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My fifth build for my Iron Builder round against LittleJohn! The seed part is the Technic Cable Connector in green
The giant cutter head of tunnel boring machine (TBM) 'Kathleen' is lowered into the shaft at Barangaroo, ready to be assembled ahead of the historic start of the first rail crossing under Sydney Harbour.
Measuring 130 metres and weighing 975 tonnes, the TBM will churn through clay, sediment and rock on its way under the harbour from Barangaroo to Blues Point.
The twin kilometre-long tunnels will form part of the second stage of a $20 billion metro rail line.
'Kathleen' was named in honour of Kathleen Butler who played a vital role in the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge as the technical advisor to legendary engineer John Bradfield.
Photographs: Sydney Metro Communications
The MATL (Martian Atmospheric Tracked Laboratory) Rover is a single seat science platform that is designed for short-range research operations and base maintenance.
Febrovery 2023 build. Technic fig scaled with some odd and useless pieces integrated into the design.
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I am a very serious person...
...99.9% of the time.
I despise chickens and all chicken-related things (books, humor, art, etc.). Even the sight or mention of a chicken makes me groan inside. Then why in the world would I choose to build this?
Occasionally, when my mind is tired, not knowing what to think or even why to think, I fall into absurdity. In short, I cave. My seriousness leaves, and in its place stands incoherent gibberish. I embrace what I don't like, even if that means chickens.
So in a way, this creation represents the utter nonsense that can spout forth from a brain that really is not thinking clearly.
Speaking of that, Chicken Little is a story about some foolish young fowl who has a piece of something fall on its head (it may be an acorn, or a leaf, or a raindrop; who knows?). It goes berserk and insists that "The sky is falling!!". Thenceforth Chicken Little makes a huge fuss over it and gathers fellow animals to go warn the ruler of the area. The group meets a sly fox (what other kind of fox would there be?), who convinces the gullible animals that the way to the ruler goes right through the fox's lair. They enter the lair and the fox eats them all. (Or, if you like the other versions better, they escape and warn the ruler, but still turn out to be incorrect about the sky.)
So I think that that image of hysteria is what I've captured in this obnoxious little build. Whenever I feel like blurting out whatever my immediate reaction to my circumstances is, this chicken can remind me to always think before I speak, lest I believe the world will end and thereby fulfill my own prophecy through my own ignorance.
Don't worry, I promise that the next creations I submit will be serious in nature. This one is not a new precedent for me.
This chicken is a bauble-head; it has a technic axle as its neck that would need to be flexible if this were to become a set so that the head could wobble. The wings and tail can flap.
And yes, that is a canoe.
It's 4 days before the official end of the DMIR and life finds me at Iron Junction for the first time.
This was long before I put any effort into railroad photography. I was an armchair railfan at this point, but I had acquired a $300 digital camera (a princely sum at the time, I might add) and was living on the Canadian border. I think it was a job interview that brought me to Eveleth, and with some time to kill I decided to go find this mythical place called Iron Junction. I had read about it and seen photos taken there on the interwebs and perhaps, even in a magazine.
As you can see my hunt was successful, as far as finding the location. The photography, not so much. But it did mean I shot maroon paint prior to the commencement of the assimilation.
If it matters, I think this was a Minntac load bound for Two Harbors with a tunnel motor and a pair of SD-M's for power. With the exception of the cars, which seem to be ageless, it is pretty much all gone now. There is still a maroon tunnel motor around but with no straight air it will never get this work again, and the M's have all moved on.
It's a photo that I am extremely thankful to have had the opportunity to shoot, even if it's not much from a technical standpoint. It makes me think of how excited I was at the time. It reminds me of why I put effort into railroad photography.
Polaris is a star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor and is commonly called the North Star or Pole Star.
With an apparent magnitude of around 2, it is the brightest star in the constellation and is readily visible to the naked eye at night.
The position of the star lies less than 1° away from the north celestial pole, making it the current northern pole star.
The stable position of the star in the Northern Sky makes it useful for astrophotographer in the Northern hemisphere to align our telescopes with the central axis of the Earth. [Wiki]
Imaged over 11 nights in June and July 2024 while waiting for my main target to reach altitude.
I have always wanted to capture the IFN (Integrated Flux Nebula) around our pole star in the Northern hemisphere.
I thought that while I am waiting for my main target to rise in altitude, just sitting on Polaris would be a cool idea.
The main problem is guiding your telescope at the pole. In the end none of the frames were guided, Plate solving was interesting too. I attempted to centre the star but the mount would never end up plate solved and locked on. The solution was to place Polaris off centre. The result was that I obtained a better view of the IFN surrounding the star.
735 x 2 minute images were originally taken without a filter and reduced down to the best 349. This left me with over 11 hours of the best frames to process.
