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After cutting the pieces to size with the circular saw I sorted them in to two sets and trimmed each set to size. I used the low angle block plane with a shooting board to square the ends. Then using some 80 grit 50mm wide sanding tape clamped to the worktop I gave the internal pieces a few strokes until they were all exactly the same size. As you can see this will allow the sides make a perfect seal when they are glued on.
Some of the fittings leaked air so I painted them with resin on the back. I also pushed the brush into the channel so hopefully all the leaks are plugged now.
me and minolta x-700 in the beautiful fitting room with red curtain... i like that so i just tried on lovely dresses and took some pictures for fun^^
The kit and its assembly:
This build is the combination of ingredients that had already been stashed away for a long time, and the “Red Lights” Group Build at whatifmodellers.com in early 2021 was a good motivator and occasion to finally put everything together.
The basis is an ARII 1:72 Cessna T337 model kit – I had purchased it long ago with the expectation to create a military Skymaster from it, but I was confused by a fixed landing gear which would make it a 336? Well, without a further concrete plan the kit preliminarily landed in The Stash™…
However, the ARII model features the optional observation windows in the doors on the starboard side, in the form of a complete(!) fuselage half, so that it lends itself to a police or firefighter aircraft of some sort. This idea was furthermore fueled by a decal sheet that I had been given from a friend, left over from a 1:72 Italeri JetRanger, with three optional police helicopter markings.
The final creative element was the real-world “Pelican” conversion of six O-2As for the US Navy, as mentioned in the background above: the front engine was replaced with a longer nose and the engine configuration changed to a pusher-only aircraft with a single powerful turboprop engine. This looked so odd that I wanted to modify the ARII Cessna in a similar fashion, too, and all these factors came together in this model.
My Arii Cessna 337 kit is a re-boxing from 2009, but its origins date back to Eidai in 1972 and that’s just what you get: a vintage thing with some flash and sinkholes, raised (but fine) surface details and pretty crude seams with bulges and gaps. Some PSR is direly necessary, esp. the fit of the fuselage halves is cringeworthy. The clear parts were no source of joy, either; especially the windscreen turned out to be thick, very streaky (to a degree that I’d almost call it opaque!) and even not fully molded! The side glazing was also not very clear. I tried to improve the situation through polishing, but if the basis is already poor, there’s little you can do about it. Hrmpf.
However, the kit was built mostly OOB, including the extra O-2 glazing in the lower doors, but with some mods. One is a (barely visible) extra tank in the cabin’s rear, plus a pilot and an observer figure placed into the tight front seats. The extended “Pelican” nose was a lucky find – I was afraid that I had had to sculpt a nose from scratch with 2C putty. But I found a radome from a Hasegawa RA-5C, left over from a model I built in the Eighties and that has since long fallen apart. However, this nose fitted almost perfectly in size and shape, I just “blunted” the tip a little. Additionally, both the hull in front of the dashboard and the Vigilante radome were filled with as many lead beads as possible to keep the nose down.
The kit’s OOB spatted, fixed landing gear was retained – even though it is dubious for a Cessna 337, because this type had a fully retractable landing gear, and the model has the landing gear covers actually molded into the lower fuselage. On the other side, the Cessna 336’s fixed landing gear looks quite different, too! However, this is a what-if model, and a fixed landing gear might have been a measure to reduce maintenance costs?
The propeller was replaced with a resin four-blade aftermarket piece (from CMK, probably the best-fitting thing on this build!) on my standard metal axis/styrene tube adapter arrangement. The propeller belongs to a Shorts Tucano, but I think that it works well on the converted Cessna and its powerful pusher engine, even though in the real world, the SA-550 is AFAIK driven by a three-blade prop. For the different engine I also enlarged the dorsal air intake with a 1.5 mm piece of styrene sheet added on top of the molded original air scoop and added a pair of ventral exhaust stubs (scratched from sprue material).
Another addition is a pair of winglets, made from 0.5 mm styrene sheet – an upgrade which I found on several late Cessna 337s in various versions. They just add to the modernized look of the aircraft. For the intended observation role, a hemispherical fairing under the nose hides a 180° camera, and I added some antennae around the hull.
