Adrian's new CANON D70 camera photographs

[Dave A]

That looks great, Adrian

[flaker]

Checked it out. where the hell you guys get all the patience & perseverance. When my accountants asked for the same things twice to do my vat returns (approx 10 sales & 20 expenses & just bank statement-no debtors/creditors) i bought a 2013 QuickBooks Accounting Package some 6 months ago. I've yet to load it on my computer!!!

Congratulations & well done.

[adrianh]

Being completely ADHD certainly helps because I am interested in anything and everythingg. My wife and I are at it about 18 hours a day. The thing is that although many people see what we do as work, we don't. It's all just a big hobby. I am always making stuff and learning new skills simply because I enjoy doing it. The nice thing about what we do is that my wife and I can do everything ourselves, we are not at the mercy of workers holding us to ransom. My wife is spending the day getting the products onto spread sheets so that we can codify and barcode them and I will be at the shop with 2 guys building the furniture.

I honestly do not work for a living, I play all day, what I do is my hobby, my relaxation and also provides our income. My aim with the shop is to position my wife to be able to continue to run the business for herself and the kids when I kick the bucket. I've always been rather fatalistic because of my childhood and the fact that I've already outlived my dad who died of a heart attack. If my wife and I get to grow old sitting on the shop porch great, but if not then she is able to take care of the kids.

[adrianh]

Jellybeans doing what cats do best...

[adrianh]

South African Railways steam locomotive models in 1:87 scale that we build and sell

(I am starting to understand the camera a bit better now)

General class 15F in HDR


General class 15F in HDR


Reefsteamers Class 15F 3046 Janine


Reefsteamers Class 15F 3046 Janine


Reefsteamers Class 15F 3046 Janine

[adrianh]

Just so that you guys understand why men like to play with trains

[ians]

I like, So how much for a train set

[adrianh]

South African Railways models are very expensive because the are hand built is small quantities. One could pick up a basic American set for about R2K

My models start at R390 and go up R10K (each)

[wynn]

You Sir are an artist!

Are those steam engines just models or do they have electric motors to propel them?

[adrianh]

The models have electric motors. The models also have DCC decoders with sound which allows them to be controlled digitally or even by a computer. I am installing a DCC decoder into one of them as we speak, I'll post photographs of the internals then you can see what the motor and electronics look like.

[adrianh]

The guts of a model steam locomotive exposed. This model has been fitted with a DCC digital decoder. Notice that the wires running between the locomotive and the tender are braided together (there is noting like braiding teeny weeny wires whilst looking though a magnifying glass. You can't leave them loose and you can't use heatshrink either because the heatshink makes the wires too stiff. I found that braiding the little wires together works like a charm because the braid allows each wire a bit of freedom of movement.

All the masking tape is just to keep stuff in place during testing.

[adrianh]

Western Province Inter provincial Ice Skating Championships....more pics to follow

Camera: 7D
Lens: 70-200mm 2.8f (Die groot baas)
Shutter speed: 1/750
Apeture: F2.8
ISO: 3200
Mode: Manual

[pmbguy]

Where are the rest of the photo’s you promised?

[adrianh]

They're coming...Post processing takes a lot of time.

I also reworked the first two to remove the grainyness

[pmbguy]

Nice photo's, those girls are so elegant on the ice, but tell me Adrian, did you at least go socialise with those ladies after the comp?