I am very pleased with my first attempt. I must look at either making a mosaic or using a wider FOV telescope to feature more of the surrounding space dust.
A higher resolution image with imaging details can be found on my Astrobin page at: astrob.in/fdzm9m/0/
Thank you for looking.
Technical summary:
Captured: 11 Nights in June and July 2024
Location: Turismo Astronómico, Los Coloraos, Gorafe, Spain
Bortle Class: 3
Total Integration: 11h 39m
Filters: None
Pixel Scale: 1.4 arcsec/pixel
Telescope: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED
Image Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
Mount: Skywatcher EQ 6R Pro
Capture software: NINA, PHD2
Editing software: PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop
Messing around with a technic frame for larger mech legs, but before I went to far I wanted to make sure I could cover the technic skeleton efficiently. This is what I came up with, it may be slightly rough if your a Lego by math kinda guy, but it's solid when assembled and that's good enough for me.
I know there are probably other ways of doing this such as with inverted 90 degree brackets and technic bricks (not beams).
Additional note: If you replace the tile on the two stud wide side with two plates and and put a 3 wide plate centred to the single stud side if forms a fairly perfect SNOT rectangle. Didn't show an example of that in the picture so you'll have to take my word for it or try it yourself.
Still not sure if it will be useful to me but thought I would share anyway.
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Technical Information:
Date 12.06.2020, 24.06.2020
Location: Santa Cesarea Terme (LE) Italy
Telescope: Skywatcher ED80/600 @510mm (F6.2)
Camera: ZWO ASI 294 PRO
Guiding: Qhy5LII on Ultraguide 60/240mm
Mount: Ioptron ieq45-pro
Filter: Optlong L-enhance
Light: 72x300" (gain: 200.00) -5C bin 1x1
Total integration: 6 hours
Software: SGP, PHD2 Guiding, Pixinsight 1.8
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I've checked the manual, read the FAQs and raised a support query but, frankly, I don't think this is a known issue.
Position: Railway station Kladno, Czech Republic. This technical detail belongs to the steam locomotive "Parrot" made in Czechoslovakia. Locomotive series 477,0 is the last type of stream locomotive manufactured in the ČKD Praha for the Czechoslovak state railways.
Got some things from my late father; Cost Engineering Techniques, his pair of glasses, tech pen and compass from my daughter taking up Architecture. Low key, light painting
This is a famous spot amongst railfan circles that was long on my bucket list. While I'd technically been here twice before, both times I didn't stop and only saw this spot flash by from the window of my bedroom on Amtrak's southbound Auto Train.
This is the famous 'Folkston Funnel' and one of the busiest sections of mainline on CSXT's 'I95 Corridor' up the eastern seaboard. It takes its name from the convergence of two mainline routes seen here. Coming in straight from the north is CSXT's Nahunta Sub from Savannah, while curling in from the northeast is CSXT's Jessup sub from the massive Waycross Yard. For the next 22 miles all traffic destined to and from the massive Sunshine State market funnels through this double track mainline to Callahan, FL where the Nahunta Sub continues on to Jacksonville while the Callahan Sub peels off toward Baldwin and central Florida points.
On my brief afternoon visit the funnel lived up to its reputation with four trains in 45 min and then an hour hiatus before serving up a fifth just before I left. This view looks south off the Okefenokee Drive overpass at the third of my five trains, less than five minutes after I143 went south! CSXT I03219 highballs north on Main 2 of the Nahunta Sub at MP A 602.2. This is a daily Duval Yard in Jacksonville to North Bergen Yard, NJ priority intermodal train with 45L and 11E totalling 8574 ft and 5906 tons behind ET44AH 3291 and ES40DC 5493.
On the headpin is a block of the famous Tropicana orange juice reefers which travel from the company's massive plant in Bradenton, FL to their distribution warehouse adjacent Greenville Yard in Jersey City, NJ. This movement of orange juice by rail was pioneered by the company in 1970 by founder Anthony Rossi and for decades it ran as a twice weekly dedicated unit train. To read a bit about this massive plant and its history check out these links:
www.businessobserverfl.com/article/tropicana-plant-braden...
citrusindustry.net/2018/10/23/pieces-of-the-past-juice-tr...
lionelllc.wordpress.com/2014/08/08/freight-car-friday-the...
All trackage here was historically the Atlantic Coast Line with the line from Waycross to here and on south opening in 1881 as part of Henry Plant's Plant System. Officially the Waycross and Florida Railroad it was informally known as the Waycross Short Line. The 54 mile line north from here to Jessup was built in 1901 by Plant as the Folkston Cutoff one year before the entire 2400 mile long system was acquired by the ACL in 1902.
Folkston, Georgia
Thursday February 19, 2026
Once upon a time, under a cold and moonless sky, showers of green and red light danced all around us, illuminating our souls and bringing joy to our rapidly beating hearts. All sense of time and place seemed to disappear, as we watched the Auroras in awe, all alone in the clear and silent stillness of the Icelandic Countryside...
