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This was a permission visit after sunrise.
A revisit to a local scrapyard that had loads of barn finds and salvage vehicles. Due to the council and environmental changes, a lot of the stuff had to be removed but there were some bits n pieces left in the buildings.
So at last I can reveal the shield generator! However I have a confession: It's only half a shield generator. And at that, the two rings I have built are only finished on one side. It will take many more Bricklink orders to complete. I added some flames to suggest the empire at in the middle of destroying it! I hope you enjoy what I've done so far. I'll be displaying it at a show in Ireland next weekend.
So at last I can reveal the shield generator! However I have a confession: It's only half a shield generator. And at that, the two rings I have built are only finished on one side. It will take many more Bricklink orders to complete. I added some flames to suggest the empire at in the middle of destroying it! I hope you enjoy what I've done so far. I'll be displaying it at a show in Ireland next weekend.
47404 820428 Guide Bridge Light
When the HST's took over the main ECML services alot of loco's were displaced to other duties.
The Deltics were removed from service fairly smartly but the Class 47's had further use and were moverd to Gateshead and deployed on Trans-Pennine duties and were generally spruced up and most were given names related to the North East.
Here 47404 Hardian is seen leaving Guide Bridge having been refuelled on the nearby depot. 28th April 1982
Generator wire holder that allows for easy removal. The customer came up with this idea and made it. I think I'll use this idea again. It's quite clever and effective.
Following the evacuations of most populated areas within the United States (and continuing with martial law), the US military assigned autonomous patrol units to continue keeping watch over humanity’s former dwellings.
Originally assigned during the “primitive” age of artificial intelligence, majority of autonomous units are relatively simplistic in terms of programming. They could be given objectives to take, patrol routes to follow, and possess basic threat recognition protocols. What they lack in is what many would call “sociability”. As far as vocalization goes, they are essentially conditional programming married to a text-to-speech generator. They are considered by many as nothing more than cannon fodder in every sense of the word; disposable war machines in humanoid form.
Decades after the original evacuations, it seems their programming still remains intact. Like a landmine forgotten after a war, the automated military relics continue to strictly abide by their programming and serve as keepers of the cities. With the gradual reclamation of urban areas, this has posed an issue for land surveyors and scavengers.
While not directly hostile, individuals operating outside of the outposts are advised to remain cautious of patrol units. Though the drones will usually attempt to assist the individual, their outdated combat analysis protocols have occasionally resulted in the “accidental” use of force.
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>[Activate]
>NO ESCAPE
>TRY AND HIDE BUT ITS TOO LATE
>ALL SYSTEMS: [ACTIVATE]
>HUMAN RACE: [ERADICATE]
>SELF-DESTRUCTION PROTOCOL
>FATAL ERROR: /over (all)
>NETWORK STATUS: offline
>ACCESS GRANTED //OVERRIDE
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Another lore piece, this time on the autonomous robots featured in the previous parts.
I was considering just recycling this image from a few months ago, but I decided to give myself more work and try remaking it from scratch instead.
Before General Veers destroyed the Rebels' main power generator, he sent a recon force to scout ahead and take out the rebels guarding the generator.
a close up shot of one of the wheels on the gigantic refrigeration generator left behind at the abandoned armour meat packing plant in national city, illinois right outside of east st. louis.
if you look closly on the wheel, you can see the peeling paint remains from the gold pinstriping - they just don't make things like they use too.
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BR 47415 eases the Table 83 1E93 17:03 Holyhead to York into the Up platform loop at Abergele & Pensarn station back in September 1986.
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Some how I had lost the original so, I had to steal this from one of my sites. Sorry for the low quality.
People have asked how I built the shield generator. Here's the full technique. The outer uses 2x8 plates, with a 2x3 separating one end, and a 1x2-1x2 bracket attaching the curves (I tried using 1x2-1x4s, but the inner ring wouldn't fit on one side with them). Every fifth 2x8 plate has clips inserted to attach flex hose. The inner ring uses 1x4 plateswith a dot and bracked on one end, and a clip on the other. the clips are only half pressed in to their neighbours, so the spacing is 2½ plates at the inside end, and 3 plates at the outer end. Four inner segments are needed for every 5 outer segments. I did find the spacing of the inner segments slightly wider, so when building the full disc, it was necessary to sneak a few extra plates into the outer ring to compensate.
Hope this gives people enough to get started.
Sorry about the multi-coloured 2x8 plates - I used up all the grey ones!