However, a final word concerning the model kit itself: nothing fits, be warned! While the kit is a simple affair and looks quite good in the box, assembling it turned out to be a nightmare, with flash, sinkholes, a brittle styrene and gaps everywhere. This includes the clear parts, which are pretty thick and blurry. The worst thing is the windscreen, which is not only EXTRA thick and EXTRA blurry, it was also not completely molded, with gaps on both sides. I tried to get it clearer through manual polishing, but the streaky blurs are integral – no hope for improvement unless you completely replace the parts! If I ever build a Cessna 337/O-2 again, I will give the Airfix kit a try, it can only be better…
This is how the tube fitting turned out after the night. Some air bubbles but I think I'll be able to just paint some resin in there and if it leaks some more on the back. I'll scrape off some of the excess resin (the stuff without fiberglass in it).
I trimmed along the edge with a sharp knife when the resin still was a bit soft so I didn't have to sand so much of it.
He said in an electronic overtone,
"You don't have to try to fit yourself into situations, but situations fit naturally. "
I love it when robots talk to me like this...
Ready for some resin. I laid all the bits next to each fitting so everything was prepared before I started mixing resin.
Andrew Dickson White Library
Andrew Dickson White, Cornell University’s co-founder and first president, built a great library. Although seldom identified today as one of the foremost collectors of the 19th century, his achievements have left a remarkable legacy. Unlike other famous book collectors of his time—J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry Edwards Huntington, John Jacob Astor, and James Lenox—he did not establish a separate institution to house his personal collections of books and manuscripts. Instead, White donated his entire collection of 30,000 books to the Cornell University Library—at a time when the Library possessed a collection of just 90,000 volumes. White’s great generosity reveals his utilitarian approach to collecting and, in his words, a “strong belief in the didactic value of books.” As an educator and historian he believed that one could not have a great university without a great library, and he wanted his books to be read and used by Cornell’s faculty and students.
White’s collections of materials on architecture, witchcraft, the Reformation, the French Revolution, Abolitionism and the Civil War were among the finest in the world during his lifetime. Originally shelved in the large, three-story room within Uris Library that bears his name, White’s collections are no longer kept together in one place. Many of his books were moved to the stacks in Olin Library when it opened in 1961. In recent years, most of White’s books have been transferred to the Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections for their continued protection and preservation. Today, the Andrew Dickson White Library holds a portion of the humanities and social science collections found in the combined Olin and Uris Libraries.
It is perhaps more fitting and accurate to say that Andrew Dickson White built two great libraries. The first was his large and significant personal book collection. The second was the Cornell University Library. White hired Willard Fiske to be Cornell’s first University Librarian, and he worked closely with him to develop innovative and progressive policies for their library. White purchased its first books, and played an active role throughout his life in developing the library’s collections.
Even in his student days, White had considered the merits of the most prestigious European libraries, imagining what it would be like to build an important new research library. White conceived and developed his vision for an upstate New York university during a miserable first year at college. White’s visions of a beautiful university were honed during his first year at a college whose architecture he called “sordid,” and later at Yale, where he urged classmates to “adorn and beautify the place.” While his classmates occupied themselves with shenanigans, the sixteen-year-old consoled himself in the library, where he found a book on the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. As a University of Michigan professor in the late 1850s, he planted elms and evergreens with the help of his students and was appointed superintendent of grounds. Two decades later he would preside over an institution that embodied the vision of his youth. The faculty included professors of modern history and literature, as well as classics and mathematics. They were free of control by religious sects and political parties. And learning was accomplished not by rote memorization and recitation, but through analysis, discussion, and experience. The Victorian beauty of the A. D. White Reading Room in Uris Library would probably have satisfied White’s exacting standards.
A trace of this inspiration can be found in the stained-glass windows that line the room. They portray the crests of several Oxford and Cambridge colleges. In the north windows, for instance, the blue escutcheon contains the motto for Oxford University, “Dominus Illuminatio Mea.” Translated from Psalm 27, it means, “The Lord is my Light.” Visitors from a new generation find the room’s ambiance comes from another source, calling it the “Harry Potter” library.
