I’ve had this Linear Tank kit sitting on the shelf for a while. It was time to build it.
It became one of those ‘simple’ builds that took ages, not least because I had to wait weeks for a dry day to prime the base.
Linear Tank 3D printed model by K Scale Models, who is also on YouTube.
My first time going to this show, which is held to raise funds for a Scout troop, so has a different feel to other model rail events. Many of the layouts were more about fun than realism, and the trade stands mixed in with sweet and craft stalls.
Another dip into the vintage magazine pile pulls out this early 80s issue.
Just a small gathering of classic cars that I happened upon on Saturday. Little events like this are those lucky coincidences that I enjoy about taking the occasional random trip to parts of Greater Manchester I don’t normally visit.
When I was younger, I put firework rockets in toy cars and jumped them off a ramp. Little did I know that model companies had made kits especially for rocket power.
I found this on Ebay, and had to get it and find out more.
There are fears for the future of British beer, as hop yields fall due to climate change. But there are scientists on the job, breeding more resistant strains, as well as looking at possible future flavours.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68636451
Let’s have a look at the state of the customising art in 1979. Another vintage magazine, full of old school builds and fascinating how-tos.
And the power struggle between those who would succeed him will be intense. As this article outlines, Putin will likely stay in office until he expires, if only for his own safety. He has built a power structure around him that leaves no clear contender for the throne when he’s gone.
Obviously, we’ll celebrate when Putin dies, but we should also be worried about what comes after him.
As large scale solar schemes become more common, planners need to think about their effect on the land they are built on. Introducing the concepts of agrivoltaics and ecovoltaics.
The Dragon Ball creator died March 1st.
A quick guide to why, ten years on, the missing airliner still hasn’t been found.
I got footage of every display table at the recent Universal Model Show, if not every model. This is the full length video of the whole lot. Shorter cuts by subject will follow as they’re edited.
The Home Secretary wants to make it harder to hold a demonstration, calling for longer notice periods for larger marches. He wants a quick response to government failure or international outrage to be impossible.
He also said that he didn’t think there should be any more marches against the genocide in Gaza, as they’ve ‘made their point’. Which is a stupid argument. As long as civilians are being bombed and starved- and this country isn’t doing anything to stop it- the point hasn’t got through, and needs to be made over and over again.
If I was in a permanent job, rather than working as agency staff, I would long ago have got myself an ebike through the Cycle to Work scheme. I may have ridden through most of the winter, too, rather than putting of getting back in the saddle for far too long.
Schemes like Cycle to Work may be relatively expensive as ways to cut carbon emissions, but they have many other benefits that more than make up for that. The authors of the article below have considered some of them and looked at ways to increase uptake further.
It’s all well and good seeing more electric cars, but when they’re all as overweight as their internal combustion counterparts, the gridlock on the roads won’t go away. What we need are fewer, and smaller, cars on the street.
Which is where cuties like the Micolino and its new, even dinkier, Lite sibling come in. Microcars for the usually short drives that are most common in cities.
More designs like this please. They’ll free up so much space on the streets, and have the added advantage of making everywhere look like an anime.
https://www.theverge.com/24083014/microlino-lite-microcar-moped-license-price-specs
The weather has been getting in the way of priming my two works in progress. So I dug out a mecha to build.
Probably not, according to the experts, though there a few dedicated big cat hunters who remain convinced.
As the article says, it’s not enough to stop pumping out carbon dioxide, there need to be schemes for soaking it up and locking it away again. I’m filling my concrete covered back yard with plants as my bit, but industry has the options for larger and more complex schemes.
https://www.wired.com/story/carbon-removal-cur8-gabrielle-walker-credits-offsets-greenwashing/
Okay, it’s not people like me who are going to cause the death of the Tory party. They’re going to do it themselves, with a little help from splitters who are somehow even more vile than them. But it can’t come soon enough, frankly.
Their complete obliteration, a la Canada ’93, is unlikely. But wouldn’t it be nice to see them reduced to single figures of MPs.
Los Angeles is an unlikely champion of a new wave of water savvy urban planning. A city most of us think of as all about cars and concrete has introduced more permeable surfaces to soak up water rather than turning it into run off. The change has been so successful that not only was severe flooding avoided during recent extreme rainfall but it will help solve the city’s water supply issues.
https://www.wired.com/story/los-angeles-just-proved-how-spongy-a-city-can-be/