Back to availability. Don’t know for how long, though… the limited number Amazon gets seem to go fast.
Buy now. Buy as many as you can. Mortgage your house and buy more.
Back to availability. Don’t know for how long, though… the limited number Amazon gets seem to go fast.
Buy now. Buy as many as you can. Mortgage your house and buy more.
“Suchomimus” seems to be a Ukrainian, gathering together a bunch of short videos from on the ground of the Russian invasion. So long as Ukrainians maintain the ability to communicate with the outside world (I’m surprised the Russians haven;t taken out all the cell towers and satellite dishes), this will remain an unusual war… the world can watch it happen live from the ground, from the viewpoint of the civilians watching an invasion force coming in.
For example, a Hind firing rockets in a city. I don’t speak Russian or Ukrainian… but I recognize some words here, and I don’t think the cameraman is happy.
And finally, Ukraine deploys the Ultimate Weapon: Karens.
And then there’s this:
That’s got to be a hell of a morale boost to the Russian troops: “If you fall in battle, don’t worry… we’ll reduce your remains to ashes so your family need never know what happened to you.”
Given current events, perhaps buying model kits is not the top priority… but if it *is,* now might be the time (if it’s not already too late). In recent years, Russian and Ukrainian model kit companies have done a fine job of producing unusual subjects and high quality kits, and sometimes both at the same time… but now, it’s safe to assume that for the time being nothing will be coming out of Ukraine, and the only things coming out of Russia will be via expensive back channels.
Examples available from Amazon (remember, if you buy *anything* after going through these links, I’ll get a pittance, so if you want to support this blog, here’s a way to do it):
Ukranian company “Mikro-Mir” produced a surprising range of submarine model kits in 1/350 scale, 1/144 scale and even 1/35 scale. You can click on this link to see the wider subjects, or here are a few specific kits that might be of interest (just text links to save space; as of this typing, they are listed as available):
1/350 USS Thresher 1/350 USS George Washington 1/350 USS Skipjack 1/350 USS Nautilus 1/144 Holland class 1/35 “Turtle” 1/350 USS Growler 1/35 CSS Hunley
A Russian kit company with a really good reputation for quality is Zvezda Models, which has a wide range of armor and aircraft, military and civilian. Really far too many to link to, but here are a few of interest:
1/144 TU 160 “Blackjack” 1/72 Sukhoi SU-50 1/35 T-14 Armata 1/72 SU-57 1/350 Kursk submarine 1/2700 Imperial Star Destroyer 1/144 Beriev BE-200ES
Also Ukrainian is the company Amodel. They have a bunch of different aircraft kits, but these two might be of particular interest:
And under the circumstances, the German Revell AN-225 might be of interest, because that plane, even if at this very moment it’s intact, is almost certainly doomed. If fighting doesn’t damage/destroy it, when the Russians are eventually driven out they will either steal the plane or wreck it.
You hate to see a ten-grand gun being turned into confetti, but, hey, science.
A newly released paper:
A single-cell bacterium a *centimeter* (in some cases, 2) long. Yow.
Note: this is not only unconfirmed, it’s is *probably* false. But fog of war and all that…
You know what the biggest roadblocks to converting to this or that religion usually are? The people pushing that religion the hardest. Take this Very Special Episode for example:
Naw, dude.
As a followup to THIS POST from 2019, scientists have determined that the asteroid or comet that struck the Yucatan around 66 million years ago, ending the era of the dinosaurs, hit during springtime:
A site in North Dakota shows a bunch of fish who had all died within 30 minutes of the impact, jumbled up with tree branches as whatnot due to the wave that rolled through and stirred everything up. I imagine there is, or will be, a hell of a market for fossils from that site; it’s one of the few places on the planet where you have fossils pointing to one exact, understandable and important moment in time. “This specific animal was killed by *the* impactor” is a heck of a notion.
Expect the price of gas to skyrocket, and everything else to follow. At least we have *fine* leadership to see us through this…
REPORTER to Biden: “Do you think you may have underestimated Putin?”
BIDEN: *smirks, stares blankly, picks at his teeth*
pic.twitter.com/H8JOsSUei7— Matt Batzel (@MattBatzel) February 22, 2022
This drone seems to be built to penetrate the air with speed. The image quality of the onboard camera kinda blows, but that might come from all the vibrating.
Nope. Can’t quite think what the joke might be.