When White offered his personal library to the university, he set two conditions. He asked that the university provide a suitable space to house his collection—he stipulated a fire-proof room—and he requested that proper provision be made for the ongoing maintenance of his collections. That “suitable space” is the Andrew Dickson White Library. White played an active role in helping the building’s architect, William Henry Miller, design and ornament this space.
The maintenance and cataloging of the collection became the responsibility of George Lincoln Burr, a member of the Cornell class of 1871. Burr was White’s secretary and personal librarian as well as the first curator of the White Historical Library. Originally hired by White when he was a Cornell sophomore, Burr worked closely with White to develop and care for his library. We can safely posit that after 1879, the White collection must be seen as a collaborative effort between the two scholars. Each traveled to Europe on extended book-buying tours. Burr, also a renowned professor in the Cornell History department, is given special credit for building and enriching the Library’s collections on the Reformation and witchcraft.
Burr’s portrait by Cornell art professor Christian Midjo is prominently displayed on the north wall of the room, and a small drawing by R. H. Bainton on the first tier shows Burr as Cornell historian Carl Becker once described him: an “indefatigable scholar and bibliophile . . . browsing and brooding in the stacks.”
The Andrew Dickson White Library is filled with art work, furniture, and artifacts from White’s academic and diplomatic careers. He served as U.S. minister to Germany while still president of Cornell, and later also served as minister to Russia. Several pictures and photographs in the room depict Russian scenes. The artwork and the case of plaster casts of European coins and medallions were all collected by Mr. White.
Originally, this space had skylights and an open archway into the adjacent Dean Room (where the Burr portrait now hangs). Those features were lost to renovations, but the original three tiers of wrought-iron stacks still offer an open and dramatic display of their books. Upon first seeing these shelves filled with White’s books in September of 1891, George Lincoln Burr wrote that it “gave one such an idea of a multitude of books. You see and feel them all. They quite overawe one.” Setting the objective for the collection, he promised to make the White Library, in his words, “the great living, growing historical workshop of the University.
I had to try one out. I'll remote the tape from the red line that's inside the tube since it's really hard to pull out with it on.
The tube will be pulled flush with the deck but first I'll put a few layers of fiberglass in between the tube and the wood. That will be filled with resin and then I'll add a few layers of fiberglass on top as well. When it's cured I'll just pull out the rope, then the plastic tube and then I'll have a moulded internal channel to pull my lines through.
though this looks like a toilet part, its actually the result of an hour on my lathe with a block of urethane resin
One of many brass fittings found aboard the US aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis docked at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Oahu overlooking the USS Arizona Memorial and the Mighty Mo. What a magnificient Navy ship She is!! This is not an HDR. I had a fun afternoon aboard the ship.
Any guesses? (if you know because I told you, please don't ruin it for other folks)
First time I've machined 6/4 with zero troubles. Everything went exactly to plan. 12 operations each.
Post change of command
By Catrina Francis
Gold Standard Senior Staff Writer
catrina.s.francis2.civ@mail.mil
Duty.
Honor.
Country.
Three words that are etched in stone in front of the cannons in front of the United States Army Cadet Command at Fort Knox and words that newly promoted Maj. Gen. Jeff Smith learned as a young ROTC cadet at Ohio State.
On Friday, Smith took the reins as Fort Knox’s senior commander and commander of the U.S. Cadet Command from outgoing Commander Maj. Gen. Mark McDonald.
McDonald became the first Cadet Command commander to also lead an installation upon the discontinuation ceremony U.S. Accessions Command in January.
“(On a) day like today it’s hard to leave Kentucky,” McDonald said after relinquishing command to Smith.
He also thanked the Soldiers on Brooks Field who participated in the change of command.
“Thanks for what you do today and thanks for what you do for our country every day,” McDonald said.
McDonald pointed out that Soldiers also take great pride in the installation.
