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.
