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Completed Snow Hill Public Realm on Colmore Row.

I caught an X8 NXWM Platinum bus from Sheepcote Street in the Westside BID to Colmore Row in the Colmore BID.

For these views of the Snow Hill Public Realm.

Built during 2021, it was a bit late getting to completion.

I think they may also extend it beyond the Grand Hotel, at least as far as 103 Colmore Row.

I've redressed her temporarily, but Catrine has had her haircut and is looking pretty fine!

Apple MacBook Pro 15", display Acer TFT 19", mini-ITX Ubuntu Linux based, workstation Red Hat Linux based and other.

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Vintage Ken Goin' Huntin' # 1409 (1964-1965)

L to R, from Back Row (where a head is up or down from the last named person, it is indicated as such; only non-PRC members are annotated):

Back Row: Stephan Strybol (Tour Guide Bus #2), Tom Shillington, Erika Slager, Peter Ross (Tour Guide Bus #1), Tracey Francis, Ron McConnell, Bob Stewart, David Black, Stuart Weeks on flag, Paul Hale on flag, Robert Marsh, Richard Marsh, David Moore, Barbara Masterman, William Turner, Nadine Turner, Glenn Nordick, Doug Delaney (Historian)

Second: Stan Tenson in ball cap, Vince Kennedy, Ron Paquin in hat, Ed Kenney, Al Johnston down, Kenella Johnston to his side, up to Dave Pentney, Del Foster, Janet Pentney, Kent Foster, RSM Kevin Lewis, Jacqueline Girouard, Ed Staniowski, Gillian Parker, Barbara Metaxas, Perry Metaxas-Mariatos, John Plantz, Doug Brooks, Bruce McDonald, Mathew Willow

Third: John de Chastelain in wide hat, Lisa Williams, Gina Roline, Carol Romses, Ray Romses, Sasha Ellyn, Cathan Perry, Phil Tweedie, Bev Tweedie (independents), CherylLynn Nordick, Wendy Kennedy, Jeanne Paquin, below Marie Paquin. Paul Paquin, Student Colin Kaduck, Ray Paquin, Cadt Bailey Nehring, Terry Loveridge (historian), Capt Christian Stenner, Stan Willow

Fourth: MaryAnn de Chastelain in hat, Margaret Ellis, Bill Hewson, Norah Hewson, Sgt Brad Lowes, Jason Magnan, Robert Curtin, above Karen Storwick, Aileen Beninger, Cdt Brayden Einboden, above Bill Johnson, Cdt Tristen Gagne, Valerie Johnson, below Cdt Athena Nash, Cdt Charlotte Clark, above Diana Cardoni, below Cdt Sara Bridal, Cdt Catherine Kroeker, Jane McKay-Byers, John Byers, Cdt David Wiebe, Cdt Owen Lepp, Patricia Forigio, Capt Stephanie Russell, Angela Reid, Tom Reid.

Front: Stdg – BGen Wayne Eyre (Guard President) , Madame Adrienne Clarkson Colonel-in-Chief PPCLI, LGen Ray Crabbe (Colonel of the Regiment), CWO Schiedl (Regimental CWO)

Photo by MCpl Louis Brunet, Canadian Army Public Affairs, 3rd Can Div PA HQ

AS01-2015-0011-005

An aerial look at the SR 20 Sharpes Corner and SR 20 Miller Gibralter roads roundabouts in Skagit County.

Photograph by: Ryan Nyenhuis

Sunday June 15th 2008, Fathers Day. Ryan and I woke with a plan. The plan being to sneak into the abandon R.L. Hearn Thermal Generation Power Plant which is located in the south east area of downtown Toronto. We wanted to photograph the beauty of decay.

We had made a trip over to the power plant a week prior to scout out the area, to see where guards were located and to find easy access inside.

Sneaking past the guard house located at the front of the property and making our way along the north west section of property towards the back of the plant where the barbed wire fence was weakest.

We then smoked three quarters of a joint together before working up the nerve to hop the fence. Ryan went first, watching him hop the fence and dart out into the yard and hiding behind scrap metal for cover then finally making it to the back of the building. Then it was my turn. What excitement that was, knowing your breaking the law to do something adventurous.

