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Well, here's something you don't see everyday....a brand new Fairbanks Morse diesel engine, under a shiny white plastic wrapper, being shipped out on a heavy duty eight axel center well flatcar. Even though Fairbanks Morse stopped making diesel locomotives years ago, their original customers for diesels; ship builders; still use them to make the floaty things go.
Though I should mention that the very first ever Fairbanks Morse diesel engine was used as a stationary power plant for electric power generation, something they still build diesels for today, including diesels designed to burn natural gas.
There were four of these cars all together in the yard, but this one was the only one in clear view to be photographed. The Fairbanks Morse factory is just a few miles south of Janesville in Beloit.
***UPDATE***
Found out that the load is a MAN 48/60 CR six cylinder diesel engine weighing 106 tons, and producing 7200 kW at 500 rpm. This was one of four, all coupled together in the yard.
From what I understand, the engines are all destined for use in the U.S Navy's new ESD / ESB ships, being built by NASSCO in San Diego, CA.
ESD = Expeditionary Transfer Dock
ESB = Expeditionary Mobile Base
They were formerly known as MLP's = Mobile Landing Platforms.
"The MLP ships will be powered by twin-screw, diesel-electric propulsion system integrating four MAN/B&W medium-speed diesel engines, 24MW diesel electric plant, and 2MW azimuthing bow thruster. The propulsion system provides a sustained speed of 15k and an endurance of more than 9,500nmi at 15k speed."
For more information on the MLP / ESB / ESD ships:
Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expeditionary_Transfer_Dock
Naval Technology:
www.naval-technology.com/projects/mobile-landing-platform...
General Dynamics NASSCO:
ESB: www.nassco.com/products-and-services/usn-dc/ESB.html
ESD/MLP: www.nassco.com/products-and-services/usn-dc/MLP.html
Fairbanks-Morse MAN 48/60 CR diesel engine:
www.fairbanksmorse.com/engines/fm-man-48-60-cr/
The Railroad Series
Saturday, August 6, 2016
Union Pacific Railroad
Janesville, Wisconsin
Nikon D7000
Tamron 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 zoom
CI-WISC-JANE-2016-08-06-D7000-88
Explore: 2016.08.14
©2016, Contemplative Imaging, all rights reserved
Day 3 entry for Vignweek. Here I continue the adventures of the Sewer Babies. The entrance ramp folds up for transport, and it contains: a control room, gaming center, defense measures, kitchen, medical bay, and storage room.
Using the red bucket again gave me some flashbacks to ABS...
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Service: HM Coastguard
Make/model: Mitsubishi l200
Role: Rescue mobile
Base: HM coastguard Coleraine
Call sign: Coleraine Mobile 1
Coleraine's new coastguard rescue 4x4, to replace the old Toyota hilux. Seen at the north west 200, to set up a helicopter landing pad in order to evacuate a critical injured spectator.
Unfinished mobile tactical nuke launcher. I couldn't decide if the missiles should be inside a hanger and they deploy on rails or if they're exposed (to frighten their enemy into surrender?) I wanted a sci-fi, Terran Trade Authority take on the old Joe Rolling Thunder command center.
This pic is from a month ago, of a build that I started a month before that. It's stalled and gathering dust at the moment. I desperately wanted to return to Crimso Giger's Zorg theme this year but I'm having trouble lately with large builds; just can't seem to find the motivation to finish them. I guess it's just one of those down times or mental blocks that come and go.
It might get converted into something for Hibernia but I feel so unfocused at the moment. Strangely wanting to build something doesn't always equate to having the energy to build it. Maybe it's just a confidence thing.
In the aftermath of the Third Great War, the International Reclamation Mission was created by the new Global Federation to help clean up battlefields of psionic anomalies and rampant genetically engineered fungi and flora deployed by the warring nations.
Pressurised trucks, nicknamed "snails", provided a mobile base of operations and shelter against spore storms for Reclamation agents in the field. This was particularly vital due to the rudimentary nature of the agents' protective gear, which often left the face unprotected.
