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Slow progress, despite being on CV19 lockdown, on the 1/48 Blenheim. The interior is coming along though.
The interior eau de nil green shade is a homemade mix, and dry brushed with Tamiya sky to bring out the highlights. Now it's all had a coat of gloss varnish once that's dry I'll add a dark wash.
We painted the hallway the same color as the kitchen/dining room, but a different finish. And I moved that Van Gogh from the dining room to here. So far so good!
Oh and the color is Behr paint (Satin finish), I forget what color exactly but it was whatever was closest to Sherwin Williams Tantalizing Teal.
A rather shocking discovery was that works had started on a new and better road through the forest. Replacing the small forest dirt track, many hectares of formerly pristine forest had been buldozed and the sound of machinery could be heard all day. There is still plenty forest left but once this road is finished the whole area will become much more accessible and will attract many new people to come and settle in this now still largely uninhabited area. Hunting, clearing and fires will increase and may further endanger the all too fragile biodiversity in this wonderful bit of wilderness.
my progress on the Storytime Sampler (by the Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery) - with a few modifications (mostly in colour, plus the addition of some backstitching and french knots)
I just figured out it works when the lights are off! (automatic lights, so they have been on for most of the testing) Something must be crossing over in the socket, so now I know where to focus.
Tyranid Carnifex & Capillary Tower. I've not yet glued down the minature plastic tyranid terrain on the Capillary Tower base. I intend to get some greenstuff and create some ropey vines/tentacles surrounding the base of the Capillary Tower to give it a higher "ick" factor. This Capillary Tower vs the previous photo shows the addition of a spine ridge on the largest Tower, and a smaller tower without spine ridges. In progress.
The Bhakti Yogi would not argue that our present version of human civilisation is progressing. The question, though, is “in which direction?” The recent tragic shooting of dozens of innocent people at two Mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, by a white supremacist graphically illustrates the inevitable result of the present attempt at human progress. Encouraging humanity with the Sanskrit phrase tamasi ma jyotir gama - “Don’t stay in the darkness, come to the light” - Yoga wisdom guides the fortunate toward real progress. What is the darkness? A material conception of the human being. When we think “I am my body - I am my race/gender/age/ethnicity/nationality/profession/sexuality“ etc, we are in darkness about our true identity, Bhakti luminaries affirm. On this shadowy basis, others, with different bodies to ours, are seen as separate from us, as competitors for scarce resources, and as objects of envy when they have more than we do. Naturally inequality, exploitation and conflict follow. “Coming to the light” is explained in the Bhagavad Gita, “One who is actually situated on the spiritual platform is self satisfied and always joyful. Such an enlightened person has no hankering or lamentation and thus sees and treats all creatures equally as spiritual beings.” Fortunately, real progress - bridging the gap between darkness and light - can be easily achieved by regular meditation on the non-material sound of the Maha-mantra: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. This spiritual technology simultaneously cleanses the consciousness of all false identifications and reawakens our non-material identity as parts of the Complete Whole.