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I FINALLY completed my Cara collection!!! I have a special history with Cara, Barbie’s short-lived ‘Fashion Model Friend’ (so it says on Quick Curl Cara’s box!) I was visiting my favourite ‘Mom and Pop’ toy store one Friday night in 1978 or 1979 a few suburbs away, (which had a great shopping square and bigger variety stores, so my folks would do their Friday night shopping there…) as I saved up all my pocket money so I could finally buy my first ‘real’ Barbie, as opposed to years of parent-bought clones. I remember staring at those ‘Barbie Fashion Centre’ shelves for ages, trying to decide which one would be my first, and I was immediately drawn to that exotic gal called Quick Curl Cara, with her fabulous multi-coloured outfit. I also remember that gal was the Canadian version, as it had that mysterious ‘Frisse Vite’ on the box, which I assumed meant ‘Quick Curl’ back then! LOL … This being Australia in the 1970s, there was only one amidst all the blonde smiling Barbies. Though ultimately, I decided that my first Mattel doll shouldn’t be a Barbie ‘friend’ and went for I think a Superstar Barbie instead, vowing to come back for Cara when I had saved up for her. Alas, I didn’t know at the time that she was old store stock and was gone by the time I went back for her, and even though I searched for her in other stores for another year or two, I never saw her again for decades…. Until I became an adult collector, that is! The first Cara I got quite a while back was the ‘Free Moving Cara’ you see in the centre there to complete my Free Moving collection of dolls, (she was NRFB and still has her box, original outfit and accessories, but she is wearing that 1973 Best Buy pantsuit as I love how it matches her hair ribbons!) Then I got that Deluxe Quick Curl Cara on the right…. She was without her box and original outfit, but her hair was in perfect untouched condition. She is wearing the Get-Ups ‘N Go outfit from 1975; ‘Bright ‘n Gay for Holiday Play’. Then I got that first edition Quick Curl Cara from 1975 on the left who was MIB, still attached to her card, (and she was the very same Canadian version that I saw in that toy store all those decades ago!) She has on her original outfit, which I love so much, so I’m thinking of keeping her in it for a while. (She also has bright yellow panties on under that cool wrap skirt!) And of course, there is my ‘new’ Ballerina Cara! She is wearing Ballerina Barbie Fashion Originals #9326. It is a costume of the Sugar Plum Fairy from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker ballet.
Have tried and tested this concept before as well but could not resist trying it again !!!
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Medieval’ hall, complete with minstrels' gallery.
Info from NT website:
The creation of Knightshayes as we know it today, began in 1868 when Sir John Heathcoat Amory commissioned imaginative genius William Burges to design Knightshayes Court. Sir John’s family had grown wealthy manufacturing lace net in Tiverton, and he built his new home overlooking the factory.
Burges created a remarkable group of buildings: one of the finest Victorian Gothic Revival country houses, stable block and entrance lodge.
But the extraordinarily inventive, flamboyant interiors he proposed for the house were altogether too much for Sir John and his wife Henrietta. They were never realised: client and architect parted company.
Leading Victorian designer Edward Kemp created the fine park and laid out a garden. Sir John’s grandson, another Sir John and his wife Joyce (a champion golfer) together created one of England’s great post-war gardens, with one of the largest and most significant plant collections in the National Trust’s care.
Completing its performance at Wings Over Meridian Air Show is Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver N92879. Taken by the US Navy in July 1945 where it was initially used as a trainer on the California west coast. it later served at NAS Alameda then NAS Corpus Chirsti before being removed as surplus in 1948. It came to the Commemorative (Confederate) Air Force in 1971.
I decided to make this a painting of a cliff and I feel I need to have a person at that tip. So there s/he is.
From yesterday's US Navy Blue Angels demonstration at Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, CA, during the annual Wings Over Solano event, here are a few passes using my DFA 150-450mm on the K3ii. Polarizer was used to cut sky glare.
Hope you enjoy these.
Moulamein, NSW
A Furphy water cart on my brother's farm in south western NSW.
These carts are quite well known in rural Australia and were designed and manufactured by blacksmith John Furphy in Shepparton, Victoria in the late 19th century until 1983. They were used on many farms early in that period and also used by Australian troops in World War I.
This one was used by my family for bush and grass fires and now sits in "retirement" on the farm.