After getting onto the property we were standing at the back of the Hearn and looking for our way inside. To do so we had to hop up onto a metal fence post and from there had to reach up and grab a hold of plywood that covered up the tall entrance area. A good 15 foot climb up, over and in.

Once inside the first photo that was taken was the one of Ryan and I standing together, titled "final hours".

This place was like no other we had ever explored together. The shear size of it all was breathtaking and mind blowing at the same time. The beauty of destruction.

After the first photo was taken we started exploring the plant. Taking the necessary precautions we had come prepared with asbestos masks and flashlights.

We had made our way around on the ground floor, through locker rooms, showers, storage rooms. Then we started making our way up stairs to the 2nd and 3rd level offices, had the remainder of our joint together.

From the office levels we went back onto the factory area and started climbing the metal stairs up further still. Some photos show how high up we were in that building.

We then made ourselves up onto the roof. What a view from there looking out over the city core. Looking out over Lake Ontario we saw really dark storm clouds. Ryan pulled out a cigarette and had a smoke.

We were up on the roof for about a half hour before Ryan asked me "what do you want to do now man?". "Do you want to go home now or stay a bit longer and explore?". My camera battery had died at this point and being there any longer served no purpose for me. I was hesitant on a response because at the same time I wanted to keep exploring because the plan was to keep coming back weekend after weekend to explore and document the old structure.

I then agreed to keep exploring. We came in off the roof, coming down a level, walked through a doorway into a long looking dark room. All across the top level of The Hearn runs conveyor belts that run coal from one end to the other. Walking together along the metal grating flooring. Ryan was 2 feet in front of me.

I then ended up tripping over a small extruded piece of metal on the floor, and from that second on I pointed my flashlight directly onto the floor to see where I was walking.

Very shortly after this happens, in mid sentence Ryan just falls into blackness. All I see is from his waist up as he plunges into complete blackness and followed by about 4-5 seconds before hearing a sick crash far below.

I then look 2 feet in front of me and see there is no more floor. My imediant thought is that he is dead. Then my brain clicks "I have to get my best friend out of here".

I then tried my best to back track to get out of the building, taking a route that he and I had not taken to get to this point. All I knew is I had to get out of The Hearn and find someone that could help.

I don't even know how I got out of that place. When I did I came out on the back side of the building, ran around to the guard house screaming for help.

I screamed to the guard that my best friend just fell in there and is hurt really bad, he asked what we were doing in there and I told him we were just taking photos.

The guard then called like every paramedic, fire and police officer in the city. About 10 minutes after the call was made all I could hear were the sirens. Scared and relived at the same time I was.

Once they all showed up I told them Ryan was in there, that we were up high in the building and he fell. All the cops were telling me to retrace my steps, they wanted to see where we came in from. I screamed at them "we don't have time for that right now, my best friend is dying in there". I then started leading them to the front of the Hearn because I knew it was the closet way inside. We get to the front and all entrances were boarded up. One cops said to me "Ian there is no way in through this way, you have to show us where you came in from". I then demanded to the fire fighters that they bust this plywood down to get inside.

Once inside the cops started fucking with my mind, me being in total shock at the time they started asking me where we had explored, they wanted me to take them on what would have been a few hours of exploration, which we didn't have time for.

Then an officer finds his asbestos mask and glasses. My first thought is he was okay, that he somehow managed to crawl out under his own power. I was wrong. His mask and glasses had bounced off of objects on the fall and Ryan was nowhere to be found.

The police tried getting a hold of Rogers Communication to see if they could pin point his location with the cell phone he had on him. They ended up using thermal vision to locate him. He was trapped in a coal hopper located high up in the building.

I was escorted out at this point in time because I was too "hysterical" for the cops liking.

Two and a half hours went by, a fierce thunderstorm was passing through.

While they were working on getting Ryan out I was giving my statement to the police. Never gave one of those in my life. I told them everything that I am writing here right now, everything, even the joint smoking. I had Nothing to hide.

We went in undetected but I didn't care if the whole world was watching at this point, I was doing what any best friend would do. I was trying to save him. City Pulse News was there and I was trying to hide from them. I was scared that this is how his family would find out and how my family would find out, being Fathers days and all.

After two and a half hours of hell they finally got Ryan out. I watched them carry him out on a backboard and I yelled to him that I loved him.