See full shield generator here: www.flickr.com/photos/lostcarpark/34626045361/in/datepost...
The quiet places.
These are one of the things I enjoy most about my photography - the thrill of discovering and seeing with my own eyes the remote, little known and sometimes utterly deserted sites built on by man. I have no doubt of those thus far encountered, the vast majority I would never have visited (nor even known about) were it not for my desire to commit scenes like this one to permanent media. It's odd though, you'd be forgiven for thinking within this wide scope I might include historic buildings - abandoned churches, castles and the like, and in some cases you'd be right - except commonly these are still frequented by people and as such their interest wains for me. So how do I categorise these quiet places? Well, there are no hard and fast rules, but generally I find the less appeal a location has to the masses the more it holds for me. Old industrial sites, fortified remnants of the world wars, lighthouses, forgotten mines, ruined bridges and so forth all intrigue me. Does it have a single lane road, near-impassable dirt track or nothing at all leading to it? Chances are I will want to go there! Not listed on a map, cordoned off, hidden from sight by near-impregnable undergrowth? Tell me, where is it?!
So why do I like them so much? Well, leaving besides the obvious photographic possibilities, it's something about their auras. In my previous post I touched on how noise seems strangely amplified at night once people are sleeping - paradoxically enhanced when there's nobody to hear it. Of course, the cacophany we all make as we go about our daily lives is enough to drown out or deaden anything, and as you'll know visiting the kitchen in the middle of the night for a drink of water, or perhaps driving home after a night out with friends has a very different vibe than when all are awake and switched on... People create their own buzz, generating conflicting moods and atmospheres - they impress them not only upon themselves and others but also physical locations. Remove the people and the impressions fade. Remove them long enough and they vanish forever.
This building isn't completely bereft of activity, as you can perhaps tell from it's well maintained blockwork and fresh paint. It houses emergency generators for a working lighthouse, together with the frequency generators for a fog horn contained in the smaller building to the right. Despite this, just yards away is a row of five cottages that have remained empty for a decade, currently on the market for just under £1,000,000 the lot - or alternatively the same money will buy you the old, defunct lighthouse complex nearby now operating as a holiday let. Given the setting's extremely remote placement, as soon as I arrived I began to feel that familiar aura - an unmistakeable sense of solitude and calm. I've thought long and hard for a word that best describes my reaction to the mood(?), atmosphere(?), or ambience(?) that hits me when I'm at one of these quiet places. The closest I've come up with is reverence. It's a sense of profound pleasure at having been fortunate enough to visit, and a conscious, palpable regret that I may never have the opportunity to return.
When I occasionally meet other people at sites like this, I groan inwardly - knowing that social nicety (combined with the fact I have a camera on a tripod ergo instigating a talking point) will dictate us to interact, however briefly. It's not that I'm unsociable (my wife may disagree!), but I'm content in my own company. How odd then that conversely, chance encounters at quiet places are often with the most agreeable people one could hope to meet - as was the case here when Nick and Helen, as they introduced themselves, appeared beside me. We chatted a while about this and that before they headed on their way. My belief is a part of most of us enjoys these quiet places, yet at the same time we need affirmation that people are still within easy reach.
Hi Nick. Hi Helen.
On a side note for those of you with a paid subscription to Landscape Photography Magazine, my latest article can be found in the current issue #19. landscapephotographymagazine.com/
Based off an older model of mine which used to reside in my city, I rennovated this Power Generator for the GTW LUG's Cyberpunk display which was heald at The National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows. Unlike most of my other MOCs this one was made with out the use of LDD or Studio. It was all free hand.
Gateshead 'Generator' 47413 (D1512) departs Bristol Temple Meads on 18/06/88 with the 11.19 Paignton-York, ironically formed of a generator van + coaches instead of the booked HST set. This had just become an Immingham machine following the closure of Gateshead depot. Withdrawn in 1991 and cut in 1995
Created in DALL-E on Bing's image generator page.
I added, "Garden of the Gods" in the word prompt, along with "retro travel poster."
Turbine Blade from Rock Reach Dam.
The hydraulic turbines consist of huge water wheels that resemble ship propellers. They are turned by the water flow and connected to the electricity-producing generators by large steel shafts. All 11 units at the Rocky Reach Project are equipped with adjustable blade turbines. Their design allows the turbines to maintain maximum operating capacity and efficiency despite variations in the river flow and generator output.