The Da Vinci Code - Quotes

"Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles deceiving the stupid mulitude."

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us, O' wretched mortals, open your eyes!."

Leonardo Da Vinci

Sling Rave Curvette, Weird-ohs #5 Collector Card

These cards measure 2.75 by 3.5 inches. This is card #5 "Sling Rave Curvette".

Cellar Horrows

“At last I heard the sounds from beyond those barred plates of sheet iron: the mencing padding and muttering, as of gigantic night things within.

Out of the cellar’s evil blackness they stretched, with shadowy hints of scaly wrists beyond them, and with a waving malignant will guiding their horrible groping.

I had come as a seeker-but now I knew that something was seeking me…”

The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions, H. P. Lovecraft and others, August Derleth, 1970.

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A 245 page paperback novel, featuring 10 short stories. Published by Ballantine Books.

Contents

1. The Crawling Chaos, H. P. Lovecraft and Elizabeth Berkeley
2. The Green Meadow, H. P. Lovecraft and Elizabeth Berkeley
3. Winged Death, Hazel Heald
4. The Horror in the Museum, Hazel Heald
5. The Diary of Alonzo Typer, William Lumley
6. The Horror in the Burying Ground, Hazel Heald
7. The Electric Executioner, Adolphe de Castro
8. The Curse of Yig, Zealia Bishop
9. The Mound, Zealia Bishop
10. Two Black Bottles, Wilfred Blanch Talman

Weird-ohs Collector Cards

Coming soon...Featuring some of Bill Campbell's incredible characters originally developed over 40 years ago. Weird-o collectable cards are back."

Painting my Robot Vermin

I needed a break from my paperwork so I am started to paint my robot vermin.

Picture of my robot vermin being painted. When I grab a paint brush and a tin of paint this will be my sixth or seventh interation through these sculpts. I usually will use two new colors to paint or touch-up the miniatures at one time and perhaps a third to touch up the miniatures I have already painted.

The Repairshop, Season 4, Episode 29

Watch as a model train, a doll and a ditty box are restored to a pristine condition by a set of restoration artists.

Home and Shed Completed

This the project I started back at the end of August and made a post at the beginning of September. This is the new home for Terence and Percy. Percy hinted about a shed for his projects so a small one was built for him.

They really wanted a home of their own so one was thrown up using the materials we had in hand. It is not too pretty, but it is dry and will be warm once they start using the wood stove. Although there is little bit of wood in its construction it is mostly built from cardstock.

I really wanted to make use of those odds and ends I have laying around and in my "junk" boxes. As you will notice I used a piece of scrapbooking paper for the wall. Lastly, I used a leftover piece of embossed brick paper for the rear wall.

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Terence and Percy's Shed

The shed is made up of two layers of material. A cardstock sub-wall and another piece of that scrapbooking paper. The panel door is made up of cardstock sub and the actual panels were fashioned from a thinner piece of cardstock which I painstakenly scored and cut out from the panel layer cardstock.

The sub-roof is made from cardstock and I used a piece of paper napkin from my materials collection to represent asphalt shingles.

Three HOn30 Mine Cars

Recently, I opened a reference book and found this insert within its pages, it was marking the page I was looking for, but I don't see myself using this instruction sheet as a book mark. I am thinking that I had stuck it in there to flatten it. At any rate, that got me thinking about the other "mine" equipment I had and happened to know where to find it.

The model depicts a Kanawha Mine car, the prototype of one built by the Kanawha Manufacturing Company of Charleston, West Virginia designed haul upto 2 tons of coal.

Having a small narrow gauge model railroad and since it is a narrow gauge the cars are small anyway.I only run small trains with up to six cars, mostly small ones. For normal sized card I usually run three or four cars.

The question arises, will they track well? I will have to build one and see.

The Beekeepers Shack is Being Put on Hold

I have completed the layout drawing for the beekeeper shack. The back side will be the same as the front, with the exception of the porch. I am working on a template for the two side windows.

After comppleting the last shack I had leftover material that I wanted to make use of, so I have put the Beekeepers shack on hold.

Inspiration for Future Construction

This structure looks more like a small boat or perhaps a small spaceship. I believe the screenshot is from Alien: Romulus. If so than it would be a small space craft. If I would build this craft I would need more shots of the craft. It might be fun to attempt.

The image is from "The Book of Ell" one of the many small structures people find themeselves living in, in this dystopic tale. This would be an easy one.

This is where I got the idea for the Stuko Structure with a Rubber Roof. Although I don't believe this structure is clad in Stuko, it looks more like a metal build.

Zombies Verses Plants #2

We have been down this road once before. This another rendition of Zombies Verses Plants. And as far as I am concerned these are better looking constructs than the former.

A few more of these PVC miniatures.

Old World Craft, the Well Builder

The Rush to House the Villagers

Terence and Percy's Home (Hobo Shack #2).

Simple construction: wood sticks, random bits of paper, amd a small piece of embossed brick sheet. That is as far as I have gotten.

On Again Off Again

I originally purchased this piece to go with my other sea battles gear and I started painting this piece years ago. This was before I had a decent pair of glasses. It was all touch and go back then, but I am back and giving it another try...

I do a little painitng in-between the wait for the glue to dry on the other projects I am working on. Who knows how this monster sea turtle ended up on this set of sea boulders and who knows how long its carcass has been here. It might have been for centuries.