Ryan was rushed to St. Micheal's Hospital, the best in all the city for trauma.

I followed about an hour after him, being escorted in a police car. On the drive one officer said to me "this is going to cost you and your buddy about a hundred thousand dollars for all that had to be done here today". What a jackass thing to say. I responded by saying "I don't give a fuck about money, take all I have from me I don't care, I'm loosing the most important person in my life right now".

We get to the hospital, I enter the trauma wing of St. Micheal's. They told me that I was going to be the one to call the home of the Nyenhuis'. I thought that was insane, and told them I could not make that call, that they would have to.

I then went into the waiting room, sat down. I remember the NBA finals were on the televisions in there and I ended up falling asleep somehow.

Waking to Stevie and Tammy's faces hours later (Stevie being Ryan's room mate and Tammy being Ryan's girlfriend).

Stevie told me that John and Cheryl were on their way and that we could go up stairs to the trauma ward to see Ryan.

The trauma centre, located on the 9th floor of St. Micheal's Hospital.

Hours passed by, as the night went on the news kept getting worse and worse about his condition.

I ended up leaving to come back to my apartment at 6am the following morning, I had to talk to my parents and try and shovel some food into my system. Still being in shock and never got treatment for shock when it happened.

I returned to the hospital at 3pm that day. Only to find nothing had changed with his condition.

Then came the worst words I ever had to hear, Ryan's father coming in the room and telling me it was time to say goodbye to Ryan.

We made our way into where he was being cared for. To see my best friend in the state he was in broke my heart. Blood coming out the back of his head, body black and blue bruised from head to toe, internal damage that could not be repaired, feeling his forehead and it being ice cold. He was laying there in front of us, dead. Machines were the only thing keeping him "alive".

I said my goodbyes to him, telling him that he can't leave me here, he can't leave the creation of Studies In Comfort behind, something that is so brilliant, that we were supposed to take over the world together and do all that was planned. I told him to haunt me.

I then looked at his eyes and saw tears. He may have been brain dead but I know he heard every word I said. Doctors did not give an explanation to what was coming out of his eyes.

If only I had said to Ryan "hey man watch your step" he might still be alive today. I have been told over and over again that I can not blame myself for what happened that day. I sometimes still do.

Ryan and I once had a conversation that if something ever happened to one of us that Studies In Comfort would stop, without a core creator there is no sense to continue it. Well I am going against those wishes. I can't lose what he and I created even before it took off the ground.

I now know my purpose in life. To carry on Studies In Comfort. I must continue on for him, finish off the 3 studio albums we had in the works and continue on with this art form.

Ryan died at the wheel and I have moved his lifeless body to the passengers seat and now a fucking insane madman is driving.

Ryan Nyenhuis, whos favourite artist was Nine Inch Nails, who lived on floor number 9, who wore a roman numeral 9 on his right arm, who died on the 9th floor at St. Micheal's Hospital, Toronto.

Thank you to 55 Division and all the paramedics and fire fighters who helped get Ryan out of that terrible dark place.

Ryan Nyenhuis is survived by his father, John, mother Cheryl, sisters, Jennifer and Leah, their beautiful children, myself and Studies In Comfort.

Ryan John Nyenhuis

July 28th 1981 - June 15th 2008

We love and miss you.

___________________________

All photographs were taken by Ryan Nyenhuis & Ian Levack with a Casio EX-Z1050 camera.

Complete with an old blacksmith

*SURLY* cross check complete bike

BLUE LUG custom

SPEC

Frame: *SURLY* cross check

Headset: *CHRIS KING* nothreadset 1 1/8

Wheels: *VELOCITY* dyad rim × *SHIMANO* 105

Tire: *PANARACER* pasela tire

Brake: *SHIMANO*

Stam:*FAIRWEATHER* UI-7 integrated stem (silver)

Handle: *DEDA* speciale

Bartape:*FIZIK* microtex bartape (brown)

Saddle:*BROKKS* B17 standard (brown)

Shifte&Brake Lever:*RETROSHIFT* one

RD:*SHIMANO* 105

Crank:*FAIRWEATHER*

Chainwatcher:*FAIRWEATHER* chain keeper (gold)

