Like most of my collections I have had this mini-scene for sometime. I had placed this kit into a small box on a shelf next to my workbench to wait my attention.
I usually use super-glue for the kit parts. The metal parts required very little clean-up.
Adam Savage shares some of his philosophy for building in foamcore. Adam builds a box to hold and organize his medical tool collection. Interesting set of tools.
In The City of Lost Children (1995). "The Cyclops Sect 1 is a cult of blind cyborgs. They aduct small children for the mad scientist Krank using mechanical "Third Eyes" to see and hear."
The City of Lost Children: A Surreal French Fairy Tale for the Ages
1 "The Mechanical Eye: Cult members ritualistically sacrifice or shun their natural organic sight. They replace it with a single, bulky electronic video-camera lens worn over one eye (providing them with a distinct green-tinted point of view)."
"Consciousness can project illusians in a substantial stimulus and deliver objects onto the screen of your awareness"
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I believe I have a few more of these waiting to be posted. They are screenshots from my Motorola cell phone.
I am familar with Space 1889 and I own a few of these miniatures and have a couple of the game-rules pamphlets on my shelf. This really a great game concept. It is like a steampunk universe where somehow nations made the trip to space in hte 1880's.
A blind fat cat. The fat cats are all blind to our needs, except, except they are offering a great deal here?
It is ashame that the word could not have of gotten out eairler. Alas, these deals are set to disapear toward the end of this year.
This is an image that I ran through an AI to enhance the appearance. I am ready to take a bite into this.
Beautiful! Tonada De Luna, Alice Zawadski.
Spanish Lyrics
"Yo vide una garza moraDándole combate a un ríoAsí es como se enamoraTu corazón con el míoLuna, luna, luna, luna llenaAnda muchacho a la casaY me traes la carabina, jioPa’ matar este gavilánQue no me deja gallinaLuna, luna, luna, luna llenaLa luna me está mirandoYo no sé lo que me veYo tengo la ropa limpiaAyer tarde la lavéLuna, luna, luna, luna llena"
English Translation
"I saw a black heronBattling it out with a riverThat is how your heartFalls in love with mineMoon, moon, moon, full moonGo, boy, to the houseAnd bring me the rifleTo kill this hawkThat won't spare a single one of my chickensMoon, moon, moon, full moonThe moon is looking at meI don’t know what it sees in meI have clean clothesI washed them late yesterday afternoonMoon, moon, moon, full moon."
Another rendition can be found here
I do realize that this project is taking me an exceptionally long time to complete. This door needs a speck of paint on the door knob.
Hear are the four triangles that will make-up the pyramid roof. The roof panels measure 13.5 foot wide by six foot tall. I am not all that happy with how the paint job ended up. I will try a couple little tricks in order to make the roof look a little better.
"Anonymous often ends its announcements with: “We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.”
Back in the day I saw Floyd perform the animal album down in Tampa Florida. Great time, what I can remember of it.
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I have been slow in completing this structure. As you can see I have started creating doors and windows. I started the window by glueing a square piece of window materials to the inside of the structure. Then I added mullions to the glazing material to create the four pane window. The panel door was scratch built using various widths of card stock glued to a cardstock backing.
Live At Fillmore West, 1970. Now in HD. Fabulous and spacey performance.
There are a lot of those here. I found these images in the "extras" folder on the (DVD). They are architectural drawings that set designers use to envision and then to build their scenes and create their sets. They illustrate some of the many sets that may need to constructed. The illustrations also bring some light into new projects.
This one of the three vehicles that had been found while I was digging a new spot for flowers and herbs. As you can see it is in bad shape. The axels are shot, it is missing a chrome raditor, and the roof.
This is the Mercedes 540K.1 First introduced in 1982 and outfitted with the wide white walled wheel set, she was "glamorous, sophisticated, and at one time quite popular".
What needs fixing. Both axils are shot and the white rimmed tires are no longer white. The whole chromed lights and raditor assembly is missing. Perhaps I should screen that area where the vehicles were found. Lastly, the body is riddled with spots of rust, with a few areas almost rusted through the paint and metal.
Although I might disessemble this model so that I can clean it more effectively I don't see myself restoring the piece. With two missing and unsourced parts, it is more trouble than its worth to me.
1"The Mercedes-Benz 540K (W29) is a prestigious grand tourer produced between 1936 and 1943, featuring a supercharged 5.4L straight-eight engine producing 180hp. Known for luxury and high-speed autobahn travel, it is famous for its elegant Sindelfingen coachwork, particularly the rare "Special Roadster," which can command prices over $10 million."
AI Overview
Three cars were found buried in my yard. They were found dinged, busted, corroaded and soil encrusted. The authorities were called and no human remains have been reported. The specimens include two fantasy racers and a classic car.
Lirili Larila stands approximately 60mm tall and is cast from a hard PVC plastic. This figure is from Italian brainrot. .
Although I knew of this techquie I thought it might be beneficial to make this post, as a reminder.
Once the baords have been added I primed each section with tan hobby paint.
Once the paint was dry I added the trim around the windows and doors.
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Using a sheet of polystyrene and a concept from a science fiction novel's front covers art the authors builds a fabulous space ship. As building a spaceship with styrene is on my bucket list this article is inspirational.
I used 3 by 5 file cards for the boards and cut them from 3 to 14 inches wide. I used a file card to add wood grain and a hobby knife to add a few knots. I need to go back clean up some of the window opening.