Most Reclamation Agents were soldiers of the last Great War. The poor conditions drove many to banditry or an early death. Much of the resentment was passed onto their children and grandchildren. The anger of these people rammed into dilapidated space stations and seemingly abandoned by the terrestrial elite, caused the First Space War to become almost inevitable.
This has been my project for a while now. When Jens Nygaard Knudson passed away Mark Stafford posted a very nice eulogy with pictures from a Brick Journal article. The info about Jens' life and just how powerful an impact he left on us through LEGO is very inspirational. Building this prototype theme he developed felt like a good way to show respect and appreciation for Jens" work. This is supposed to have been from 1987 and it's so great how many actual sets have roots in this prototype theme.
There's a lot that can't be seen in the pic but the challenge was filling in that space with really solid, good play featury kind of stuff. Unseen or fuzzy details absolutely had to be good because of being built by Jens Nygaard Knudson and also because I assume these were the models he used to convince the higher ups that his new space ideas were awesome and deserved support.
I'm calling these guys R-Tron because the windscreen print has a big "R" with a white line going halfway across it. I think the R stands for lots of things like rapid, response, rescue, repair and possibly recovery. It's interesting because 3 of the 4 pods have distinctive prints. The mobile base pod has the "+" sign which should be a medical kind of hospital thing, the spaceship has a gloved hand gripping a line which could be a lifeline like hospital helicopters and then the mobile gantry has the same type of hand holding a wrench.
I'll focus on getting some videos uploaded of physical models to show the features. The colors will be off but at least the cool factor will still shine through! I'll start posting the Studio files on Bricklink as well once I'm sure the build is 100%.
Thanks for reading and looking!
Check out backoftheboxbuilds.com to find the instructions for all these builds. www.backoftheboxbuilds.com/brickjournal-i6-v2-p41-concept1/
(Here's a Studio file for the Rapid Response Ship)
(Here's a Studio file for the Mobile Gantry)
(Here's a Studio file for the Mobile Base)
(Here's a Studio file for the All Terrain Rescue Rover)
This planetary explorer (factory name: “PEX-1ML”) was designed as a mobile base (serving also as a laboratory and an observatory). It has all the necessary equipment to explore terrain of new planets. Its drivetrain and suspension was built to handle very rough terrain, while its body was constructed from materials that can withstand almost any weather conditions.
You can watch a video showcasing all of the functions here: www.flickr.com/photos/186152771@N07/51467442155/
In the aftermath of the Third Great War, the International Reclamation Mission was created by the new Global Federation to help clean up battlefields of psionic anomalies and rampant genetically engineered fungi and flora deployed by the warring nations.
Pressurised trucks, nicknamed "snails", provided a mobile base of operations and shelter against spore storms for Reclamation agents in the field. This was particularly vital due to the rudimentary nature of the agents' protective gear, which often left the face unprotected.
Most Reclamation Agents were soldiers of the last Great War. The poor conditions drove many to banditry or an early death. Much of the resentment was passed onto their children and grandchildren. The anger of these people rammed into dilapidated space stations and seemingly abandoned by the terrestrial elite, caused the First Space War to become almost inevitable.
I'm done modeling these possibly! The All Terrain Rescue Rover was giving me so many issues but it was worth it. If I could only get the correct parts for one of these that would be the one I'd want. Second would be the Mobile Base for being completely beautiful and full of great play features. Third would be the Mobile Gantry: it is very fun and functional and quite essential to R-TRON operations. Fourth would be the Rapid Response Ship but it is still a very strong set!
It's really too bad that those support parts don't come in white. They would look so majestic. Black works though. Some of the other parts don't come in the correct color as well or are very scarce. The white cockpit pieces only came one in the Exploriens Starship so there are very few stores with more than one in stock.
The logo I threw together is not nice or final at all. It would be great to get something made with that "R" logo on the windscreens from the source picture. It's nice that the figure torsos are available since they are the Space Police I and Green Classic Space torsos.
