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Active Assignment Weekly: June 6-13: Nature's Geometric Shapes...
For the assignment, photograph a geometric shape created by nature.
Restriction: It can be set up by man ( ie: salt crystalizing,water freezing ) but can not be constructed by him (man).
Dare: Something other than a macro.
WIT: This is the skin from a rattlesnake that picked the shade of the wrong tree one hot day several years ago. I was with a group of people in southwestern North Dakota on a paleontology field trip. Upon returning to our camp site under a group of cottonwood trees this former snake struck out at a passing person...without the traditional rattling first. Out came the shovels and a few moments later the snake was shorter by a head. That was nearly twenty years ago and the skin is still hanging around in the garage. According to the web, a snake hatches with a fixed number of scales. The scales do not increase in number as the snake matures nor do they reduce in number over time. The scales however grow larger in size and may change shape with each molt. The darker portion in the middle is the back of the snake, the wider scales to the edges are from the belly. Light by afternoon sun, sharpened and cropped.
This is a great old building next to the tracks at Scales Mound, IL, but getting good sun on this north side is all but impossible. Nevertheless, the Central of Georgia unit passing by made for a great scene back on 3-31-18. By the way, this point is just a quarter mile away from the highest point in Illinois.
On the aforementioned Eastern Mistletoe (Phoradendron leucarpum; Durham NC, USA), I was pleased to find:
Soft Scale Insects - family Coccidae (~1-2 mm)
Also uploaded at:
bugguide.net/node/view/1778845
A helpful entomologist on Facebook identifies as:
Brown Soft Scale - Coccus hesperidum
Some of the scale insects have been parasitized by wasps, so we have a hemiparasitic plant, a parasitic insect of that plant, and a parasite of that insect--parasites all the way down.
It's the Snake Scales texture created in the Filter Forge plugin. It can be seamless tiled and rendered in any resolution without loosing details.
You can see the presets and download this texture for free on the Filter Forge site here — www.filterforge.com/filters/7693.html (created by Constantin Malkov)
1/6th scale German Wehrmacht Machine Gun Team Heinrich and Erich by Dragon in 2000. This set and Hans and Klaus figures released earlier completes the marching scene in the early 1/35th scale Dragon plastic kit. These guys must be fantastic duo as even their names rhyme : )
Did you know that butterfly wings are covered with microscopic scales? I used fish leather with a visible scale pattern to cover the spine. Conceptual. No?
(You can find all colors of fish leather at fineleathers.etsy.com).
this armor unfolds itself from a suitcase.
To do that, the armor is made up small compressed fragments / slices / scales. When defragmented, each small part interlocks with another and thus enveloping a human being.
I recon this gave the team at Hot Toys some headaches trying to mix the design and look of the suit with the articulation.
This armor is tight and thinner than the former armors. It also doesn’t pack a lot of weapons, besides it’s own repulsor technology. It doesn’t have flight capability and airflaps. This armor is all about compatibility and a quick response unit. And it shows. The mark VI is very bulky compared to the sleek mark V.
With a little imagination you could see a human body inside the armor. But it would be a skinny person.
Having seen the movie recently, RDJ is a short skinny man. So it could be plausible.
1/4 Scale Regent Miniatures
Find it here:
stores.ebay.com/Small-World-Minis/1-4-Scale-Furniture-/_i...