*SURLY* crosscheck complete bike

BLUE LUG custom

SPEC

Frame: *SURLY* crosscheck BLUE LUG CUSTOM PAINT by COOK PAINT WORKS

Headset: *CHRIS KING* nothreadset

Handle:*FAIRWEATHER* mod174 all road bar

Brake Levers:*TRP* rrl brake lever

Stem:*FAIRWEATHER* UI-7 integrated stem (silver)

Wheels: *VELOCITY* A23 rim × *WHITE INDUSTRIES* T11 hub

Tire:*PANARACER* pasera tire

Brake: *PAUL* neo retro & touring canti

Crankset:*SUGINO*

Saddle:*BROOKS* cambium c15

FD&RD:*SHIMANO* tiagra

Rack:*NITTO* mt campee

All work completed by Nico from One Love Tattoo Geneva

A liquid oxygen tank confidence article for NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System, completes final welding on the Vertical Assembly Center at Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.

A liquid oxygen tank confidence article for NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System, completes final welding on the Vertical Assembly Center at Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.

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*SURLY* pacer complete bike

BLUE LUG custom

SPEC

Frame: *SURLY* pacer BLUE LUG CUSTOM PAINT by COOK PAINT WORKS

Headset: *CHRIS KING* nothreadset 1 1/8" (brown)

Wheels: *H PLUS SON* the box rim × *SHIMANO* 105

Tire:*PANARACER* tourer plus tire (black/brown)

Handle:*NITTO* mod177 noodle bar (silver)

Shifte&Brake Lever:*SHIMANO* 105

FD&RD:*SHIMANO* 105

Fender:*DIA-COMPE*

Front rack:*NITTO*

Saddle:*SELLE SAN MARCO* rolls saddle

Next up painting and some light filler work.

A delicious blend of triangles from my Fat Quarter Shop bundle and a few extra fabrics including some hoarded AMH fabrics. Made and completed for my husband for Father's Day 2013.

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completed in 1928

*GEEKHOUSE* mudville complete bike

BLUE LUG custom

SPEC

Frame: *GEEKHOUSE* mudville BLUELUG SPECIAL

Headset:*CANE CREEK* forty (black)

Wheels: *FULCRUM* Racing 5 CX Wheels

Tire: *IRD* cross fire (blue) 700c×32c

Crankset: *WHITE INDUSTRIES* eno single speed crank (black)

Chainring:*WHITE INDUSTRIES* VBC outer chainring (black)

Pedal: *CRANK BROTHERS* candy 3 pedal (blue)

Brake&shift lever:*SHIMANO* 105

RD: *SHIMANO* 105

Brake:*CANE CREEK* scx-5 cantilever brakes

Handle: *SALSA*

Stem:*THOMSON* elite x2 stem (black)

Seat post: *THOMSON* elite seatpost (black)

Saddle:*FIZIK* arione saddle (blue)

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AA & ETC

Right that's Dark Imperium painted, I'm off out of here!

(Must do more...)

+++ DISCLAIMER +++

Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based on authentic facts. BEWARE!

Some background:

The VF-1 was developed by Stonewell/Bellcom/Shinnakasu for the U.N. Spacy by using alien Overtechnology obtained from the SDF-1 Macross alien spaceship. Its production was preceded by an aerodynamic proving version of its airframe, the VF-X. Unlike all later VF vehicles, the VF-X was strictly a jet aircraft, built to demonstrate that a jet fighter with the features necessary to convert to Battroid mode was aerodynamically feasible. After the VF-X's testing was finished, an advanced concept atmospheric-only prototype, the VF-0 Phoenix, was flight-tested from 2005 to 2007 and briefly served as an active-duty fighter from 2007 to the VF-1's rollout in late 2008, while the bugs were being worked out of the full-up VF-1 prototype (VF-X-1).

However, the fighter remained active in many second line units and continued to show its worthiness years later, e. g. through Milia Jenius who would use her old VF-1 fighter in defense of the colonization fleet - 35 years after the type's service introduction!

