let’s go! caught a couple stripped bass so far…

started going thru all my old pics. ran into these. this is at Cleveland Cliffs Dearborn. I 3D scanned a bunch of tunnels that run all over under the mill. talk about liminal spaces!

i’m blown away at the influx of new followers 😮. so, here’s what you came for. lol: in 2010, i was lucky enough to be a surveyor on the construction of a new coke battery at the clairton come works. i’ll have to dig, but here are a few photos from my time there.

This is peak military aviation in my eyes. i will be building an A-4 in the near future

North American P-51D Mustang

working in rural ohio today…locating orphaned oil wells for ODNR.

Here’s a few good ones from US Steel Irvin Works

my wife picking up my dog Hans from daycare today. he looks like a little kid in the back seat!! 😂

slow progress when it’s summertime. too much going on. but i have been slowly chipping away at this Edward Strafer kit for a while now

(TL;DR warning again) 41 years ago this month my local UHF channel began airing a kids cartoon unlike anything I'd ever seen before. Half-hour installments. Amazing animation which seemed a cut above most early 80s American childrens TV to that point. And the scripting was of a decidedly more adult nature than either Voltron or G.I. Joe. It only took one episode to suck me in. Because of the airplanes turning into robots, of course. It was the era of Optimus Prime duking it out with Megatron. Every American boy in 1985 adored both Transformers and GoBots. But these giant swing-wing "veritechs" were piloted by men. Against enormous aliens who were decidedly different from any I'd seen in any science fiction TV show before. And one episode's plot bled into another. These weren't capsule stories. The entire thing was one big story. Which I avidly tuned in to before school day after day. The war against the Zentraedi segued to the war against the Robotech Masters, which segued to the war with the Invid. I had no idea at the time I was seeing an Americanized kitbash of three distinct Japanese shows. It was all just extraordinary to me, and I never noticed the seams which had been papered over by American writers. There aren't many sci-fi franchises which have had an impact on me like ROBOTECH. Not even STAR WARS. The only sci-fi show which has a larger presence in my mental landscape is STAR TREK. And I not only owned the entirety of ROBOTECH on VHS—grainy TV tapes at first, then store-bought official copies after—I played the Palladium role-playing game with my H.S. friends. The remastered DVD sets which emerged 20 years ago never sat right with me because the sound effects got re-done. And it wasn't until I was on deployment trying to watch ripped .mp4 of the remasters that I realized just how badly those re-done sound effects jagged on my ear. I still remembered *all* the broadcast effects as they had been. And I wanted them back. Amazon briefly had rights to and streamed an "original broadcast" edition of ROBOTECH which kept the old effects. But this was license short-lived. And I ended up buying a *second* set of DVDs in the vain hope of getting a broadcast-true edition in hard media. Except, that set also ended up being the remastered sound effects. What to do? I kept hearing about "legacy" copies from turn of the century. After VHS, but before the remasters. This week I finally located a full 14-disc set of the "legacy" DVDs which supposedly are closest to broadcast. After ripping them to .mkv it seems true. I finally have digital hard media of the actual ROBOTECH I remember from my youth. 🤓

Some badass Upscaled and enhanced F-14 Tomcat shots of VF-1 "Wolfpack" and VF-2 "Bounty Hunters" from 1970s off the deck of the USS Enterprise(CVN-65) also surprise appearance by Iranians F-14's(I think while training at Miramar)👀—All from the same Grumman promo footage.

let’s gooooo!!!!

La trasformazione del VF0 da parte di Roy è stupenda e forse rappresenta l'unica scena ricca di particolari per quanto riguarda la trasformazione di un caccia variabile in Macross. Uno stupendo e meritato omaggio a un personaggio forte e carismatico come l'indimenticabile Roy.

Here’s the final product. the Kitty Hawk 1/48 AH-1Z.

OK, i think im done…I’ll take some better pics tomorrow.

I think i’ll call it for tonight! the rotor has these little struts to change the angle of the blades. they simply DID NOT fit. had to chop them down to make them work. it’s a “don’t look too close” kind of situation 😂

well, i won 1 gold 1 silver 2 bronze

USAF B-1 bomber taking off to conduct a strike mission on Iran yesterday, afterburners howling as it heads down the runway.