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Well, I've been wanting to put together the Human Bomb since I got the new snowtrooper fig months ago. In the process of looking for reference images, I found this picture of the classic Earth-X team. So I made them!
They're not all the best - Bomb himself could definitely use the CMF Master Wu arms, and Firebrand and Phantom Lady are a little wonky - but I like how they turned out as a group!
On top: Doll Man and Ray.
Below: Phantom Lady, Human Bomb, Uncle Sam, Firebrand, and Black Condor.
I set myself the challenge of making a completely brick built tri-fighter. There are parts that exist that can be used to provide some extra details, but I like the challenge of replicating the effect in bricks.
I’ve always had a soft spot for this model- I was always quite impressed with the 2005 version that used the click hinges to create the semi-circular ‘wings’ which seemed quite unconventional back then. LEGO traditionally includes a buzz droid minifig with their version, so in that spirit, I asked MisterShramp if he could design a buzz droid to accompany my design. And he really stepped up to the challenge!
I originally thought about using bionicle shoulder armour parts to create the central sphere, but I settled on this design after experimenting with a number of other spherical parts.
The next challenge was to find suitable parts to recreate the semi-circular wings. I went through a number of different ideas- but many of the parts I could find didn’t have the right radius to match the original design. In the end I used bricks with studs on 4 sides with a rigid hose through the middle. The curved tiles help maintain the shape.
After tackling those two challenges, all the other details were pretty intuitive, and the build is surprisingly sturdy too.
The colour scheme also went through a few revisions. Each illustration/ concept art/ scale model I could find had some variation of blue and grey. In the end I went for this pretty subtle pattern. Any thing busier tended to draw attention to the (unavoidable) gaps in the construction of the semi-circles.
Check out MisterShramp's flickr
and instagram if you haven't already- he's got a bunch of really interesting ideas and instructions for his builds too!
In the near future, contact sports will be fought between robotics-enhanced cyborgs and powerful mechs. This cyborg champion can destroy anything with his claws, but has the agility of a martial arts master.
My Entry into Space Jam 2020 (Grandmaster's New Champion Category). More photos on IG.
Focke-Wulf FW-190 A-9 Würger chases the Republic P-47G Thunderbolt "Spirit of Atlantic City" at the 2016 Planes of Fame Airshow held in Chino, California April 29-May 1, 2016.
The TENGU is a modified CORBEAU equipped with a long range railgun instead of a dual laser cannon. IT is built around a circular energy reactor allowing for extreme range, speed, shield and weapon generation. The TENGU carries a set of 4 EMP missiles to incapacitate targets, making targeting of weak point easier with its railgun.
Number 6 and last of this jetfighter run. my favorite color wise. I really enjoyed building these. :)
CORBEAUs are the most common fighters of the Red star air/space fleet. They are built around a circular energy reactor allowing for extreme range, speed, shield and weapon generation. They carry a dual laser cannon and a set of 4 air/air/ground missiles.
It fits a full fig. My favorite to swoosh around. :)
Crystal Fighters, Dockville - Hamburg (2013).
I'm coming at you again, Europe! Hamburg, Koln, Frankfurt, Dornbirn, Zurich, Munich, Berlin and Warsaw! Looking forward to seeing some more crazy action like this and meeting some awesome folks!
TIE-Fighter-Pilots were not highly praised throughout their service, but their skill was undeniable. Flying crafts not equipped with shields or Hyperspace engines, they were braver than most usual pilots and extraordinarily skilled in combat. Though usually useless on their own, squads of TIE fighters mostly were victorious, when flying in formation.
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Another figure from my recent figbarf.
Keeping the space lanes of Stanton safe with the Aegis Gladius. Dictate the engagement, win the engagement.
Taken for the 2022 Ship Showdown!
Former Swedish Air Force pilot Pär Cederqvist taking this Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk. XVIe for an evening flight over Lake Mälaren a few summers ago.
