About Ukrainian model kits

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Mar 132022
 

As a followup to this idea I had a few weeks ago… a YouTuber with suggestions regarding those interested in Ukrainian model kits and kit companies. Assuming Putin doesn’t nuke or otherwise salt the earth of Ukraine when he’s driven out like the little ᛒᛁᛏᛣᚻ he is, those model kit companies will probably be back… in some form, some day. I don’t doubt that some, many, most, maybe all of them might need to start from scratch; injection molding equipment tends to react poorly to bombardment and exposure to the elements. Relevant part starts around 3:24.

I’m not big on armor models, and I’ve never given a moments thought to building kits of farm equipment. But you know what? When this bullcrap is over, if Ukrainian companies start putting out kits of Ukrainian farmers towing Russian armor… I’ll buy them all.

 

 

 

Nothing runs like a Deere, baby!

 

 Posted by at 5:36 pm

And now, a terrible movie

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Mar 132022
 

Because why not: someone has posted the 1979 disaster “epic” Meteor to YouTube. It is pretty awful on every level, but to me the worst of it is the incredibly half-assed miniature work on the spacecraft. That said, it’s entertaining in it’s awfulness. Just thing thing to MST3K.

When I was ten, this movie was awesome. Now… well, here ya go.

Here is a movie review from the period:

And here is a TV movie, “A Fire In The Sky,” from the year before “Meteor,” based on a similar concept.

 

 Posted by at 10:09 am

*Please* let this be for real!

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Mar 132022
 

This is almost certainly a joke. It’s *got* to be a joke. But the Loki-following part of me *really* wants these people to be in earnest… and hopeful that  they get a *lot* of investment from well-funded morons who need to be separated from their money for the good of all mankind.

They put a fair amount of effort into it… but clearly not enough (assuming they’re serious) to realize that it’s bad engineering.

But hey, by all means: go ahead and spend vast sums of idiots money on “other ways of knowing” and “avoiding male phalocentric engineering rigor” or whatever nonsense they’re on about. let us know how that goes.

 Posted by at 1:49 am

Gotta love the spirit

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Mar 112022
 

I have the feeling I posted this some years ago. If so… oh well, it’s worth watching again. A little kitten at a Syrian vet clinic, expressing its disapproval over getting stabbed with needles, and putting up the best fight it can. If it was a *real* fight it would lose, and lose badly… but it would have earned its place in Valhalla.

 

 Posted by at 11:13 pm
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