Scratch Built Apparatus

This is a scratch build of a filtration unit.

Another greeble. I am waiting on the model putty to putty to fill in a couple of crevices.

Basic scratch building from card - Simple modern waterside building

A paper building without protrusions is non-starter for me. Without these, the structure is flat and two dimensional. However, if you add some trim around the door or windows you add some interest to the structure. Over all this buildings treatment has created a nice little building.

Another thing you can do with a "paper" building is to stick these toward the back of your layout where their lack of dimension are less likely to be noticed.

Another Set of Reaper Familar Miniatures

I am waiting on a shipment of 10-0 paint brushes. This is Reapers #02983, Familiar Pack IX. This is from their Dark Heaven Legends series. This set includes some interesting characters. Counting the last set I took in that is twelve miniatures to paint. It will be fun.

Recent Cell Ad Screenshots

I believe everyone should try a Linux distro and see what you think. Unlike Microsoft Windows Linux provides multiple versions to try. Think of it like an adventure. You may want to run it from a DVD to see if the distro fits your style.

Coffee samples. I wonder if the samples are whole bean or as the coffee been ground specifically for some version of coffee maker.

"Don't over think it." You will not be dissatisfied.

If you haven't read the original Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxyyou should before taking a look at this new edition.

Lets Make Some Greeblies

I only know what one of these contraptions is and at this point I have know idea how I might use them. The miniatures were slapped together using bits of leftover plastics, mostly! I have wanted to get to this project for some time and all I needed was an excuse to get down to my shop. The greeble in the center is a miniature desalination unit.

I have another greeble on my workbench waiting on some plastic putty. I will post this as soon as the piece is completed. Remember, you can never have too many greeble.

Plastic Model Putties

All I know was that I was unhappy with the last putty I used. So I did some searching and found this 10 Best Plastic Model Putties for Perfect Seamless Builds page.

Made my Own Small Parts Organzer

I was working on a project where I needed a set of small pieces of stock close at hand. I used four small portions of paper towel inner rolls. These were the more sturdy types found in indutrial settings. I cut them to size and glued them together and then glued them to a piece of stiff cardboard.

I have finished the project, but thought this organizer might be usefull for my smaller strips of plastic and wood. They may not be pretty but they are usefull.

Conpleting the 12' by 12' Pyramid Roofed Shack

It wasn't untill I had glued the four wwalls together that I fully understood just how off my geometry was on the roof panels. I got it worked out, but haven't had time to implment these changes,

Recent Cell Ads

I haven't time to explore these films yet. I am always looking for new materials. I will need to look into these titles soon.

Do you remember the Thunderbirds? The Thunderbirds seem to be having some sort a revival. Here to get you started is an audio book.

"Jose Cuervo is the world's oldest and best-selling tequila, produced at the historic La Rojeña distillery in Jalisco, Mexico. This specimen is a beautiful decanter created for some production mills stone in production.

Plants verses zombies are miniatures manufactured with conflict in mind. They seem to be having a revival.

Ubbo-Sathla

“For Ubbo-Sathla is the source and the end. Before the coming of Zhothaqquah or Yok- Zothoth or Kthulhut from the stars; Ubbo-Sathla dwelt in the steaming fens of the new-made Earth: a mass without head or members, spawning the gray, formless efts of the prime and the grisly prototypes of terrene life...And all earthly life, it is told, shall go back at last through the great circle of time to Ubbo-Sathla.”

The Book of Eibon

“The Book of Eibon, that strangest and rarest of occult forgotten volumes ... is said to have come down through a series of manifold translations from a prehistoric original written in the lost language of Hyperborea. „

Clark Ashton Smith, "Ubbo-Sathla"

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Ubbo-Sathla, Clark Ashton Smith

Tall and Crooked Trees

“You know how tall all the trees are in Mulligan Wood. You can’t see the tops of some of them from the wagon-road on a clear day. And you know how crooked and queer-looking some of them are.

It’s funny, but I’ve always thought of them as old men-tall old men, you understand, tall and crooked and very evil. I’ve always thought of them as wanting to work mischief. There’s something unwholesome about trees that grow very close together and grow crooked.

...Through swirling clouds of fog we saw the scaly, gnarled boles of the trees, and every bole resembled the twisted body of an evil old man."

Tales of Cthulhu Mythos, Vol. 1, H.P. Lovercraft & Others, The Space Eaters, Frank Belknap Long

It has been a long while since I made a tree post,

Kitbash for Carnage

The video gives the viewer a streight forward method to building a vehicle ready for the Gas Lands.

H.P. Lovecraft, The Thing

“The awful squid-head with writhing feelers came nearly up to the bow-spit of the sturdy yacht…

There was bursting as of an exploding bladder, a slushy nastiness as of a cloven sunfish, a stench as of a thousand open graves, and a sound that the chronicler would not put on paper.

For an instant the ship was befouled by an acrid and blinding green cloud, and then there was only a venomous seething...”

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol. 1

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The Thing

The Rule of Law

Happy 250th America

Source unknown.

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Overview - Rule of Law

What is the Rule of Law?