble wainscot, mosaic floor tiles, wood flooring, trim, and hardware.
While a majority of the materials were the same from building to building, the detailing was not identical. “We were working from the drawings of the 1927 building because we couldn’t find drawings for the earlier structure,” says Gonzales. “We had thought the detailing was the same, but when we put our studies together we saw that the rhythm, proportion, and cornices were different.”
When REG Architects couldn’t apply the 1927 documentation to the restoration, the firm examined what was remaining of the building and the few images that had survived. “For a while, we had no cornice pieces, because all of the exterior ornamentations had been destroyed when the façades were smoothed for the addition,” says Gonzales. “Then a contractor found a 16-in. piece, which we used to re-create the cornice line.”
Other elements that needed to be re-created, such as the granite and limestone porticos on the north, south, and west façades, were designed using historic photographs. “We found limestone with the same vein from the same Indiana quarry that was originally used,” says Gonzales. “We were extremely lucky in that the quarry ran out of that vein right after our order.” REG Architects was also able to match the granite.
Many components of the building were salvaged and restored. The cornerstones were restored and placed in their original locations at the northwest corner. The 12 Corinthian capitals and the load-bearing limestone columns – each of which weighs 30,600 lbs. – were pieced back together and repaired. “Placement of the capitals was especially tedious,” says Gonzales, “because it needed to be precise. They were then secured with pegs and glue.”
On the north, south, and west elevations, the brick was restored and, when necessary, replaced. “We couldn’t locate replacement brick with the same hues as the existing brick hues,” says Gonzales, “so we hired artists to stain it so that it blended with the original brick.” On the east elevation, REG Architects specified new brick so the new façade clearly stood out from the old ones.
To the same point, new hurricane-proof wood windows were chosen for the east elevation, while REG Architects was careful to preserve as many old windows as possible on the other elevations. Hedrick Brothers repaired 76 original wood windows as well as the window hardware. “We found a local manufacturer, Coastal Millwork of Riviera Beach, FL, to get the original windows tested for hurricane-preparedness,” says Gonzales. “The company reinforced and laminated the windows, so we were able to reinstall them.”
The crowning achievement of the exterior work was the re-creation of an eagle crest on the west pediment.
Based on a small postcard and images of other eagle crests, Ontario, Canada-based Traditional Cut Stone designed the crest for Palm Beach. “They created a small scale model and then a full-scale model in clay,” says Gonzales. “The final piece, which took five months to produce, was hand-carved from five pieces of Indiana limestone.” Traditional Cut Stone was also responsible for all of the limestone work on the building. REG Architects based much of its interior design on the Desoto County Courthouse in Arcadia, FL, which was built by Talley in 1913.
“The dilemma about the interiors was that there was little archival material and few original photographs to give a precise vision for the interiors,” says Gonzales. “Emphasis was placed on trying to restore the character of the main courtroom and the main interior public spaces.” The main courtroom on the third and fourth floors was especially aided by the Desoto research. The millwork was re-created and the plaster ceiling and moldings, maple flooring, doors, and door hardware were restored. Replica lighting was fabricated.
Architectural elements in the corridors and staircases received similar treatment. Hendrick Brothers uncovered the original mosaic flooring and had it repaired. Only five percent of the tile needed to be replaced; in these cases, matching tile from the 1927 building was used. About 80 percent of the marble wainscoting was salvaged, while the other 20 percent was replaced with matching marble from the original quarry. Wood doors and door hardware were salvaged and reused.
All of the building code upgrades – including efficient HVAC, fire protection, and hurricane protection – were hidden as much as possible with historic finishes. The alley elevation provided an ADA-accessible entrance and space for elevators.
The newly restored Palm Beach County Court House now accommodates a museum for the historical society, as well as offices for the County’s Public Affairs Department and County Attorney. “People say this project was an alignment of the stars,” says Gonzales. “It was. We were lucky to have the opportunity to save this building, we worked with a lot of great people, and it turned out well. It was a great labor of love.” TB
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.traditionalbuilding.com/projects/courthouse-unwrapped
downtownwpb.com/things-to-do/history-museum-and-restored-...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_and_Pat_Johnson_Palm_Beach_...
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Two 6400 meters peaks, Taboche & Chola Tse, accompany you on the trek from Thukla to Dingboche & onwards to Lobuche. As you walk alongside on ridges at 4500 to 4900 meters, these lofty giants look so close that you feel that one mad run uphill would make you summit them; the wise know better!
With a silent prayer at the Buddhist Stupa, many deep breaths & countless steps through this vast empty land between these spectacular giants was one of the most endearing walks on the Everest Base Camp trek.
Annapurna Base Camp, ABC Trek, Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal.
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I tried several techniques, this one seemed to work the best. It's quite sturdy.
Parts noted if you aren't sure how I did it.