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In the new house bedroom. Both upstairs rooms have the same small fireplace. I'm not sure how old they are, must find out.
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This photo and this text is also my contribution to the latest issue of Idle.
"Home
Home has been on my agenda lately. I've been kind of lost, floating in space without a home in the way I was used to.
I've left the person and the apartment that I called home. This made me "homeless". That was hard but it also gave me a strange feeling of freedom. I could live where ever I chose.
I think home is a space not a place - a space where no one should enter without your permission. A space where you could feel relatively secure. Maybe it can be an object, but in that case the object makes a space, in your mind, a space where you feel at ease.
Home means a lot to me, it has always done, but maybe in a different way now. I am my home. All I really need could fit in a suitcase or two.
At the moment I am working on "Memoire no 1", right now this is my home."
Paleta de color basada en el trabajo de Maggie Maggio.
Color Palette based on Maggie Maggio's work.
Blogged: anabelchi.blogspot.com/2011/04/color-lo-maggie-maggio.html
This has taken so unbelievably long. I think I should have been able to do everything so much more quickly, but I've done some parts of it over 5 times or so. Anyway, someday it will hopefully get done. I'm posting a picture now just to feel like I've accomplished something, at least.
This was a bargain. I picked it up at the Mount Prospect city police auction last spring. It's an old Mount Prospect police car. They were practically giving 'em away...
This may turn out to be the coolest of my collection of movie/TV cars. I'm awaiting a bricklink order with a few additional parts and have lots of things I still have to do, but the outside is larger finished. Building my White van gave me some confidence that I would be able to pull off the car's dirty appearance, and I'm reasonably happy with progress so far. I intend to add the massive PA system to the roof, but that depends on whether I can make it look good. Lego makes cone elements with a 4x4 base, which is too small, and 8x8, which is too large.
I made little progress today.
I spent much of the day rebuilding an old model in order to harvest sufficient dark grey bricks for the B-52. I also spent some time refining the design for the wing carry-through structure. Because they are swept back at an angle that does not correspond to any wedge plates LEGO make, I decided to mount the whole wings at an angle relative to the fuselage. The angle I chose is the sweep-back angle of the wing trailing edge. This will make fitting wing flaps a lot easier. The leading edge will be set at the proper angle using 3x12 wedge plates attached to the front of the already angled structure.
To mount the wings at the right angle, I decided to use the Pythagorean triple: 8, 15, 17. A right-angled triangle with sides 8 and 15 will have a diagonal of 17 (because 8^2+15^2=17^2). In the brick I actually use two triangles on either side with sides 4, 7.5 and 8.5 studs long, indicated in red, because that way each wing will be attached to three hinge-points that don't lie on a straight line. The advantage of using such triangles rather than some other method of mounting things at funny angles is that they will make it very easy to mount things on the wings that align nicely with the fuselage such as engine pods, weapons pylons and external fuel tanks.
Obviously the whole structure will be beefed up with more plates, but the basic structure that I have here is already very sturdy.