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Thank you. My username would probably be almost impossible to discern. Hardcore came from the end of my old xbox username. I am also a car enthusiast and I love old hondas. I used to have a 1992 honda civic, for which the Chassis code is EG. The 8 was put into the vin of any 92 civic that had four doors. Hence EG8 (92-95 civic sedan). It was a username I used on a honda forum and it just kind of stuck because my memory is terrible and it's easier than remembering different log ins.

 

Ah, understood. Many lives ago, long before settling on Wreybies as my standard internet persona, I was Ht4HtRds (Hot for hot rods) I too am a car enthusiast, but from an older generation. Here's me all spiffied (yes, I got spiffied for the photo) the day we finished reassembling the Ford 260 ci V8 small block that would go back in my 1964 1/2 Mustang. I'm in the tan jacket.

 

@Wreybies damn this whole time I thought you were a tall guy with a goatee.

 

LOL I'm 5' 6" on a good day and clean shaven.

 

Now that is a beautiful motor. While I used to be into imports, I've recently developed a love for hot rods.

This is what I grew up working on with my step dad. A 72 Buick skylark, turned into a Grand Sport clone.



And here is my new ride
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It's no 64 1/2, but I bought it because it most closely resembles the older body style of a muscle car. I was unimpressed with all of 94-04 mustangs. Looked more like an import than a muscle car. The 2010 was nice and similar to the 05-09 body style, but lost a little of the muscle design and became a little too sleek imo. Hence my decision to go with the 05-09 body style.

 

Holy shit., just realised I can post cat photos in this thread.

 

My offerings were taken over the past few days.

This one brings home how important shipbuilding was to Belfast. It was taken from the geodesic dome of the Victoria Centre which is bang-slap in the centre of town. The two yellow gantry cranes span the slipways, so it really shows how close the docks are to the main shopping thoroughfares. I accompanied a friend to get his new iPhone at silly o'clock on Friday morning. I got fed up, and he was geeking out with the rest of the crowd, so I snuck off and grabbed a few snaps. The heavy haze is sea mist that rolled up the Lough from the Irish Sea.

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On Sunday I headed out with some friends to the Killyleagh Chocolate Festival. The castle itself was build around 1108, but has been subsequently built upon and now resembles a 16C Loire Valley chateau. This is a pic of the vaulted ceiling of the Barbican.



I was rather proud of myself when I was checking out this particular stall. I completely resisted the urge to enquire whether they did starfish.




My friend Tel did his usual, taking pics of me taking pics. (I swear he has a pic of me at just about every unflattering angle there is.)

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And this is what I was talking the pic of, hence endeavouring to use my legs as two thirds of a tripod to stop the shakes.

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And finally: oh the joys of organic food production.

 

Those stone building pics have wonderful texture. The stone almost looks like water and likewise the shingles on the turret look like a waterfall.

 

Ta... that was achieved with Redfield filters for Photoshop, 'Sharpinion HD' and 'Perfectum'.

 

Here I go spamming again. Just finished this. I don't think I've ever been so happy with an outcome as I am with this bit of mummery.

 

@obsidian_cicatrix we almost got to see some butt crack in that picture of you taking a picture.

Are you a plumber, tat artist, and photographer? Damn you're busy!

 

Two Ace Doubles came today. On the left is Beyond the Galactic Rim by A. Bertram Chandler and The Ship from Outside, also by Chandler (1962), and on the right is Land Beyond the Map by Kenneth Bulmer and Fugitive of the Stars by Edmond Hamilton (1965).

 

@Wreybies I think you've caught the bug!

 

@Wreybies Do you just collect them for the covers, or do you also read them?

 

Primarily for the cover art. If I can find them in the Kindle store, I buy them to read them as well on my Kindle, but I don't open the physical books. Nearly all the ones I've gotten a hold of are in unread condition. The covers are tight to the pages as you would expect from a brand new book. Some minor edge wear is inevitable in books as old as these (the less the better), but if you look at the pictures, where the front covers near their spines, there is no crease from the cover being opened.

 

@Lewdog Not even close to builders butt crack... you have to have a butt to have one of those. Any semblance is an optical illusion.

 

I'm still in the writing doldrums. I go to write a scene, and instead end up doodling it. It's been about three months since I last wrote anything worthwhile. The ideas are well formulated in my head but are making it onto the 'page' as pictures not words. It's starting to feel like my brain is re-purposing itself.

Grr!

So... that said, this is how I see my character Morys Obelyn. He's one of my POV characters, and adopted father of one of my two protagonists.

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Today the mail lady brought me The Wizard of Lemuria by Lin Carter (1965). Artwork by Gray Morrow. That is a crazy dragon bird thingy.



Also today, Spacehive by Jeff Sutton (1960). The artwork is unfortunately uncredited. It's all about an evil plan the Reds have to knock our rockets out of the sky because, of course, russkies are BAD! It's fascinating to see the concerns of the times written into the pages of their science fiction.

 

@Wreybies Is there a Twelve Step Program(me) for those with an unhealthy relationship with 1960's Sci-Fi novel covers?

 

Even if there is, you can't make me go!

 

Perhaps not, but if you keep going at this rate your bank account might.

 

Nah, I have a pretty simple life. My expenditures are few and I'm a bargain shopper. I can splurge on the odd vintage paper back when they're in as good of condition as these. eBay is loaded with such titles, but usually much the worse for wear. I skim only the cream.

 

@Wreybies I used to go to comic shops when I was in the States to pick up pristine copies for a friend back home. Woe betide me if I so much as took the covers off and breathed upon them.

 

Eat your heart out @Wreybies, I scored this famous no-one-ever-heard-of-book the other day. The Death Guard

 

Ha! That cover is Flash Gordon as all get out! That is awesome. I don't know the author, but the Brian Aldiss who wrote the introduction, him I've heard of.