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Matt Bacon

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  1. ... I stopped at 1m32s. The assertion that Copernicus was the first to propose that the world was a sphere, and the technology didn't exist to prove his theory. Since Ptolemy had figured it out least 1500 years earlier, and all you needed to prove it was a stick, I decided that I'd had enough... The terrifying thing is that anyone might believe this drivel. edit: OK, now I checked out the Flat Earth Society. Quarks, magnetic monopoles and dark energy being used to support Flat Earthism? Funny how SOME bits of modern physics are true because they come in handy, but it's OK to ignore the foundations of classical physics on which they are built...? Give me strength! bestest, M.
  2. After that, it's just turtles all the way down... ;-P bestest, M.
  3. I saved them from Photoshop after changing the DPI to 144. I don't know how that information is carried with the picture, since neither the "Save for Web" option in Photoshop, nor the editor or options in Smugmug make it visible or accessible. Its a pretty daft setting to have on the Forum if that's what's causing it -- why should a web browser care what size the picture would print if it were to be printed? All the browser needs to do is render the image on the screen... Anyway, I guess that means another step in processing every picture... ;-( bestest, M.
  4. In case that one wasn't being squeezed, how about this: All the images are sized to the same pixel width, and if there is a DPI associated with the image in Photoshop, they are ALL 72dpi. As far as I can see, Picture 5 is unsqueezed on my iPhone, and it's exactly the same width in pixels and dpi as all the others. bestest, M.
  5. How does this look to you guys: ? (It looks exactly the same as picture 3 on my monitor) bestest, M.
  6. It looks fine on my Mac... I don't consciously "Size" the pictures to any physical size, just pixel dimensions. Every other site on the planet (well, at least that I post to ;-P) manages to render them OK, so I don't know what's going on with this Forum and iOS devices. I'll see if I can find any way to tell Smugmug that it's a 144 dpi picture... Edit: Smugmug HAS no physical size data on its pictures. I just choose a link with a pixel x pixel dimension to paste in. There's nowhere to edit metadata to size the image in inches. bestest, M.
  7. Built for the CBK SIG Kitmaster/Airfix display at SMW this year: The best British loco, IMHO -- more powerful than The Flying Scotsman and The Mallard... very much the Tempest to their Spitfire and Hurricane! And it's a lovely kit -- such a shame it's no longer in any manufacturer's range... bestest, M.
  8. Apologies for resurrecting this thread, but this neat-ish build garnered a silver medal in the OOB class at Scale Model World (the IPMS UK Nats...). This makes me happy.... Of the things I entered, the little GTA was the last one I expected to win anything. Just goes to show what I know... bestest, M.
  9. It's pretty nice: I discovered at Scale Model World (IPMS UK Nats) last weekend why it scales out to 1/26 width wise and 1/22.5 length-wise. It's because there has to be a whole number of nubbins on the bricks that make it up in both directions, and because the size and spacing of them is dictated by being compatible with the world's most popular plastic brick-based construction toy... Interesting, eh? ;-P bestest, M.
  10. Looking at their pages, it looks as though this is a new build, rather than Equus doing a Singer on an existing Mustang... The manufacturing process doesn't look cheap -- does anyone know if they have actually built and sold one? bestest, M.
  11. ...maybe I should have said "very, very high performance and relatively expensive sports car", rather than "Supercar", if everyone is going to get bent out of shape about what constitutes a supercar or hypercar... ;-P And when I say British, I'm not quibbling about who owns what percentage of the company, I mean "Made in Britain by a manufacturer with British heritage". So it's not a Nissan or a Honda... bestest, M.
  12. Not mine, I hasten to add, but I thought you guys would be interested: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234991814-some-artsy-fartsy-wooden-cars/ More pics and info on the Britmodeller thread... bestest, M.
  13. ...of course, it COULD be a real left-field choice, like an Jaguar XJR-15, or even an accurate, detailed, affordable and easy-to-find McLaren F1... ;-P bestest, M.
  14. That IS the most obvious one, which it definitely isn't, because I asked the straight question ("to complete the hypercar trio with the 918 and LaFerrari?") and got a straight answer... bestest, M.
