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Matchbox Series No4 Dodge K Series Stake Bed Truck Restoration. 1966 to 1968 - 1-75 Series. This is the second Stake bed I am restoring. I bought it years ago at a swap meet. The body is stripped and ready for paint. The Citristrip does a great job and washes off. This is a good body to restore.
A modification to the traditional. This is a swiss roll sponge soaked in grand marnier simple syrup and filled with a chocolate mousse lightly flavored with more grand marnier, topped with a french buttercream (again, lightly flavored with grand marnier) and decorated with marzipan paste holly leaves, berries and a piglet head (I was going for a squirrel, but it's a tree pig. You've heard of those elusive red-skinned, green-eyed tree pigs, right?). Meringue mushrooms grow on the far side of the cake board, and the whole thing is dusted with powdered sugar "snow". Not so great of a decorating effort, but I had five minutes and the kitchen was hot.
I had a fibreglass pond with steep sides given to me last year. Unfortunately steep sides are bad for wildlife as amphibians can't climb out and hedgehogs that fall in can't get out.
I made this modification. I put some bricks on the deep ledge of the pond,put a grid of fine chicken wire on top of the bricks and covered it with gravel. I then put a few rocks on the gravel so now creatures can get out of the pond.Adding the gravel has made the water a bit murky but it will clear in a day or two
The other benefit to this modification is that I can now see pond beetles/tadpoles etc swimming in the shallow area. With a deep pond all over,you can't see what's going on underneath
In the summer of 1996 two former Bristol Omnibus Company Eastern Coach Works bodied Bristol LH buses are parked up at Swanage railway station for use on the service to Bournemouth via the Sanbanks ferry, for which the front end modification is clearly visible.
The versatility of the Lockheed Constellation airframe led to a number of modifications done by both the US Navy and the USAF, which generally shared the same EC-121 designation despite their different roles. Navy aircraft included the WV-2Q (EC-121M) electronic intelligence and WV-3 (WC-121N) weather reconnaissance aircraft. These lacked the radar domes of the WV-2/EC-121K and, in the case of the EC-121M, flew clandestine missions along the borders of the Eastern Bloc.
The USAF also modified a small number of Constellations into specialized variants, mostly testbeds identical to the standard EC-121D that tested the QRC-248 (“Quick Look”) and Rivet Gym (EC-121M) setups. Four were also briefly modified during the Cuban Missile Crisis as EC-121Q Gold Diggers, which tracked U-2 missions over Cuba. The largest number of modified Constellations, however, was the EC-121R, codenamed Batcat. Classified until the early 1980s, Batcat EC-121s were ex-Navy WV-2s and WV-3s supplied to the USAF and stripped off their radar domes. 25 Batcats were sent to Thailand, flying with the 553rd Reconnaissance Wing at Korat RTAFB, Thailand. Batcat’s role was to monitor and coordinate Operation Igloo White, the electronic surveillance of the Ho Chi Minh Trail from North Vietnam, through Laos and Cambodia, to the South.
Igloo White was the brainchild of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, who envisioned an “electronic fence” around South Vietnam, which would save on manpower (and money). Using sensors dropped by USAF and US Navy aircraft, the sensors would bury themselves in the ground around known traffic points along the Trail. These sensors would then detect truck traffic and other manmade sounds, relay the signals to Batcats on station, which in turn would relay them to American forward air controllers, who would call in airstrikes.
While Igloo White had its uses and was on occasion very successful, halting Trail traffic was more effectively done by the FACs themselves or by US/South Vietnamese Special Forces on the Trail itself. Batcat missions lasted eighteen hours, requiring the aircraft to have better air conditioning than the standard EC-121. The project was wound down with the American pullout beginning in 1970, with the Batcats supplemented by QU-22 “Baby Bat” two-man aircraft, and ended for good in December 1971. Two Batcats were lost in fatal accidents during the war; the 28 survivors were later scrapped.
The EC-121R can be instantly identified not only by its lack of radar domes, but also its Southeast Asia camouflage of two shades of green and brown over white; Batcats were the only Constellations to receive camouflage schemes. Due to its clandestine nature, recognition markings on Batcats was limited to its bureau number on the tail.
Here are some modifications to the 2023 UCS X-Wing Starfighter set 75355. The landing gear stand is the biggest addition, I've also made subtle changes to the nose of the ship and added an almost correctly scaled R2-D2. Free instructions and parts lists for all three mods are on Rebrickable.
rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-149544/ron_mcphatty/ucs-x-wing-s...
The Landing Gear Stand provides an easy way to display the X-Wing on a coffee table. The ship doesn't need to be modified at all, just lifted off the set's original stand and slotted onto the positioning support. The gear are built into the stand itself!
As a seperate mod I've rebuilt the top surface of the nose section to give it a bit of a slope, hopefully improving the very flat looking nose. The side panels need some slight modifications to fill some gaps and I've made the nose grey, just out of personal perference.
