Bits Of Birr

The Great Telescope At Birr

72 Inch Reflecting Telescope. 1841-1845

Built in the 1800`s by  William Parsons the third Earl of Ross and his wife Mary Rosse. She was an accomplished blacksmith and created much of the ironwork that supported the telescope.

Flowers From Birr

Some Bridges in Birr

We went for a visit to Birr Castle and the camera came too. First up are some of the many bridges on the grounds

Balck & White and White & Black

A tiny cat with half a tail showed up in my neighbours shed and a short while later she had these two

It`s been far too long since I posted but I have a few photos to add at last.

 

Friday Flashback- Achill island, Keem

A photo from the vaults, or in this case 4 or five stitched together.

http://www.achilltourism.com/keembay.html

From a trip in September `07

The sensible one

Kip is doing remarkably well since we moved out here, her arthritis seems to have faded to just a slight stiffness. back to hoping up and down from chairs and windowsills without much trouble.

All Mouth

Dexter Being Mouthy…as usual

88mm Gun Flak 36/37

I got this model as a Christmas present form my wife. Lucky me 🙂

really looking forward to getting stuck in to building it but there are already 4 models in progress on the bench.

1 HMS Victory – airfix 1:180

2 Messerschmitt Bf109e-3 – airfix 1:72

3 German motorcycle BMW r/75 sidecar – Tamiya 1:35

4 Viking ship – Revell 1:50

I should finish up at least a couple of them before starting another one.

It looks like a nicely complex build, the instruction booklet is 16 pages including a history of the gun over 3 of the pages.

9 figures, the main gun (parts to make a choice between two variations of the gun), its two bogies and a Zundapp motorcycle.

This will call for some sort of diorama.

 

 

Messerschmitt Bf109e-3 WIP

Its my first time trying an airbrush. next time I must try a bigger model.