Bigger than Ever Given, the famous Suez Canal bolus...Ever Ace is wider and deeper. It cannot use Panama canal. It is a wowzer of a piece of metal. 23,992 TEU , a measure of cargo container units it can carry at one time. It just finished it's maiden voyage, and will be followed by 12 sister ships, 6 from China, 6 bulit in Korea by Samsung. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCPVNLrspWk
The new 1/72 scale harpy kits look great. 50 bucks more than I want to spend now that I have an N scale 3d print...but still impressed with how modern seeming this 35 year old design looks.
this castle is on my to do list. I intend to reseize it up to use with home cast knights. But this is about the best scan Or picture I can get... the original prints are worth fortunes.
The spanish shako or kepi, called a Ros, compared to the contemporary us army dress shako, or cap. I think there is a whole book to be written on how armies vie for goofiest haberdashery... witness these Indian and Pakistan border guards, anyhow there is a sardonic comedy on male vanity, sexual display, and uniform dress...
a revell 1/144 sub is removed from a stand, broken and placed into a stormy sea. The ocean is styrofoam, a clay product, and an amazing paint job. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3YtgtqBFNk
These are neat, I can easily see using little sets like these to tell photo stories set in Ornria. Ornrian agatha Christie/Sherlock Holmes film noir inspired comic strips...
one of the rarer toy soldiers are figures called chalkware. formed of gypsum, ie. plaster of paris, chalkware was a depression era low cost medium for household objects , often carved or easily molded. Though figurines, lamps, wall hangings souveniers and bricacrac were the mainstay of the factory output cheap toys were a natural application of the art. Plaster was cheaper than ceramics, or plastics, or metals, and was easily molded, and when painted with oil paints, could develop an attractive finish.
THE ARMY BEAN. Tune- "Sweet Bye-and-Bye" There's a spot that the soldiers all love, The mess-tent's the place that we mean, And the dish that we like to see there Is the old-fashioned white army bean. Chorus. Tis the bean that we mean, And we'll eat as we ne'er ate before; The army bean, nice and clean, We'll stick to our beans evermore. Now the bean in its primitive state Is a plant we have all often met; And when cooked in the old army style, It has charms we can never forget.-Chorus.
