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A crowd of men suddenly swarmed around this girl. I was having a hard time taking a shot at her because of the old men pushing me around. So, I had to improvise.
1st Regiment Cadet Leaders Course (CLC) Delta Company Cadets go through the planning process for a Counter Improvised Explosive Device (IED) exercise on June 11, 2016 at Fort Knox, KY.
Photo by Lora Sparks
Old caravan on a 1995 DAF AE45CE Turbo truck.
6 cylinder diesel engine,
5200 kgs,
load capacity 5800 kg.
Amsterdam-N., Zamenhofstraat, Sept. 21, 2012.
© 2012 Sander Toonen Amsterdam | All Rights Reserved
Tank engine 63095 shunts coal wagons and to help it through he day has an improvised coal tender itself. Quite a nifty bit of modelling.
Seen at Derby Moel Rail Show 2017.
I think the layout was Rowntree Halt.
I wanted to take some photos today (trying out my brand new Nikon D3200), so I went looking for a subject I hadn't photographed yet. I've shot spring flowers a dozen times, but never my dad's old 8N tractor. It's 62 years old, but he still uses it on a regular basis. It once belonged to his father (my grandfather, whom I barely remember as a crew cut old man sitting in an easy chair), and it has memories embedded in every greasy crack and pore. If farm equipment could talk, this piece would have stories to tell.
Old caravan on a 1995 DAF AE45CE Turbo truck.
6 cylinder diesel engine,
5200 kgs,
load capacity 5800 kg.
Amsterdam-N., Zamenhofstraat, Sept. 21, 2012.
© 2012 Sander Toonen Amsterdam | All Rights Reserved
Painting and markings:
This became a challenge, because I wanted a rather unusual livery, neither a standard RLM 81/82/76 late-war combo nor an improvised-cammo-over-bare-metal finish. After some research I settled upon something that was actually carried by some He 177 bombers around 1944: a uniform RLM 74 (Graugrün, Humbrol 245) upper surface with “cloudy” mottles in RLM 76 (Humbrol 247). This appears like a winter camouflage, but it’s actually quite effective at medium altitude, esp. over a cloudy landscape. The original bombers had light blue (RLM 65) undersides, but for the P.1099 from a later period and as a fighter I rather used a darker shade of RLM76 in the form of Tamiya XF-23 (Light Blue). The model received a black ink washing and some post-panel-shading.
The cockpit interior became RLM 66 (Schwarzgrau, Humbrol 67) while the landing gear and the well were painted in uniform RLM 02 (I used Revell 45, a slightly more greenish tone), with wheel discs in RLM 66, too.
Unit markings became minimal and quite sober. I gave the aircraft a typical late-war “Reichsverteidigung” fuselage band, and in JG 53’s case it is plain black. The black band was deliberately chosen because it is a good, much darker contrast to the murky RLM 74, so that the latter appears lighter than it actually is, lowering the contrast to the RLM 76 spots.
The decals were puzzled together from various sources. As an aircraft of the 3rd group the unit’s ID color would be yellow, reflected in the tactical code and the fin tip. For some contrast and to emphasize the long gun barrel I gave it white and black stripes – as a security measure for ground handling. For some more variety I painted one air intake in very dark grey (Revell 06, Anthracite) and the other one in steel Metallizer, simulating replacement parts. The Balkenkreuze come from various sheets – I used simplified “low viz” versions all around. The undulating yellow bar for the 3rd group comes from a TL Modellbau sheet, while the yellow “4” came from a Fw 190 A sheet from Sky Models. A small “4” on the nose was added as a wacky detail, too, the “Pik As” unit markings came IIRC from a Hobby Boss Bf 109 sheet. Since they turned out to have poor contrast/opacity I only used a few stencils from the P.1099A sheet, but due to the disruptive paint scheme this is not apparent.
Finally, the model was sealed with a coat of matt acrylic varnish (Italeri) and a wire antenna, scratched from heated black sprue material, was added between cockpit and fin.
I spent 5 days in Punta Rocas, 46 km south of Lima and from there I explored the whole area, from Cruz de Hueso (San Bartolo), over Santa Rosa Alto and Punta Negra, up to Punta Hermosa. In these locations one can find every stage of urbanisation and improvisation: from future projects to abandonment.
As I said earlier, I am interested in chaotic growings of the beach resorts south of Lima, along the coastal desert strip at the Pacific Ocean. Many sites are built where there have never been towns before, with no water and no vegetation. Absurdly, they are often thought and projected as what one thinks could be a typical caribean beach paradises. Many times, too, the projects remain as projects for years and years, or are executed but afterwards turn out to be inviable and unmaintainable in the harsh enviorenment of the desert and the corroding forces of the sea.
In this series of 25 photos I wanted the view of the ocean to be a common and uniting factor, as well as the overpowering presence of the desert - the sand, the dust, the salt and the humidity - and the colors of the sand, the dust and the salt and the taints and shades of the humidity - which alltogether condition the life and constructions of and in these places...
I think a bit of p**s takink is going on here as Rodney Smith uses a Jones crane and a oxy acetaline torch to straighten a section of metal at Philip Drakards haulage yard at Hartest in Suffolk in the early 1980's
We had ingredients leftover from making vegan gimbap for Jade's restaurant last week. So my mom decided to make improvised gimbap using the bounty growing in my tiny share of the garden: perilla leaves, chives, and cinnamon basil she accidentally pulled up thinking it was a weed. Here's what went in:
Pickled daikon
Lightly sauteed carrots seasoned with a little soy sauce and sesame oil
Some had cinnamon basil and chives, others had perilla
Egg
The cinnamon basil is pictured. I had picked it up thinking it was holy basil (Thai variety) but the guy at the farmers market told me it was cinnamon basil. It really does have the subtle smell and flavor of cinnamon.