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Base spec! Brilliant to see this still earning its keep, still doing a couple thousand miles per year.
KIA Trade(Based on Mazda Titan 2nd Generation) Road Sweeper
기아 트레이드 노면청소차(피규어 스케일)
Build from @lego in 6-wide minifig scale
Additional photos and instructions will be updated next Saturday. I hope you enjoy, website link in bio.
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From the outside it looks like a normal castle on a hill, but nestled in the caves below is a modern underground base.
Base Brown, a particularly scenic Argentine research station. Located in Paradise Harbor on the mainland of the Antarctic peninsula.
The 25 de Abril Bridge is a suspension bridge connecting the city of Lisbon, capital of Portugal, to the municipality of Almada on the left (south) bank of the Tagus river. It has a total length of 2,277 metres, making it the 46th longest suspension bridge in the world.
From its inauguration in 6 August 1966 up to 1974, the bridge was named Salazar Bridge (Ponte Salazar), after Portuguese Prime Minister António de Oliveira Salazar, who ordered its construction. After the Carnation Revolution, which overthrew the remnants of Salazar's regime, the bridge was renamed for April 25, the date of the revolution. It is also commonly called the Tagus River Bridge.
Later changes had to be made due to the rapid increase in population. In the 1990s, a fifth car lane was added, and in 1999, a lower deck, used as a railway track, which was planned since the beginning, was finally built. Today, the upper deck carries six car lanes while the lower deck carries a double track railway, electrified at 25 kV AC.
From the late 19th century, there had been proposals to build a bridge across the Tagus. In 1929, the idea advanced when the Portuguese engineer and entrepreneur, António Bello, requested a government concession for a railway crossing between Lisbon and Montijo (where the Vasco da Gama Bridge, the second bridge serving Lisbon, was later built in 1998). As a result, the Minister of Public Works, Duarte Pacheco, created a commission in 1933 to analyse the request. The commission reported in 1934, and proposed building a road and rail bridge. Bids were obtained, but the proposal was subsequently put aside in favor of a bridge crossing the river at Vila Franca de Xira, 35 kilometres north of Lisbon.
In 1953, a new government commission started work and, in 1958, recommended building the bridge, choosing the southern anchor point adjacent to the recently built monument to Christ the King (Cristo-Rei). In 1959, the international invitation to tender for the project received four bids. In 1960, the winner was announced as a consortium headed by the United States Steel Export Company, which had also submitted a bid in 1935. The American School of Lisbon was founded largely to educate the children of the American engineers brought to Portugal to work on the construction of the bridge.
Construction began on 5 November 1962. Forty-five months later, six months ahead of schedule, the bridge was inaugurated on 6 August 1966. Presiding at the ceremony was the President of Portugal, Admiral Américo Thomaz. Also present were the Prime-Minister, António de Oliveira Salazar, and the Patriarch of Lisbon, Cardinal Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira. The bridge was named Salazar Bridge (Ponte Salazar), after Prime Minister Salazar.
United States Steel International Inc., based in New York, was prime contractor for the bridge. Morrison-Knudsen of Portugal Ltd., an American firm based in Boise, Idaho, was U.S. Steel's principal associate. Morrison-Knudsen had previously worked on the San Francisco Bay Bridge. The bridge was designed by Steinman, Boynton, Gronquist and London of New York, and Tudor Engineering Company of San Francisco. The steel was imported from the US. Four workers lost their lives, out of a total of 3,000 who worked on the site. Construction took a total of 2,185,000 man-hours of work. The total cost of the bridge came to 2.2 billion Portuguese escudos, or US$32 million (US$225 million in 2011 adjusted for inflation).
Soon after the Carnation Revolution in 1974, the bridge was renamed the 25 de Abril Bridge, the day the revolution had occurred. A symbol of those times was captured on film, with citizens removing the large brass letters spelling "Salazar" from one of the main pillars of the bridge and painting a provisional "25 de Abril" in its place.
The upper platform, running 70 m above water, had four car lanes, two in each direction, with a dividing guardrail. On 23 July 1990, the guardrail was removed and a fifth, reversible lane was created. On 6 November 1998, the side walls were extended and reinforced to make space for the present six lanes. Cars crossing the bridge make a peculiar hum because the two inner lanes are made of metallic grating rather than asphalt to minimize aerodynamic forces by means of pressure equalization.