General characteristics:

All-environment variable fighter and tactical combat Battroid,

used by U.N. Spacy, U.N. Navy, U.N. Space Air Force

Accommodation:

Pilot only in Marty & Beck Mk-7 zero/zero ejection seat

Dimensions:

Fighter Mode:

Length 14.23 meters

Wingspan 14.78 meters (at 20° minimum sweep)

Height 3.84 meters

Battroid Mode:

Height 12.68 meters

Width 7.3 meters

Length 4.0 meters

Empty weight: 13.25 metric tons;

Standard T-O mass: 18.5 metric tons;

MTOW: 37.0 metric tons

Power Plant:

2x Shinnakasu Heavy Industry/P&W/Roice FF-2001 thermonuclear reaction turbine engines, output 650 MW each, rated at 11,500 kg in standard or in overboost (225.63 kN x 2)

4 x Shinnakasu Heavy Industry NBS-1 high-thrust vernier thrusters (1 x counter reverse vernier thruster nozzle mounted on the side of each leg nacelle/air intake, 1 x wing thruster roll control system on each wingtip);

18 x P&W LHP04 low-thrust vernier thrusters beneath multipurpose hook/handles

The S-FAST Pack added 4x P&W+EF-2001 booster thrusters with 120.000 kg each, plus a total of 28x P&W LHP04 low-thrust vernier thrusters

Performance:

Battroid Mode: maximum walking speed 160 km/h

Fighter Mode: at 10,000 m Mach 2.71; at 30,000+ m Mach 3.87

g limit: in space +7

Thrust-to-weight ratio: empty 3.47; standard T-O 2.49; maximum T-O 1.24

Design Features:

3-mode variable transformation; variable geometry wing; vertical take-off and landing; control-configurable vehicle; single-axis thrust vectoring; three "magic hand" manipulators for maintenance use; retractable canopy shield for Battroid mode and atmospheric reentry; option of GBP-1S system, atmospheric-escape booster, or FAST Pack system

Transformation:

Standard time from Fighter to Battroid (automated): under 5 sec.

Min. time from Fighter to Battroid (manual): 0.9 sec.

Armament:

2x internal Mauler RÖV-20 anti-aircraft laser cannon, firing 6,000 pulses per minute

1x Howard GU-11 55 mm three-barrel Gatling gun pod with 200 RPG, fired at 1,200 rds/min

4x underwing hard points for a wide variety of ordnance, including

12x AMM-1 hybrid guided multipurpose missiles (3/point), or

12x MK-82 LDGB conventional bombs (3/point), or

6x RMS-1 large anti-ship reaction missiles (2/outboard point, 1/inboard point), or

4x UUM-7 micro-missile pods (1/point) each carrying 15 x Bifors HMM-01 micro-missiles,

or a combination of above load-outs

The optional Shinnakasu Heavy Industry S-FAST Pack 2.1 augmentative space weapon system added:

6x micro-missiles in two NP-AR-01 micro-missile launcher pods (mounted rear-ward under center ventral section in Fighter mode or on lower arm sections in GERWALK/Battroid mode)

4x12 micro missiles in four HMMP-02 micro-missile launchers, one inside each booster pod

The kit and its assembly:

This VF-1 is another contribution to the “Old Kit” Group Build at whatifmodelers.com, running in late 2016. I am not certain about the moulds’ inception date, but since it is an ARII incarnation of this type of kit and even moulded in the early pastel green styrene, I’d think that it was produced in 1982 or 83.

Anyway, I love the Macross VF-1, IMHO a design masterpiece created by Shoji Kawamori and one of my favorite mecha designs ever, because it was created as a late 70ies style jet fighter that could transform into a robot in a secondary role. As a simple, purposeful military vehicle. And not like a flashy robot toy.

Effectively, this Super Valkyrie is a highly modified OOB kit with many donation parts, and this kit is a bit special, for several reasons. There are several 1:100 OOB kits with FAST Packs from ARII/Bandai available (and still around today), but these are normally only Battroids or Gerwalks with additional parts for the FAST kit conversion. The kit I used here is different: it is, after maybe 25 years of searching and building these kits, the #70 from the original production run. It is (so far!) the only Fighter mode kit with the additional FAST Pack parts! Must be rare, and I have never seen it in catalogues?

Until today, I converted my Super or Strike Valkyries from Gerwalk kits, a task that needs some improvisation esp. around the folded arms between the legs, and there’s no OOB option for an extended landing gear. The latter made this Fighter mode kit very attractive, even though the actual kit is pretty disappointing, and AFAIK this kit variant is only available as a VF-1S.

