How to Use Each Dremil Bit

Until I watched this video I didn't know about the verity of bits that were available for the dremel tool let alone how they were used used. This a very informative and inspirational video and you will learn new uses for your dremel tool.

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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel

My first post on this text was in 2017 and the last was in 2021. Whether I added this link to any of these posts is unknown. Having made 50 or so posts I am not keen on poking through these posst to find whether I had or hadn't added this link. If I have not, I should have:

"Please vist this link: www.jonathanstrange.com to read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel's reactions to Susanna Clarke's novel among other magical things..."

Mini Slayer

My posts have been scant this month. This miniature stands approximately 33mm tall and is cast from resin. Although he is pretty detailed I don't know if I will paint him.

Could These Micro Tools Actually Work?

Adam Savage Makes a Machining "Cheese Plate"!

More Fictional Titles

Sometime ago I made my first post of "special books", those titles that were referred to in some piece of fiction. In the past I have researched the titles and have come upi empty. They prove to be fictional titles that were mentioned within the test, a figment of the authors imagination.

Here are a few more of these "made-up" titles.

"These, however, were but a prelude to his shelves of books, designated for deposit to the university library. Some appeared fabulously old, so old in fact, that they bore no dates and must have decended, to judge from their appearence and their written characters, from medieval times. The more recent of these were not dated beyound 1850:

Pnakotic Manuscripts
R'lyeh Text
Unaussprechlichen Kutten, von Jungt
The Book of Eitho
The Dhol Chants
The Seven Crypical Books of Hson
Ludvig Prumn's De Vermi's Mysteries
The Celalno Fragments
The Cultes desGoules of the Conte d'Erlette
The Book of Dzyan
Photostat copy of the Necromicon

Japanese Long Bows

The amount of work and time that goes into a Japanese log bow is astonishing.

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<-- Previously: Process of Making a Traditional English Longbow<

Twenty Diminutive Souls

They are small, that is for sure. I would say they are close to 1/100 scale and they do not have too much in the way of details to their faces and fingers. Well for what they cost I wasn't expecting too much. With a little touch-up paint I can use them to fill in some scene. In the background of a crowd or possibly somewhere in the backgound of my layout.

I know I have been slacking on my posts. I got pretty close to my goal of fifteen posts this month. I haven't been getting any projects completed, although I do have couple on the workbench that are under construction.

Another Old Book Ad - Frank Yerdy

From the back pages of my yellowing 1961 copy of Bruce Catton's A Stillness at Appomattox, an old ad for Frank Yerby's books. I haven't had time to research Frank's work yet, but his book entitled The Vixens is intriguing.

Alligator Resin

Cast from resin this little cartoonish looking alligator measures approximately 57 long by 25mm wide.

I have different ideas as to what should be included on my model railroad layout. To add just a hint of whimsy he or is it a she will be added in the swamp on my layout.

Scale Model Geek

The Scale Model Geek channel features quite a few videos on the art of scale modeling that is whimsical, inspirational and informative.

The Table of Contents and Preface to The Survivor and Others

"Amoung the papers of the late Howard Phillip Lovecraft were various notes and or outlines for stories which he did not live to write. Of these, the most complete was the title story of this collection."

The Survivor
Wentworth's Day
The Peabody Heritage
The Gable Window
The Ancestor
The Shaddow Out of Space
The Lamp of Alhazred

"Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. Perhaps it is the aroma of evil deeds committed under a particular roof, long after the actual doers have passed away, that makes the gooseflesh come and the hair rise. Something of the original passion of the evil-doer, and of the horror felt by his victim, enters the heart of the innocent watcher, and he becomes suddenly conscious of tingling nerves, creeping skin, and a chilling of the blood..."

—ALGERNON BLACKWOOD

Preface from The Survivor, H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth.

Contributors to the Cthulha Mythos

Although Lovecraft may not had planned the Cthulha Mythos at the beginning, it didn't stop his contemporaries from contributing to its cause and eventual creation. These contributors using many of the same races added to the Cthulha Mythos:

Frank Belknap Long
Clark Aston Smith
August Derleth
Lin Carter
Robert W. Chambers
Robert E. Howard

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More authors and their work. Classic Mythos Online

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Added text (Mythos) to the first paragraph on 3/31/25 at 1:10PM.

Updated on 3/25/25 at 11:48. I added the link above.

The Ballantine Horror Series

I found this list of additional titles of Ballentine’s horror line of books in The Survivor and Others, by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth. This volume was published in 1957 and with its yellowing and water damaged pages is not in great condition.

#377K The Sound of Hos Horn, Sarban
#380K Tales to be Told in the Dark, Basil Davenport
#431K The Doll Maker, Sarbon
#458K Some of your Blood, Theodore Sturgeon
#466K Things with Claws, edited by Whit and Hallie Burnett
#508K Night'sBlack Agents, Fritz Lieber, Jr.
#522K Tales of Love and Horror, editor Don Congdon
#574 Zackerly's Vulture Stew

In addition, there are three books featured at the bottom the back cover.

Alone by Night
Shaddows with Eyes
Nine Orro

These titles may or may not still be available, but with not posting this list these titles would be lost to most of us.