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An O-Scale model of the Canadian Pacific H1b Class Hudson Locomotive #2816 provides a graphic, side by side comparison of 1/4" to the foot railroading vs. the 12" to the foot variety utilized by CPKC. This image was captured during CP #2816's public display in Shreveport, LA on May 24th of 2024, as part of CPKC's "Final Spike Steam Tour." The nicely-detailed model was provided by a 2816 fan, who brought it to the exhibit at the Shreveport Yard specifically to make photos similar to this one. The model was manufactured prior to the real 2816's most recent restoration, in which the boiler jacket was painted a somewhat darker gray color than it had been previously, which explains the apparent color difference between the model and the actual locomotive.
While going through photos stored on an old computer, I came across some outdoor photos I had shot of my first locomotive detailing project. Western Pacific 2004 was an EMD GP20, built and delivered in 1959.
The 1/87-scale model is a Lifelike Proto 2000, factory painted and mostly detailed for the WP prototype (it even came with the barrel headlights). I added the Nathan M5 horn, sunshades, MU sockets and the firecracker antenna, plus I painted the handrails and coupler cut levers orange. The "weathering" is a layer of Dull-Cote. The most glaring detail inaccuracy is the placement of the bell, which should be mounted directly on top of the long hood immediately adjacent to where it currently is.
Illuminated under a streetlight you see the new Thunderbird looking as though it just landed.
Time stops as you catch your breath.
Who cares if you just missed the trolley.
This is the stuff dreams are made of.
A spectacular Danbury diecast model
along with the AristoCraft PCC Trolley, all photographed on my kitchen table.
Sibley's describes these as "uncommon". He's right! ;-)
Taken in one of the Martin Ranch superb blinds - that's a full-frame crop... he is that close.
Too bad I didn't have fill flash.
I made this scale using the pieces on the left (part of the 1/24th tea room I'm making). I'm amazed by whoever designs these kits!
...e tu dici:una bussola,potevi almeno portarla con te,una bussola,potevi almeno spiegarmelo come si usa una bussola...
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
A minifig scale brick built Hutt for Star Wars. Free instructions available now at rebrickable.com!
Mod it and change its colors to create new characters!
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A LEGO Star Wars role building game.
An old Toledo scale, abandoned winery.
According to this scale I weighed a whooping 10,190lbs.
I think it's time for a diet.
Added 2 new 50' DAF flat cars to the NASA fleet, I've got a few possible plans for these: Titan SRB segment flatcars (working on getting these designed but it will take some time), a fictitious V-2 (or bumper, I haven't decided yet) transport consist or having these just be spacers. My next project that randy will be doing for me is related to this (FM is on the list but not this season) Any guesses?
Trying to get the scale right on my greebling.
I'm trying to make a pair of control tower/room/building and an antenna station/building/complex in different scales to find the right scale.
Walt Disney World, Disney's Animal Kingdom - 06/01/12
This little chap let me photograph him for quite some time; tolerant yet wary. I've thought about posting this one a time or two, but always skipped over it. Looks like today's the day.
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It will be k-k-cold this weekend. The temperature can drop to -8 degrees and that means of course only one thing: skating! After a few nights of good frost we could skate on March 3, 2018 at the Loosdrechtse Plassen. Every effort was made to ensure that we could skate. Plassenschap Loosdrecht has issued a sailing ban for the Loosdrechtse Plassen. After an extra night of frost, the ice is perfect. Beautiful black smooth ice without weak spots. Finally perfect ice to tie up the irons for skating enthusiasts. There can be wonderful kilometers of skating between the peat area and vast frozen lakes. You experience nature in places where you normally can not come. The northwestern part of the Loenderveense Plas is also referred to as Terra Nova. In this part of the Loenderveense Plas, experiments have been carried out in recent years to improve water quality by removing the bream fish. This fish accumulates the sludge layer that is formed at the bottom of the ponds by over-fertilization. Only a few plants and animals can live in this muddy water. Although already impressive results can be seen from the bream removal - the whole lake has turned from muddy to clear water, which also means that the water is freezing faster than other puddles. The peatland is a paradise for skaters from the west of the Netherlands, because it is usually the first large-scale area where you can skate on natural ice.
Today 3th of March 2018 we got the opportunity to go ice skating on real ice instead of going to an ice rink. A good freeze only comes from a win in the climatic lottery. Thus the chance for our Dutch to be wild adventurers on their own land comes only every few years. We glide across solidified, frosted lakes with fish frozen into the ice. The Loosdrechtseplassen in the winter are a real skater’s paradise. Snapchat shot of me taken by my daughter Samantha. I'm enjoying the wide and smooth ice surface.