There is an Australian slang expression "furphy" which means an erroneous or improbable story and is rumoured to have derived from people gathering and talking around the water cart back in the day but this story too may well be a furphy!
More on its meaning and supposed origin here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furphy
Complete with Arriva branding, the last of the BREL York built Class 508's, 508143, was awaiting departure from Ainsdale with a Hunts Cross to Southport Northern Line service on October 6th 2002. In May 2022, 508143 went to Loram at Derby for exploration for possible life-extension work. 508143 has since been scrapped at Sims Metals at Newport Docks.
Finally found all 4 of these outfits on eBay! I really wanted these, but I have no interest in the dolls. After a little search on eBay, I found them all (minus the jackets that were suppose to come with the pants outfits, but it's a small sacrifice) .
Complete with 'Arriva' branding and with both units in black stripe livery, 508134 & 507020 were stood at Birkdale with Hunts Cross-Southport & Southport-Hunts Cross services on September 23rd 2002. Whilst 507020 is still in service, 508134 was withdrawn from service in January 2020 and was scrapped in August 2020.
Twenty-seven Minifigures, Six ground vehicles, One motorboat and Two air based combat systems.
Set with all the vehicles/figs in it.
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Well, this has been quite the experience building so many vehicles at once.
I'm doubting I'm going to win, but hey, fingers crossed.
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The Tintina Trench is a linear valley, extending into Alaska and south across the Yukon. In May and September, it is a dramatic avian flyway. It is a huge migration corridor for sandhill cranes, tundra swans, peregrine falcons and numerous other bird species. The riverside cliffs, wetlands, marshes and muskegs provide suitable nesting sites for some of these species as well as offering plenty of food. The flight of the sandhill cranes is the most obvious and spectacular of the migrations. It is an awesome sight as over 200,000 of these large birds pass through here on their way to and from their tundra nesting grounds. The Tintina Trench is also home to a large number of wildlife species year-round, with a particularly large population of lynx. The numerous river tributaries that drain into the trench provide migration routes and spawning grounds for salmon.
I shot this image facing north over-looking the Yukon Plateau. The Yukon plateau has deep valleys, rounded mountains, and areas of permafrost, that have created "tilted" or "drunken forests". The vegetation is rich and diverse, and includes hardwoods, as well as soft woods. There are over a half dozen edible berries, and the ponds are dotted with the unique "yellow pond lily". Hot springs are also found in this region. It reminds me of a far north "Garden of Eden". As you stand looking out on the vast landscape - it tends to make you feel very very small, but it is an awesome sight and one that I wish everyone could experience.
The bus looks fantastic carrying its big LRT lothians, this is as I remember them and I am so happy with the way the bus has came out. Myself and Graham along with my father Brian have spent 15 years worth of Sundays grafting to get the bus restored. God only knows how many hours we have spent on the bus, but the £ spent would make a grown man cry... but seeing the bus today complete and driving makes every penny spent worth it. Going forward I have a range of smaller jobs to do on the bus and we will work into 2021 getting it ready for presentation to an MOT station then we can see about have a bit of fun driving her about Edinburgh again.
Fallout 4... Yes, the game's buggy. Vadim suddenly appears behind Travis in this capture. This does happen frequently; then again, the game is still brilliant.
So, in this video, I'm helping in uniting the two lovebirds, Scarlett and Travis. Travis begins as a timid individual that hosts a radio station that broadcasts throughout the Commonwealth. Upon completing this mission, the player will be able to activate a different demeanor from the radio host when tuning in to Diamond City Radio on their PipBoy.
This quest is given by Vadim Bobrov in the Dugout Inn after the player has encountered Travis at the Diamond Radio Station in Diamond City. You will have to wait until an NPC like a guard tells you that Vadim was looking for you at the Dugout Inn before you can start the quest. The quest is to boost Travis' confidence. This will change how he speaks on the radio.
1. Talk to Vadim. He will tell he's going to stage a fight to Boost Travis' confidence.
2.Vadim will have the player character come back at 6:00pm to stage the fight.
3.Speak with Travis and convince him to stand up for himself.
4.Defeat Gouger and Bull and talk to Vadim.
5.Vadim will have the Sole Survivor set up Travis and Scarlett, the waitress, to once again boost his confidence.
6.When the player character returns from speaking with Scarlett, Vadim will have been kidnapped by raiders. They're holding him at the Beantown Brewery, north of Diamond City.