With the Super Valkyrie fighter kit you receive basically a Gerwalk with a standard fighter cockpit (which includes a front wheel well and an extended front wheel leg), plus extra parts. The leg/engine-mounted NP-FB-01 systems are less bulbous than the parts on the Gerwalk or Battroid kit, and the OOB dorsally mounted NP-BP-01 boosters are TINY, maybe 1:120 or even 1:144! WTF?

Further confusion: the kit includes a set of lower arm parts with integrated rocket launchers, but these are not necessary at all for the Fighter build?! As a kind of compensation there’s a new and exclusive element that simulates the folded arms under the ‘fuselage’ and which, as an added value, properly holds the hand gun under the fuselage. As a quirky flaw, though, the hand gun itself comes in the extended form for the Battroid/Gerwalk mode. For the fighter in flight mode, it has to be modified, but that’s easily done.

Anyway, with the potential option to build a Super Valkyrie with an extended landing gear, this was my route to go with this vintage kit. The Super Valkyrie already looks bulky with the FAST Pack added, but then I recently found the S-FAST Pack option with two more boosters under the wings – total overkill, but unique. And I had a spare pair of booster bulks in the stash (w/o their nozzles, though), as well as a complete pair of additional bigger standard FAST boosters that could replace the ridiculous OOB parts…

Building such a Super/Strike Valkyrie means building separate components, with a marriage of parts as one of the final steps. Consequently, cockpit, central fuselage with the wings and the air intakes, the folded stabilizer pack, the folded arms element with the handgun, the two legs and the four boosters plus other ordnance had to be built and painted separately.

Here and there, details were changed or added, e. g. a different head (a ‘J’ head for the flight leader’s aircraft with two instead of the rare, OOB ‘S’ variant with four laser cannon), covers for the main landing gear (the latter does not come with wells at all, but I did not scratch them since they are hardly recognizable when the kit is sitting on the ground), the typical blade aerials under the cockpit and the feet had to be modified internally to become truly ‘open’ jet exhausts.

The wing-mounted boosters received new nozzles and their front end was re-sculpted with 2C putty into a square shape, according to reference sketches. Not 100% exact, but the rest of the VF-1 isn’t either.

This VF-1 was also supposed to carry external ordnance and my first choice were four wing-mounted RMS-1 Anti-Ship Reaction Warheads, scratched from four 1.000 lb NATO bombs. But, once finished, I was not happy with them. So I looked for another option, and in a source book I found several laser-guided bombs and missiles, also for orbital use, and from this inspiration comes the final ordnance: four rocket-propelled kinetic impact projectiles. These are actually 1:72 JASDF LGB’s from a Hasegawa weapon set, sans aerodynamic steering surfaces and with rocket boosters added to the tail. Also not perfect, but their white color and sleek shape is a good counterpart to the FAST elements.

Experience from many former builds of this mecha kit family helped a lot, since the #70 kit is very basic and nothing really fits well. Even though there are not many major seams or large elements, PSR work was considerable. This is not a pleasant build, rather a fight with a lot of compromises and semi-accuracies.

Seriously, if you want a decent 1:100 VF-1, I’d rather recommend the much more modern WAVE kits (including more realistic proportions).

Painting and markings:

The paint scheme for this Super Valkyrie was settled upon before I considered the S-FAST Pack addition: U.N. Spacy’s SVF-124 is authentic, as well as its unique camouflage paint scheme.

The latter is a special scheme for the lunar environment where the unit was originally formed and based, with all-black undersides, a high, wavy waterline and a light grey upper surface, plus some medium grey trim and a few colorful US Navy style markings and codes.

My core reference is a ‘naked’ bread-and-butter VF-1A of SVF-124 in Fighter mode, depicted as a profile in a VF-1 source book from SoftBank Publishing. The colors for the FAST Pack elements are guesstimates and personal interpretations, though, since I could not find any reference for their look in this unit.

As a side note, another, later SVF-124 aircraft in a similar design is included as an option in a limited edition 1:72 VF-22S kit from Hasegawa, which is backed by CG pics in a VF-22 source book from Softbank, too.

Furthermore, SVF-124 finds mention in a Japanese modeler magazine, where the aforementioned VF-22S kit was presented in 2008. So there must be something behind the ‘Moon Shooters’ squadron.