Now I need to get some pics and videos of my ugly versions posted as soon as possible. I'll cook some more renders in the meantime and post some collages of various views for each set.
Thanks for the interest!
(Here's a Studio file for the Rapid Response Ship)
(Here's a Studio file for the Mobile Gantry)
(Here's a Studio file for the Mobile Base)
(Here's a Studio file for the All Terrain Rescue Rover)
My fan concept of LEGO City subtheme desert explorers
Minifigure: 2 Explorer, 1 pilot and 1 statue
Price: $50-70
Pieces: 333 (+1 new windscreen piece needed for cockpit)
Originally I was going to go with Kungfulegolover idea of doing a Helicrane, but instead went with a transport plane to use the cockpit piece (29114) that came in the Jungle Exploration site as I thought that would be a most fitting piece for the desert subtheme. Instead of there being 3 blade for the propeller, it’s using the retired (As it been last used in 2009) 2 blade.
The plane is based off a german cargo plane Junkers JU-52, which the pic I first saw is why I also added yellow, so it has some color to stand out.
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An assault landing craft for use in DA3. Built to house the "Barricade" APC and act as a landing platform for the "Thunderbird Heavy". The "Tempest" can be used effectively as a mobile base of operations due to its size and massive internal and external capacity to support a variety of CLC military craft.
Former US Coast Guard 'Mobile' based Sikorsky HH-52A Seaguard '1378' on display at the Battleship Memorial Park, Mobile, Alabama
Basically a 'baby' single-engined Sea King, the HH-62 was born out of a private venture. Acquired by the US Naval Aeronautics Board for use by the Coast Guard they used a boat type hull for alighting on the water during rescue missions
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PHILIPPINE SEA (Aug. 17, 2022) Marines attached to 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) conduct a visit, board, search, and seizure (VBSS) exercise on small boats with Expeditionary Mobile Base USS Miguel Keith (ESB-5) as seen from forward-deployed amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans (LPD 18). New Orleans, part of Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group, along with 31st MEU, is operating in U.S. 7th Fleet to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Desmond Parks)
Joshua Cole is the nameless agent working for every side, manipulating militaries across the planet to achieve his goals. Thanks to the vast wealth he's acquired throughout his long life of espionage, he's able to provide Aquaman's first team - the Others - with their mobile base of operations, code-named the Living Room! He is the only of his former teammates who never went into hiding.
My fan concept of LEGO City subtheme desert explorers
Minifigure: boss, 4 explorers, paleontologist and Mummy
Price: $70-100
Pieces: 560 (plus stringe)
Nowadays only D2C sets would pretty much exclusively use baseplates but I thought it being used in a normal retail set like this would be a bit of a change of things (using a 16 x 32 baseplate).
The first base started was obviously the pyramid, as it’s an easy thing to make and there isn’t really much to do with it besides adding traps… which is exactly what I put in with the coffin on the side, along with a place that holds jewels and gold.
With the vehicle I picked to go along with this are a helicopter and halftrack.
Honestly I saw this as a chance to bring in a mistika wing with the Helicopter. Now it may be a bit bigger but the inside does have Panel for support.
With the halftrack I thought it would be a good idea to use the 2 seat vehicle base (30149) as part of it. Itt have a lot of those curved slopes with stud notch to make some detail. It able to hold up supplice of 2 3x4 crate, contain a laptop, 2 brush, 2 water bottle, a water container, etc.
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"The Dominator has been described casually as a "snow tank" but it could be more accurately described as a modern armored car that excels in the armored reconnaissance role. Its six large wheels give it reasonable mobility even in snowy conditions and give it considerably more speed than a tracked configuration would offer. The Dominator has a crew of two - a gunner/commander and a driver. Its main weapon is a 90 mm cannon mounted in the turret, and considered effective against all but the heaviest armored vehicles. The Dominator also mounts three 7.62 machine guns - one mounted coaxially with the main gun and two in the hull firing forward. The effective accuracy of these hull mounted weapons can be questioned, but they are at the very least useful in providing suppressing covering fire when the Dominator runs into an enemy it can't defeat and needs to de-engage in a hurry."
