Picture Thread 2020

Went up to the National Mall today for a New Year stroll. This here is the Smithsonian Castle with Capitol Hill in the background.

Here's the Castle silhouetted against the sunset.


And here's the Hill in the late afternoon sunshine.

Wow, not a lot of people at the Mall.

It was getting late, it was New Year’s Day, and it was kind of chilly out.

First model of the year. I've been trying to figure out how to take the Pegasus model of the Space Ark and make the crash-landing scene. Ended up using styrofoam for the base and railroad dirt mixed with Elmer's glue for the snow mounds.

http://www.inpayne.com/models/scifi/ark1.html

Cleaning out some shelves and drawers.


Got an email in to the local camera shop to see if they can develop that!

Me and my sister on a boat for some reason, circa 1960. My shades may be bad-looking, but my sister wished she had them!

......but now I can't wait to see my grandkids again!

"Me and my sister on a boat for some reason, circa 1960." - Forbin

"some reason" being recon for the Bay Of Pigs invasion? What's up with the sinister guy wearing a tie? Do you have something to share with us Forbin? If that's even your real name.

The film When Worlds Collide has one of my all-time favorite movie moments in it.

After the human "ark" crashes on the surface of Zyra, Randall goes to open the door of the spacecraft. Someone yells out a concern that the atmosphere hasn't been tested and may not be breathable, and Randall basically shrugs it off, essentially saying "It better be, because where the f**k else you gonna go?"

bottom pic baby is making the "duck face"!

I have been practicing my painting skills.

Fresh haircut selfie.

awesome haircut! Now I'm sad because my hairline retreated decades ago.

It's the world famous adventurer Boo, and his somewhat well known human companion, Minsc.

Some pix I had at work.
Me getting one of my few awards in 1990. My boss on the right, his boss on the left.


Around the same time, in the years before HR would have hung him up by the balls for it, here's the department head gathering his "Angels" for some occasion or other:

The legendary Karen is 4th from the left.

Mmmmm...Karen.

is that figure holding a hamster in his right hand?

Its Minsc and boo from Baldur's gate.

https://baldursgate2.fandom.com/wiki/Minsc_and_Boo

oh! thanks, clear as mud!

Yes, he is holding a hamster. This is a dungeons and dragons miniature of the characters Minsc (the human) and Boo (the hamster) from the dungeons and dragons PC game Baldur's Gate 2. It's quite a fun game, and I recommend playing it.

Edit: Here's the latest Space Marine I've painted


It's from the space marine heroes 2nd season blind bag set.

wow...hard pass on that game. But you did a great job painting the figure - it looks pretty kick-ass!

Got that old roll of film developed. It older than I thought!
That's me with the ball! I'm guessing this is 1963. mom and Dad with their backs to the camera, the others are cousins.


Dad showing off the used Studebaker he bought. Cousin Don and his wife on the left, my sister on the right. Our 1957 Ford in the background.


Dad ... shaving while we're camping? Oakaayy...

Got the dope on the pictures from cousin Don (the guy in the pix) - these were taken the day he gave Dad the Studebaker, after Don had bought a new 1963 Comet. The Studebaker was "Campbell's soup can red"

2nd model of the year - a B-Wing in markings I came up with to evoke Dad's fighter squadron colors from WWII:



I hand-drew the snake art, traced it in Corel, and printed it on clear inkjet decal film.

damn that snake art is AWESOME!

Grabbed a half-finished Tamiya kit off the "pause" stack to get something built quickly:
http://www.inpayne.com/models/jets/meteorf3.html