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pic taken Friday late evening
the caterpillar had already changed colour
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So i want to do some sort of 365 for all of the school year. It will be difficult but i think i can do it!
I'm not too sure how many days i have in my school year so once i figure it out, i'll fill in the fraction up above :)
This was taken a day before school, on my friend's birthday, and i think it's a good photo for the first day of my little challenge!
I also wanted to say that www.flickr.com/photos/vicariousphotography/
inspired me to do this sort of photo :)
More here (in Polish, but there's a google translator available): wielkiprojektjulki.blogspot.com/2014/03/poczatek-kolekcji...
The kit and its assembly:
Another entry for the “Flying Boat, Seaplane and Amphibian” Group Build at whatifmodelers.com in late 2017, and the result of a spontaneous inspiration from a drawing of a Luft’46/fantasy creation of a Me 262 fuselage with a planning bottom, a parasol(!) wing and a single jet engine exhausting right above the cockpit, and no (visible) stabilizing floats at all. Rather spurious.
Well, nevertheless, the Me 262 jet fighter has a very shark-like profile and shape, and it has already been converted into flying boats or even submarines by modelers, and I decided to create my personal interpretation of the theme. I remembered a lone He 115 float in my stash (maybe 35 years old or even more!), and when I held to a Me 262 fuselage the parts had almost the same length and width. So, creating a flying boat jet fighter seemed like a realistic task.
Things started straightforward with an 1:72 Smer Me 262 fighter, which is actually the vintage Heller two-seater night fighter with a new fuselage and canopy. My kit of choice would have been the Matchbox kit, but the Heller kit is also O.K., due to its simplicity and simple construction.
Creating something amphibian from a Me 262 is not a trivial task, though. With its low wings and underslung engine nacelles there’s a lot to be changed until you get a plausible floatplane. Another challenge is to integrate some form of stabilizer/outrigger floats, what also influences the wings’ position. Placing the engines where they are safe from spray ingestion is also a serious matter – you have to get the high and the intakes as far forward as possible.
Doing some legwork I found some similar builds, and they all did not convince me. And, after all, I wanted to create my own “design”; in order to incorporate some realism I eventually settled on Dornier’s typical WWII designs like the Do 18 and Do 24. These elegant aircraft had a common, elegant trait: low stub wings as stabilizer floats, paired with high wings (in the case of the Do 18 held by a massive central pylon) which carried the engine out of the water’s reach. This appeared like a feasible layout for my conversion, even though it would mean a total re-construction of the kit, or rather assembling it in a way that almost no part was glued into the intended place!
Work started with the cockpit, which had to be moved forward in order to make room for the wings behind the canopy, placed high on a pylon above the fuselage. For this stunt, the cockpit opening and the place in front of it (where the original front fuselage tank would be) were cut out and switched. The cockpit tub was moved forward and trimmed in order to fit into the new place. The nose section was filled with lead, because the stub wings/floats would allow a retractable landing gear to be added, too, making the aircraft a true amphibian!
The He 115 float was cut down in order to fit under the OOB Me 262 fuselage, and a front wheel well was integrated for a tricycle landing gear. Once the fuselage was closed, the planning bottom was added and the flanks sculpted with putty – lots of it.
In the meantime the Me 262 wing received a thorough re-arrangement, too. Not only were the engine nacelles moved to the upper wing surface (cutting the respective wing and intake sections of the nacelles off/out and turning them around 180°), the original connecting ventral wing part with the landing gear wells were turned upside down, too, the landing gear covers closed (with the respective OOB parts) and the inner wing sections modified into a gull wing, raising the engines even further. VERY complex task, and blending/re-shaping everything took a lot of PSR, too.
Under the central wing section I added a pylon left over from a Smer Curtiss SC Seahawk kit, because a massive Do 18-esque construction was out of question for a fast jet aircraft. The gaps were filled with putty, too.
In order to keep the stabilizers free from water spray they were moved upwards on the fin, too. The original attachment points were sanded away and hidden under putty, and the OOB stabilizers placed almost at the top at the fin.
Finding suitable stub wings/floats became a challenge: they have to be relatively thick (yielding buoyancy and also offering room for the retractable landing gear), but also short with not-so-rounded tips. It took a while until I found suitable donor parts in the form of the tips of an 1:32 AH-64 Apache (!) stabilizer! They were simply cut off, and openings for the main landing gear cut into their lower sides.
Once glued to the lower flanks and the stabilizers in place it was time to place the wing. In the meantime the moved cockpit had been blended to the fuselage, and initial tests indicated that the pylon would have to be placed right behind the canopy – actually on top of the end of the clear part. As a consequence the canopy was cut into pieces and its rear section integrated into the fuselage (more PSR).