Spending the day on The Snaefellsnes Peninsula, I had a feeling that the weather conditions might be perfect for The Northern Lights, and by 9:30pm, we could see a strong green glow all around the horizon. After a quick drive in Truck Norris, we were in the perfect place.
The Auroras danced in the distance and began to peaked around 11pm when we found ourselves right in the center of the activity. No longer were we watching them on the horizon. Now the lights were falling right over our heads—swirling, spinning, and cascading all around us.
For nearly 3 hours we watched in awe as I photographed this magnificent and life changing event. When I was all finished it only felt like 15 minutes had passed. I will be forever humbled by the beauty of our amazing planet.
Technical Mumbo Jumbo
Camera: Nikon D800
Lens: 14-24 f/2.8 (Shot at 14 mm)
Tripod: RRS TVC-33 / BH-55 Ballhead / RRS L-Plate
ISO: 640
Exposure: 15 seconds at f/2.8
Technique and Details: Photographing the Aurora Borealis is nowhere near an exact science. Depending on their brightness, intensity, and the speed of their movement, a range of shutter speeds can be used to capture them. This range is usually somewhere between 10-30 seconds, and even though the Aurora puts off plenty of ambient light, be prepared to change your camera settings in total darkness.
Very little post-processing was done to this image and NO color was added. Everything you see was captured in the single RAW file. The Auroras cast a lot of natural light on the scene so I only needed to make some minor adjustments to the brightness and contrast. Using Photoshop, I also removed some of the green cast in the yellow grass. Some additional brightness, contrast, and saturation adjustments were used to balance the exposure in the sky. Lastly, I used the built in Noise Reduction in Lightroom 4.1 to mitigate the nasty effects of ISO 640.
Software: Lightroom, Photoshop, NIK Software
Espresso: Illy Medium Roast (I’m in Italy. I figured I’d spoil myself a bit. :)
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When i saw the new ultra agent set (Infearno Interception) i knew i had to make a batmobile out of it. this is technically a wip since i don't like the back wheels. based it a lot on the arkham knight batmobile
Following the collapse, Scimitar's use of Armored Technicals proved to be an effective, mobile asset connecting their territory. The one pictured above features a DSHK, a door mounted 249, communications antenna, armored cab and engine, run flat tires, and a LED light rack.
So an upload! It's been a while, especially making something with wheels. Side note, do you all think that vehicles with wheels can exist alongside hover vehicles? I've been building, just haven't uploaded anything recently. That being said there's big stuff in the works.
The truck is highly inspired off of Christian's Technical based on Andrew's design.
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Technically it is a Dorset Knob, which is make from the left over bread dough. Baked three times, which makes sure it is very hard. Great when dunking into a hot drink, my favourite being hot chocolate.
Thought it was time I gave my "freedom fighters" a vehicle ; )
I'm still going to keep messing with this to make it much more beat up and well used but I want to avoid it looking incomplete instead. All in all a fun build and without the MG and flag etc etc it also serves well as just a regular jeep for different kinds of scenes.
Breaksdown here
haz de luz en technics, sirve para monitorear la velocidad
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Format: Glass plate negative.
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Repository: Tyrrell Photographic Collection, Powerhouse Museum www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/collection=The_Tyrrell_Photographic
Part Of: Powerhouse Museum Collection
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Acquisition credit line: Gift of Australian Consolidated Press under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme, 1985
The Model 770 Amphicar (seen on the left side of the photograph above) was named after its ability to achieve speeds of seven knots in the water and 70 mph on land. 3,878 Amphicars were manufactured in Germany from 1961 to 1968. During that time 3,046 were imported into the United States. The Amphicar is rear-engined and uses a 4-cylinder British-built Triumph Herald motor producing 43 hp. All Amphicars are convertibles, offered to civillians in four colors; Beach White, Regatta Red, Lagoon Blue, and Fjord Green (Aqua). Two American Presidents owned Amphicars; Jimmy Carter and Lyndon B. Johnson. President Johnson would invite friends and even foreign dignitaries to his Texas ranch for a joyride in his car.
Today, the Boathouse Orlando at Disney Springs is the only place in the world that offers the unforgettable & thrilling experience of a Captain’s Guided Tour in a vintage Amphicar. These rare cars drive on land and enter the water with a splash, taking you on a Captain Guided, 25-minute tour of the landmarks of Disney Springs. Their fleet of Amphicars were purchased from private collections worldwide – and less than 400 exist worldwide today.
-- Technical Information (or Nerdy Stuff) --
‧ Camera - Nikon D7200 (handheld)
‧ Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom
‧ ISO – 500
‧ Aperture – f/5.6
‧ Exposure – 1/125 second
‧ Focal Length – 210mm
The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6.
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