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Getting closer to replicating the crappycam look on digital. Closing down the lens completely (yeah, these CCTV lenses let you do that - not just to the last stop, but really closed) gets you ISO 1600 in daylight and some pretty crazy flare and ghosting. And some lovely diffraction softness helps a bit too.
This painting depicts an infinite number of people, united and engaged in practicing rhythmic Tai Chi. There is a strong use of texture and shadow with a minimal horizontal composition - bearing a simplicity that resembles Rothko’s vast color fields, but with prominent reds and unique materials representing the honour and values of Chinese culture.
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In replicating this fifth-gen stealth fighter, I was aiming for:
– Smooth: nearly studless in form.
– Integrated: packing in a host of features.
– Fresh: incorporating new pieces and techniques.
and of course, purist! (at least, for now; I may experiment with designing some Marine Corps liveries on waterslide decals for mere aesthetic decoration that denotes the squadron affiliation…)
The 1:40 scale replica includes:
– Opening cockpit that holds pilot, control panel, and joystick
– Hidden weapon bays in fuselage for stealth missions
– Optional exterior loadout for air-to-ground attacks
– Retracting landing gear that supports the model
– Opening flaps, rotating fan blades, and tilting vector nozzle for VTOL
– Stable Technic display stand and brick-built name plaque.
This is the first MOC I’ve finished in about five years (during which I completed my university degree, got my full-time career job, moved out, got married, and a few other things), after working on it off-and-on for at least three years. [The real-life aircraft has suffered from its own extensive delays in design / production, so I guess it could be worse where my LEGO one is concerned. XD]
A big thank-you to everyone who has inspired me along the way, including special acknowledgements to AFOL friends like the Chiles family and Eli Willsea for helping rekindle my joy in the hobby; Brickmania, for showing me a few new hinge techniques that I incorporated during these last few months of the design process; and especially my lovely wife Natalie who, bless her heart, has allowed the dining room of our tiny apartment to serve as my building studio and encouraged me to use it more often as such!
Let me know what you guys think!
Life-size replications of the twin weapons of the famous bounty hunter! Built for the Attack of the Clones community build on Eurobricks. Reference: starwars.wikia.com/wiki/WESTAR-34_blaster_pistol
Hand-modelled figures adorn the rim of this Red Polished Ware bowl. Bulls embodied fertility and strength, and appear on this vessel both as a complete animal and as horned bovine heads atop poles. Interspersed between them are two miniature bowls on short stems and a long-necked water bird. The two bowls replicate the shape of the full-sized vessel they decorate. Early Bronze Age Cyprus (about 2400-1600 BCE), defined by the local Philia culture that originated in Anatolia (present-day western Turkey), saw the introduction of novel technologies and agricultural production, burial practices, and pottery styles. The ubiquitous Red Polished Ware, handmade from mineral-rich clay and named for its ruddy color and lustrous surface, was a hallmark of the local craft tradition. Vessels with three-dimensional human and animal attachments and scenes of daily life have been found primarily in funerary contexts. Rather than simply burial goods, however, dining wares found in graves may also be associated with feasts, which were celebrated by the living to commemorate and recognize the passage of the deceased.
Early Bronze Age, ca. 2300-1900 BCE, terracotta. From Cyprus.
Getty Villa Museum (2001.81)
Virus replication
Viruses replicate only in living cells. The use of the term 'replicate' infers that the process of virus multiplication is different from that of micro-organisms and tissue cells which divide by binary fission with or without mitotic division of their genetic components. Whilst the mode of entering the host cell varies from virus to virus the mode of replication is considered to be similar for all and has been most completely worked out for bacteriophage. The viral nucleic acid upon entering the cell takes over control of the cellular metabolic processes and codes for the separate synthesis of viral nucleic acid and protein which later combine to form the mature virus particle. The virus yield from a cell infected with a single virus particle varies widely but often ranges from 10 to 100 particles.
The host cell must be capable of supporting this sequence of steps in viral replication. Many viruses have a single or limited host cell requirement; others may replicate in a range of different host cells but the quantity of virus produced in each cell type may differ widely.
Viruses may be propagated in susceptible animals, plants or micro-organisms, or in tissue cultures made from animal or plant tissues.
