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"It can slice through stone, clean as you please."
The girls of the Queen's Defender Team Talon* are comparing blades.
"Mine can carve atoms!"
There is a certain level of competitiveness.
"Mine can cleave the soul!"
And, perhaps, even a bit of, shall we say, hyperbole?
"Mine can shave a layer off nothingness!"
It may not matter. All of the girls are elite swordswomen and, besides, when they get tired of hacking on an opponent, Gundam Wing steps in to obliterate it.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
* Defender Team Talon profiled here:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/20252150781/
And seen in action in Chapter 29!
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.
I photographed this scene on the Bayou City & Gulf RR to give me some ideas about building a small stockyard for my model railroad. This model railroad in located in the back room of Houston's best hobby shop, Papa Ben's. I have been a customer of Papa Ben's even since he opened in 2002. That layout is open to the public most Saturday afternoons.
The stockyard I am planning on building will be based on a Santa Fe Railway prototype and will measure 65' x 65' scale feet. That is assuming I can get enough of the right scale lumber (in styrene strips) to construct the very delicate fences. This stockyard isn't completely accurate but has a good feel about it. Another modeler in Houston had several very good stockyards in N scale, but he got bored with his huge layout and tore it up. Oh well. Pictures on that layout plus another Santa Fe layout in HO scale with excellent stockyards are located in this same album for other modelers' work.
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.
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.
So, these are my 3 most recent builds. Since my aim is building after the real world data to have them all "fitting" to each other, its always interesting to actually see the results and check if it works like that^^
Its really strange how small the Transporter looks next to the cars, but its even more crazy just how long and wide supercars are compared to standard vehicles. Also, the T3 is a vintage car and back in a day, european vehicles were more narrow and small. Today i saw a bmw i8 next to the bigger T4 multivan on a parking lot. Its crazy how much space the bmw used for 2 drivers only, while a van is really economic and space saving^^
Whats cooler though, is that my variety of cars is finally growing :P
► Instructions for the Gozanti are available at BrickVault!
Let's start 2025 with yet another Imperial ship! My ever-growing Nanofig-scale collection gets a new model: the very sleek Imperial Gozanti Cruiser from Rebels.
This build was painstakingly modeled to the most accurate reference material I could find. It features all the details of the original design: shield projectors, narrow viewport, symmetrical upper and ventral turrets, sensor array, tapered engines and wings...
The docking clamps on the underside can hold four TIE fighters I made for display, or two of my Midi AT-ATs, which are now updated and fully compatible with the Gozanti. All models are at the same Nanofigure scale.
The very organic shape of the whole upper section required a precise combination of angled panels in order to achieve a continuous, natural curve. This really felt like designing a fish, reproducing that "elongated teardrop" shape.
You'd think making a fish out of Lego was challenging enough... the wings of the ship had to not only be compact but also have a slight inwards taper. On top of that, they had to hold the weight of two AT-ATs. All these things were achieved thanks to a thin and sturdy technic structure.
This build also has detachable landing gear, and comes with two different stands: a short stand, ideal for displaying the Gozanti solely or with TIEs attached, and a beefier, taller stand to show it carrying two AT-ATs in mid-air. Badass.
At 55cm in length and made of about 3,000 parts, it's still a slim model that can fit pretty much anywhere in your Lego room. Once mounted on its tall stand with two AT-ATs though, it becomes a fairly impressive display piece, with more than 5,300 parts in total.
♦ Instructions available at BrickVault ♦
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
C.R. England Freightliner Cascadia with 53' reefer, Produced by Die-Cast Promotions in 1/64th scale(Stock# DCP 32564).
I love these little harvest mice. I've posted this image to give some idea of just how tiny they are. An adult weighs about the same as a 20p piece. On reflection, maybe a macro lens would have been more appropriate for the job than the 70-300mm zoom I had on my camera at the time. :)
Sorry about the look of concentration; I was struggling to balance on one leg, making sure my head, foot and hand were all in frame and using the remote all at the same time!
Thought I'd better keep the shirt on this time! :-)
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 :)