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Train, Plane, and automobile to get back home. This is the TGV station in Avignon with a glowing sunrise. The train stopped in CDG airport in Paris and I then flew to Montreal where I drove home. The trip worked out well with all luggage including my bike arriving safe and sound.
Alcudia, Mallorca, Spain / May 11 2011: a humble local Spanish fisherman returns to port from a day’s fishing. Coming in alongside luxurious yachts, his relaxed demeanour and obvious contentment with life makes him a rich man in the viewer’s eyes.
Photographed the Hasslefree Tours Double Decker Bus parked at the Hilltop Tavern on Christchurch Akaroa Road in Little River in Banks Peninsula in Canterbury New Zealand
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A great pair for anyone wanting to take on Bandits, militia's and fungal/zombie types.Miniatures are from hasslefree miniatures
Ex-London Transport RM221 now operated by hasslefree.co.nz in Christchurch is seen about to depart on a sightseeing tour of the stricken city.
I think that the bus is RM221 VLT221 which entered service in April 1960 and had been withdrawn in 1984. By 1988 it had been re-registered WTS128A and in saw service with Strathtay Scottish .After leaving Scotland it was converted into an open-topper before export to New Zealand in 1996. Originally used at Wanaka airfield. I am not definite about its identity but I visited Wanaka airfield and there was no sign of an RM there.
Ex London Transport RML2724 SMK724F was exported to Napier New Zealand in September 2005. Registered DBD664 it worked on North Island before being acquired and operated by hasslefree.co.nz in Christchurch. It is seen here newly repainted but without any signwriting on Akaroa harbour awaiting a group passengers from a visiting cruise ship.
Ex-London Transport RM1670 now operated by hasslefree.co.nz in Christchurch is seen leaving Akaroa harbour area with a group passengers from a visiting cruise ship.
RM1670 670DYE was new in August 1963 and withdrawn by LT in September 1982. It was exported to New Zealand in 1984 to the International Distillers Museum of Transport in Auckland, since then it has changed ownership and use several times.
The latest owners have restored it externally to a very high standard.
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1:72 Starguard miniatures (a man is 24-25 mm, or an inch, tall at this scale). I've used 20mm and 40mm bases (from Hasslefree miniatures). I prefer simple grass flock on round bases. I think I made a terrible mess of the 40mm base actually. I prefer to keep the bases flat and simple, because the focus should be on the miniature.
I'm quite happy with my current flock. I never liked static grass much, and painted sand felt dull and noisy. I bought some terrible sawdust flock once. Actually the stuff I have now is sawdust too, but it's quite fine, and has a warmer tone with some hue variation.
I use a brown for the base band, because black feels unnatural, and green feels like it's failing to be grass. Brown is still an earth color, so it fits in, and stands out just enough, I think.
I've misplaced my Milliput mushrooms (need to make some GreenStuff replacements), but I do have some tree/shrubbery foam stuff which I use sparingly. Also, I use an old toothbrush as an airbrush of sorts. It's all black-brown, which makes it a good grass material. I cut off a group of strands and push into GS. Then I paint the top green, with maybe some yellow touches.
As for the painting of the miniatures themselves... I don't have patience for anything more than "looks OK at a distance". I prefer to just use a base color, then do the panel lines / indents with a darker watered down color (not necessarily a wash), then I do a very thin and relatively bright highlight. Never a gradient building up towards the edge of the highlight.
The Tribe of the Black Hand, without the Hasslefree interloper in the front rank. (Empire militia/free company)
One of the Modern adventurer minis from Hasslefree. Nice little sculpts. Painted for the heck of it.
Several of Mortlake`s Leyland RM`s found new uses overseas though none fared quite as well as RM 1670.
Exported to New Zealand in 1984, it passed through a few different owners and by 2010 was in poor condition until Hasslefree Tours in Christchurch bought it and then spent a vast amount of money on fully refurbishing it to an exceptional standard as is evident here on 28 January 2011. In what had to be one of the most terrain challenging routes ever for an RM, the Christchurch City Tour took in the significant ascent of the Port Hills to the viewpoint overlooking Lyttelton Harbour. Less than four weeks after I took this picture, the infrastructure and city of Christchurch was massively damaged in an earthquake thus bringing to an end this remarkable bus tour whilst the initial struggle of daily survival gave way to longer term repairs.
Here's my finished space bulldog, from Hasslefree Miniatures.
Such a joy to paint and I had real fun making that base.
Best of all, he took first place at Salute yesterday, in the sci-fi single miniatures category.
Captured while operating free shuttle trips between the Tauranga CBD and Bayfair in Mt. Maunganui.
Now operating with Hasslefree Tours in Christchurch.
Ex UK Routemaster RM1620 at work in Foxton on the West coast of New Zealand's North Island. The bus has been in the country since 1984 and spent six years at the Museum of Transport in Auckland, and was then used by Double Deck Bus Charters in Mount Albert, until venturing to New Plymouth in 2005 where it was fitted with a Hino EK100 engine. It was used on a sightseeing service in Wellington for Wayne Little before working on Christchurch City Tours.
A couple of entries about Japan on my blog today: one is about Japanese Immigration and Customs and the other is a tidbit about how cute the Japanese people are.
PS: No WiFi at Kansai Airport, at least not at the domestic gates. Boo.
Ex London Transport RML2724 SMK724F was exported to Napier New Zealand in September 2005. Registered DBD664 it worked on North Island before being acquired and operated by hasslefree.co.nz in Christchurch. It is seen here newly repainted but without any signwriting on Akaroa harbour awaiting a group passengers from a visiting cruise ship.