7.Speak with Travis and he'll ask to come along.
8.Meet Travis at the Brewery and clear out the raiders inside.
9.Find Vadim in the back room and speak to Travis again.
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I found the silver candelabrum to complete No. 2 Princess's Late Night Tea from the Re-ment 2008 Collection Princess Tea Party. (From Renatta's site: Notes Translated by Re-Ment: On beautifully moon lit nights, light the candles and have tea with her favorite tea set. Thank you Renatta for your wondrous site!)
I had to cobble two partial sets together to complete this. I'm still not sure why the tea set is all trimmed in gold and the candelabrum is silver.
I'm still missing one of the eight sets...No. 1, Crown Motif Set. It's the one with a tea set in a little castle box. I had it at one time and don't know what happened to it. I may have sold it when I got out of doll stuff for a while, sigh. I may always be missing it, because the last one I saw on ebay was $58!
In the image above, the individual in the vivid orange survival suit, with fully-inflated lifejacket, dangles from a strop between two warships travelling on a parallel course about 100 feet apart. He is about to be collected by one of Nottingham's crew. He is part of a demonstration, showing a large array of spectators aboard HMS Nottingham (some of whom can be seen on the bridge wing and lounging aft of the missile system) how to transfer personnel quickly between ships whilst remaining underway (and without the expense of firing up the petrol pigeon [helicopter] on the stern!).
The light jackstay is the rope upon which he and everything around him is suspended. This is normally a four-inch manila rope, which has been passed across from us to Nottingham and tensioned before he is suspended from the traveller block, which is the metal feature that is running along the manila rope.
Of the two lower ropes attached to the traveller, the one on the left is the inhaul, which is used by us to pull the traveller back to us after the transfer is completed, either to stow the rig or to commence another transfer. The lower rope on the right is the outhaul. It is the means by which the individual is being pulled across to Nottingham. Manpower is the entire motive power in this evolution.
A key skill in this evolution is ensuring the gap between the ships remains as steady as possible during the evolution. If they get too close, the jackstay sags and the individual may get his feet (or more!) wet. There is also the risk of the ships being affected by fluid dynamics which effectively results in them being affected by the flow of water between them and being sucked together, resulting in their sides colliding.
If one of the ships loses power or steering during an evolution like this, both ships have practiced emergency procedures for cutting away the ropes and the one still with power/steering turning away to avoid the uncontrollable vessel. This might result in the individual being transferred ending up in the water on his own, leading to a man-overboard situation...
This demonstration was conducted during the 1986 Staff College Sea Days in the English Channel, where the students at the Army, Navy and Air Force Staff Colleges got a day at sea to see all sorts of evolutions and activities aboard warships.
The missile system on Nottingham's focsle is, of course, the Hawker Siddeley Dynamics GWS30 Sea Dart medium-range SAM, probably a Mod 1 variant, which (according to Wikipedia) had an operational range of some 74 km, theoretical ceiling of 10,000m and a top speed of Mach 2+. The blue booster is clearly visible.
Scanned from a negative.
The finished article, more colour and detail added a small amount of shading here and there. I love this view from the 199 steps to the Abbey, it has been photographed and painted so many times, because it is simply a wonderful place to be!
After completing an afternoon excursion with a mixed train, the Strasburg Rail Road's trusty Canadian National 2-6-0 #89 passes by the J-Tower at the west end of the line, adjacent to the boarding platform. J-Tower is a relic of the once mighty Pennsylvania Railroad. It was built in 1885 as one of many interlocking towers, this particular one located at Lemoyne Junction, not far from Harrisburg PA. Towers like this one contained large, mechanical levers that controlled both switches and signals, which facilitated operations at the junction. In later years, this tower was simply called "LEMO", presumably short for Lemoyne. The tower was still functioning into the early 1980s, when it was retired. It was moved to the Strasburg Rail Road and reconstructed by the Lancaster Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. Today, the old "Armstrong" levers have been reconstructed in the tower and visitors can tour the cab to see how the switches and signals were controlled back in the day. This tower also offers a nice view of train operations.
Champagne cake complete with tiny bubbles. 4-layer cake with vanilla pastry cream filling, italian buttercream frosting, and a bittersweet ganache pour. Special today Sweet Pea Bakery.