BattleForce 2000 is a subteam of G.I.Joe that gets a lot of flack from many serious G.I.Joe fans, in part because it incorporated a combining base feature that never quite worked very well. The original Dominator could detach its outer armor from around its hull to form a wall on the "Future Fortress". My version does not try to replicate this flawed gimmick, but rather focuses on recreating the basic shape of the original (minus the silly side skis), and adding a much needed driver's position in the hull.
I'm especially happy with the angled shaping on the glacis on the front of the vehicle. The Dominator was my favorite BF2000 vehicle (as well as one of my favorite of the arctic Joe vehicles overall). For all of BF 2000's limitations, it had some cool elements, and I'll likely have a go at other vehicles in this subteam eventually, and perhaps even attempt some kind of improved "modular mobile base" feature in other vehicles. For now, the Dominator takes its place in the ranks of my Joe team's winter/arctic forces.
My fan concept of LEGO City subtheme desert explorers
Minifigure: 4 desert explorers and 2 paleontologist
Price: $100
Pieces: 897 (+1 new element needed for excavator)
Note: the treads cannot connect all the way in Stud.io.
The vehicle are pretty much based on Volcano Exploration Base (set 60124). The first thing I started making is the excavator, wanting to size it down for the truck and temple to look bigger. As this is smaller a new digger bucket piece is needed to fit with the size of it.
The truck and trailer pretty much have the same base as Volcano Base but the trailer have the base of the excavator. To make the truck a bit more different I added horns for decoration and an add-on armor as the fuel tank.
The playability is of the exploration team digger into the temple and retrieving the coffin, but there are traps within to keep an eye out for.
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The XL-15 enters the LEGO City!
This set wouldn’t have been on my radar if it wasn’t for the buzz about the Lightyear film’s director being AFOL Angus MacLane (check out his builds on Flickr!).
Evidently, he pushed for the in-film design to have a yellow transparent canopy, reminiscent of the Classic Space elements.
He also had an interesting spot on LEGOCon, worth a check out.
The build of this one and a cat seater spaceship is substantial! As a medium sized ship it checks most boxes for me: fits all accessories, swoosh-ability is there, has mobile base in form of laptop (stretch), and droid in the Catbot (also stretch). No escape pod/rover, which loses some points when compared to the medium builds of my ‘90s childhood.
But the elements and connections this set brings to the table blow anything from my childhood away. There are a few elements that are super obscure.
Color scheme for the spaceship is great, can’t miss with light blue, white, and black with that yellow canopy.
Also bonus points for extra head/hair elements for minifigs.
Less stellar for me were the minifigs. Buzz looks pretty good, but I’d prefer the dome over a normal helmet (I’m sure that’s a movie plot detail). The other figs have nice printing, but are pretty mute brown, like something out of a Star Wars set.
The shoulder pauldrons for all of them are cumbersome to range of motion.
The rocket launcher build doesn’t really work out to be held, but I do appreciate the built up weapon/scanning accessories.
Very nice set, strong suggest for the building experience and MOC possibilities!
I left off the red stripes off the wings. Does it look cleaner? Worse? Let me know
I’ll be looking at more contemporary LEGO sets that are bringing back Classic Space soon!
#LEGO #LegoLightyear #ClassicSpace #Lego76832 #LegoXL15 #76832 #LEGOSpace #XL15Spaceship #afol #legomania #LegoToyStory #LegoPhotography #LEGOSystem #Legoland #toyPhotography #LegoPics #toyPics #LegoCity #NeonLegoBricks #ToyNostalgia #LEGOSpaceship #ClassicLego #LegoSpaceMan #NeonBricks #LegoCatBot #NeoClassicSpace #LegoNuSpace #LegoXL15Spaceship
An assault landing craft for use in DA3. Built to house the "Barricade" APC and act as a landing platform for the "Thunderbird Heavy". The "Tempest" can be used effectively as a mobile base of operations due to its size and massive internal and external capacity to support a variety of CLC military craft.