Het wordt k-k-koud dit weekend. De temperatuur kan dalen tot wel -8 graden en dat betekent natuurlijk maar één ding: schaatsennn! Na een paar nachten goede vorst konden we op 3 maart 2018 schaatsen op de Loosdrechtseplassen. Er werd alles aan gedaan om te zorgen dat we konden schaatsen. Plassenschap Loosdrecht heeft een vaarverbod afgegeven voor de Loosdrechtse Plassen. Na een extra nacht van vorst ligt het ijs er perfect bij. Prachtig zwart glad ijs en nergens wakken. Eindelijk weer heerlijk ijs om voor schaatsliefhebbers de ijzers onder te binden. Er kan heerlijk kilometers geschaats worden tussen het veengebied. Je beleeft de natuur op plekken waar je normaal niet kan komen.
De Loosdrechtseplassen zijn afgegraven veengebieden, gelegen in het Gooi. Het noordwestelijke deel van de Loenderveense Plas wordt ook wel aangeduid als Terra Nova. Terra Nova is een aan de Vecht gelegen landgoed en natuurgebied met veenplassen. In dit deel van de Loenderveense Plas is de afgelopen jaren geëxperimenteerd met het verbeteren van de waterkwaliteit door het wegvangen van brasem. Deze vis woelt de sliblaag op die op de bodem van de plassen is ontstaan door overbemesting. In dit troebele water kunnen slechts weinig planten en dieren leven waardoor de soortenrijkdom van de plassen sterk is teruggelopen. Hoewel nu al aansprekende resultaten te zien zijn van het wegvangen van de brasem – het hele meer is omgeklapt van troebel naar helder water wat ook weer betekend dat het water eerder bevriesd dan andere plassen. Het veengebied is een paradijs voor schaatsers uit het westen van Nederland, omdat het meestal het eerste grootschalige gebied is waar men goed kan schaatsen op natuurijs. We genieten van de ruimte en mooie schaatsijs van de Loosdrechtseplassen. Snapchat foto van mij genomen door mijn dochter Samantha.
Ensign Scale Insect, possibly Orthezia urticae (Nettle Ensign Scale) or Newsteadia floccosa (Boreal Ensign Scale); visually it more closely resembles the former, though its habitat (amongst the moss at the base of a field maple tree) is more suggestive of the latter. One of several found at the same site. Monks Wood NNR, Sawtry, Cambridgeshire. October 6, 2020.
Quite a heavy crop, so beware of enlarging.
MamiyaRZ67, 110mm, Portra 400. It's a 6X7 frame even if doesn't look like it, but I think that I cocked my machine a bit too fast and the framing of the film has been affected...
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.
Christ's Resurrection Basiilica (Lithuanian: Kauno mūsų Viešpaties Jėzaus Kristaus Prisikėlimo bazilika) in Lithuania's second city, Kaunas, was consecrated in 2004 and finished in 2005. It is located on a hill immediately to the north of the city centre and is on a monumental scale, with the main tower rising to 70 metres.
After Lithuania regained independence in 1918, the concept of a new church that would express gratitude to God for its regained freedom arose. A committee led by president Antanas Smetona was established in 1926 to oversee its construction. The City of Kaunas was chosen as its site, since the historic capital of Lithuania, Vilnius, was part of Poland between 1920 and 1939. A design competition was held in 1928 and the proposal drawn up by Karolis Reisonas was chosen for the church as the best. Due to the technical difficulties arising from the grand scope of the design, and dramatic escalation of its cost estimates, the final design was not approved until 1933.
The first cornerstone for the church was brought from Jerusalem's Mount Olive in 1934, marking the church's first symbolic milestone. Funds for the construction were raised in Lithuania and abroad. The prominent Lithuanian parson Feliksas Kapočius was particularly involved not only in the details of the building project, but also in its funding. He traveled through the United States, where many Lithuanian émigrés were living, to enlist support. The construction underwent several setbacks, and at times was suspended for lack of funding.
In 1936 certain Czechoslovak architects from Prague said that the church will become a masterpiece of modern architecture in the Baltics.[2] In 1938 the walls and roof of the church were completed, and by 1940 it was largely finished; at this point around one million litas had been spent, most of it from individual donations. Further work on the church was suspended during World War II. The Nazi occupational authorities used the church as a storeroom; during the Soviet period of Lithuanian history, the building was confiscated by the government. In 1952 Stalin decreed that it be used as a factory; the cross atop the tower was demolished, as was the chapel.
The church structure was used as a radio factory until the Lithuanian national awakening in 1988. Soon thereafter, control of the church was returned to a newly founded council. During the 1990s, its rehabilitation met with further obstacles; church and state had been officially separated, and Lithuanian citizens struggled with economic downturns during the transition to a market economy. In any event, the work continued. Funding was provided by both private sources and the Lithuanian government, and the church was consecrated in 2004.
In 2015 the church received the minor basilica title from Pope Francis.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.