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Not as sophisticated as Sariel's scaler - however, quite helpful to get correct proportions when building minifig scale vehicles. You just need a tablet with a blueprint on its screen zoomed to the proper scale (here I'm using a dummy for obvious reasons). Starting point is always the wheelbase wherefrom all the other measurements can be deduced by checking the silhouette.
H1 wheelbase = 3302 mm; wheelbase of the model = 96 mm (12 studs); scale = 1/34,4
So this is happening...
Last year I built this micro ugly, a combination of an U-Wing and a Tie Interceptor: the Uterceptor. And I knew I had to try to scale it up!
Tree scale is caused by the digestion of usually rotting wood by scores of different fungal species. As the fungi digest the wood these scales develop on the outer surface of the wood. The scales vary greatly in size color and shape and some can become quite beautiful with alternating layers of color. This series taken at the Broughtons Wildlife Education Area near Marietta Ohio in Dec 2014
I started playing around with five-wide Lego cars more than 14 years ago (!). Lego has progressed a bit since then and so have I, as a builder. New brackets, nicer wheels and various curved slopes have made this a bit easier.
I came across this product by accident but it fit the bill perfectly for scaled down chain link fencing.
It's an aluminum mesh used for sculpting and arts and crafts projects, called WIREFORM.
It comes in 16" x 20" sheets and also as an 18" roll.
I suspect there are similar products out there in Hobby and Arts and Crafts stores.
Be aware that it bends very easily! You'll want to handle it carefully so as not to stretch or deform it.
When making the actual fence, I cut strips of the mesh to the appropriate length and height, then cut aluminum tubing for the posts and rails.
To add a bit of authenticity to the piece, I used jewelry wire to hold the fencing to the posts.
The metal cap you see in the upper right hand corner of the fence, that receives the top rail, is a jewelry making item used for finishing off the end of a bracelet or necklace.
this is one of 13 pics (!!!) discussing a bit minifig scale, focusing on reviving a car scale smaller than 6 wide in a fashion similar to the classic town 4 wide scale.
Scroll through the pics for a full read up if interested.
This is all my own opinion based on historic facts found in documentaries, interviews and the web. Its a suggestion in total, so pls dont feel offended if i hint out that Speed Champion usgage for professional AFOL layouts is a bit wrong ^^ I also want to set focus on a new building technique for cars that i call the "bar n clip" / "no fig".
Hope you enjoy, feedback and even heavy critique welcome and apprectiated :)
View towards Piz Surassa and Piz d'Arpiglias as seen from Spi da Baselgia, 2'945 metres above sea level.
Discover the guy on the left hand side to get an idea on the scales.
1/6 Scale Full Lego Rebuild
KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS Company Icon / Mascot
From Sapiens to Ludens
We are Homo Ludens (Those who play).
Designed by Yoji Shinkawa, Ludens is the company icon and mascot of Hideo Kojima's Kojima Productions video game company.
"Ludens wears an "extra-vehicular creative activity (ECA) suit", and often carries a flag bearing the Kojima Productions logo – which is based off Ludens themself. Ludens is prominently featured in a video titled "Kojima Productions logo movie", where they trek into the unknown of space and plant the studio flag into uncharted lunar ground."
- deathstranding.fandom.com/wiki/Ludens
Around 50 hours of building time to recreate this 1/6th scale LEGO version of Ludens. Articulated as much as possible and free-standing. Based off the 1/6 collectible by Sentinel & 1000 Toys.
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reFrame Version 3.0 frame (instructions) now available
For those interested in LEGO mech building, I also have an eBook from 2015 called Mech Wars 2015 Instructional Primer. It contains some things I wrote about basic mech building, a bit about my Mech Warsuniverse, and all my early models from 2014-2015. If you’re looking for a resource that could help you start or even improve your mech building skills, you might find this eBook useful.
I have used a circular cutter to make 180 degree cuts in 0.040 inch styrene sheet for a couple of tunnel portals that I will install on my N scale model railroad. The cutter is made by Olfa, and I purchased it at a local art supply store rather than a hobby shop that sells train stuff. Art supply stores sell lots of tools, paints, craft items, and materials useful to a model railroader. The circular cutter has a strong, sharp compass point that is mounted on a sturdy head which has an adjustment screw. By loosening the screw, a horizontal beam can slide in or out a variable distance from the center point and then be locked down at the desired distance. The replaceable cutting blade (held into place by another screw) is mounted on the horizontal beam.