When using animals it is necessary to consider:
(1) their natural susceptibility to infection or immune status to the virus;
(2) the possibility of latent infection with the same or other virus (often the challenge of another virus stimulates a latent virus to become active, as occurs with herpes simplex in man, the cause of the common cold sore on the lips which often erupts when the patient is challenged by a common cold virus);
(3) the most suitable route of inoculation which is usually related to the affinity of the virus for particular tissues. Infection is recognized by characteristic signs and symptoms of disease.
VIRUS DISEASES OF VERTEBRATE ANIMALS
General considerations of virus infection
Unlike the majority of plant virus diseases most animal virus diseases cannot be diagnosed solely on their signs and symptoms. Viruses do not produce exotoxins and the diseases they cause are the direct result of their primary and secondary replication cycles within the various tissue cells of the animal body. An understanding of how this replication occurs in tissue cells provides an understanding of the disease processes taking place in the animal body as a whole. Replication is studied in in vitro systems of animal tissue cultures.
The replication of viruses in tissue cells leads to the biological malfunctioning of those cells and if large numbers of cells are involved malfunctioning of the organ generally follows. This may result in the death of the animal.
Some animal viruses replicate in a limited range of tissue cells, e.g., influenza virus replicates only in cells of the respiratory tract, while others replicate in a wide variety of tissue cells, e.g., smallpox virus in cells of the skin, lungs, and other internal tissues. The latter category of viruses can therefore spread to other susceptible tissues by blood-borne dissemination from a primary site of infection. The presence of virus in the blood stream is not necessarily an indication of wide tissue susceptibility since viruses with a limited tissue range may 'spill-over' into the blood stream following replication in the susceptible tissues.
As with other microbial diseases the severity of a virus disease depends upon the size of the infecting dose, the state of health of the animal, its age, sex, and degree of immunity. The various aspects of the epidemiology of animal virus diseases are considered elsewhere.
An F-16 Fighting Falcon Aggressor flies over the Nevada Test and Training Range after being refueled by an Ohio Air National Guard KC-135 Stratotanker Oct. 19, 2009. Red Flag 10-01 is a realistic combat training exercise involving the air forces of the United States and its allies. The exercise is conducted on the 15,000-square-mile Nevada Test and Training Range, north of Las Vegas.
RED FLAG, a realistic combat training exercise involving the air forces of the United States and its allies, is coordinated at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., and conducted on the vast bombing and gunnery ranges of the Nevada Test and Training Range. It is one of a series of advanced training programs administered by the United States Air Force Warfare Center and Nellis and executed through the 414th Combat Training Squadron.
RED FLAG was established in 1975 as one of the initiatives directed by General Robert J. Dixon, then commander of Tactical Air Command, to better prepare our forces for combat. Tasked to plan and control this training, the 414th Combat Training Squadron's mission is to maximize the combat readiness, capability and survivability of participating units by providing realistic training in a combined air, ground, space and electronic threat environment while providing for a free exchange of ideas between forces.
Aircraft and personnel deploy to Nellis for RED FLAG under the Air Expeditionary Force concept and make up the exercise's "Blue" forces. By working together, these Blue forces are able to utilize the diverse capabilities of their aircraft to execute specific missions, such as air interdiction, combat search and rescue, close air support, dynamic targeting and defensive counter air. These forces use various tactics to attack NTTR targets such as mock airfields, vehicle convoys, tanks, parked aircraft, bunkered defensive positions and missile sites. These targets are defended by a variety of simulated "Red" force ground and air threats to give participant aircrews the most realistic combat training possible.
The Red force threats are aligned under the 57th Adversary Tactics Group, which controls seven squadrons of USAF Aggressors, including fighter, space, information operations and air defense units. The Aggressors are specially trained to replicate the tactics and techniques of potential adversaries and provide a scalable threat presentation to Blue forces which aids in achieving the desired learning outcomes for each mission.
A typical RED FLAG exercise involves a variety of attack, fighter and bomber aircraft (F-15E, F-16, F/A-18, A-10, B-1, B-2, etc.), reconnaissance aircraft (Predator, Global Hawk, RC-135, U-2), electronic warfare aircraft (EC-130s, EA-6Bs and F-16CJs), air superiority aircraft (F-22, F-15C, etc), airlift support (C-130, C-17), search and rescue aircraft (HH-60, HC-130, CH-47), aerial refueling aircraft (KC-130, KC-135, KC-10, etc), Command and Control aircraft (E-3, E-8C, E-2C, etc) as well as ground based Command and Control, Space, and Cyber Forces.
