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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 21m

Wasn’t it just basically ‘the allies’.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 31m

And antimacassars.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 33m

Can’t wait for them to discover antipasti.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 3h

It’s been a subsidiary for at least ten years.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

My mum wasn’t thrilled by the wall painting. My dad just raised his left eyebrow and went back to his racing pages.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

The basis of the designs were photos of Derry and Bogside by Don McCullin. He used photomontage and stark photocopy style monochrome. I was very in love with John Heartfield the anti fascist photomontage artist at the time. Gee Vaucher’s stuff with Crass also caught my imagination. And still does.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

Because it’s just come out plus 45 years, I played it earlier, loud all the way through. And it made me remember something I’d forgotten. I was very smitten by the ferocity of them, and the imagery tripped something in my head. So I painted the inner sleeve across my bedroom wall in emulsion.

A photomontage by Mick Coles using bits of McCullin’s photos of The Bogside in Derry NI, but with a bald chap in the right. A crucified hand to the left, and a Jesuslike figure rising out of smoke.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

I still play it now and again. It still throws me back, music is like that, it augments memory in the same way the sense of smell does with food. Enriches how we hold time inside ourselves.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

It’s 45 years almost to the day since the first Killing joke album came out. I was 14, it changed the whole way I viewed EVERYTHING. I think because it was the first record I felt like I’d discovered.

The famous sleeve outer which Mike Coles put together using an image shot not long before by Don McCullin.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

I think Jilly Cooper might be dead, I just felt a disturbance in the Horse.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

Cheers squire.

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ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · Oct 5

Always a RT for fellow scratchbuilders. Scale grot mags get extra points.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · Oct 5

Wanna see a really tiny damp cardboard box of grot mags? Course you do.

A box of jazz mags in front of a skip 1/24th scale.

It’s all about the research. The skip is from 1991, (don’t ask), so the mags had to be 70s vintage to have been in a shed for long enough… anyway, it’s how my mind works. Linen tester for scale and cheap laughs.

Grot mags in skip

Grot mags in box. For US/RoW viewers, RAZZLE has a sort of comedy element about the title in the UK, oft quoted.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 3d

Cheers. For military and aviation follow @flypastrush.bsky.social and for a mix of things try @adamwatkinson1.bsky.social

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 3d

There’s a VW Beetle too. Progressives for that are on the website. Here’s some bits no bobs.

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A very rusty Beetle Engine Bay

A rusty Beetle front end.

The underside. Based very heavily on a shit one I owned years ago. I saw the underneath of it a lot, also learnt to weld.

The back seat.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 3d

It’s all down to layering, acrylic, oils, powdered pastels and fixer. Plus layers of non-soluble barrier. I use diluted acrylic floor varnish.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 3d

‘Research’… what got me was the number of forums full of ancient knee rubbers on them sharing this stuff. Also Muffs were bigger in the olden days.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks. Spiderland by Slint at the top, When in Rome, Kill Me by Cud at the bottom.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · Jul 30

As you’ve all been so nice, here’s some of the 1/24th ‘Spiral Scratch’ record shop and derelict laundrette that go with the van and skip. It’s fun, I highly recommend making and/or mending stuff as a distraction from *waves arms about*

A scale model of a record shop called Spiral Scratch and a laundrette

A front on view of the aforementioned.

Detail of the doorway with shutter and posters, plus records in the window.

The record rack in that went in the window.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · Oct 5

Wanna see a really tiny damp cardboard box of grot mags? Course you do.

A box of jazz mags in front of a skip 1/24th scale.

It’s all about the research. The skip is from 1991, (don’t ask), so the mags had to be 70s vintage to have been in a shed for long enough… anyway, it’s how my mind works. Linen tester for scale and cheap laughs.

Grot mags in skip

Grot mags in box. For US/RoW viewers, RAZZLE has a sort of comedy element about the title in the UK, oft quoted.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · Oct 3

Wanna see a really tiny pack of Rizlas? Course you do.

A 1/24th scale pack of Rizla+ greens with the corner torn off.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · Oct 11

Wanna see a really tiny brick factory? Course you do.

The brick positive, each one hand carved by an idiot, then glued into a matrix.

The silicone negative

Making bricks.

A pile of tiny bricks

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · Oct 4

Wanna see a really tiny gas bottle? Course you do.

That tap was a complete bastard.

Look at the shiny steel.

Here it is in the palm of my hand

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · Oct 13

Wanna see a really tiny CRT television (Phillips) and a knackered Victorian door (cream)? Course you do.

A telly and a door with splits in it, only smaller.

A telly and a door with splits in it in front of a skip, only smaller.

The back of a telly

A telly and a door with splits in it in front in a skip, only smaller.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · Oct 9

Wanna see a really tiny copper water cylinder? Course you do.

A 1/24th scale hot water cylinder, complete with 1/24th scale verdigris and scale.

A 1/24th scale hot water cylinder, complete with 1/24th scale verdigris and scale. (In progress)

A 1/24th scale hot water cylinder, complete with 1/24th scale verdigris and scale, next to its future resting place.

A 1/24th scale hot water cylinder, complete with 1/24th scale verdigris and scale with its friend the fucked sink.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 4d

I had a Citroen Dyane in something similar.