The midi-scale R2-D2 is slightly too large but I think looks good next to the ship when landed! Huge thanks to Jan Woźnica for letting me use his very clever R2 design and make some adjustments, please check out his instagram (@john.carter.creations) and his awesome Tales of The Space Age Lego Ideas set!
Vikings: Life Beyond the Legend -exhibition in Estonian maritime museum in Tallinn.
A skull with modified teeth from Slite, Othem, Gotland. - A close-up on the horisontally filed upper teeth.
Put on that swing music," Shane Post, body modification artist at Wingnut Tattoo, says while prepping Josh Johnson for his suspension. Above, Johnson suspends, "coma"-style, by eight hooks that were strategically pierced through his flesh by Post. This was the second time Johnson was suspended by Post. Post has performed more than 200 suspensions and specializes in piercings and brandings.
It has pneumatic suspension and motorized/remotely controlled driving and steering. It has a working steering wheel and remotely controlled original functions (doors, rear spoiler and hood - choice of a function is done manually with gearbox lever, like in the original).
It has additional two L motors for driving and M motor for steering, two IR receivers (one of them V2). Original battery box has been replaced with 8878 rechargeable battery box which is smaller so I could hide it behind panels at the rear for more realistic appearance.
Original suspension (6.5 L hard springs) has been changed with 6.5 L soft spring + small pneumatic cylinder, for all wheels. It has large pneumatic pump at the back and pneumatic switch at the cabin for controlling riding height.
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Matchbox Series No4 Dodge K Series Stake Bed Truck Restoration. 1966 to 1968 - 1-75 Series. This is the second Stake bed I am restoring. I bought it years ago at a swap meet. I have applied the Citristrip that works great on metal but don't use it on plastic it will eat plastic. The stuff is amazing and takes about 15 to 20 mins to strip a Matchbox.
Half inch lobes with Oracle Pietersite plugs. 16g tragus with Neometal star end, 6g conch with Kaos clear earskin, 16g daith with Le Roi niobium heart.
This shows three pennies. At top left, a modern, steel-cored (yes, sticks to a magnet) two pence piece from 2009. Below that, a bronze 1966 half-penny showing Drake's ship, the Golden Hind on its reverse. On the right, an almost identical 1967 half-penny, that has been peened (beaten out using a ball-peen hammer) to about twice the diameter, annealed, beaten, and annealed again, and finally, a strip cut out with tin snips. This I would shape with files to produce the tapered shape for the rear of the pendant.
Matchbox Series No4 Dodge K Series Stake Bed Truck Restoration. 1966 to 1968 - 1-75 Series. This is the second Stake bed I am restoring. I bought it years ago at a swap meet. Until I started restoring these I would not have thought to even touch this. This one is pretty rough when it comes to the bed, it is really a mess and for some reason the factory made the axles really long so I cut them down. This one turns out different than the first restoration. Here it is all apart, the glass was in pretty good shape and cleaned up nice. So now time to strip the paint.
I found this image ad while surfing the net, and could not get enough!
I can't decide if my favorite part is that the back tire looks like it's on sideways, or the fact that this car is a Honda, not a Toyota.
Left (top to bottom)- panzerfaust, sci-fi shotgun,bloody chainblade, AK-74u.
Right (top to bottom)- M16, Stg44 w/o scope, M4 with removable scope and flamethrower.
Modifications to the Lego Ideas set 21109 Exo-Suit, original design by by Peter Reid & Mark Stafford
See Peter Reid's amazing MOCs and designs here: www.flickr.com/photos/legoloverman/
I felt the Homestar crew need a bit of christmas cheer! (Noodlez- this is for you!)
(All these characters are from www.homestarrunner.com. Check it out!)
Walschaerts Valve Gear as applied by B.R. To Mr Bulleid's excellent but controversal pacific locomotives. Featured here on modified 'West Country' class engine No. 34046 "Braunton."
Camera: Canon Power Shot A4000IS Compact.
Based on the amazing Micro-Model designed by master builder Mariann Asanuma for Brickjournal
Ignoring the elegant lines of Mariann's model, I made a few tweaks to the design, extending the roof and adding a chimney. I also gave a bigger hat to the snowman, 'cause I'm a rebel like that.
I was just informed that this modification was not necessary on the aftermarket caps. I'll have to wait and see if there are any repercussions to this.
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Honda issued a statement advising Superhawk owners to drill an additional 1/16" hole into the gas cap to alleviate and potential fuel vacuums. So I got around to drilling the hole tonight.
(see right side hole - look closely near the rubber gasket edge)
View Honda's official statement June, 1966
sticky iris removed
rear lens element reversed and made 'free ranging'
photo made with: a7 + CZ Makro-Planar 50/2
From first glance I knew I wanted to get this. But the gap on the canopy was unacceptable! The other mods were just my preference. Plus I added a crew.
Based on the amazing Micro-Model designed by master builder Mariann Asanuma for Brickjournal
Ignoring the elegant lines of Mariann's model, I made a few tweaks to the design, extending the roof and adding a chimney. I also gave a bigger hat to the snowman, 'cause I'm a rebel like that.