A "White" force in RED FLAG uses the Nellis Air Combat Training System (NACTS) monitor this mock combat between Red and Blue. NACTS is the world's most sophisticated tracking system for combat training exercises and allows commanders, safety observers and exercise directors to monitor the mission and keep score of simulated 'kills' while viewing the simulated air battle as it occurs.
As RED FLAG expanded to include all spectrums of warfare (command, control, intelligence, electronic warfare) and added night missions to each exercise period, the combination of NACTS, improved tactics, and increased aircraft/aircrew capabilities improved flying safety.
All four U.S. military services, their Guard/Reserve components and the air forces of other countries participate in each RED FLAG exercise. Since 1975, 28 countries have joined the U.S. in these exercises. Several other countries have participated as observers. RED FLAG has provided training for more than 440,000 military personnel, including more than 145,000 aircrew members flying more than 385,000 sorties and logging more than 660,000 hours of flying time.
This mock battle in the skies over the Nevada Test and Training Range has yielded results that will increase the combat capability of our armed forces for any future combat situation.
Bad weather forecast made me spend day in town so no time for camera...so I am playing with a file photo taken a while back ...I was trying to capture the angel light that settles along the edges of things ...
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This was the result of trying to find a way to morph the compound of 5 dodecahedra into a conveniently woven state. This is a difficult relationship to see at this point without seeing the progression of POVray renderings I made... although triakis tetrahedra ARE still dodecahedra...
Retrospectively of course, it looks kind of like I had adapted this from either the original FIT, or Chomolungma.
To be technical, the cumulation on the tetrahedra in this model is a little bit taller than a "true" triakis tetrahedron... but without this difference, the model would not work because of edge intersection issues.
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For those trying to replicate, there are 2 different units folded from the following dimensions of paper:
1.5" x 11"
1.5" x 7"
The triangle faces have the angles 108-36-36, and the unit ends for the 36's do not consume paper-length.
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2-Fold Axis: www.flickr.com/photos/8303956@N08/6630581105/in/photostream
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Playing with some Lightroom film presets that replicates Fuji FP 100c with an image I took in Hoi An, Vietnam. I don't shoot this type of film, so I can't say if they've done a good job or not of replicating the look. Seeing as how I shot this at 3200 ISO, the grain structure is probably really out of whack.
ISO: 3200
Shutter: 1/250 second
Aperture: F/1.4
Camera: Olympus OM-D
Lens: Panasonic Lumix 25mm F/1.4
In replicating this fifth-gen stealth fighter, I was aiming for:
– Smooth: nearly studless in form.
– Integrated: packing in a host of features.
– Fresh: incorporating new pieces and techniques.
and of course, purist! (at least, for now; I may experiment with designing some Marine Corps liveries on waterslide decals for mere aesthetic decoration that denotes the squadron affiliation…)
The 1:40 scale replica includes:
– Opening cockpit that holds pilot, control panel, and joystick
– Hidden weapon bays in fuselage for stealth missions
– Optional exterior loadout for air-to-ground attacks
– Retracting landing gear that supports the model
– Opening flaps, rotating fan blades, and tilting vector nozzle for VTOL
– Stable Technic display stand and brick-built name plaque.
This is the first MOC I’ve finished in about five years (during which I completed my university degree, got my full-time career job, moved out, got married, and a few other things), after working on it off-and-on for at least three years. [The real-life aircraft has suffered from its own extensive delays in design / production, so I guess it could be worse where my LEGO one is concerned. XD]
A big thank-you to everyone who has inspired me along the way, including special acknowledgements to AFOL friends like the Chiles family and Eli Willsea for helping rekindle my joy in the hobby; Brickmania, for showing me a few new hinge techniques that I incorporated during these last few months of the design process; and especially my lovely wife Natalie who, bless her heart, has allowed the dining room of our tiny apartment to serve as my building studio and encouraged me to use it more often as such!
Let me know what you guys think!