Although there are other authors writing robot novels, no one has the body of work as Isaac Asimov.
I have started to cut out the door and windows openings for these sections. Since I didn't cut the roof sections to the correct width I will need to re-layout the triangle sections again.
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If you keep am open mind you can find useful materials just about everywhere. Although I am trying to keep the clutter from getting out of hand I hold on to a lot of different materials. I may not know how or when they might be used, but as long as I don't have too many and have some where to store them I will put the materials aside.
Everyday Household Items You Can Turn Into Miniature MagicI am using bristol board for the sub-walls. The building will measure a scale 12 foot square. Randum width boards will added to the subwalls. The walls will be nine foot tall.
There will be two doors and six windows: front and back sides get a door and a window; the sides will host two windows per side. Four triangles will be cut from the bottom sheet. These triangles will measure thirteen foot across the bottom and will be six foot tall.
Wall sections and material for roof sections.
I have a lot on my workbench, I have some painting, some repairs and some creation projects
1 "A pyramid roof is a type of hip roof with four triangular sides sloping upward to meet at a single central peak.", AI Overview
This maker is a genius. In episoid 55 he continues his imaginative build of his diorama, and fabulous miniature world.
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. 'O' wretched mortals, open your eyes!."
1This quote is contributed to Leonardo da Vinci and is often found in his notebooks, reflecting his frustrations with human ignorance and inaction. It is a call to use observation, science, and intellect to overcome biases and superficial understanding.
Source: The phrase appears in Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, specifically referencing the tendency for human ignorance to lead to poor decisions, often cited in discussions of the artist's scientific and philosophical thought.
Interpretation: It is a plea for critical thinking and observation, encouraging people to look beyond surface-level reality to see the true nature of things.
Theatricality: The phrase "O! Wretched mortals" is noted as a passionate, almost despairing cry from Leonardo regarding the prevalence of human folly.
Broader Thought: It connects to his broader philosophies that experience and study (theory) are essential, rather than relying on unthinking practice, as seen in his collected thoughts on Goodreads.
1 The quote emphasizes the importance of gaining knowledge through observation and intellectual effort rather than staying in the dark.
This another HO scale structure from FOS and it looks like one I would like to construct. Jason Jensen shows his build of this structure.
Greeblies can be created from any type of material. In this clip the author used bits of styrofoam to create several industrial greeblies.
I prefer to manufacture my own greeblies when I can, but special shapes can become hard and time consuming to create. The prices at CreepyHero Studios are economical and their offerings are full of detail, crisp and clean.
These miniature creatures molded from PVC plastic, and require some assemble. The come supplied in two or three pieces that are snapped together. This particular miniature stands 40mm tallon its base. It resemblies some sort of chicken.
This, what looks like a dark fairy or sprite stands approximately 40 mm tall. She has a set of wings on her back and balanced on some sort of ring.
This blue bird stands around 30m tall. I am not sure what it is carring under its right wing. Is it a wand, a torch or a grub. Its foot claws are on a wicker basket?
Fixed broken link above on 4.17.26 at 10:45.
This thingamajig was created to fill a pole building that is being built to go along side of the Wills Sheds. The open shed will need to be filled with materials, projects that have been completed and those in process. It might take a few objects and materials to fill this shed so I have taken it upon my self to build what I can. This object was primarily built from foam-core and with paper strips and few other materials was built to be set in a corner.
Perhaps it really is that easy to build a structure from scratch.
I am trying something a little different and am instituting themes this month. My first theme for this year will greeblies 1
As you can see greeblies can be bits of polystyrene that are cut and arranged on the object meticulously.
1 Greeblies are small relief details used to improve visual appeal and add complexity to a model.
For March's challenge I was to build four scale structures from materials I have on hand. I mainly wanted to make use the thin balsa boards I had recently aquired. I also want to build two structures primarily from card stock. I am making this post with the two structures that I have completed and although I still have ten days to complete the other two I wanted to make sure this post was posted in March.(This will be my last post for March).
Below. Two of the four structures from the March challenge.
This is outhouse and measures 4 by 5 scale feet in HO scale. The shed is constructed primarily from 1.5mmm thick balsa sheet. The roof was constructed from card stock and top sheet of corrugated cardboard.The foundation was created from several pieces of match sticks that have been glued to the bottom of the stucture.The out building was painted with a series of darker colors and then weathered with swathes of paints and washes.
I have started to experiment with using a wood burning iron to 'score' individual boards. I haven't came to any conclustions yet. The second structure a storage or tool shed is created from that same sheet of balsa I used above and measures a square nine scale feet. The windows are from my scratch box. The foundation was made by glueing bits of leftover paper rock textured material on pieces of matboard and the roof of a thick black construction paper cut into strips to represent tarpaper. I didn't mention it but a set of steps were created for each of these two structures.
I haven't decided on how I may use these tools. Whether I will use primarly for scribing or some of both. I do enjoy creating my own greeble and the templates will make it a bit easier to create more intricate pieces.
I have experimented with various linux distros in the past and I was ready for something different. We still have a computer running Microsoft and since I have retired there is no longer a need for both of the computers to run a Microsoft OS.
You might have wondered about the progress of these three sheds. I had added a couple details to this shed and accidently broke them off. About this time I had started a small project of four small sheds, which I will be making a post once they have been completed. Once I have completed the second of these sheds I will glue the details back on to the structure and make a repost of the completed project.
