Manton Building
Manton Building
Originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
Vert skateboarding could be one of the new sports at the 2012 Olympics. It’s almost good enough news to make you forget how dire the logo is.
Strange Russian tank designs on English Russia.
Technorati tag: Scale Models, Tank, Russia
Daryl Hannah is a Green goddess, using her celebrity to promote environmental issues. She also walks the talk, and her website with news, tips and a videoblog.
Technorati tag: Green, Celebrity, Daryl Hannah
This huge model of Moscow dates back to the Soviet era, and is a three dimensional snapshot of the city at the time. It has become increasingly expensive to maintain and was put up for sale for $3million (or maybe $380,000). Someone with 400 square feet to spare bought it last August.
Technorati tag: Scale Models, Russia
I’m trying out the Democracy player, a video player/internet TV thingy with lots of features. They’re currently on the final beta version before a full launch under another name.
I like being able to view stuff from disparate sources in one place. There are a few minor niggles, but they’re mostly problems with familiarisation. The big issue I’m having is that it won’t play videos from Revver very well. My Democracy Player channel (see the sidebar) is having issues and other Revver videos have flickering on them. This may not all be Democracy’s fault, because I’ve had reports of various Revver videos not having sound on them on some people’s computers but not others. I’m going to contact Revver about that and keep on using Democracy in the mean time.
Update One other slight problem. The mini-wizard that’s supposed to appear on first start up is still running every time I turn the PC on. If it could just remember that I’ve already used it I’d be happier.
Car blog Jalopnik are currently crushing on James May, or “Captain Slow”, of Top Gear. Today they found this clip of him explaining the enduring attraction of model trains.
Technorati tag: Scale Models, Model Trains
Today is the anniversary of D-Day, first action of the Battle of Normandy.
The Billetproof rod show concentrates on less “polished” hot rods, rat rods and the like. Jalopnik has some pictures- El Camino, Party Wagon, Billetproof.
Technorati tag: Scale Models, Hot Rod
Task Force 72 is a club for modellers of 1:72nd scale floating ship models. The crafts come in many sizes, all the way up to a 4.6 metre long USS Enterprise aircraft carrier.
Technorati tag: Scale Models, Model Ships
I’ve promised to help out at a street collection in town on Saturday, so I can’t make it, but anyone in the Fallowfield area at 2pm on Saturday could help try to break the world water fight record.
If you’re on that Facebook thing there’s a water fight group.