I own a few of these. I had purchased them for kit-bashing projects. I wish I had purchased a few more of these models, since they have become harder to located. Although they may not have the same amount of detail as other kits they are well made and simply constructed.
I scribed horizontal lines down both sides of the strip and plan on adding holes at either end big enough to accept tubing. At the moment, I have no idea on what these specifically may be used for. They will be added to something appropriate.
At the time I laid these rails out I had no idea as to what they might become. I decided they would become "pipe rails"
Although its consistancy is almost perfect it does have a strong oder and is quite toxic to work with. The Tamiya model putty is grey and flows well from the tube.
Many years ago when I first got bitten by model train bug I started to collect reference materials. At the time Dave Frary had been building model railways for 30 years. I am thankful that I found these titles eary on. They saved me a lot of time.
Keeping it simple and painting the core black. Wrap and glue thin copper wire in the grooves and adhere to the textured black base. A small control box to be added on the base.
It didn't happen that way and I am still tweaking its design. I have painted the cork screw copper and drilled two small holes on the bottom of the rod. I was planning on adding two small stands here, but after I gave it a try and it all seemed too flimsy. The center piece needs a bit of touch-up where I used aluminum paint. An equipment box needs to fabricated and "attached" to the base of the screw.
I've been wanting to build a structure like this for some time and now I have a possible prototype. It looks like a simple and fun build with polystyrene sheets.
This is one of those iconic scenes from the original Blade Runner and one of my favorites.
The sights and sounds of this video are outstanding. I need to make another run through the film and take a few more screenshots.
The many aspects of the iconic Blade Runner blimp advertising, and an out-of-this-world job.
Adam Savage's Blade Runner Blimp Replica!
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The scary oddball stands approximately 67mm tall and like other Brainrots, is cast from a solid PVC material. I researched my last Brianrot character and found it had a name. Perhaps this one does too. It probably does.
Contextural link (PVC) created above on 8.29.26 @ 11:53.
“Destroy every living thing in that room – every living thing, no matter how small. Abner Whately’s grandfather wrote in the strange letter he left after his death.
Abner did not understand until he saw the prints in the dust of the shuttered room – prints of tiny, webbed human hands and feet. Hundreds of them.”
The Shuttered Room and Other Tales of Horror, H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
The Masks of Cthulhu & the Cthulhu Mythos, first part
I don't know how I could have missed this infomation leaflet with the assembly instructions for the assembly of a broken hand car. This is the Woodland Scenics Details Trackside Junk, D202 metal details kit.
This was a simple build and with a little paint and weathering it turned out a convincing model.
This was when mu materials collection was rather small. I had everything in one container. It got to a point where I had to devide my materials by type. This made it eaiser to find the materials I needed.
I don't rember the manufacturer of this kit.
As of today, this craftment kit or an old water tank sits unfinished.
This is a scratch build of a filtration unit. I formed bits of styrene components into what you see here.
Another greeble. I am waiting on the model putty to putty to fill in a couple of crevices. (the model putty came through the mail). The putty worked great and I like the end result.
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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.
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.
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 Galaxy you should before taking a look at this new edition.
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, on the top is am industrial coil unit, and the greeble on the bottom is a type of distiller.
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.
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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.
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.
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,
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.
“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
“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,
The video gives the viewer a streight forward method to building a vehicle ready for the Gas Lands.
“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
“No book had ever really hinted of it, though the deathless Chinamen said that there were double meanings in the Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred which the initiated might read as they chose, especially the much discussed couplet:
‘That is not dead which can eternal lie,Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Volume 1, The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft
“In a point of time, the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred, was the first character of the Cthulhu Mythos to the make his appearance; this was in strongly Dunsanian tale, The Nameless City (1921), fashioned about the unexplainable couplet.”
‘That is not dead which can eternal lie,Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Volume 1, The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft
"The vast, terrible enity from beyound time and sapce who waits brooding in his cyclopean home in sunken R'lyeh symbol and actuality of inimaginable nightmare - the greatest creation of H.P. Lovecraft.
The Cthulhu Mythos inspired many authors to write storoes using it as a theme - and thie anthology contains the best of these, together with key Cthulhu stories by Lovecraft. Some of these authors are: August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Howard, Frank Belknap Long , J. Vernon Shea".
“In brief, the book, originally entitled Al Azif, was written circa AD. 730 at Damascus by Abdul Alhazred, “a mad poet of Sana, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade Caliphs.”
Thereafter, its history unfolds as follows:
“Translated into Greek as the Necronomican, AD. 950 by Theodouis Philetas”Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft and Others
It is ashame that I never got around to purchasing other mini-scenes from Sierra West. These kits are simple to build and will great once you have added paint and a weathering treatment. These mini scenes are components from their craftmen kits. The package includes wood strips for the tank stand and several resin detail pieces, all finely detailed.
I some how lost track of this photo. This set includes six 3D printed objects from Creepyhero Studios. I won't attempt to indentify any of these exhibits with any accuracy. However whatever its attended use I can repurpose it, I can make something new out of it, or I can break it up into smaller objects and add these parts on to larger componets.
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 rÃoAsà es como se enamoraTu corazón con el mÃoLuna, 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.
The main Replicants in the BladeRunner franchise:
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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