  15. Noble M600; anything by McLaren; Aston 1-77, Vulcan, V12 Vantage GTs, CC100; Jaguar C-X75 (and maybe top-end F-types); Lotus Evora 400; Bentley EXP10 Speed 6. And maybe when I said "Supercar", it wasn't _quite_ the right word -- is a Cayman GT4 a "supercar"? bestest, M.
  16. That unusual white radiator is a dead giveaway... bestest, M.
  17. According to the guys on the Revell stand at SMW last weekend, Revell Germany will be releasing a 1/24 kit of a supercar from a British manufacturer in 2016, and if it sells well and the licensing deal works out for both parties, there will be follow-on models to come... It's not the obvious one, either... bestest, M.
  18. Neither -- the 250LM is nothing close to that line of racers. The nearest you'll get for the engine is the Hasegawa 250TR (TestaRossa) kit. The chassis is more or less unique, though you might be able to find some usable parts in the Fujimi Dino 206GT kit, which is some way back up the "family tree" that led to the 250LM... bestest, M.
  19. I saw it at SMW Telford this weekend, and it's definitely the Italeri kit. It looked really good, but unfortunately not easy to photograph. Somebody with a camera rather than a phone may have some pictures -- I'll keep an eye open. According to the Revell boss-guy on the stand, it's due in UK shops in December, but he wouldn't _promise_ that it would make it before Christmas... bestest, M.
  20. Yeah -- I just watched 10-15 minutes on the new James Bond Aston DB10, with the car in the Garage and then taken for a spin. Jay had Marek Reichmann to talk him around the design and ride shotgun on the drivealong, and who better? It was a proper in-depth and informative discussion with the actual car's designer, not remotely just a trail for the new movie. All the JLG segments I've seen on YouTube have been similarly in-depth and informative, as well as fun and drool-worthy. I think it's the best way of getting your fix of real car-guy goodness... bestest, M.
  21. Hi, Steve... they are all statics indeed. They are for a Classic British Kits SIG display at Scale Model World in November, which is celebrating 60 years of classic railway plastic. These are all Kitmaster engine kits dating from the very early sixties. Some (Schools Class, Mogul, Battle of Britain Class, City of Truro, Evening Star...) went on to be issued by Airfix alongside their own railway kits. Eventually, a few went on to Dapol when Airfix stopped doing model railways, and are still available today. The interesting thing is that all of them are proper OO scale (though on standard OO/HO track gauge), even the Continental and American prototypes, so you can compare sizes in a constant 1/76. That was probably a big marketing mistake by Kitmaster (who's going to want a 241.P "Mountain" or Baureihe 23 on a UK layout, or a 1/76 giant on a 1/87 scale model railway in Queens or Reims...?) We think we are going to be able to display a full set of all the Kitmaster locos on the display (and yes, there is actually a layout running Kitmaster rolling stock hauled by motorized Airfix locomotives for passers-by to "drive" past all the Airfix plastic scenery that was such a big part of their range of kits) bestest, M.
  22. Yep... they definitely worked. They started being needed as boilers grew in size through the early 20th century. The taller Victorian chimneys gradually shrank down as the boiler and firebox diameter grew, because the height of tunnels and bridges etc was fixed, so the locos had to fit into a specific cross section, called the "loading gauge," which didn't change. With a simple blunt front end, the air has to split around the front, leading to a low pressure area below the chimney, which sucked the smoke back down and tumbled it along the boiler sides, right where the driver needed to see. The "smoke deflectors" channel the air into an upward blast, carrying the smoke up and over the top of the locomotive instead. One further complication was that as piston mechanisms became more and more efficient at extracting energy from the expanding steam, the lower pressure the output to the chimney. Rather than blasting smoke and steam out like a Victorian engine, a 20th century loco had to work to "draw" the exhaust out of the chimney... bestest, M.
  23. A couple more headed toward the Classic British Kits display at ScaleModelWorld 2015. First up, the german general purpose loco, Baureihe 23 (Class 23): Then, the New York Central Railway Hudson (not the super-cool streamliner version....) bestest, M.
  24. Revell seems to be having some trouble with the pictures at the moment, but the newsletter is here: http://www.revell-news.de/display.php?M=114256&C=9c703e743de608183b910bacd933aa65&L=36&N=173 and you can pre-prder from Hannants here: https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/RV7056 bestest, M.
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