“You make Fort Knox a great place to work and Soldier and call home,” he said.
McDonald also thanked his senior enlisted advisor, Command Sgt. Maj. Hershel Turner, for being his “battle buddy.”
In his stint as senior commander McDonald continued the tradition of working with the installation’s community partners. He added that he has been extremely proud of the partnership and the community for supporting its Soldiers.
He also thanked his wife Connie for her support of Soldiers and their Families.
“Connie, you always put Soldiers and their Families first,” explained McDonald. “It is well known (that) without her I would be a heap of beer-stained denim. (I’m) proud to have the opportunity and spend some time to make this place better.”
He jokingly added that Smith is tailor made for this position because of his Tennessee roots.
Lt. Gen. John Sterling, the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command deputy commanding general and chief of staff, said the day marked a significant event in Cadet Command.
He said it was a great honor, “because of the tremendous accomplishments of the outgoing commander. (Today’s) ceremony marks a sequence of events that lead to my retirement,” he added.
Sterling mentioned that in a few weeks he will travel to Fort Sill, Okla., pass the color to McDonald in a change of command ceremony and Maj. Gen. David Halverson, Fort Sill’s outgoing commander will replace Sterling as TRADOC’s DCG upon his retirement.
Sterling praised McDonald for his tour of service at Fort Knox. He said McDonald has been responsible for the commissioning of more than 5,000 officers.
“This is a challenging and important mission,” explained Sterling. “Mark came to this job as Cadet Command was moving from Fort Monroe, Va., (and) the mission only got more demanding as the Army grew to over 570,000 Soldiers … (the mission) was placed on Mark’s capable shoulders.
“Faced with this tough growing mission, Cadet Command has responded tremendously (and) continued to provide the Army with high-quality officers.”
Sterling noted that McDonald was also successful in placing officers in hard to fill positions within the Army. He also commended McDonald on his success with the nations JROTC programs.
“During Mark’s tenure JROTC (students) have continued to lead (schools in high) grade point averages,” he said. “The Army will reap the benefits from the officers developed under your leadership.”
Although McDonald had remarkable success as the commander of Cadet Command, Sterling said some of that can be attributed to his wife Connie.
“I want to thank the person who has allowed Mark to be successful – his wife Connie,” Sterling said. “(Connie, you) continue to provide the love and support that allows Mark to sustain. You are truly unique.”
Sterling said as Knox says goodbye to one great Soldier, the Army has provided the post with another great leader in Smith and his wife Starla.
Prior to the change of command ceremony, Smith was promoted to the rank of major general. In addition to the normal two hats worn by the senior commander, Smith will continue overseeing the U.S. Army Accessions Command Discontinuance Task Force until its inactivation is complete in September.
Smith said he was humbled to take command.
“What can be more exciting than producing new officers?” he asked the crowd. “(I) look forward to joining your ranks and (I will) work tirelessly for you.”
Smith added that he has a unique opportunity in being the commander of Fort Knox and Cadet Command.
“(It’s) an awesome responsibility, I can’t think of anything I would rather be doing,” he said.
Smith also thanked McDonald and Connie for the positive impact they had on Fort Knox.
“I intend to fulfill the things he had as senior commander and build on his successes,” Smith said.
Being at Knox is a homecoming for Smith. Born in Elizabethtown, he left Hardin County when he was four years old. His late father retired from the Army as a sergeant major and his mother graduated from Fort Knox High School.
Like his predecessor, Smith said he will continue to work with the post’s community partners.
“(I) consider the community (to be) part of Fort Knox,” he explained. “(It’s) only fitting (that) we continue to build on that relationship (so the) community feels part of the installation. Part of our responsibility is to serve both on and off the installation.”
Although Smith continues to serve as the commander of the task force, he said the discontinuation is slightly ahead of schedule.
“U.S. Army Accessions Command will be discontinued on target or on schedule,” he said. “Major functions (have) been transferred to (the Human Resources Command), Army G-1 or marketing in Washington, (D.C.).”
Unlike most commanders who take command of an installation, Smith has a slight advantage because he has been working on post for a few months and he’s had an opportunity to work and meet the people on Fort Knox.