Model of the Canadarm for Canadian Inventions display. In 1981, the first Canadian Remote Manipulator System, better known as the Canadarm, was delivered to NASA for use on the Space Shuttle. Built by SPAR Aerospace of Toronto, this robotic arm could deploy and capture satellites from the cargo bay of the Shuttle. This model depicts the SSRMS/SPDM as part of the Space Station Mobile Servicing System, a later enhancement that flies on the International Space Station.
I originally built a small arm to represent the Canadarm, as the image of this Canadian invention graces every new five dollar bill. But when we got the chance to build for the Community Window again, it was a great chance to build a model which spanned across the diagonal of the space. I used a bunch of truss pieces and built the mobile base. The astronaut has a Friends brush to clean the spaceship being docked. They're not mean to be particularly accurate, just enough to be recognizable: Someone I'm sure will point out the size of the SSRMS to the SPDM is completely out of scale.
History
The Shaolin Temple was 1st built around 495 AD by the Chinese emperor
Hsino Wen. It was in the great Shaolin Temple in the songshan mountains of central China that Buddharama, a sixth century Indian Monk first intro-duced Buddhism and a form of Mediation and fighting techniques. He introduced a form of breathing exercises based upon animal movements designed to strengthen and condition the body.
The art of Shaolin Kempo Karate has developed from numerous styles of
the martial arts including: SHAOLIN TEMPLE BOXING, JIU JITSU,KUNG FU, KEMPO, different styles of KARATE, as well as the secret
art of the WHITE TIGER (Chin Na). Each fighting system offers some-thing both unique and special, but each also has it's weaknesses that
make a fighter vulnerable. The ultimate in self defense lay not in one way or style of fighting but by the integration of these methods of fighting into one.
The Shaolin Kempo Karate fighting system is the only system that incor-
porates the movements of the original five animals: TIGER, LEOPARD,DRAGON, CRANE, and SNAKE. It is a system that promotes health and wisdom. Shaolin's theory of fighting is based upon effective multiple strikes off a powerful mobile base, with linear, angular and circular offensive and defensive motions with simultaneous manipulation of the opponent's upper and lower body masses. The art of Shaolin Kempo Karate with it's graceful movements for development of the internal energy & balance of the body's external strengths is the essence for producing a superior fighter. Shaolin Self Defense Centers believes by applying the physical and mental aspects of the martial arts into your personal lives, one will achieve harmony and balance.
My fan concept of LEGO City subtheme desert explorers
Minifigure: Driver and Explorer
Price: $20
Pieces: 125
Sticker: 7 (desert logo on hood & both side door, lights on arch and egyptian symbols on book page and cover)
Do to the type of truck I picked for this with having some big pieces used to make it, the price to part get a pretty bad hit. Which I picked the classic america pickup truck with a hook in the back. With my idea for the vehicle, the Mudguard wouldn’t do, thus the arch pieces come to make the mudguard more thick. And do to this design choice, the lights would be stickers instead of tiles… 1001% didn’t forget them after the render.
This also come with a pillar with a Scarab Shield (93251), along with a crate filled with dynamite, boomerang and a book.
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Shot on location in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
Exposure: 1/125s f11 @ 100 ASA
Camera: Hasselblad 500C/M
Filter: LEE No.21
Film: Fuji Neopan 100 Acros
Developer: R09 1+25 6:30s @ 20ºC
When I got involved in this project, I'd only just built a six-wheeled military vehicle of my own design and on a visit to Ed and his wife Annie, it formed the basis for a quick sketch of a six-wheeled cargo/exploration vehicle. Ed and I both liked the look, but there were a few issues. Because it was going to carry some sort of mobile base and shouldn't be too high overall, the wheels that did the steering simultaneously had to be the drive wheels.
My fan concept of LEGO City subtheme desert explorers.