Nobody makes an N scale tunnel portal the size and shape that I want, so I had to cut my own. The tunnel opening has a radius of 8 ½ scale feet from the track center line, so that is what I set on my circular cutter. The straight vertical dimension for each side is 20 scale feet above the top on the rails plus another 3 feet for the height of the rails, crossties, and roadbed. Both of the vertical sides have to be exactly tangent to the semicircle above, so determining where to position my straight edge for the first side was the trickiest part of the whole project. From that line, I used a steel drafting triangle (also purchased from the art supply store) to place the cutting point and center compass point. I swung a 180 degree arc to locate the position of the other vertical side. My N scale ruler (shown here) is 10 scale feet wide, so my first vertical cut was 10 scale feet from the edge of the styrene sheet. After the circular cut and both vertical cuts were completely through the plastic, I could easily remove the excess from each side.
Figuring the geometry of where to position my circular cutter and the straight edge to guide my razor blade required a lot of thought before doing any of the actual cutting. Once I began cutting, I had to be careful to keep my blades in the right places, but the cutting itself was very repetitive and time consuming. Each tunnel portal required an hour or two of MANY short, little cuts before I broke through the plastic sheet. Then there was sanding to smooth it out and trimming the overall piece to fit the future mountain that I haven’t built yet. This photo shows the positioning of the circular cutter, but I took the photo after the job was done (and my nails repainted). For all this cutting, I used my Dupli-Cutter to hold my work in place. The Dupli-Cutter has clamps that can be positioned in several places, an adjustable slide sheet held down by the clamps, and a frame whose jaws can be opened up to hold various thicknesses of plastic for making precise, square cuts.
The Mandevilla at the front of the house still looks good. This is the first year I planted MandevillFrom my set entitled “Mandevilla”
www.flickr.com/photos/21861018@N00/sets/72157607213952426/
In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandevilla
Mandevilla, sometimes also called Dipladenia,[1] is a genus of plants. It consists of about 100 species, mostly tropical and subtropical flowering vines belonging to the family Apocynaceae, the Periwinkle family.
Mandevilla is native to Central and South America and many Mandevillas come originally from the Organ Mountains forests near Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The genus was named after Henry Mandeville (1773-1861), a British diplomat and gardener.[1]
Mandevillas develop spectacular flowers in warm climates. The flowers come in a variety of colours, including white, pink, yellow, and red. As climbers, Mandevillas can be trained against a wall or trellis to provide a leafy green and often flowering picture of beauty. They have a tendency to attract insects like mealybugs and scales.
While Mandevilla scabra is sometimes as an additive to the psychedelic drink Ayahuasca, there is no evidence that it is psychoactive in its own right.[2] It is, however, considered to be toxic.[3]
a, but it won't be the last.
Found this in a burned down house, it's been burned for ages so kind of surprising to find this still here considering how easy it is to get in the place and how many other new "features" have been added to the place recently.
Burlington Northern's Train No. 3 grinds uphill at the Deer Park grade crossing with a train of priority intermodal en route from Chicago to South Seattle.
NAPM member T.J. Van Haag used an exposure of 1.3 seconds to capture the feel of this hotshot train in motion. The locomotive, an EMD GP50, is an Athearn Genesis model.
Visit NAPM on-line at www.napmltd.org.
01) 03 "Butterfly scales"
02) Camera: Em-1
03) Lens: Nikon MPlan 20 + Macrotubus
04) Magnification: 20:1
05) Lens Settings: Iso 100, 1/13 sec.
06) Processing: LR, Helicon Focus, PS CC
07) Lighting: 2 LED + 1 Reflector
08) Steps: Stackshot 125 pictures
09) 03.07.2017
a vintage scale just inside the old front door to the long closed Hazelhurst General Store in Hazelhurst,IL.
Snapped this shot of the mountains with my telephoto lens at 75mm near Mount Cook in New Zealand, notice the campervan in the bottom right that is included for scale!
ISO 200 | 1/500 sec | f/5.6 | 75mm
I've posted a number of pictures of Calanais but have always felt that they didn't capture the scale of these stones. In this shot my wife stepped out from behind a stone just as I shot. She's 5'7", or 1 3/4 meters tall. The stone she is next to is more than twice her height, more than 3 1/2 meters tall. One disappointment with this shot is that it doesn't show how dominant the central stone is. It is nearly twice the height of the one my wife is next to. I haven't posted other shots from this angle because I'm unhappy about how I lined up the stones with some unfortunate overlaps. You can, however, see the chambered tomb at the base of the central stone.