Hi All,
Just started SOLO by William Boyd first ever reading of a James Bond novel and at that by another bond author other than Ian Fleming.
Solo is a James Bond continuation novel written by William Boyd. It was published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 26 September 2013 in hardback, e-book and audio editions, and in the US by HarperCollins on 8 October 2013.
The plot centres on Bond’s mission to the civil war in the fictional country of Zanzarin—a thinly veiled version of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War—where he meets the local MI6 contact, Efua Blessing Ogilvy-Grant, and a Rhodesian mercenary, Kobus Breed. After being shot by Ogilvy-Grant, Bond tracks both people to Washington on a revenge mission, finally establishing that Breed is trafficking heroin into the US.
EDIT: I really enjoyed my first Bond read so now I’ll have to get all Ian Flemings and Williams books….?
Well done staff better choice of emoji’s…?
Geoff.
Hi All,
Jurassic Jail from the fertile imagination William Alan Webb, who has authored a couple of fantasy and Fictiion book series as well as a couple of historic books on WWII.
Future America is dangerous and bankrupt. The interstate highways are littered with the rusted hulks of ambushed cars and trucks, and only Mad Max would dare travel the back roads.
When an arms race with Russia and China to develop time travel for military purposes achieves success, the body count skyrockets as both patriot and enemy try to hijack the new technology. Like the Manhattan Project and Operation Overtime before it, such a project attracts the best and the brightest as well as the worst and the psychotic.But not everyone has given up on the rule of law. In Tennessee, Fayette County D.A. Pete Dance wants to prosecute the murder of a man whose fossilized remains turn up after a series of devastating earthquakes. The problem is that the victim is still alive.
When the violence starts, it doesn’t stop until the final whirlwind of teeth and claws and lasers.
described by one critic as “…Spectre agents chasing Fast and Furious through Jurassic World,” while another reviewer added “…with a heavy dose of Harry Bosch for good measure.”
Geoff.
Hi All,
Wade Myers latest creation he is just so good at the smallest detail he captures it so exact……….?
One at a time … rendering checkerboard noses is fun! ???
Compare the fresh checks on the right to the finished nose on the left. Believe it or not, the checks were each rendered (filled in) one by one, with no guide curves, over the pattern I had laid down in the initial transfer. The reason for this is if I had drawn a “grid,” and then filled in the dark ones, I wouldn’t get the sharp(ish) “…point” at each corner. PITA, but the results look oh-so-much better … and more realistic. Well, I could have drawn a pregrid with a super-sharp pencil to get a micro thin line, but then there’s the possibility of laying down an imperfect (crooked) set of lines …
Okay, the collector has been waiting long enough for this one ?? full time on this bad boy till it’s done.
Image courtesy of:-https://www.facebook.com/Wade.Meyers.Studios/
Geoff
Hi All,
Presenting ‘Testing Ivan’ the finished painting by Simon Atack beautiful……….?
Somewhere over the Barents sea. Northern Arctic waters between Norway and the Soviet Russian coastline.Winter 1961. A lone 44 Sqn. Avro Vulcan B2 from RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire makes an ultra low, Below-Radar simulated “Blue Danube” or “Yellow Sun” nuclear weapon practice attack approach towards her designated target on the Soviet mainland.
Once in proximity of their target, the crew will climb to release altitude of 10,000 to 15,000 feet and launch the weapon. By 1964 all RAF V-Force bombers were given Medium Sea Grey/Dark Green over White Grey camouflaged finishes, (later, overall grey/green wrapover patterns) as low level flying attack profiles became the standard for strategic target approach.
Oils on canvas 24x36inches.
Prints and Ltd. Editions available from…
http://www.simonatack.com
Hi All,
Cannot seem to edit or delete the posts in section for some reason ? so here is the description of Simon Atacks latest creation.
“TESTING IVAN”
After painting to establish the Vulcan’s pose in one 17 hour painting session, it just remains for the work here to dry and allow me to add the …cockpit dome and perspex, the fuselage RAF roundel and warning/direction stencils plus a few details like vents and the pitot heads and it’s finished.
The completed painting will be exhibited with two other of my Aviation paintings at the forthcoming Aviation Heritage Lincolnshire Exhibition “A CENTURY OF VALOUR” at the Collections gallery and museum, Lincoln city from January 21st 2020.
Prints and giftware of “Testing Ivan” will be available soon.
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