Minifigure: 1 Explorer
Price: $5
Pieces: 62
Sticker: 1 (Desert logo on the front slop printed)
Treasure: Jewel
This one was pretty quick as I already had an ATV design (made IRL) that was for a cancelled idea, and so I reused that for this. As you can see this ATV uses the Nexo Mech chest piece which I thought go pretty well with the grilled guard .
A small side build for this is sand for the Explorer to dig up jewels. It also comes with a scorpion for the guy to watch out for.
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Once the Tzar Dropship touches down, it can deploy an independent roving space station, which can act in a variety of roles including transmission hub, research base, or espionage center.
The XL-15 enters the LEGO City!
This set wouldn’t have been on my radar if it wasn’t for the buzz about the Lightyear film’s director being AFOL Angus MacLane (check out his builds on Flickr!).
Evidently, he pushed for the in-film design to have a yellow transparent canopy, reminiscent of the Classic Space elements.
He also had an interesting spot on LEGOCon, worth a check out.
The build of this one and a cat seater spaceship is substantial! As a medium sized ship it checks most boxes for me: fits all accessories, swoosh-ability is there, has mobile base in form of laptop (stretch), and droid in the Catbot (also stretch). No escape pod/rover, which loses some points when compared to the medium builds of my ‘90s childhood.
But the elements and connections this set brings to the table blow anything from my childhood away. There are a few elements that are super obscure.
Color scheme for the spaceship is great, can’t miss with light blue, white, and black with that yellow canopy.
Also bonus points for extra head/hair elements for minifigs.
Less stellar for me were the minifigs. Buzz looks pretty good, but I’d prefer the dome over a normal helmet (I’m sure that’s a movie plot detail). The other figs have nice printing, but are pretty mute brown, like something out of a Star Wars set.
The shoulder pauldrons for all of them are cumbersome to range of motion.
The rocket launcher build doesn’t really work out to be held, but I do appreciate the built up weapon/scanning accessories.
Very nice set, strong suggest for the building experience and MOC possibilities!
I left off the red stripes off the wings. Does it look cleaner? Worse? Let me know
I’ll be looking at more contemporary LEGO sets that are bringing back Classic Space soon!
#LEGO #LegoLightyear #ClassicSpace #Lego76832 #LegoXL15 #76832 #LEGOSpace #XL15Spaceship #afol #legomania #LegoToyStory #LegoPhotography #LEGOSystem #Legoland #toyPhotography #LegoPics #toyPics #LegoCity #NeonLegoBricks #ToyNostalgia #LEGOSpaceship #ClassicLego #LegoSpaceMan #NeonBricks #LegoCatBot #NeoClassicSpace #LegoNuSpace #LegoXL15Spaceship
I wonder why Flickr needs to become Instagram?? Am sure this was an inevitable choice to survive the latest Mobile Based Social Network flooding the globe. Also am sure Flickr may gather trillions of new users in this way. I hope this choice won't be a good reason for the Pro Account users to leave Flickr....
*Here are a little bit of more "impressions" after using this App for 1 whole day.
The more I use this App, I noticed that this App is really a huge breakthrough in the way it brings back the same mood to explore the Flickr in the way we did in the early days. I'm not being negative to everything;) So, I've changed the title of this image.
