Photo of The Day

[marc_reusser]

Some from one of the masters; Marcel du Long

A freelance improvised piece using an Italieri "Barrachino" boat kit:




Stewart Tank:




MaK suit:

[marc_reusser]

Abandoned and decaying postwar RSO, by Jimmy Ngo (1/35 scale)

[marc_reusser]

'Br86' y Enrique Parro; 1/35 scale






Imaginary scratchbuild, by Andigo Kyuka

[chester]

Some really wonderful modeling you're bringing to us Marc, thanks. Is there a link to much of it that we can peruse?

[marc_reusser]

Chester,,

Gld they are off interest. Can't really do a link, as these are all from the different peoples FB pages, and not necessarily set to "Public" for viewing.

Some of the builds, such as Marcel du Long's, do have threads in the MIG forum.

[chester]

Thanks Marc, I entirely understand. Will look for Marcel DuLong's postings at MIG.

[eTraxx]

My friend Gary Wise was in Summerville SC the other day and found this .. unusual item in a residential yard.

Here it is via Google Maps ..


Then the view from the ground.


Close-up of the top


and the bottom


Anyhoo. Thought it interesting enough to post and see what everyone things about it.

[finescalerr]

It's either a 19th century missile silo, the world's largest sewer vent, a phallic symbol, or the Mother of All Barbecues. -- ssuR

[mad gerald]

It's either a 19th century missile silo, the world's largest sewer vent, a phallic symbol, or the Mother of All Barbecues. -- ssuR

... may be you forgot to mention the belfry of Camelot ... ?  

Fount some fimiliar ones ...
http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/342694/342694,1322699206,1/stock-photo-old-brick-silo-89931580.jpg
http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/beautiful-brick-silo-marilyn-hunt.jpg
... and probably the one shown by you ...
http://www.journalscene.com/news/Silo-stands-as-reminder-of-Summerville-past

[eTraxx]

How cool is the internet! Kevin Moris, owner of The Whiste Post found this article. Note that in the article the openings are .. well open. Closed off now.

http://www.journalscene.com/news/Silo-stands-as-reminder-of-Summerville-past

[LeOn3]

Thanks Marc, I entirely understand. Will look for Marcel DuLong's postings at MIG.

Chester and everybody else. Here is a link to the website of Marcel. He is like me a member of the Scale Model Factory in Eindhoven (NL) and I have seen a lot of his creations. http://www.marceldulong.com/gallery.html

Leon

[Ray Dunakin]

That's cool. I'm glad that someone decided to keep it standing even as they built a subdivision around it.

[chester]

I've long been a member on a virtual modeling site basically for their terrific library of blueprints. What I see there mostly are very realistic virtual electronic renditions of bright shiny new cars and most are extremely convincing. This is no exception but the subject matter is very different. I can't believe this isn't real.

[finescalerr]

That guy is in Paul's league. Golly gee snapturtle! -- Russ

[W.P. Rayner]

Thank's Russ but he's way beyond my league. That's very good. It's hard enough to produce convincing images of new shiny things, but producing a weathered version adds another level of difficulty to the process. It's very time-consuming to create and map appropriate textures that look believable and are not repetitive. Most renderings of weathered subjects that I've seen fail because either the texture maps are inappropriate or out of scale, or they repeat within the image which is a dead give-away. This, however, is an excellent job. Thanks for posting the image Chester...

Paul