Thursday, December 17, 2009

Wigan Model Railway Exhibition 2009

The Wigan show was much larger than the last time I attended in 2007. It was in the same building, but ccupied two halls rather than one. Copious photos were taken, and can be seen in the Wigan Model Railway Exhibition 2009 set on Flickr.

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Monday, October 20, 2008

A brief history of the MIG
English Russia has a quick history of all the models of plane made by the MIG company.

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Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Lots of rat rod pictures from Billetproof 2008
Jalopnik has a mega gallery of pictures taken at the Billetproof rod meet in Antioch.

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Monday, August 18, 2008

Jalopnik's guide to classic hot rod parts
A few pictures at Jalopnik of tasty componentry on top class rods. Particularly useful to me as I'm wiring up a Cadillac V8 block on the Ratty T project.

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Thursday, July 31, 2008

More Death Race pictures
Jalopnik has a bunch of new photos from the upcoming Jason Statham starring remake of Death Race 2000. More inspiration for post apocalyptic motors.

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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Baikonur and St. Petersburg
English Russia keeps delivering the goods with cool photo collections. The Baikonur space launch facilities in Kazakhstan, as photographed by a visitor and the darker side of St. Petersburg.

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Saturday, January 05, 2008

Steam buses and trucks
A selection of photos of steam powered buses, trucks and showman's engines.

via Jalopnik

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Sunday, October 21, 2007

The Vulcan flies again
After a 14 year campaign and rebuild, there is once again a flying Vulcan bomber.

There are more pictures on this forum thread.

via Alan Bell

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Monday, June 04, 2007

Mad Russian trucks
Two photo galleries on English Russia-

A scrap yard of mad looking trucks and amphibians.

A part tracked ambulance.

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Friday, May 11, 2007

Donut Derelicts
Coop's photostream on Flickr is a great source for hot rod photo reference. The most recent set he' uploaded is of the Donut Derelicts cruise.

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