This photo is one of my personal all time favourites and was shot from the open cargo door of a Cessna Caravan.
US Navy's fighter jets of the 20th century, Grumman A-6E Intruder and F-14A Tomcat (made famous in the movie Top Gun). Taken at Boeing's Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA USA
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AKA The Foo Fighters.
No wonder Kurt blew his brains out if he had to hang out with Dave Grohl. If I had to hang out with such a retard I would probably do the same....
Funny how on their revamped website their causes page no longer carries a link to the HIV denialist group alive and well (AKA Dead and Buried)
However there is still online a version of their old causes page here:
www.foofighters.com/community_cause.html
So not so easy to erase this public display of continued denialism...
As for the rest the following article makes for interesting reading (it may be old but The Truth Fighters are still continuing to support Maggiore, and much more on her later...):
Foo Fighters, HIV Deniers
www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2000/02/foo.html
Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl wants you to forget what you think you know about AIDS.
News: A platinum-selling alt-rock group may be endangering their fans by promoting a dangerous myth.
By Silja J.A. Talvi
February 25, 2000
Some rock stars want to free Tibet. Others want to save Mumia. The Foo Fighters, on the other hand, want their fans to ignore accepted medical wisdom about AIDS.
The multimillion-album-selling alternative rock outfit has thrown its weight behind Alive and Well, an "alternative AIDS information group" that denies any link between HIV and AIDS. In January, Foo Fighters bassist Nate Mendel helped organize a sold-out concert in Hollywood to benefit the group. Foo fans were treated to a speech by Alive and Well founder Christine Maggiore, who believes AIDS may be caused by HIV-related medications, anal sex, stress, and drug use, and implies that people should not get tested for HIV nor take medications to counter the virus. Free copies of Maggiore's self-published book, "What If Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?," in which she declares "there is no proof that HIV causes AIDS," were also passed out to the concert-goers.
HIV experts are alarmed by the possible impact of the Foo Fighters' embrace of Maggiore's theories on their potentially gullible young fans.
"Clearly, more research is needed on the factors that contribute to HIV infection and the development of AIDS," says Dorcus Crumbley of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention. "However, the conclusions of more than two decades of epidemiologic, virologic, and medical research are that HIV infection is transmissible through sexual contact, injecting drug use, perinatally, and from receiving blood or blood products ... (and) the scientific evidence is overwhelming that HIV is the cause of AIDS."
Adds Crumbley: "The myth that HIV is not the primary cause of AIDS ... could cause (HIV-positive people) to reject treatment critical for their own health and for preventing transmission to others."
"When it comes to such a complex health topic, it behooves the band to have really researched what they are endorsing," says Diane Tanaka, an attending physician at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, where she works with a large population of high-risk and HIV-infected low-income youth. "(The Foo Fighters) have a big responsibility in terms of (their) public role and the impact that they can have on young people. Is this band willing to take responsibility for a young person engaging in risky, unprotected sex because of information they've gotten from the (Foo Fighters) or from Alive and Well?"
Alive and Well is one of several fringe groups that deny a link between HIV and AIDS. Similar theories have been put forth over the years by various far-right groups and anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists, and other so-called "HIV-refuseniks."
"Your risk of being hit by lightning is greater than that of contracting HIV through a one-time random sexual contact with someone you don't know here in America," says Maggiore, an HIV-positive Southern California resident with no formal training in medicine or the sciences. "And if (a young person) were to get a positive diagnosis, that does not mean they've been infected with HIV." The HIV-AIDS connection, maintains Maggiore, has been promoted by greedy drug companies.
Mendel says he was won over by Maggiore's book, and passed it around to the rest of the band, which includes former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. Mendel says that he would steer anyone considering an HIV antibody test toward Maggiore's group.
"If you test positive, you are pretty much given a bleak outlook and told to take toxic drugs to possibly ward off new infections," says Mendel.