Since 30 June 1999, the lower platform has carried a double track railway. To accommodate that, the bridge underwent extensive structural reinforcements, including a second set of main cables, placed above the original set, and the main towers were increased in height. The railway had been part of the initial design, but was eliminated for economy, so the initial structure was lightened. The original builder American Bridge Company was called again for the job, performing the first aerial spinning of additional main cables on a loaded, fully operational suspension bridge.
Traffic soon increased well beyond predictions, and has remained at maximum capacity despite the enlargement from four to six lanes, the addition of the railway, and the building of a second bridge serving Lisbon, the Vasco da Gama Bridge. A third bridge has been on and off government plans for some time, but the idea has been dropped presently, due to Portugal's budget constraints.
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This is a picture of the wood base. Well more like plastic base. XD The details on it are very nice. If the string weren't so wire like maybe i could tune it? I am not going to try because I don't want to break it. XD
(Photo requested by Clawdeen-Twyla)
Tornado GR-1 ZD715/DB 31Sq Royal-Air-Force-Germany/ RAFG. The Tornado stayed as guest for a week with the resident USAFE 32nd TFS during July 1987. Soesterberg Air Base. The Netherlands. 10-07-1987. (Scanned from Dia)
At Fort Point, San Francisco, California.
For an above deck mounted canon at Fort Point completed just before the Civil War.
Base B8301786
Camera 1 (X8111595)
Text 1: Quarry Trail
Battery Level: 97%
Pics on camera: 2
camera1/p_000259.jpg: PIR Trigger
(Based on someone's concept art)
So, i did a bunch more sneaky stuff, to make this happen, to the point , i even had to delete the C button shortcut, to stop it glitching out and cloning everything multiple times, till it crashed 😅
Now you can see its purpose, also just ignore the green tiles that are leaching on the cabin 😧😧
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I hope its apparent now, all the bits that led to this point from the other ships, certain parts made for some of the earlier ships, get recycled or upcycled and man, have i enjoyed this style and the original artists designs so much 😁😁
I endeavour to make better looking engines, as i continue to progress and as i look at more reference materials, cause its a confusing topic, they all look extremely different, also art can be vague in the more detailed areas and dark spots, so its hard to imagine what to fill in the blanks with and stay true to the rest of the design and avoid creating a mashup.
Ill get another angle or two and maybe try for a ship link up or two, if i can and then move on to the next one 😁
Anyways, i hope you enjoy as much as i do and have a great day 😁
'Straight at me... slowly... right!
'Why are we this close to these large boulders and rocks? Shouldn't we build a bit further away?'
These rocks will be part of our base... We can build higher this way, and use those natural caves as well...'
'Them rocks look weird, regular, almost build!'
'Ah well, probably just basalt or something, you have those weird geometric rock patterns at some place on earth too...'
Built circa 1910, this Shingle-style house features a cross-gable roof with a steep pitch, shingle cladding, four-over-one double-hung windows, double-hung attic windows with decorative upper sash in a recessed bay in the center of the front gale, oriel windows on the second floor over the porch flanking a semi-circular balcony with an access door featuring a stained glass fanlight transom, shingle-clad brackets, a side oriel window with a large fanlight transom and a stained glass panel, a brick and rusticated stone base, a front porch with a gabled roof, and grouped ionic columns on stone and brick piers, and a palladian attic window on the east gable end. The house is a contributing structure in the Parkside East Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
Everest Base Camp trek, near Namche Bazaar, Nepal, 2009
Original image, not post processed, not cropped.
Happy Veterans Day 2022!
RAID 01 (KC-135R, 57-2605) is on right base to final for RWY 17 at Grand Forks Air Force Base, ND on 4 Apr 06.
What a simplistic-yet-amazing airplane. The "57" in the tail number stands for the year "1957"...think about that. And then realize these planes are still flying today.
I enjoyed my time flying this old bird despite its flaws (like lack of A/C on the ground). And I always loved the look of the perfectly-rounded CFM-56s; they just looked so good (as opposed to the squished bottoms of what you find on 737s). Sure, it meant scraping the pods on takeoff or landing was a constant threat, but I never scraped one during my tenure flying the real tanker!
As the saying goes and like I like to remind my fighter pilot brethren: NKAWTG...N!
Based on my yellow Ford Capri mk1 I built this Capri RS2600. Although I think this version isn't as easy recocnizable as the yellow one, I'm a bit happier with it. The wheels are a better fit in terms of size and especially the rear of the car looks better without the bumper.
Again the model is 7 studs wide, so kind of minifig-scale.
Like always I only used genuine LEGO parts, no cutting, no glue, no painting.