According to the Hasegawa VF-22S’s painting instructions, the underside becomes black and the upper surfaces are to be painted with FS36270 (with some darker fields on the VF-22, though, similar to the USAF F-15 counter-shaded air superiority scheme, just a tad darker).

Due to the 1:100 scale tininess of my VF-1, I alternatively went for Revell 75 (RAL 7039), which is lighter and also has a brownish hue, so that the resulting aircraft would not look too cold and murky, and not resemble an USAF aircraft.

All FAST Pack elements were painted in a uniform dark grey (Humbrol 32), while some subtle decorative trim on the upper surfaces, e.g. the canopy frame, an anti-glare panel and a stripe behind the cockpit and decoration trim on the wings’ upper surfaces, was added with Revell 77 (RAL 7012). Overall, colors are rather dull, but IMHO very effective in the “landscape” this machine is supposed to operate, and the few colorful markings stand out even more!

The cockpit interior was painted in a bluish grey, with reddish brown seat cushions (late 70ies style!), and the landing gear became all white. For some added detail I painted the wings’ leading edges in a mustard tone (Humbrol 225, Mid Stone).

The kit received some weathering (black ink wash, drybrushing on panels) and extra treatment of the panel lines – even though the FAST Pack elements hide a lot of surface or obscure view.

More color and individuality came with the markings. The standard decals like stencils or the U.N. Spacy insignia come from the kit’s and some other VF-1s’ OOB sheets.

Based on the SVF-124 VF-1 profile and taking the basic design a bit further, I used dull red USAF 45° digits for the 2nd flight leader’s “200” modex and the Apollo Base’s code “MA” on the dorsal boosters. Some discreet red trim was also applied to the FAST Packs – but only a little.

Since all of SVF-124’s aircraft are rumored to carry personal markings, including nose art and similar decorations, I tried to give this VF-1JS a personal note: the pin-up badges on the dorsal boosters come from a Peddinghouse decal sheet for Allied WWII tanks, placed on a silver roundel base. Unfortunately (and not visible before I applied them) the pin-up decal was not printed on a white basis, so that the contrast on the silver is not very strong, but I left it that way. Additionally, the tagline “You’re a$$ next, Jerry” (which IS printed in opaque white…?) was added next to the artwork – but it’s so tiny that you have to get really close to decipher it at all…

Finally, after some soot stains around the exhausts and some vernier nozzels with graphite, the kit received a coat of matt acrylic varnish.

Building this vintage VF-1 kit took a while and a lot of effort, but I like the result: with the S-FAST Pack, the elegant VF-1 turned into a massive space fighter hulk! The normal Super Valkyries already look very compact and purposeful, but this here is truly menacing. Especially when standing on its own feet/landing gear, with its nose-down stance and the small, original wheels, this thing reminds of a Space Shuttle that had just landed.

Good that I recently built a simple VF-1 fighter as a warm-up session. ARII’s kit #70 is not a pleasant build, rather a fight with the elements and coupled with a lot of compromises – if you want a Super Valkyrie Fighter in 1:100, the much more modern WAVE kit is IMHO the better option (and actually not much more pricey than this vintage collector’s item). But for the vintage feeling, this exotic model kit was just the right ticket, and it turned, despite many weaknesses and rather corny details, into an impressive fighter. Esp. the lunar camouflage scheme looks odd, but very unique and purposeful.

Anyway, with so many inherent flaws of the ARII kit, my former method of converting a pure (and much more common) Gerwalk kit into a space-capable VF-1 fighter is not less challenging and complicated than trying to fix this OOB option into a decent model. :-/

Completing the first of many circuits including overshoots and touch and gos. 16/04/2015

*SURLY* crosscheck complete bike

BLUE LUG custom

SPEC

Frame: *SURLY* crosscheck BLUE LUG CUSTOM PAINT by COOK PAINT WORKS

Headset: *CANE CREEK* 40

Wheels: *ALEX RIMS* × *SHIMANO*

Handle: *SALSA CYCLES*

Saddle:*BROOKS* swift saddle

Brake Lever:*TEKTRO*

Brake:*TEKTRO*

FD&RD:*SHIMANO*

Complete with baby grand piano!

Complete with inexplicable glitter paint.