“Another aspect in my role is (I) had the opportunity to learn about the U.S. Recruiting Command and Cadet Command and how they do business,” he said. “(It’s) been beneficial for me personally getting to know (the) local community.”
As Smith takes the lead of Cadet Command and walks through its doors he will remember the words he learned as a young cadet.
Duty- obedience and disciplined performance despite difficulty or danger. Duty requires self-responsibility.
Honor – encompassing integrity and dedication. Honor is the thread that holds together the fabric of our Army.
Country- for the men and women who have given their lives or country shines as the light of freedom and dignity to the world.
Sad News for Temecula Promenade shoppers, The Gap; an original tenant since the mall opened in 1999 is closing!
Not only is this location closing, so are a lot more, Westfield Palm Desert and Westfield Century City to The Maine Mall and Bangor Mall in Maine to Galleria at Sunset in Henderson, Nevada to Kennedy Mall in Dubuque Iowa, sad to see all this locations close, hopefully Temecula can land a rue21 or a new The Limited or Eddie Bauer and this store can be re-tenanted.
Special thanks to my friend; alecm9311 who sent me The Gap PDF announcing their closures, otherwise I would have missed this sad moment in Temecula Promenade's history.
‘Shoe-fitting fluoroscopes, also sold under the names X-ray Shoe Fitter, Pedoscope and Foot-o-scope, were X-ray fluoroscope machines installed in shoe stores from the 1920s until about the 1970s’ (sourced from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope). This one is from a Berea shoe store that Jim Jaworski frequented as a child; perhaps that's why he has such a glowing walk today. Lower slot is for adults. Upper slot and step are for children. Two viewing tubes, at top, allowed a parent and the sales clerk to check the X-ray shoe fit in real-time. The X-ray tube was destroyed upon donation to the Mahler Museum and the Berea Historical Society • 2010 • Berea (Cleveland), Ohio
Nine Nikon D300 (no flash) JPGs merged into a realistic HDR in Photomatix Pro
17 grouped photos of the Billy Simpson car & Berea's Mahler Museum may be viewed within this Photostream by clicking ‘This photo also appears in 1898 Simpson gasoline car (set: 17)’ at right • Berea, Ohio Wikipedia info
MISSES' ROMPER AND JUMPSUITS: Loose-fitting romper and jumpsuits have raised neckline, mock wrap, gathered, blouson bodice, front band extending to back neckline, elasticized waist, and side pockets. B, C and D: tapered.
REALM OF THE PIER
The helmet mated with the collar via a 'bayonet' fitting...screw in and screw off.
The front pane also opened for ventilation.
At this stage I hadn't built any diving boots for the cossie, and just used my surplus jungle boots. The white suit was initally a pair of baggy overalls, but I eventually made a lined canvas jumpsuit.
We took this picture at the St.Kilda Marina in Melbourne.
Original photo by Ken Haesler.
Please proceed to picture 3
the 2x4 keeps the topside sheer at the prescribed width. A lower 2 x4 spends the topsides to establish tumblehome. The transom was fitted against the topsides and hull bottom, marked with a pencil from the hull interior, removed and cut to size with a saber saw. After tweaking the transom cut edges with a hand plane, It fit very nicely. Nothing to it.
I used the deck and roof template (depicts the 6" arc over an 8' chord) to cut out a thin piece of plywood. This flexible plywood was held against the installed transom to mark the top edge for cutting. Since the transom is not plumb, I suppose one could argue my approach makes the transom's top edge curvature a wee bit off from the curvature of the pilot house roof. But with a big chunk of the transom's top edge cut out for the outboard who will notice. It makes my brain hurt to ponder ways to compensate for transom rake when marking the top edge's curvature.
Gold belt fittings
These ornaments were originally attached to a belt. This style of belt with multiple pendants along the front was of central Asian origin and became fashionable both in Sasanian and Byzantine Empires in about the 6th century. Other versions continued to be popular after the islamic conquest.
About 6th-7th century AD, Iran