With the other band members on board, Mendel aims to use the Foo Fighters' celebrity to get the message out to a broad audience. The Foo Fighters plan additional benefit shows, and have placed a banner ad on their Web site linking to Alive and Well. Mendel says that he does not have HIV, nor does he have any friends with HIV besides Maggiore, who has remained asymptomatic.
The most recent numbers from the Joint United Nations' HIV/AIDS Program estimate that 16.3 million people worldwide have died of AIDS-related causes since 1981. Medical research in the United States indicates that as many as 25 percent of the nation's estimated 40,000 annual HIV infections occur among 13- to 21-year-olds. Maggiore, however, maintains that worldwide HIV infections and AIDS deaths are exaggerated by the CDC and the World Health Organization, even in regions like sub-Saharan Africa, where two-thirds of the world's HIV-infected people live.
Maggiore's message has apparently penetrated the minds of at least some Foo aficionados. She says she has heard from many Foo fans since the show -- one of whom, she says, now works at the Alive and Well office.
"AIDS is a toxic disease caused by either long-term recreational drug abuse or short-term anti-HIV medications," writes a 22-year-old member of the Alive and Well-affiliated Students Reappraising AIDS on the Foo Fighters' Web-based message board. "HIV is not spread sexually, nor is it the cause of any disease."
Other fans are less impressed. Damian Purdy, a 21-year-old Winnipeg, Canada resident and devoted Foo Fighters fan, is outraged by the band's position. "By supporting this, the Foo Fighters have entered an arena that they have no business being in. The truth is that a rock concert is not the appropriate platform for these views to be expressed. I think the Foo Fighters have more influence than they realize," he says.
For his part, Mendel remains convinced that the media and the medical establishment are keeping the truth about HIV and AIDS from the public. The Foo Fighters, he insists, will continue to use their celebrity to bring "light to the issue."
Is he worried that the group might be endangering the lives of some of its listeners?
"I'm absolutely confident that I'm doing the right thing," Mendel answers. "No, I wouldn't feel responsible for possibly harming somebody. I (feel) I'm doing the opposite."
I came up with this tie-fighter technique which only uses 2 pieces, along with a small base for it. All in all, the entire MOC only uses 20 pieces. Hope you like it!
To God be the glory!
A quick enemy fighter build... been a while since I made one. Inspiration came from my Shmup collection and nnenn.
I found it fitting to make use of barbed (okay, razor, whatever) wire to frame the cab of a locomotive paying tribute to a World War II fighter plane. UP 1943, the 'Spirit of the Union Pacific' is stopped at Morgan St on Norfolk Southern's Chicago Junction main.
Markings: retroactively as P-40 Warhawk serial 39-159, United States Army Air Corps Technical Training Command, Chanute Field, Illinois, 1940 - The Fighter Collection G-CIIO
www.flyinglegends.com/curtiss-wright-p-40c-1
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Allison V-1710-C15-33 supercharged liquid-cooled 28.032-litre 60° V12, c950-hp
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_V-1710
P4190997 Anx2 Q90 1024h 1.5k f25
The Bristol Fighter F.2B version proved to be an agile aircraft that was able to hold its own against opposing single-seat fighters; its robust design ensured that it remained in military service into the 1930s.
LEST WE FORGET.....
G-CIIO / 41-13357 Curtiss P-40C Warhawk
G-CGZP Curtiss P-40F "Lee's Hope"
G-CCVH / 82 Curtiss Hawk 75
IWM Duxford
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The Fighter Collection Curtiss fighters practice display for Flying Legends.
The Warp Wing Fighter is a set (6915) from the UFO theme released in 1997. I always thought it looks remotely like an X-wing from the Star Wars Universe. The ‘Redesign a set’ competition on Dutch LEGO User Group Lowlug is the perfect opportunity to build a new Warp Wing Fighter with working X-wing’s S-foils.
5th build in my Iron Builder round against Eann, using the Plant Flower Bell Shaped with Small Pin Hole in bright light blue