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Posts by John the Stonemason

Rogue Trooper | Official Teaser Trailer
Rogue Trooper | Official Teaser Trailer YouTube video by 2000 AD

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3 days ago 910 199 92 53

Spinning plates is an analogy I use to describe my job as a Construction Site Manager, so many hats to wear (another one). One broken plate can lead to a great deal of trouble or someone getting hurt.

3 weeks ago 6 0 1 0
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‘Der Tiger’ trashes Fury. I watched the German-language version. The plot is a bit thin, but attention to armour detail, fairly believable tactical behaviour, & a hard anti-war frame that also confronts war crimes without collapsing into pathos. #AFV #Amazon

3 months ago 62 6 12 0

I will never understand why James Cameron decided the waste the second half of his career making films about these godforesaken jungle smurfs.

4 months ago 721 51 99 14

Tomohawk or Kittyhawk? They changed the name after P40-D I think. Anyway it's on my list. Just finished reading Derek Robinson's 'A good clean fight'. Put me in the mood to make one. Anyway lovely build.

7 months ago 2 5 1 0

Thanks, it's faffy, but if you look closely at the photos of the original Frisco Kid (my second post), the real nose cone wasn't exactly perfect.

7 months ago 3 0 0 0

*limeworks

7 months ago 1 0 0 0

Emphasis is usually structural first and foremost. Weather resistance next. Also, trying to prolong the life of the original stonework using sympathetic conservation techniques, usually lifeworks, indent repairs using a (as near as possible) match of the type of original stonework and lime mortar.

7 months ago 2 0 1 0
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3mm masking tape around the bottom of the cone adjusted until straight and made a little loop of 6mm tamiya tape for the crown and just sat it on top.Spent a wee while adjusting everything until it looked right. More 6mm tape bellow the 3mm and bob's your uncle.

7 months ago 3 0 1 0

Thanks Stef.

7 months ago 1 0 0 0

Hi Dave, I'm a trained Monumental Mason, but work in Historic Building conservation around Oxfordshire and Berkshire.

7 months ago 2 0 1 0
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A few more pics inc the original.

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Finished Airfix 1/48 P51D 'Frisco Kid'. Great kit. Thoroughly enjoyed making this. Used Mr Color Super metallic2 for the chrome finish. Highly recommend, nice paint with no thinning required. Tried to get the weathering to match original (pictured) not sure I achieved it.
#histscalemodels

7 months ago 26 3 6 0

Outstanding.

7 months ago 1232 265 62 14
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🏆 CHAMPIONS AGAIN OLÉ OLÉ!!!

11 months ago 577 146 24 26

Reform huge gains are not to be underestimated but that's a very telling little strip.

11 months ago 858 227 32 8
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A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

1 year ago 13280 5387 217 1332
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Now, his statue is in the Rood screen of St. Albans Abbey as one of the seven martyrs. Carved by the late Sculptor Rory Young helped by his assistant, my wife.

1 year ago 7 1 0 0
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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Sikh Indian Army soldier, Berber tribesman, and camel all Masterbox all pre-weathering. I've a mind to do a Wadi diorama. I've got a Tamiya Fiat 508 staff car that I'd like to add also, make it a bit October '43.

1 year ago 4 0 0 0

Tell me about it. Binned a Gecko K2y Ambulance last year. Over engineered and massively confusing instructions. Also sprews have quite heavy jointing to parts, trying to clean up a 1.5mm wide radius arm after removing it from the sprew made me question my life choices. Never again.

1 year ago 3 1 1 0
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#UnmaskingMusk

1 year ago 1883 677 55 332
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Who’s made my naughty list this year…?

Anyone I missed?

Tag them below

1 year ago 131 35 11 0
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Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain Since the 1970s, Humphrey Smith has acquired scores of pubs and historic properties around the UK. But time after time, he has left the buildings empty. Why has he allowed his empire to moulder?

I worked for Sam Smith's briefly in the 90's at his Quarry, Banker masonry, and if there wasn't any, I'd sort random rubble in the Quarry bottom for £5
a tonne. From what I could gather about him then he was a fucking loony, wouldn't have numbers on his drays so he couldn't be audited for wealth.

1 year ago 2 0 0 0

Blending flesh tones is really hard when you start. It really comes down to practice makes perfect. I'm still on the low slopes, but getting better. I recommend VMS Varnish HD Matt for matt coating, it's clear out of the bottle so no milky residue.

1 year ago 2 0 1 0
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Merry Christmas, all. ❤️🎄🎅🏽
(And no. I did NOT whiten my teeth Hollywood stylee! 😂)

1 year ago 485 80 68 20

It is, very nice, as my avatar suggests.

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(4-engined Stirling bomber on a frost-covered tarmac airfield dispersal, dwarfing the aircrew in flying kit standing underneath next to a bomb trolley)

Crew of a 149 Squadron Stirling at Mildenhall, January 1942, while their aircraft is being bombed up.
📷 IWM (TR 135)

(4-engined Stirling bomber on a frost-covered tarmac airfield dispersal, dwarfing the aircrew in flying kit standing underneath next to a bomb trolley) Crew of a 149 Squadron Stirling at Mildenhall, January 1942, while their aircraft is being bombed up. 📷 IWM (TR 135)

28th-28th Nov, 1942. Victoria Cross action of Flt/Sgt Rawdon ‘Ron’ Middleton. He was pilot of a 149 Squadron Stirling on a mission to bomb the Fiat works in Turin, Italy. The aircraft had already struggled to reach 12,000 feet to cross the Alps, leaving barely enough fuel to return to England.
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1 year ago 75 17 4 5

WW2 British Vehicle Markings Deciphered - a thread 🧵

Using the Tank Museum's Comet as an example, we can see the following:

1 - Arm of Service Flash
2 - Bridge Classification
3 - Formation Insignia
4 - Serial Number
5 - Tactical Sign
6 - Vehicle Name

All explained in turn below...

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Faked action man figure of the comic character Judge Dredd, with retro box

Faked action man figure of the comic character Judge Dredd, with retro box

Old project - I'd made some retro Dredd uniform bits for a friend to assemble a late 1970s era 'Dredd Action Man'

@graemeneilreid.bsky.social creatred some great box art

gnreid.co.uk/action-man-m...

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