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Splinter removed
A warning to fellow gardeners not to always wear sandals or flip flops in summer, especially around the bamboo clumps
For all of you who should such kind concern over my cellulitis. The swelling is gone, and yesterday I removed the splinter myself , which was still causing me some pain. I was surprised how large it was! I finish the meds tomorrow so should be less breathless, which has been a side effect I do not need as I already have COPD ! And today it rained so I don't need to hobble round doing an hours watering. Hooray!
This is the first shot of the splinter stuck into my foot between the big toe and second toe. Yes, my toes are fugly. My feet are dirty because I was camping with family and friends. We were walking on the dock of the paddle boats, and my sandal bent under my foot and popped up this chuck of wood from one of the dock planks.
This is our old cat, Splinter.
He was named, as fans would know,
after the rat in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles".
Splinter lived with us when we had
Laddie, and he would drive poor Laddie nuts.
Laddie liked things just so, and then
Splint would come along and go nuts.
Laddie found Splinter as a kitten and
the two got on very well.
Splinter and Timothy... another cat,
got into trouble one night, I caught them
in the kitchen playing socker with stolen apples from the tree next door.
there was a bumping sound which kept me awake... so I went out there to
sort it out, yelled at them and threw
their apples away.
ten minutes later it started again with
more stolen apples.
One day I watched as Tim went up the
tree and stole more.
Splinter got to know Benny very well
after Laddie passed away, and lived
with Benny most of his life.
One year Splinter got sick, and it turned
out to be feline AIDS... he was treated
and lived well for one year, but died the
next.
It's an awful disease, and there's a
vaccine for it now, so please see your
vet about this before your cat gets it.
acrylic and water based oils on canvas,20"/20" all rights reserved by the artist,Lance Victor Moore.
Painting and markings:
It took some time to decide how to paint this huge thing. Inspiration eventually came from the idea that it would probably have only been used to defend very important targets, most probably around or in Berlin, so that an urban environment and a suitable camouflage would make IMHO most sense.
I took some inspiration from the British “Berlin Brigade” urban camouflage (consisting of square fields in bluish grey, dark brown and white) and the German late-war simplified splinter schemes. Since the E-100’s bulk would be hard to conceal, esp. with rather small mottles, I rather concentrated on disrupting its outlines and blending it with buildings in the background. Such an urban/artificial environment calls for angular and horizontal lines and edges, but I did not want to make the paint scheme look too modern, like a pixel scheme. The vehicle would furthermore be painted with only limited resources at hand, or maybe just in the field, so that typical red primer would certainly show through, with camouflage added on top.
This led to an initial overall basis in RAL 3009 Oxidrot. This was applied from a rattle can and shaded with clouds of different similar tones like Humbrol 70 and 160, for an uneven look. On top of that I added a vertically aligned splinter scheme with thinned Panzergrau (RAL 7021, Humbrol 67) and Dunkelgelb (RAL 7028, Humbrol 83), with the primer showing through and leaving the inside of the running gear uncamouflaged. The horizontal surfaces remained Dunkelgelb. The twin gun barrels were painted in a slightly different fashion: their undersides became RAL 7028, for a low contrast against the sky when raised, and onto the upper surfaces in Oxidrot I added (only) Panzergrau mottles. The remote-controlled barbette was, as an “aftermarket piece” and to reduce its contrast against the sky, too, painted uniformly in Dunkelgelb, but in a different shade (Tamiya XF-60).
I considered adding small clusters of Hellgrau (RAL 7035, Humbrol 196) and Olivgrün (RAL 6003, Humbrol 86) here and there to break up the vehicles outlines, but found that this would look too superficial and “forced”, so that the scheme remained rather a splinter scheme.
Once the basic camouflage had been applied, the kit was weathered with a highly thinned wash of dark brown, grey and black acrylic paint. Once dry the major surfaces were lightly wet-sanded, revealing more of the underlying red primer.
Tactical markings are minimal, just with Iron Crosses on the hull and a white tactical code on the turret flanks. As a unit code, the s.Pz.Abt. 505’s emblem, a charging knight on a horse, was added to the turret. The decals were protected with a thin coat of varnish before the next steps.
Details and edges were then highlighted through dry-brushing with Humbrol 70 (Brick Red) and 168 (RAF Hemp). Dust residues and some rust traces were painted with watercolors. These were also used to weather the (rather stiff) vinyl tracks, which were molded in a sand color and had to be totally painted – with an initial overall coat of acrylic black paint from the rattle can and later with grey and red brown acrylic artist paints, and some medium grey dry-brushing.
Matt acrylic varnish (Italeri) was used to seal the kit, and once the tracks had been mounted, the lower hull was dusted with grey/brown mineral pigments.
NECA Splinter Cell: Conviction Sam Fisher action figure
NECA Resident Evil: Hunk action figure
McFarlane Terminator set
I felt a sharp pain and saw this tiny shard of metal sticking in my finger. I easily pulled it out with the tweezers on my Swiss Army Knife.
Sarah Splinter.
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Toronto, Canada ~ April 16, 2016.
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Now the exhibition is fully under way I feel it's time to put up the other four of the 'Splintered thoughts' collection :D
Not too sure how much the youth of the present and future have experience with wooden toys. But when my mind flies back to fragmented memories of my earliest days I remember many happy moments playing with solid simple shapes of wood with painted designs of cars, dogs or just primary colours.
And when I'm thinking those thoughts I like to believe this is in someway how I appear to everyone around me.
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He really does look like he's about to cast a spell here.
Ratty photos by Grace Kendall, photographer extraordinaire
Splinter clears his throat after setting the tables with the pizzas. "Now, I will slice each pizza in half, and you each get one with plain cheese and sausage and one with everything on it. That's more than you bargained for, right?"
"Agreed!" the Turtles said together.
"Good."
(Now, for your math majors out there, how is this going to work?)
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29 April 2015
A close up of the rear tire and chain of a Boardtrack Racer at the AMA Museum and Hall of Fame in Pickerington, Ohio. Those racers had big brass ones, no doubt...
These racing motorcycles had NO BRAKES!
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There was a night I was making some really huge choices, and was so full of emotion. To help me deal, and sort out my thoughts, I stayed up all that night editing this photo.
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