In replicating this fifth-gen stealth fighter, I was aiming for:
– Smooth: nearly studless in form.
– Integrated: packing in a host of features.
– Fresh: incorporating new pieces and techniques.
and of course, purist! (at least, for now; I may experiment with designing some Marine Corps liveries on waterslide decals for mere aesthetic decoration that denotes the squadron affiliation…)
The 1:40 scale replica includes:
– Opening cockpit that holds pilot, control panel, and joystick
– Hidden weapon bays in fuselage for stealth missions
– Optional exterior loadout for air-to-ground attacks
– Retracting landing gear that supports the model
– Opening flaps, rotating fan blades, and tilting vector nozzle for VTOL
– Stable Technic display stand and brick-built name plaque.
This is the first MOC I’ve finished in about five years (during which I completed my university degree, got my full-time career job, moved out, got married, and a few other things), after working on it off-and-on for at least three years. [The real-life aircraft has suffered from its own extensive delays in design / production, so I guess it could be worse where my LEGO one is concerned. XD]
A big thank-you to everyone who has inspired me along the way, including special acknowledgements to AFOL friends like the Chiles family and Eli Willsea for helping rekindle my joy in the hobby; Brickmania, for showing me a few new hinge techniques that I incorporated during these last few months of the design process; and especially my lovely wife Natalie who, bless her heart, has allowed the dining room of our tiny apartment to serve as my building studio and encouraged me to use it more often as such!
Let me know what you guys think!
I had been experimenting with a few ideas and thought I'd get some opinion on this WIP. It currently has a mix of basic roughing out sections and sections I'm quite happy with.
BUT - I'm undecided on the side panels (well not completely undecided, I think they might be a little bit too exaggerated) but there is always the option of replacing them with flat plates . . . or something.
So what do you think? Over the top, or strangely tolerable?
An attempt to replicate one of Carrie Fisher's studio shots from 1977 in Lego.
E11 Blaster Rifle is by Brickarms.
Scary, abandoned build replicating the infamous Bates house from the Psycho movie. Made of 100% Mesh that is custom created by us.
Large entry leading to separate Livingroom, Dining and Kitchen on the 1st floor.
2nd floor has 2 Bedrooms and a bathroom and an open area in the hallway.
3rd level has a huge Attic which is reached by a pull down ladder in the upper hallway
Package includes:
1 rezzer box for the Old house.
18 optional props including Mother skeleton, spiderwebs and blood that are not attached to the house (77 prims in total).
1 long outdoor steps leading to the house.
Floor plan size: Front width= 21.5 meters
Side length= 28.5 meters
Height= 18 meters
(This pack only includes the Old version as pictured, and is Copy Only, not Modify).
After successfully replicating a LUT that I liked from another image processing program, I realized it might work well on some photos I took last May around the Perigord Noir region of France.
From a message shared with a friend here on Flickr -
RawTherapee is free - rawtherapee.com/
You'll need to add Pat David's HaldCLUT film emulation collection - rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/Film_Simulation
Relatedly, if you already use the Gimp (see: www.gimp.org/ ) their most recent versions include 32bit floating-point color-space precision settings. I've been waiting 18 years for this (which is why I went with RawTherapee some years back as it was built to have a large color space to work in).
