awesome welded art diorama

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122105126625304161&set=gm.36849393354660182&idorvanity=107560572603590

some scrap metal art!

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1350913753758319&set=gm.36739717065627812&idorvanity=107560572603590

Not the first time I've posted a big damn centipede... https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2025/08/what-type-of-giant-creepy-crawly-would.html

Sir George Dowty designed the hydraulic landing gear for the World War II Lancaster bomber, and a statue of him and the gear will be officially unveiled at the International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) in Lincoln on Wednesday 27 May..... not many people get a statue for suspension!

The undercarriages and landing gear of the Lancaster bomber were "faultlessly designed and manufactured" and "instrumental to safe landings for our crews at the completion of their flights"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgjpd1jd5q3o

sweet piece of carving!

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=25904809169183655&set=gm.2120901868851284&idorvanity=425351158406372

very cool

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=890994217299246&set=a.242569442141730

a very impressive chocolate train

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=26272306679024074&set=gm.1578968609717162&idorvanity=339009140379788

The memorial to Fabio Casartelli on the Portet d'Aspet. He was killed in a crash in the Tour de France in 1995, and this was set up on the cycling route in the Pyrenees near the site of his tragic crash

https://medium.com/@LeDomTours/col-de-portet-d-aspet-top-ten-cycling-cols-of-the-pyrenees-95674e03401e

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~wenger/images/pyrenees_2007/casartellimemorial.html

"History of Suspended Time" a car over the water pool outside the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas! By artist Gonzalo Lebrija

https://galeriemagazine.com/hotel-week-fontainebleau-las-vegas/

https://niada.com/dashboard/make-plans-for-2025-niada-convention-and-expo-at-fontainebleau-las-vegas/

https://www.fontainebleaulasvegas.com/experiences/fine-art-collection/

Tank made of Top fuel supercharger parts, at Cold Hard Art

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1429170068568608&set=a.656666772485612

this Jay Burridge sculpture isn’t just a sculpture inspired by Ayrton Senna’s MP4/6. It’s made OF one of Ayrton’s MP4/6s, and displayed at Goodwood in 2004

https://www.thechicane.com/2011/08/03/the-ultimate-garage-wall-decor/

It's surprising how many Singers have become art projects

https://www.geekbobber.com/2018/08/singer.html

A huge new life-size sculpture of a Lancaster bomber has been unveiled on the Nottinghamshire/Lincolnshire border to commemorate a Lancaster which crashed locally in 1942. The sculpture boast a 101' wingspan.

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=31209381318707157&set=pcb.1507475003533190

the Dazu Rock cave temple carving "Hell of Iron Wheel (round saw blade) ", 10th century AD, from the panorama of the courts of hell at Baodingshan, that religious zealots had carved to promote abstaining from getting drunk and enjoying life

 https://www.christravelblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/baodingshan-niche-nether-world-detail-china-dazu-rock-carvings-must-do-day-trip-from-chongqing-IMG_8224.jpg

Situated in Fohui Village, Sanqu Town, Shizhuanshan Cliff Sculptures are made between 1082 and 1096. 

https://www.lilysunchinatours.com/Tourist-Attractions/Dazu-Rock-Carvings.html

https://www.wendyweitours.com/dazu-rock-carvings/

 Uniformly seated in a row, the hell kings preside over torture as sinners are beaten, boiled, crushed and dissected. 

The inscribed texts warn the viewer to embrace virtue and study the dharma lest this nightmare become realized for them.

Machinery such as the treadle-operated tilt hammer and the wheeled saw were commonly used in Sichuan.

 The explicitness of their behavior (becoming drunk, being tempted by the flesh) formed part of the existential experience of viewers.

The internationally religious emphasis placed on abstinence, portrayed at eye level, suggests the clergy's prioritizing sex as the most religiously abhorrent sin

Goodwood is celebrating the 60-year career of Gordon Murray. The towering sculpture - designed by Gerry Judah. This features the Brabham BT52, representing Murray's legacy in F1. It also features the GMA T.50, the spiritual successor to the McLaren F1 and arguably the crowning moment of his career.

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1132547575575143&set=a.641167781379794

gets right to the heart of the grease monkey, knuckledragger, gear head ethos

https://www.meterperion.com/products/rat-rod-hot-rod-hood-ornament

A bronze statue is in Fort William town center, commemorating when a Model T was driven up the tallest peak in the UK in a publicity stunt by Scotland’s first Ford dealer

In 1911 a Ford Model T became the first car to climb to the summit of Britain’s highest mountain, Ben Nevis, in a daring publicity stunt by Henry Alexander, Scotland’s first dealer of the American car company Ford.

In a bid to assure customers the Ford brand was of higher superiority to hand-crafted British cars, a Model T went from the foot of Ben Nevis to the peak, and back down. Not on a road. Roughing it, the hard way

Alexander had left the town driving from sea level the five miles to the summit of Ben Nevis which stands at 4,406 feet. The route crosses burns (streams), traverses bogs and ascends the steep trackless rocky hillside. Then as now there is no road or navigable trail.

This feat of man and machine took 5 days in ascent and one working day in descent.

The statue was commissioned by the Powderhall Foundry in Edinburgh, the statue weighs a whopping three tonnes and depicts Mr Alexander Jr behind the wheel of a Ford Model T.

 This event was celebrated and publicised by the Ford Motor Company for decades, becoming part of the “Mountain Culture” of Ben Nevis.

 

A 1911 film (available by googling “Motoring over Ben Nevis”) shows the car rattling down the rocky hillside and then becoming stuck in a peat hag beside the half way lochan. Its progress continues when sticks of dynamite are used to demolish the peaty impasse!

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highlands-islands/1479172/bronze-ford-model-t-unveiled-in-fort-william/

https://www.markstoddart.com/model_t_car.html

new idea on how to make a model tractor, use a C clamp... I've never seen that done before!

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3538118396441894&set=pcb.24600547242878249

interesting, I wonder if it is ever used, or if they did all this work for it to be a display piece that needs dusting

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=296651796376544&set=a.121557757219283

it's amazing what can be created from the art off an old comic book cover

The Animals in War Memorial is a war memorial, in Hyde Park, London, commemorating the countless animals that have served and died under British military command throughout history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_in_War_Memorial

https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2013/11/remembering-animal-casualties-of-war.html