Scavenging Bits from a Door and Window Casting

I picked this window and door casting out of my windows and doors bin the other day while looking for odds and ends for an upcoming project. However, the dutch door seemed to be bit underscale. The door measures 2.5 scale feet wide, which is acceceptable and 4.5 feet high, which in most cases is way under scale. Although most doors measure 7 foot high, finding a door that measurers less than this is not improbable, however unless the structure is being built for darfs, 4.5 feet is not going to work. Not if you have scaled itens close by.

The windows on the other hand measure 2 by 2.5 scale feet (1/87 scale) which makes them usefull for an upcoming project.The door, well I will throw back into my collection of doors and windows and see what comes of it. Prehaps I will want ot build a wee little structure for darfs someday.

One use Tools

Although these tools may be useful outside their desinated uses, they were created and included with products for a specific use.

A miniature flat head screwdriver. This is the smallest example of those tools.

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I didn't bother to measure this wrench, but it does look it may be a useful sized wrench. However noticing the materials in which was formed tells me that it would stand up to much use.

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Both of these philips-screwdrivers may be useful for light work found on the hobby workbench. I keep one like the larger one in with my dremel tool to tighten my sanding disks.

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I don't use allen keys all that much, but they do seem to a poplular assemble tools found in all sorts of products. I have them in all different sizes and configurations. The allen key at the bottom is your standard make, while the silver one has a star point configuration, really making it for a specific use.

It Looks Like a Gondola to Me

I perchased this bag of metal parts sometime ago, and at the time I, did inventory of the components I noticed parts for what looked like a gondola. I have been some tinkering and dry fitting the parts and I have decided that the parts will create a narrow gauge gondola. N-gauge wheels fit comfortable in the boggie so that makes it a narrow gauge (HOn30} train car. This, atleast, is my intention for these kits parts.

The "kit" in under construction. I used expoxy to construct the kit.

N-guage wheels fit comfortable within the wheel set.

Colorized Fritz Lang's Metropolis Dance Scene

Dune Messiah Epilogue

No bitter stench of funeral-still for Muad' dib,
No knell nor solemn rite to free the mind
From avaricious shadows,
He is the fool saint,
The golden stranger living forever
On the edge of reason.
Let your gaurd fall and he is there!
His crimson peace and sovereign pallor
Strike into our Universal prophetic webs
To the verge of a quiet glance-there!
Out of bristling star-jungles.
Mysterious, lethal, an oracle without eyes,
Catspaw of prophecy, whose voice never dies!
Shai-hulud, he awaits there upon the strand
Where couples walk and fix, eye to eye,
The delicious ennui of love
He strides through the long cavern of time,
Scattering the fool-self of his dream.

-The Ghola's Hymn

Hot Wheels Roller Toaster

Hot Wheels: HKH20/M9COC, Roller Toaster. From HW,s Sweet Rides mini collection.

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From the back of the 2017 card:

Born: 2017
Birthplace: El Segundo
Designer: Hot Wheels®
Specialty: You never know what you will see at the 24-hour endurance race and the Roller Toaster™ is not out of place. For one crazy weekend of road course racing, this comedic van slices up the track burning the rubber—and the road!

The Adventures of Tiny Toy Cars

The adventures of tiny toy cars features several miniature toy cars roughing it through some playful but yet precarious landscapes.

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Some other miniatures present on the site.

Fixed broken link : 4/13/23 @ 12:40pm

Hot Wheels Bat Man Forever Batmobile

This BatMobile was created for the 1995 Batman Forever movie. The Batmobile features a jet engine and exhaust, a split cokpit canopy and a special V-shaped batwing at the rear of the vehicle.

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Batman Series (2023)

The Metropolis Android

Maria, the Metropolis Android

Metropolis a Glimpse into the Future

Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction film about Metropolis a futuristic themed city. The city and its society is dystopian where the workers serve the rich by keeping the city and its industries running. The elites live above gound and in luxury, while the working class live in drudgery under ground and are not able to enjoy the luxury goods they toil to produce.

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Edits: Links added and grammar corrected on 4/6/23 @ 11:30 am.

The Trouble with Retro-fitting

I haven't had to many good experinces with retro-fitting while working in scale. In other words, realizing I made a mistake along the assembly stage, it isn't always easy to make something fit when it previsouly did not. And when designing you don't always know what is or what is not going to work.

I suppose it is best to try to foresee all possible outcomes, but how are you going to do that when you haven't gone down this road before? So that brings me to my latest update. Although I have most of the robots components worked out I still do not have a foolproof method for attaching the robots hands to its arms. My first attempt required a new set of robotic hands.

Hot Wheels Ford Transit Connect

Ford Transit Connect: HKH50.

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From the back of the 2014 card:

" Born: 2014
Birthplace: Dearborn, MI, USA
Designer: Hot Wheels® and Ford
Specialty: The special Hot Wheels® version of the Ford Transit Connect was created for the 2013 SEMA show. The real life version is fully loaded with custom features including two 18-inch tablets, a 55-inch television screen, gullwing doors and a built-in Hot Wheels® drag strip.
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This vehicle is from Hot Wheels Art Cars Collection. I have one other in my collection.

Alia Atreides, A Host of Characters

The Telling of the Priestess Alia’s Trance Through Song

“She rides the sandworm of space! She guides it through all storms. Into the land of gentle winds.
Though we sleep next to the snake’s den, she guards our dreaming souls.
Shunning the desert heat, she hides us in a cool hollow.
The gleaming of her whole teeth, guides us in the night.
By the braids of her hair, we are lifted up to heaven!
Sheet fragrance, flower-scented,
Surrounds us in her presence.”

Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert

Rockmilk

"Rockmilk.-Lactus saxi. Viscous and heavy as magna, but bone cold. And dense with thaumaturgons, the charged particles. Worth several times its considerable weight in gold, or diamonds, or oil or blood.

'Ships don’t use fucking rockmilk to fire their engines,” Silas said. 'Whatever they are stockpiling for, its not just to keep their vessels trim.'”

The Scar, China Mieville