To get film emulation and some other interesting LUTs into the Gimp, check out G'Mic - patdavid.net/2013/08/film-emulation-presets-in-gmic-gimp/
G'Mic site - gmic.eu/
Burt Reynolds' Iconic Centerfold replicated by Daniel DiCriscio in buff as tribute Report By: Nina Rai Los Angeles, May 9, 2012 The star-stuck fans of the 70’s may recall the scandalous picture of legendary Hollywood Star Burt Reynolds lying naked across a golden brown bearskin rug posing for Cosmopolitan Magazine's April 1972 Centerfold.This photograph of more than 40 years is arguably one of the sexiest images to be found in pop culture history. The eponymous centerfold has since then gone on to become one of the cultural object d'arts of the sexual revolution, which began somewhere in the 70’s.Now to mark the 40th anniversary of that famed centerfold, Daniel DiCriscio ‘Bruno’ - celebrity hairstylist, recording artist, and television personality; has the same recreated by photographer Dusti Cunningham, as a form of tribute to Reynolds’ now iconic Bearskin rug, languid pose.The long blonde haired, tanned, and toned DiCriscio for the first time in his career has disrobed completely, wearing only his smile. In the beginning DiCriscio, says he was nervous about baring-all before the camera keeping in view the high barometers of current Hollywood plastic surgery and drug enhanced super-bodies.But then taking courage in hand the all-natural DiCriscio just dived in, declaring boldly "It was either now, or never!” By posing in the buff, the young DiCriscio claims he is paying homage to Burt Reynolds. "I admire Burt for being a risk taker and opening the door allowing men to be seen as sexy, all while doing it on a bearskin rug!", gushes DiCriscio.The celebrity hairstylist is possibly best known for his involvement during the Clinton-Sex Scandal doing the stunning make-over of President Clinton’s accuser Paula Jones, for which he was dubbed as the ‘The Messiah of Makeover’ as also for his by now infamous Bruno interview with The Dictator star Sacha Baron Cohen.As an image consultant, DiCriscio has created the looks of celebrities such as Paula Jones, Pamela Anderson, Anna Nicole Smith, and a host of high profile clients, informs Wikipedia.
Italien / Südtirol - Südtiroler Archäologiemuseum
Ötzi-Replicate
Ötzi-Replik
South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology (German: Südtiroler Archäologiemuseum; Italian: Museo archeologico dell'Alto Adige) is an archaeological museum in the city of Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy. It is the home of the preserved body of Ötzi the Iceman.
The museum was specifically established in 1998 to house "Ötzi", a well-preserved natural mummy of a man from about 3300 BC (53 centuries ago). This is the world's oldest natural human mummy, a wet mummy, as opposed to mummies preserved by dry conditions in a desert environment. It has offered an unprecedented view of Chalcolithic (Copper Age) European culture. The world's oldest complete copper age axe was found among his extensive equipment which also comprised a rather complex fire lighting kit and a quiver loaded with twelve arrows, only two of which were finished, clothing and a flint knife complete with its sheath.
The body is held in a climate controlled chamber within the museum at a temperature of -6 Celsius and 98% humidity, replicating glacier conditions in which it was found. Along with original finds there are models, reconstructions and multimedia presentations showing Ötzi in the context of the early history of the southern Alpine region.
Converted from a 19th-century bank building, the museum covers the history and archaeology of the southern Alpine region from the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic (15,000 B.C.) up to 800 A.D. In 2006, the museum hosted an exhibition on the mummies of the Chachapoyas culture.
(Wikipedia)
Das Südtiroler Archäologiemuseum ist ein archäologisches Museum in Bozen (Südtirol). Das Museum ist der Ausstellungsort des „Mannes vom Tisenjoch“, besser bekannt als „Ötzi“. Es zieht zu allen Jahreszeiten zahlreiche Besucher an und gehört zu den führenden archäologischen Museen Italiens.
Neben der Gletschermumie „Ötzi“ nebst dessen Beifunden präsentiert das Museum bedeutende Funde aus dem Südtiroler Raum. Die ältesten Exponate stammen aus der Altsteinzeit, die jüngsten aus der Karolingerzeit. Modelle, Rekonstruktionen, Raumbilder, Videos und interaktive Multimediastationen geben einen Einblick in die frühe Vergangenheit des südlichen Alpenraumes. Die Ausstellungsräume sind diachronisch angeordnet. So befindet sich Ötzi und seine Zeit im ersten Stock, während sich die Fundstücke aus der römischen Antike und der Völkerwanderungszeit im dritten Stock befinden.
Von 12. August bis 15. November 2006 fand in dem Museum die Sonderausstellung Wolkenmenschen mit Mumien der Chachapoya statt. 2009 zeigte das Museum in der Sonderschau Mumien. Der Traum vom ewigen Leben konservierte Körper aus der ganzen Welt, darunter einbalsamierte ägyptische Mumien und Moorleichen. Anlässlich des 20-Jahr-Jubiläums des Ötzi-Fundes befasste sich die Sonderausstellung Ötzi20 vom 1. März 2011 bis 13. Januar 2013 mit der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung und dem Kultcharakter des Mannes aus dem Eis.
Das Gebäude in der Museumstraße, gegenüber dem Bozner Stadtmuseum gelegen, war als Sitz der Österreichischen (k.k.) Nationalbank kurz vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg errichtet worden. Von 1919 bis in die 1990er beherbergte es die Bozner Niederlassung der italienischen Nationalbank (Banca d’Italia). Das Museum wurde nach umfangreichen Sanierungsarbeiten 1998 eröffnet. Die Bozner Museumstraße, in der sich das Archäologiemuseum befindet, wurde nach dem 1905 eröffneten Bozner Stadtmuseum benannt, in dem sich vor der Eröffnung des Archäologiemuseums ein Teil der Ausstellungsstücke zur Urgeschichte befand. Die restlichen Ausstellungsstücke wurden aus ganz Südtirol zusammengetragen.
Das Museum ist eine eigenständige Institution innerhalb der Südtiroler Landesmuseen; zuvor war es mit dem Naturmuseum Südtirol zusammengeschlossen. Direktorin des Museums ist Angelika Fleckinger.
(Wikipedia)
Replicating a scene that could easily pass for 90 years ago, the narrow gauge Mike rumbles past some open range cattle country on the Rio Grande San Juan Extension with C&TS Train 216.
Locomotive: CTS 484
7-26-16
Coxo, CO
I chose the picture of lallivy because I have been dying to do a shot with glasses. However ......... I only had 4 matching glasses after the accident with the glasses and blue bottles, lol. I only have a point and shoot and no flash except the one on the camera which wouldn't have worked at all. So there I was huddled up over the glasses on a piece of glass with black material draped all around the glasses, I attempted to recreate something approximating Lallivy's photo.
Actually I am not too unhappy with it (except for the grainy feel - not sure why that is! and the fact that I couldn't find a border to match the original!)
This was a huge challenge, and I must say that I enjoyed it, so thanks for the stretch!
(Now how do you get a copy of the original in here?? Anyone know??)
ODC2 - Attempt to replicate something that has been on ODC Explore!!
Well I did make the attempt, lol.
62/365 Days in Colour
Thanks for the suggestion Karenoc11 - I have joined Competition Corner & have entered this pic in the current reflections topic!
42/111 Pictures in 2011 - Glass
Tony's Daily Topic 21 December - Mirrors or Mirrored
One step closer to Wil's Futuremug! www.cafepress.com/wilwheaton.417431376
Squee! wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2010/02/makerbot-it-so....
Replicating the look & feel of an old Vanity Fair ad, back when they knew how to make legendary lingerie for women.
“Any users, found to replicate, reproduce, circulate, distribute, download, manipulate or otherwise use my images without my written consent will be in breach of copyright laws as well as contract laws.”
“The Eye Moment photos by Nolan H. Rhodes”
nrhodesphotos@yahoo.com
In replicating this fifth-gen stealth fighter, I was aiming for:
– Smooth: nearly studless in form.
– Integrated: packing in a host of features.
– Fresh: incorporating new pieces and techniques.
and of course, purist! (at least, for now; I may experiment with designing some Marine Corps liveries on waterslide decals for mere aesthetic decoration that denotes the squadron affiliation…)
The 1:40 scale replica includes:
– Opening cockpit that holds pilot, control panel, and joystick
– Hidden weapon bays in fuselage for stealth missions
– Optional exterior loadout for air-to-ground attacks
– Retracting landing gear that supports the model
– Opening flaps, rotating fan blades, and tilting vector nozzle for VTOL
– Stable Technic display stand and brick-built name plaque.
This is the first MOC I’ve finished in about five years (during which I completed my university degree, got my full-time career job, moved out, got married, and a few other things), after working on it off-and-on for at least three years. [The real-life aircraft has suffered from its own extensive delays in design / production, so I guess it could be worse where my LEGO one is concerned. XD]
A big thank-you to everyone who has inspired me along the way, including special acknowledgements to AFOL friends like the Chiles family and Eli Willsea for helping rekindle my joy in the hobby; Brickmania, for showing me a few new hinge techniques that I incorporated during these last few months of the design process; and especially my lovely wife Natalie who, bless her heart, has allowed the dining room of our tiny apartment to serve as my building studio and encouraged me to use it more often as such!
Let me know what you guys think!