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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.
This is a new pixie I am working on, I realized I always seem to make girls so I guess he is long overdue:)
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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."
In the last few years I've regularly built small bits of landscape to serve as a backdrop for my minifig scale models. I'm more of a vehicle builder than a builder of organic things, though, so trees are a challenge. I have completed several new models recently (which I have yet to photograph) and I'm building another bit of landscape, for them, so I'm now trying a few new trees. By hinging the branches, they look a bit less layered than my older ones.
And now for something a little different. I'm not much of a train builder, but for a few years now, I've been meaning to build a military train. Initially I looked at the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison. This was an American plan to launch Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missiles from trains, which reached the hardware stage prior to being cancelled in the early nineties. I looked at this for the experimental military collaboration (for Brickfair Virginia 2020). However, it was a really big train, with two locomotives and several huge cars.
Then, in September of 2021, North Korea launched two KN-23 ballistic missiles from a train. They repeated this early this year. They are short-range ballistic missiles (with a range less than 1000 km) and the train is much more compact, with a single M62 locomotive (originally built in Ukraine, when it was part of the Soviet Union) and two cars, one of which houses the two missiles.
Given that I've been building a collection of missile launchers of various types, this fits the bill.
I've started by building the locomotive and the two missiles. LEGO trains tend to be built to a smaller scale than is really appropriate for minifigures, mainly so that a train layouts can fit a child's bedroom. It is my intention that mine will be able navigate a gentle curve, but it will primarily be a stationary model. So, I stuck to the scale I normally use for minifigures (between 1/40 and 1/43) and ended up with a train that is nine studs wide.
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
These farmers have a relatively new, small but neat and tidy looking house. A few years ago they added an ugly looking house trailer. I believe that the above was added over the summer of 2022.
We could speculate about it but I shall keep an eye on it for developments. The owners of the property vacation in a warmer climate in winter. If I see the couple who look in on the property in winter, as I did last year, some answers could be forthcoming. Of course, a picture of the ugly trailer will be forthcoming too.
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.