"Radio Paradise was founded in 2000 is a listener-supported internet radio station currently based in Eureka, California." They offer several channels, however the Main Mix is my favorite.I have been listening to Radio Paradise's main mix for a couple of years and I am always pleased.
If I should want something different I have recently found these Internet radio stations.
I was doing some research on roof types and found this page and thought it might me usefull.
"Mastering the Art of Crafting a Sharp Knife" is just the first of many how to vidoes on knife making and sharpening.
It is quite odd how when I first posted this there were several other knife making videos including on this page. Now there is just one. And I fear this one might one day be replaced. If that should happen try this one instead.
There are eight little lovelies in Demiak's Deepwater Horizon exhibit. The shack models are especially inspirational.
The link above was added on 10/11/2024, @ 4:00 PM
Although there are no instructions, Green Stuff World's 1950's rocket build provides plenty of images of the construction process for this scratch built retro spaceship.
Screenshot from AI a film directed by Steven Spielberg. This one was one of the more odd robots featured in AI. He was propelled by four spider-like legs.
This one like others were shot from a cannon, while others were dowsed with acid as the Flesh Fair crowd watched and cheered as they melted away.
See some of the many things you can do with plastic.Polystyrene is versatile, is easy to work with, and is an economical medium.
Beginners Guild to Working with Polystyrene.
A hobby knifes with ten blades for under a USD. The knife comes with two different knife blades and as you can see they come in different colors. I found these on a site called TEMU. TEMU has all sorts of products and all are reasonably priced. I have made several purchases and they were shipped and recieved promptly.
The adventures of tiny toy cars features several miniature toy cars roughing it through some playful but yet precarious landscapes.
Some other miniatures present on the site.
Fixed broken link : 4/13/23 @ 12:40pm
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.
This a tumbler site depicting the authors collection of miniature things. The authors takes ordinary things and creates miniature works of art. As the authors mentions: "This blog is dedicated to my devotion to miniature things".
It is a shame that this site has not been updated for sometime. Perhaps the author will pick up again and deliver more of thier curious discoveries.
Page was updated on 6/17/22
Here is a link back to Voyages Extraordinaries and a artilce they republished on their site "Strange Ships that Sail in the Skies". The article is reprint of a 1897 article that purported many fanicful and may I add whimsical "flying-machines".
“Although the term “slum” was not widely recognized until 1890 a vague and familiar pattern was recognized as a contributing factor to the creation of these regions. A region of the city would be cut-off from circulation by a nearly constructed thoroughfare that bypassed it; businesses departed, disagreeable industries would move in creating local noise and air pollution and further reducing the attractiveness of the area; ultimately, no one with the means to live elsewhere would choose to live in such a place, and the region would become decrepit, badly maintained, and over populated by the lowest classes.
Prior to being referred to as slums these regions were known as to as rookeries and London had several notorious rookeries. There were the Seven dials, Rosemary Lane, Jacob’s Island, and Ratcliffe Highway, however none were more famous or should I say infamous than the six-acres in central London that comprised the rookery of St. Giles, otherwise known as ‘the Holy Land’. The Holy Land was located near the theatre district of Leicester Sq., the prostitution center of the Hay Market, and the fashionable shops of Regent Street. The St. Giles rookery was strategically located for any criminal who wanted to ‘go to around’.”
The Great Train Robbery, Michael Crichton
"In such a neighborhood, beyond Dockhead in the Borough of Southwark, stands Jacob’s Island, surrounded by a muddy ditch, six or eight feet deep and fifteen or twenty wide when the tide is in, once called Mill Pond, but known in the days of this story as Folly Ditch. It is a creek or inlet from the Thames, and can always be filled at high water by opening the sluices at the Lead Mills from which it took its old name. At such times, a stranger, looking from one of the wooden bridges thrown across it at Mill Lane, will see the inhabitants of the houses on either side lowering from their back doors and windows, buckets, pails, domestic utensils of all kinds, in which to haul the water up; and when his eye is turned from these operations to the houses themselves, his utmost astonishment will be excited by the scene before him. Crazy wooden galleries common to the backs of half a dozen houses, with holes from which to look upon the slime beneath; windows, broken and patched, with poles thrust out, on which to dry the linen that is never there; rooms so small, so filthy, so confined, that the air would seem too tainted even for the dirt and squalor which they shelter; wooden chambers thrusting themselves out above the mud, and threatening to fall into it—as some have done; dirt-besmeared walls and decaying foundations; every repulsive lineament of poverty, every loathsome indication of filth, rot, and garbage; all these ornament the banks of Folly Ditch.
In Jacob’s Island, the warehouses are roofless and empty; the walls are crumbling down; the windows are windows no more; the doors are falling into the streets; the chimneys are blackened, but they yield no smoke. Thirty or forty years ago, before losses and chancery suits came upon it, it was a thriving place; but now it is a desolate island indeed. The houses have no owners; they are broken open, and entered upon by those who have the courage; and there they live, and there they die. They must have powerful motives for a secret residence, or be reduced to a destitute condition indeed, who seek a refuge in Jacob’s Island."
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
What was it like to live in the London of Charles Dickens?
The London Of Charles Dickens: Mapped
Updated on 10.25.21 & 10.27.21
Colossal has made two new posts. One representing illustration and the other on design. You will need to scroll down to view the second post. Both of the posts are well worth your visit.
Over the years I have made a few posts under the airship and ether flyers labels. However Voyages Extraodinaires has posted so many of these types of posts under their Flying Machines label. It is an extraordinary collection of references to bygone movies, vintage publications and yes, Flying Michines.
I have always been fascinated with the use of paper, especially using this medium to build things. I define paper as anything derived from a tree. So that runs the whole array of materials from paper, cardboard, and all products manufactured from paper.
In my pursuit of research I recently found three resources and sites that either display some astounding paper models or share some simple techniques to get you started working with paper.
This Insane Paper Plane Has Taken 10 Years to Build
Paperholm (here are four links feature the works of Charles-Young) Miniature city built from paper. Many of the structures include animated elements.
Intro to Paper-craft: Structure and Detail (this two page PDF will introduce the reader into the art of paper-craft)
This page published by "We are the Mutants", (I haven't explored to much of this site, but it does look interesting and it seems worthy of a romp through), offers some fanciful late- fifties spacecraft models from Revell. The short and interesting article mentions the space race and Revel’s motivations for manufacturing these designs during that time period.
These steampunk airships were created mostly from cardboard and are extraordinary...
I learned about the Cray Valley Railroad through my reading of Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette. The article, written by Peter Bartlett, was about his Hon30 railroad. Bartlett a native of England models an American narrow gauge prototype.
I am truly amazed by Bartlett’s roster of locomotives. The Cray Valley Railroad features dozens of steam, locomotives and critters of both types. This layout is truly a one of kind.
