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Today and Monday I got to go to a class just for fun. It was a portrait workshop hosted by the Muskogee Art Guild. The first day we got some pointers and did a value study of two models. Today we turned one value study into a painting. I suppose if you were there the extra day you could have turned both into paintings.
We had set off up into the hills as the cloud started to break that morning. We came down again as the sun set.
Pint(s) earned.
Based on a Mucha design, but the result of original artwork.
Image in the works for a new rubber stamp set.
The reverse values give a better idea of what the stamp might look like once it is pressed into velvet. (The stamp presses down the pile on the velvet and the resulting image appears to shimmer in a lighter color than the rest of the fabric.)
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a shot of the basement, and it still smells funny. no matter what... this is the one on 11th in Seattle
Value-stream mapping event hosted at Ohio State University for Center for Operational Excellence members Grange Insurance and Huntington National Bank.
One of the busiest sushi places in the CBD I've seen, Sushi Monger has tasty food and is good value.
More Transformers goodness that has been sitting there for about 6 months now.
One of the more awesome things to come out of the PotP line was Abominus, the combiner formed from the Terrorcons. This combiner was, as expected, a G1 character that was released to oppose Computron, whose updated set was release during the Combiner Wars line. Unlike Computron, however, Abominus saw zero screen time during the recent animated trilogy, which is a shame because I'd like to have seen him interact with Computron.
I had cracked open Hun-Grr and Rippersnapper last year, but gotten the rest of the team by the Summer. didn't really open anything else up because I was waiting for the one thing to bring them all together - the Transform Dreamwave upgrade kit.
Transform Dreamwave (TDW) is one of the newer 3P companies to come on the scene, and effectively presents itself as better valued Perfect Effects (PE) alternative. I only have one PE upgrade kit - the one for Computron, so I can't really comment on any of their hands and feet options. But the PE stuff I did get was very well made, and Abominus needed some love so I figured why not?
Well, the set finally arrived, and I unpacked everything and did some photos, made some notes, and now present to you my findings, starting with my assessment of the rest of the Terrorcon team.
As with most combiner limbs, regardless of the era, they're generally functional in all modes with no real winner as there is reuse and remoulding of parts as much as possible to reduce production costs. To complicate matters, as it were, the Terrorcons are all monsters of sorts, so even their alt modes are kind of arbitrary. Also, as is the new norm, the accessories they came with are rather meh, though I'm trying to decide which is more boring - the weapons, or the fist/armour bits.
Having said that, some are less boring to look at than others, and my vote for best Terrorcon limb goes to Blot, the black and purple fellow. I love the colour scheme and the "not quite a block with arms and legs" look he's got going for him.
Overall, winner by a large margin.
So back to TDW. They actually came to my attention first with their Volcanicus upgrade kit (soon to be discussed) but when I preordered the Abominus kit the Volcanicus kit had not arrived yet, so I did so with blind faith.
For those who are unfamiliar with TDW and PE, as you suspect, their upgrade kits make the default combiners from Hasbro/Takara into magnificent looking bastards which sadly still have the underlying problems of really crappy loose joints.
Much like the PE set, the TDW set has their combiner fists and feet being able to separate and transform, as applicable, into weapons for the smaller bots and wield. The TDW sets try to one up PE by making EVERYTHING into a weapon or accessory for the smaller bots, thus increasing it's value as it were, but honestly I don't know of many people who would be taking advantage of I'm fairly confident that most folks would stick with the combined mode anyway because lets face it, the individual bots are above average overall.
Unlike PE, however, I've noticed that TDW has parts to increase thigh thickness of the combined mode, as well as in the case of Abominus, additional parts to expand the torso size due to the installation of the chest shield.
Installed, the set does definitely do the job of making the combined mode much more visually appealing, which as mentioned, is limited by the crap joints that are in the base product.
I know there are lots of people who complain about the QC on Hasbro products, but generally it's an issue with poor paint apps. The QC with these sets is all over the place, which I guess is not out of the realm of expectations for a smaller manufacturer, but it really does put the reality of Hasbro and Takara being better at something in perspective.
Between Volcanicus and Abominus, the biggest issues I saw were:
- poor paint apps, most prevalent on the silver guns in the feet
- poor hinge tolerance on the feet, leading them to split apart when weight is applied
- peg tolerances being too large resulting in difficulty inserting into the figures
So yeah, buyer beware, but again if you're not looking too closely you're generally good to go.
(Multiple values)
Farmers Insurance and 710 ESPN have selected Kent Little League's Ryan Brunner Park Field as this year’s recipient in Farmers Insurance Improve A Field. Assistant Coach of Kent Little League Allstars Robin McGuire applied for the grant for $10,000 for the field improvement. Steve Brown with Farmer Insurance also donated $2,500 of his own money to put towards a score board. This is the 7th consecutive year that Farmers Insurance has been involved with the donation for the field improvements. CHARLES CORTES, Kent Reporter
09/30/11
Farmers Insurance and 710 ESPN have selected Kent Little League's Ryan Brunner Park Field as this year’s recipient in Farmers Insurance Improve A Field. Assistant Coach of Kent Little League Allstars Robin McGuire applied for the grant for $10,000 for the field improvement. Steve Brown with Farmer Insurance also donated $2,500 of his own money to put towards a score board. This is the 7th consecutive year that Farmers Insurance has been involved with the donation for the field improvements. CHARLES CORTES, Kent Reporter
Saturday, July 28th, 2007 at Nissan Pavilion.
Got caught bring in the real camera...so had to resort to the Moto Q. Not a bad quality considering our distance and my drunkenness. :) It was like 90 degrees!
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I only got decent shots of the band from the monitors. Their light crew and show was AMAZING and BRIGHT! I could only get shots during the “slow” songs. She and the rest of the band move around on stage faster than squirrels on crack!! Second-time seeing this band...they STILL ROCK!!!
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What has changed? My daughter telling her sister to pull it tighter and tighter before the big event!
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