PHILIPPINE SEA (Aug. 17, 2022) - A U.S. Marine Corps scout sniper with Battalion Landing Team 2/5, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, provides overwatch from a U.S. Navy SH-60 Sea Hawk, with Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 23 Wildcards, Amphibious Assault Ship USS Tripoli (LHA-7) in support of a visit board search and seizure exercise aboard Expeditionary Mobile Base USS Miguel Keith (ESB-5) in the Philippine Sea, Aug. 17, 2022. The 31st MEU maintains the capability to seize and clear ships while at sea to protect themselves and allies in the Indo-Pacific Region. The 31st MEU is operating aboard ships of the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group in the 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the INDOPACOM region. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Christopher W. England) 220817-M-UF994-1014
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A U.S. Marine Corps AH-1Z Viper assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 369 (HMLA-369) conducts flight operations aboard the USS Miguel Keith (ESB-5) ahead of Balikatan 22, off the coast of the Philippines, March 26, 2022. The Miguel Keith, a Lewis B. Puller-class Expeditionary Mobile Base Ship, is a highly flexible platform that provides logistics movement from sea to shore supporting a broad range of military operations. Balikatan, Tagalog for ‘shoulder-to-shoulder,’ is a longstanding bilateral exercise between the Philippines and the United States highlighting the deep-rooted partnership between both countries. Balikatan 22 is the 37th and largest-ever iteration of the exercise. BK22 coincides with the 75th anniversary of the U.S.-Philippine security cooperation and a shared commitment to advancing peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Kallahan Morris)
If you need a proper adventurer to help you in the outlands of Citratron, you can trust Daniel J. McLewis, his companion bot N0T-M3 (assist class, though some say murder class...) and his formidable creation, the L1NX. High mobility, cannons a-plenty, ready for exploration! Surely this is what Wanda Stingray and the lilim Kalo.
I wanted to combine a mech build with the utility aspect of a mobile base, 2 stuffs that I'm very fond of. This thing is heavy, which makes it hard to pose (unless you have a stand, which I didn't include for reasons).
(and yes "lilim" is a reference to VA-11 Hall-A, I love this game)
This planetary explorer (factory name: “PEX-1ML”) was designed as a mobile base (serving also as a laboratory and an observatory). It has all the necessary equipment to explore terrain of new planets. Its drivetrain and suspension was built to handle very rough terrain, while its body was constructed from materials that can withstand almost any weather conditions.
Today I spent the majority of 4 hours ripping boards, measuring, fitting, sanding, boring holes, and assembling this mobile base for my table saw. Another one was also completed for my band saw. With the assistance of my wife and daughter, we lifted this up and placed it on the mobile base and now I can move it from the garage to a more spacious area (like the front of the garage) to work on wood projects.
This was purchased at Harbor Freight in Michigan City, Indiana. While the instructions were not as clearly written as I would like them, I was able to make adaptations and complete the project. Clean up of sawdust, etc., took about an hour.
SAN DIEGO (May 8, 2021) Lt. Gen. Karsten S. Heckl, Commanding General, First Marine Expeditionary Force, delivers remarks during the commissioning ceremony of the Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary mobile base USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5). Miguel Keith is the Navy’s third purpose-built expeditionary sea base (ESB). While originally created to operate as a support ship under Military Sealift Command, USS Miguel Keith has been commissioned to provide greater mission flexibility in accordance with the laws of armed conflict. It is the first U.S. warship named for Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Miguel Keith, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in Vietnam. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kevin C. Leitner)
PHILIPPINE SEA (Aug. 17, 2022) Marines attached to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) use radios to communicate with Marines from 31st MEU on small boats and a SH-60 Seahawk helicopter while watching from a Scout Sniper Observation Telescope (left center), and image stabilizing binoculars (right center) on forward-deployed amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans (LPD 18) during a visit, board, search, and seizure (VBSS) exercise with the Expeditionary Mobile Base USS Miguel Keith (ESB-5). New Orleans, part of Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group, along with 31st MEU, is operating in U.S. 7th Fleet to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Desmond Parks)
Through the vast wastelands rumbles the Scavenger Mobile Base. Upon its mighty wheels was formed a mobile fortress from parts of various buildings recovered over the years. Now its operators sell off most spare parts to passing travelers.
-Lower the drawbridge to welcome travelers and explore by foot.
-Land air vessels on the rear platform or one of the cat walks above the command bridge.
-Raise and lower the Bionicle supported crane to hoist the latest finds onto the main platform.
-Join the mad scientists in the bridge to take control of the base.
-Visit the resident wizard in his tower for magical help.
-The build features removable bridge section and raisable tarp to provide access inside the lower level.
-The mobile base features all terrain treads and freely rotating rear wheels.
-Also includes a covered bin for smaller finds.