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MQP swap #2 - entry #8
Size: 16 inch square
Other details: Foundation pieced with handstitching and an envelope enclosure on the back.
The Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker is a former government-owned nuclear bunker in Brentwood, Essex.
The bunker was maintained during the cold war as a potential regional government headquarters, built in 1952 - 1953 as part of ROTOR. ROTOR was a programme to improve and harden Britain's air defence network.
The bunker was a hardened Sector Operations Centre (SOC) for RAF Fighter Command. It was to provide command and control of the London Sector of Fighter Command. During the 1960's, 1970's, 1980's and early into the 1990's, the Home Office maintained the bunker as an emergency regional government defence site. Eventually in the early 1990s when nuclear threat was seen as diminished, the bunker was sold back to the family who had owned the land in the 1950s.
Inspiration for some of the framing of the shots came from the 1975 New Topographics exhibition.
Volubilis is an archaeological site in Morocco situated near Meknes between Fez and Rabat. The nearest town is Moulay Idriss. Volubilis features the best preserved Roman ruins in this part of northern Africa. In 1997 the site was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
In antiquity, Volubilis was an important Roman town situated near the westernmost border of Roman conquests. It was built on the site of a previous Carthaginian settlement from (at the latest) the third century BC, but that settlement overlies an earlier neolithic habitation.
Volubilis was the administrative center of the province in Roman Africa called Mauretania Tingitana. The fertile lands of the province produced many commodities such as grain and olive oil, which were exported to Rome, contributing to the province's wealth and prosperity.
Diary Entry:
The only Rose Pool we have seen so far. Overton, our guide, says we will not see another quite like this one. What makes this one unique is the light that is being generated beneath it from the argon gases escaping from the bottom of the pool. He said to memorize it in our minds. We won't be returning this way..our way back will be shorter but much less scenic.
I sometimes feel Overton is hiding something from us about the return trek...I suppose I will find out eventually if that's just my imagination.
Construction, Week 29
Last but not least, a farther-out overview of the entry vestibule. Usually there's a lot more activity going on in this scene, what with seasonal products outside and people moving in and out of the store! It's definitely going to be a weird feeling when none of this is here anymore...
(c) 2016 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
This MOC is my first entry in the newly started role playing game over at Gricks forum!
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1st place - Strawberry Diesel from San Diego
2nd place - Sour Dubb from Las Vegas
3rd place - Madness OG from LA
Here is my entry for Team Ballistic Brickers in the Category of "Castaway".
This one requires a very short back story, so here it goes.
Mel Ancholy had been having a bad month, so he decided to take a cruise on the spur of the moment. But the cruise ship ran into a rather large whale, and I mean HUGE, and sunk. So he found himself on a deserted island with nothing but a pair of palm trees and a magic lamp. MAGIC LAMP!!! He rubbed it and out came, you guessed it, a genie. The genie told him he had unlimited wishes and that he could wish for what ever he wanted as long as it would fit on the island. So, Mel decked out his island with booze, food, women, and a satellite television. Oh, and a monkey with Elvis hair riding an ostrich, just for entertainment What more could a guy wish for?
Firefighters make entry at a working fire in a dairy in the city of Eastvale, CA. The fire was contained to the front part of the building.
My latest entry for the 2013 MocAthalon in the category "The Walking Dead". How do you defend yourself against zombies? Simply place treadmills at the entrances to your fortification! The mindless brutes will shamble about ceaselessly, never thinking to try a different tactic. Complements to Elliott Feldman and the FarSide comic for this idea.
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Thanks to Bart de Dobbelaer for the new edit job, the old version can still be seen on MOCpages but this one is much better.