"Rockmilk.-Lactus saxi. Viscous and heavy as magna, but bone cold. And dense with thaumaturgons, the charged particles. Worth several times its considerable weight in gold, or diamonds, or oil or blood.
'Ships don’t use fucking rockmilk to fire their engines,” Silas said. 'Whatever they are stockpiling for, its not just to keep their vessels trim.'”
The Scar, China Mieville
"The Fremen see her (Alia Atreides) as the Earth Figure, a demi-goddess whose special charge is to protect the tribes through her powers of violence. She is Reverend Mother to their Reverend Mothers. To pilgrims who seek her out with demands that she restore virility or make the barren fruitful, she is a form of anti-mentat. She feeds on that strong human desire for the mysterious. She is living proof that the 'analytic' has limits. She represents ultimate tension. She is the virgin-harlot - witty, vulgur, cruel, as destructive in her whims as a coriolis storm."
―St Alia-of-the-Knife as taken from The Irulan Report
Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert
Since I am working with scales that I haven't had too much exposure to I wanted some type of reference to these scales. Magister Militum published a scale guide some time ago.
The Solar Queen is a series that was written over several decades by several authors. The series follows space age Free Traders that explore alien planets in order to find new trading partners and exotic goods. I have read a couple volumes in this series. I found this list on Wikipedia of the others books in this series in hopes that I might read the others in this series.
Here is my tool and material list for that coupler installation:
Drill & #51 drill bitThe drill bit and tap are expected by the 28 so I don't expect to have that flat car done before the end of month. I have fallen a bit behind in the completion of my hobby projects. Here's hoping I can make a couple of these posts next month.
Small Screws Tap & Drill Sizes |
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| Screw | Tap Drill |
Clear Drill |
| 00-90 | 60 | 55 |
| 0-80 | 56 | 51 |
| 1-72 | 53 | 47 |
| 2-56 | 50 | 42 |
| 3-48 | 47 | 36 |
| 4-40 | 43 | 31 |
| 6-32 | 36 | 26 |
I was paging through my Model Railroad Handbook # 35: “Detailing Tips and Techniques” and I came across two articles that mentioned making use of mirrors on one’s layout. The first article is “Mirror Magic” by Charles Laman. The author uses two first-surface mirrors from Edmund Scientific 1 set at 90’ angles of one another at the end of a street to force the perspective of a street continuing off in the distance.
The author found that he had to experiment with the placement of his vehicle’s and signs in order to avoid the typical signs that read backwards or his vehicles seeming to be on the wrong side of the street.
In the second article, Urban Scenery, by Earl Smallshaw, which is a rather extensive article, there is a paragraph describing how the author used the same mirror type on several locations on his layout. He built them to his backgrounds extending the view of the scene.
Smallshaw references two other Model Railroader authors use of mirrors:
1 These mirrors are still available from Edmunds.