However, the relatively thin and slender central pylon from the Curtiss SC indicated that some more struts would be necessary in order to ensure stability – very retro, and not really suited for a jet-powered aircraft. And the more I looked at the layout, the more I became convinced that the wings and engines were in a plausible position, but placed too high.
What started next were several sessions in which I shortened the pylon step by step, until I was satisfied with the overall proportions. This went so far that almost everything of the pylon had gone, and the wings almost rested directly on the Me 262’s spine!
However, this new layout offered the benefit of rendering the extra struts obsolete, since I decided to fill the small gap between wing and fuselage into a single, massive fairing. This would also mean more internal space, and consequently the original idea of a jet-powered combat aircraft was modified into a fast multi-purpose amphibian vehicle for special tasks, capable of transporting personnel behind enemy lines with a quick move.
More PSR, though, and after some finishing touches like a scratched landing gear (front leg/wheel from an Italeri Bae Hawk, main struts from a Mistercraft PZL Iskra trainer, wheels from an Academy OV-10 Bronco and with improvised covers), several antennae and mooring lugs made from wire, the aircraft was ready for painting. On the downside, though, almost any surface detail had been lost due to the massive, overall body sculpting – but the application of the light zigzag pattern helped to recreate some “illusionary” details like flaps or panel lines. ;-)
I like burning houses down, and factories as well.
I like burning anything, it's the truth I tell.
Libraries and museums, both of them have fell,
I like burning things, burning things is swell.
I would like to start it as a fashion trend,
Amongst the young people, then the world might end.
Wouldn't it be fun, to ring the funeral bell,
On our civilization, and watch it burn in Hell.
Start a fire, start a fire, start a fire today.
Burn it, burn it, burn it, burn it, burn it all away.
Fire! Fire!
In the summer I like to go to the country side,
Where I burn a forest down, I watch it burn with pride.
Isn't nature wonderful, it makes things so dry,
Burn it, burn it, burn it, burn it, burn the country side.
Start a fire, start a fire, start a fire today
Burn it, burn it, burn it, burn it, burn it all away.
Fire! Fire!
It makes me feel so sad to see young people dance,
They could burn the discotheque down, they've got every chance.
Then they'd get themselves into the news,
Burning things, burning things can make you famous too.
Start a fire, start a fire, start a fire today
Burn it, burn it, burn it, burn it, burn it all away.
Fire! Fire!
Burn it, burn it, burn it, burn it, burn it all away.
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Crédit photographique : © École polytechnique - J.Barande
It's been a little while since I posted a beach that wasn't The Bulb, and I've had this one waiting in the wings since the last time I was in Orange County. It's the Newport Beach boardwalk, fresh after a rain.
I won't be obvious and explain this one too much. You know.
Men's U-15 Exhibition Match
25 September 2014 - Pavas, CRC
Canada 1999s (v Costa Rica 1998s)
Dante Campbell
Babou Jean-Yves Tabla
Andron Kagramanyan
Zachary Zitoli
Tristano Fasulo
Brogan Engbers
Shaan Hundal
Marques Antoine
Glenn Muenkat
Malik Smith
Terrell Smith
FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Canada 2014
12 August 2014 - Montréal, QC, Canada
Canada Soccer / Andrew Soong
Sura Yekka
Nichelle Prince
Kailen Sheridan
Kinley McNicolll
Kylie Davis
Emma Fletcher
Ashley Lawrence
Rebecca Quinn
Janine Beckie
Valérie Sanderson
Kadeisha Buchanan
The stage from Kiffa to Diema was massively delayed by pointless Mauritanian bureaucracy. Earlier some government minister had given us an epic lecture about how he'd Sorted Things Out for us so we could simply drive to our destination. We were staying at a suspiciously overpriced "hotel" run by one of his associates. Then we had to wait an hour whilst some policeman at a roadblock tried to phone the minister to confirm that we were allowed through - and this wasn't even the border. After all the checkpoints, and despite getting four different mauritanian exit stamps, the minister still wanted me to do extra paperwork when he turned up at the finish-line in Mali...
ZJ240 / U Bell 412EP Griffin HT.1 (36163) Royal Air Force / Defence Helicopter Flying School - RAF Shawbury 08-03-2018
Men's International Friendly match
Frank Pike
Tony Chursky
Sam Lenarduzzi
Kevin Grant
Bob Lenarduzzi
Brian Robinson
Jimmy Douglas
Neil Ellett
Bruce Twamley
Glen Johnson
Buzz Parsons
Gary Aubert
Joe Schiraldi
Brian Gant
Chris Horrocks
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EOS 5D Mark II / TAMRON SP AF 28-75mm F/2.8 XR Di LD Aspherical [IF] MACRO / 75mm / F4/ 1/60sec. / ISO400