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Woodland Scenic's plaster cloth comes in rolls 8 inches (20 cm) wide. I use ordinary scissors to cut the plaster cloth on my craft cutting board into manageable pieces. In this photo you can see some plaster cloth draped across a mall section of Woodland Scenic's SubTerrain Risers that I use for sub roadbed for my railway track, highways, and city streets.
The plaster cloth is briefly dipped in cold water for a few seconds and placed over Risers, Inclines, and various forms I use to create city blocks, hills, fields, creeks, etc. The wet plaster cloth is laid in overlapping strips that dries in a few hours to form a strong, fairly smooth shell that I paint with ordinary interior latex paint in earth colors and add earth or grass ground foam.
Orléans is the capital of the Loiret department and of the Centre region. A city steeped in History especially surrounding "The Maid of Orleans" more commonly known as Joan of Arc, he house still stands in the city, as do many semi-timbered buildings from the middle ages. this is a building just around the corner to Joan's house.
Kate Dore (1862)
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Printed on a plaster plate (matchbox size) / exposed for 3 min (after development, the surface was coated with UV resin)
Sensitizer: VanDyke Brown print solution / The photosensitizer was made into a viscous emulsion (allows the sensitizer to be uniformly dispersed) by adding professional white medium and applied to the plaster plate with a brush.
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Fixing agent: Citric acid solution & sodium thiosulfate solution
Toning: none
Enlarger: Lucky Attache-35 (EL-Nikkor 1:2.8 f=50mm)
Film carrier: 35mm carrier
Negative film: 35mm (135) film (Fuji Acros 100) transferred from a digital image (taken from an antique collotype postcard) with a film recorder (Polaroid Digital Palette HR 6000)
Light source: High power (50w) UV LED unit (SMD=surface mounted LED modules)
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The Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) is probably the most familiar of toadstools, but more by repute than in fact. We all remember them in plaster-of-Paris as a feature of those whimsical tableaux of gnomes with fishing rods which, years ago, used to beguile us from behind privet hedges and creosoted fences. We've seen Fantasia and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. You might say it's the cartoonist's toadstool ...the popular idea of what a toadstool looks like. It used to puzzle me that, although this attractive member of the fungus tribe was so familiar in the colour plates of fairy story books and suchlike, I never actually saw a real one. It is particularly associated with pine and birch. There are plenty of both in the vicinity of my present domicile and also of the poor soils in which Amanita is said to flourish. So I was charmed to find this colourful species quite plentiful in certain localities when first I came to live here. Indeed, the more tundra-like areas of the local landscape support quite a rich toadstool "flora" ...if the word may, with logic, be applied to plants that bear no flowers. Though poisonous it is unlikely to prove fatal and (don't mention this if you have teenage children) is well known to be hallucinogenic. Diced and blended with milk it was once used as a fly-killer.
Jolly pleased to have got a half decent photo out of this. It was taken on a dull Sunday afternoon the other week ...it was the day the clocks had gone back and already getting dim after lunch... under trees that blotted out what little light there was. I can't remember the exposure details, but they would have been either 1/30th or 1/60th, hand-held, at a middling aperture, f8 or f5.6. I'm used to 400ASA film: later I realised that I'd exposed for 400 ASA but the film was 200ASA. It was from a batch of Kodak Gold 200 of unknown age that someone had given me and which had been half-used in the camera for eighteen months. Yet the photo is so bright and colourful it might've been taken with flash. The lens was a screw-thread Zeiss Tessar that I picked up a couple of months ago for £19.99.
Purchased by the Pacific Imperial Railway (aka PIR) the successor in interest to the Carrizo Gorge Railway, these three former CSX GP40-2's sit rotting away in the sun on the end of the Desert Line at Plaster City California. Word has it, that these three GP-40's are essentially useless to the PIR because they are grossly under-powered for their intended purpose of pulling double stacked well cars through the gorge to Division on the Mexican border just South and West of Jacumba. Currently, the PIR is involved in a number of management and money problems, the most recent being their newest president (they change like the seasons) is in trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Interestingly enough, a year ago these units were tied down about a 1/2 mile east of their current position and they had to be moved when the UP (the railroad that brought the units to Plaster City) told the PIR guys to get their train off the UP track. Additionally, rumor has it that the units remain unpaid for by the PIR and the former owners are not as of yet, able or interested in going through the grief and expense of reclaiming them from Plaster City. A noted observation from a year ago in 2014, it appears that when the units were moved off the UP track, they were operated a few miles westward where they grabbed four derelict box cars from a string of about 20 sitting on a siding closer to Interstate 8. As to why the operators who moved the three units needed the box cars brought down to Plaster City, who knows. Perhaps it was to have some extra axles to tie down the train because things in the desert are likely to move by themselves in the night (the mind set after the Dubber's Spur incident) or perhaps the PIR guys felt it was necessary to create the illusion that a railroad is actually working out there, and this was a train that was just tied down after a day of switching. It makes one wonder.....
(STBX #4500 EMD EMD GP40-2)
Carrizo Gorge Railway in Plaster City at MP 129
Plaster City - Imperial County, California.
(January 10, 2015)
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Andrew Barclay 0-4-0 saddle tank 'Ken Boazman' (W/No.2343 built in 1953), provided new to the company, leaves a smoke trail across the surrounding fields as it raises steam at British Gypsum Ltd, Thistle Plaster Works, Kirkby Thore, during the early 1960s. The works, connected to the Settle & Carlisle line, still receives in-bound containerised product by rail, but does not have an internal shunting locomotive.
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this is the plaster ceiling in a delightful place called the Parkside Candy Shop in Buffalo, NY; besides being a place to buy wonderful candies and chocolates by the pound, it also is a soda fountain and serves sandwiches
if you've ever seen the Hollywood film "The Natural" you may remember the scene in which Robert Redford and Glenn Close dine here
14th Century
from a new demolished palace in Leon
Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid
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Sculpture group by Gustav Vigeland at the Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo, Norway.
My museum collection : www.flickr.com/photos/9619972@N08/collections/72157702215...
Abstract sketch. Acrylic on canvas board. 11 x 14 inches.
6/29/13. National Academy of Design.
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Sorry about this but had a busy day with logs and other things so just the one image. I may have mentioned my had wound a time of two and so decided to show you it but without it being too gruesome. I had great difficulty trying to make this image firstly as my right arm won't reach the top of my head unaided and also with my phone above my head I couldn't see the screen but anyway that's it for today.