A Template for the Windows on the 1/87 Scale Board & Batten Structure

I thought I would give building scale windows another try. This time armed with some advice and a templete i created using some leftover material. I marked one to five scale feet on the vertical and the horizontaL and then added a half foot mark. This will ensure that the horizontal and vertical sides are the same length.

I had intended to use this template as a guild when constructing the window. However, It is already proving to be a very tedious process and I am thinking on yet another method for creating scale windows.

Miscellaneous Patterned Bits

Like I allude to in an ealier post I thought it might be interesting going through these bank envelopes to see what they contain.

This envelope was marked with "patterned bits". It contains small bits from walls, roofs, and a veirty of other bits. A few of the bits have a brick pattern that might be used for brick chiminy. Who knows how a couple of pieces on clear materials got in the mix.

Remnants of a Highwaymen's or a Pirates Life

"Money. In rolls and tight wraps. A hugh haul of coins and notes, in scores of currencies. Shekels, nobles, and guineas, yes, the newest decades old, but there were ducats too, dollars, and rupees and sandnotes and arcane bawbees, square coins, little ingots from maritime provinces, from Shankell, from Perrick Nigh and from cities Ori was not sure he believed in.

A 'contribution', said the note enclosed. 'To hep with a Good Plan. In Jack's memory'."

Iron Council, China Mieville

Material Organization - Plastics - By Type & Color

How else would you organize these byte-sized bits except by type or color.

Remembering, a greebly can be and usually are created from something larger. A corner, a tip, a rectangle, or god knows what else.

Luner Lander, an Update

Outside of what is on my workbench I have been tending to other projects like gardening and the optimizing my work spaces.I have also been doing my share of reading. Here is the progress to my Luner Lander up until this point. It still needs some paint and perhaps a few small details.

New Crobuzon's Bonetown

"They were in Bonetown. They watched evening come in livid shades through the silhouettes of the Bonetown Claws and Ribs. The ancient bones that gave the area its name curved more than two hundred feet into the air, cracking, yellowed, mouldering at a geological pace, dwarfing the houses around them."

Iron Council, China Mieville

Model Ships from Paper

Here is a maker with a passion for building miniature ships. Although his fleet is already extensive, this maker continues to build his ships.

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• Another miniature ship build
• Model making with paper, tips and tricks
• Building paper ship models
• Experiments-in-cardpaper-modeling

Hand Made RC Benz G Wagon From PVC Pipe

I am sure the construction of this model wasn't as easy as the author made it seem. Still it was fascinating to see the Benz G Wagon being put together, component by conponent from recycled material.

The Revelers at Fallybeggers Hall

"Up close to the orchestra by the stage it was a cramped clot of men and women, polyglot and many-raced. A slick of vagabonds, petty thieves. and their bosses, discharged foreign soldiers, discharged jailbirds, dissolute rich and tinkers, beggers, pimps and their charges, chancers, knife-grinders, poets, and police agents. Humans, and here and there catus-heads poking over the crowd (allowed in only if their thorns were plucked), the Cactacae,¹ and the scarab-heads of the khepri.

Cigarillas hung form mouths, and people banged their glasse or cutery in time while waiters went between them, on the sawdusted floor..."

Iron Council, China Mieville

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¹The Cactacae are enormous humanoid plant people, often towering over human beings.

The New Crobuzon Fallybeggers Hall

"Fallybeggers Hall was huge and was perminated and clogged with smoke and certain aroma's of drugs. In the boxes and raised circle were the big men and their hangers-on, and sometimes the big woman too."

Iron Council, China Mieville

Small Paper & Wood Project Parts Organization and Storage

I use a variety of means to store and help organize my materials and my project parts. If I would work on one project at a time I wouldn't have the problem of loosing project parts. So with small projects: paper, wood, and some plastics I will take on of these bank envelopes from the stack, jot a few descriptive words on the top, and store my parts and or materials in the envelope until I am ready to come back to it.

Here is a collection of these envelopes which I thought, at some point, might be fun to go through, especailly since I see I have at least two projects, in the mix, that need to be completed.

So Close to Home

"Next Year,   Next Month,   Next Week,   Today...

• What might happen if the atom fell into the hands of "primative" people
• And a possible genetic effect of radio-activity
• A sudden satire excursion into the lotus-eating environs of mathematical theoretician
• And New York enveloped in an impenetrable dome of gray-great for commuters, but how about the folks inside
• Here a woman in a worf rocketeers who still can't strike a match properly
• And a poet turned amateur doctor who's frighteningly practical
• A young girl who designs complex decorations for ladies' fingernails, but with a kicker"

And Many More-   Your World,   Your Life-   As It Coulod Be Today

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Table of Contents

1. Struggle in the Womb, pg. 7
2. Sponge Dive, pg. 14
3. One-shot, pg. 27
4. The Box, pg. 39
5. First Strike, pg. 58
6. The Abattoir Effect, pg. 73
7. Th Oath, pg. 91
8. FYI, pg. 110
9. The Masks, pg. 118
10. Testament of Andros, pg. 122

Although this volume was copyrighted in 1961, most of the stories within were published previously.

‘“Struggle in the Womb” © 1950 by Columbia Publication, Inc., reprinted as “Battle of the Unborn” by James Blish; “One-Shot” © 1953 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc., reprinted from Astounding Science Fiction; “Sponge Dive” © 1958 by Royal Publications, Inc., reprinted from Infinity Science Fiction; “The Box", © 1949 by Standard Magazines, Inc., reprinted from Thrilling Wonder Stories; “The Testament of Andros” © 1953 by Infinity Columbia Publications, Inc., reprinted from Future Fiction; “First Strike” © 1953 by Fantasy House, Inc., reprinted from Fantasy and Science Fiction; “The Oath” © 1960 by Fantasy House, Inc., reprinted from Fantasy and Science Fiction; “The Masks © 1960 by Fantasy House Inc., reprinted from Fantasy and Science Fiction; “Turn of the Century” © 1953 by Columbia Publications, Inc., reprinted from Dynamic Science Fiction.’

So Close to Home, James Blish, (c) 1969, Ballantine Books<

Cardstock Flooring

I don't remember the exact treatment this piece of cardstock recieved or its intended purpose. I do remember scoring boards and using a light color for the base, followed with what looks like a couple of dry-brushings with darker colors. With a height of just six feet I am guesing I was planning on useing with element for interor flooring. By using sturdyer cardstock you could also use this technique to create a wooden fence.

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Fencing from Leftovers

Luner Lander Underway

Materials for this unit came primarily from my bits bin. Also pictured on the bench are a tweezer and a needle file, in the upper right and two weights on the left hand side of the picture. In addition there two small bits of styrene sheets and one rod. The rod is out of stock.

Planet Claire - The B-52's

An odd little ditty about a place far away. by the B-52's.

Lyrics

She came from Planet Claire
I knew she came from there
She drove a Plymouth Satellite
A-faster than the speed of light
Planet Claire has pink air
All the trees are red
No one ever dies there
No one has a head
Some say she's from Mars
Or one of the seven stars that shine after three-thirty in the morning
Well, she isn't!
She came from Planet Claire
She came from Planet Claire
She came from Planet Claire

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Edited on 6/4 at 11:41.

Repurposed

Several of my viewers susgested that several of "robot vermin" could have alternative uses. Such as, moving from left to right, 2, 3, and 5 might have used as space ships, probes or satellites. I see what you mean and have decided to build several more of these models with these ideas in mind.

Components for a luna lander. Mind you it may not be owe moon, but something interstellar.