The original vintage stocking is on the left "E R". I made the two matching stockings for a customer. She was pleased. :)

Here's a Ravelry link to get the free knitting pattern: www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/santa-claus-stocking

Completed Snow Hill Public Realm on Colmore Row.

I caught an X8 NXWM Platinum bus from Sheepcote Street in the Westside BID to Colmore Row in the Colmore BID.

For these views of the Snow Hill Public Realm.

Built during 2021, it was a bit late getting to completion.

I think they may also extend it beyond the Grand Hotel, at least as far as 103 Colmore Row.

*FAIRWEATHER* CX complete bike

BLUE LUG custom

SPEC

Frame: *FAIRWEATHER* CX frame BLUE LUG CUSTOM PAINT by COOK PAINT WORKS

Stem: *THOMSON* x4 stem (black)

Wheels: *PHILWOOD* road hub (pink) × *H PLUS SON* the box rim

Tire: *CONTINENTAL* cyclocross race tire

Brake & Shift lever:*SRAM* rival

FD&RD: *SRAM* rival

Crankset: *SRAM* rival

Seatpost: *THOMSON* elite seatpost (black)

Saddle: *WTB* bolt

Headset:*CHRIS KING* nothreadset 1 1/8" (pewter)

Brake: *TRP* eurox canti brake set (gray)

Handle: *EASTON* ea50

See complete photoshoot at almostandnearly.tumblr.com/post/52876427935/becky-at-naked and almostandnearly.tumblr.com/post/53106237336/more-of-becky...

*REW10WORKS* complete bike

BLUE LUG custom

SPEC

Frame: *REW10WORKS*

Wheels: *VELOCITY* aerohead rim × *SHIMANO*

Tire: *SCHWALBE* marathon supreme tire

Shifter: *DIA-COMPE*

RD: *SHIMANO*

Crankset:*WHITE INDUSTRIES* eno single speed crank (silver)

Pedal:*MKS* lambda

stem: *NITTO* ui-2

Handle:*NITTO* b352 all rounder bar (silver)

Brake:*PAUL* racer brake

Brake Levers:*AVID

Seatpost:*THOMSON* masterpiece setback seatpost (silver)

Saddle: *BROOKS* b17

Racks:*NITTO* campee

Photography: Andréia + Nathalia Takeuchi

Model: Amanda Fiore @ Ford Models Brasil

Stylist: Marcela Baldissera | Styling | Tendências | Conceito

MUA: Jean Michel Battirola

A month ago, it was becoming an embarrassing space. Even my car was objecting to being in there! Now, I can start planning the workbenches and storage system.... and other man stuff!

*SURLY* pacer complete bike

BLUE LUG custom

SPEC

Frame: *SURLY* pacer BLUE LUG CUSTOM PAINT by COOK PAINT WORKS

Headset: *CHRIS KING* nothreadset 1 1/8 (silver)

Wheels: *ALEX RIMS* × *SHIMANO*

Tire: *CONTINENTAL*

Brake: *TEKTRO*

Stam:*SIM WORKS* wendy stem (black)

Handle: *SALSA CYCLES*

Bartape:*LIZARD SKINS* DSP 2.5mm bartape (black)

Saddle: *SELLE SAN MARCO* concor supercorsa X saddle (blk)

Shifte&Brake Lever:*SHIMANO* tiagra

FD&RD:*SHIMANO* tiagra

*SURLY* crosscheck complete bike

BLUE LUG custom

SPEC

Frame: *SURLY* crosscheck BLUE LUG CUSTOM PAINT by COOK PAINT WORKS

Wheels: *ALEX RIMS* × *SHIMANO*

Handle: *SURLY* open bar (black)

Grip:*PDW* speed metal grip (black)

Saddle:*WTB* pure V pro saddle (black)

Brak Lever:*TEKTRO* FL750 brake lever set

Brake:*TEKTRO*

FD&RD:*SHIMANO*

Complete collection, including XL versions. Total of 12 modular sets....

Completed detailing of the backpack of the NASA Artemis Spacesuit- in LEGO!

Please vote for this project on the LEGO Ideas website!

The switching layout is now pretty much finished. All areas are polished off and it’s a blast to operate. I’ve been quite happy with all the subtle details I’ve been able to model with this layout. It’s very fun to operate and I think really compliments whatever is running at the time!