I just received my order from eBay; a bag of random metal HO scale detail parts. I have no idea if they were hand-casted, but they do have the look as being retrograde detail parts.
There are to my count, thirteen figures, both male and female, fourteen platform seats, a few architectural pieces, a shovel, barrel, cast-iron stove, ETC. There are a few parts that have perked my curiosity. They seem to be parts for a small flatcar of some sort.
“Dis graced he may be, yet is not de-throne, and keep the rags of lordship once he owned. Man, Sub-creator, the refracted Light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly confined in living shapes that move from mind to mind.”
Myths are "lies breathed through silver."
On Fairy Stories, J. R. R. Tolkien
“Magic produces, or pretends to produce an alteration in the Primary World; it is not an art but a technique; its desire is power in this world and domination of things and wills.”
J. R. R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories
Manx Fairy Tales, by Sophia Morrison, 1919
“The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things; all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril: both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.”
Tales from the Perilous Realm, "On Fairy Stories", J.R.R. Tolkien
Universal Studies, Mortal Engines
The antagonist Shrike, was a resurrected one that was rebuilt in last century. Ninety percent robot, but he still holds on to his human mental facilities (however slight they may have become over the decades, there is no one left to judge). Built as Stalker and mechanical warrior and having received a commission from the Lord Mayor of London, Shrike is on his way to arrest and kill Hester Shaw, a protagonist in Mortal Engines.
“Shrike moves through the suburbs streets with his head swigging slowly from side to side. Bodies drift in the flooded rooms, like cold tea bags left too long in the pot. Small fish dart in and out of a pirates mouth. A girls hair coils on the currents”...
Mortal Engines, book 1, Philip Reeve
Oh, oh!
“The flash of a crimson robe out in the Digestion Yards caught Tom’s eye. The major of the pirate suburb had come down to look at his latest catch, and he was strutting along the walkways outside the cells, surrounded by his bodyguards. He was a tiny little man, stooping and hunched, a bald head and scrawny neck jutting from the cat fur collar of his gown.”
Mortal Engines, book 1, Philip Reeve
Table of Contents
Part 1
The Hunting Ground
Valentine
The Waste Chute
The Out-Country
The Lord Major
Speedwell
High London
The Trading Cluster
The Jenny Haniver
The 13th Floor Elevator
Airhaven
The Gasbag and Gondola
The Resurrected Man
The Guildhall
The Rustwater Marshes
The Turd Tanks
The Pirate Suburb
Bevis
The Sea of Khazak
The Black Island
In the Engineerium
Shrike
MEDUSA
Part 2
An Agent of the League
The Historians
Batmunker Gonpa
Dr. Arkengarth Remembers
A Stranger in the Morentains of Heaven
Going Home
The Eavesdropper
Chudleigh Pomeroy Sees It Through
Wine and Nibbles and the Dawn of a New Era
Idea for a Firework Display
The Cathedral
The Shadow of Bones
The Bird Roads
An alternative cover and edition
Mortal Engines, Universal Pictures, November 27, 2018
"The Jenny Haniver was no elegant sky-clipper, but was in fact a culmination of bits of junk scavenged from junk yards. “There was an envelope of silicon silk from a Shan Guo clipper, twin Jeunet Carot areo engines off a Paris gunship, the reinforced gas-cells of a Spitzbergen war-balloon, it is amazing what one can find at a junkyard”.
Mortal Engines, book 1, Philip Reeve
This is a Peco 0-16.5 Narrow Gauge, 2-Ton Flat Wagon from their Great Little Train collection. It was quickly assembled with a bit of solder and a solder iron. It requires a break handle and a little paint. This wagon runs on HO gauge track, the same as On30 trains.
Great Little TrainsThis is, I am assuming, a partial list of this line of Peco’s offerings.
Cooper Craft G & W Open Wagon
This OO gauge G & W open wagon is first in my “Small Wagon” series. As the title suggests the kit is from Cooper Craft, which are manufactured in England. This is only one of two in my collection and has seen better days. Both of the models have seen some ware and are missing a few of their small details. Though they do track well.
Cooper Craft G & W Goods Van
Here are few other images of small wagons I recently collected.
“Ours is a world crippled by ignorance, and superstition, its technological and social development held back by deluded nostalgia for outdated aesthetic and ethical philosophies. Always looking backward, never forward into the future.”
Steam Girl, Dylan Horrocks
Steam Girl is a short story that was found in an anthology titled “Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories”
I went on to read all three of Gipson’s Sprawl series and at the time these text really had an effect on me. They changed my whole philosophy and take on the Internet that had just a few years earlier had made its debut into society. The whole idea of being one with the Internet or as Gibson likes to refer to it Cyberspace perked my imagination.
I have since read a few additional novels by William Gibson, but did not know that he had written two other trilogies. Here are all three of Gibson’s trilogies:
