Irish Model Show - May 2010

Last weekend played host to the irish 52nd annual model show. The event was held in the national museum (collins barracks) and the turn-out was really good. It was the first year I myself attended & I'm glad I did.

To my surprise there were war & military rein-actors such as roman centurions, german paratroopers & other various military personal. They put on a great show & the level of authenticity was astounding, they set-up displays of war time equipment & paraphernalia along with guns such as the .303 bren & an assortment of hand-guns & grenades. The models themselves were expertly crafted & the detail on some of them was out of this world. The day before the show I had first experimented with building a model kit of my own so the show the next day was the best introduction anyone could ever have to the hobby. Its great to see that Ireland as small as it is has such a high level of skilled modellers, its no easy hobby & it takes patience & hard work but it’s a hobby I’ll try to keep pursuing. Below are links to a gallery of pictures from the show itself & a gallery of models of my own. I’ll be uploading my own gallery as I get through kits. For the moment I’m sticking with 1/72 model kits but the 1/35 kit I have my eye on is the Chinese df21 ICBM truck by the trumpeter, I was told it would take weeks to construct so I’m not sure when/if I’ll actually get it. My next kit is an Israeli merkava III by revell, also 1/72. I’d love to hear from any other model builders out there so if you have any tips on building/painting please feel free to send them along.






























Pictures from the show - Some of my own models.. so far

Pirate Bay Sunk Again

The Pirate Bay is suffering some temporary downtime as their bandwidth provider has stopped passing through traffic. A week ago, Hollywood got an injunction to effectively shut down the Pirate Bay by threatening its provider with huge fines. The team is currently working on a solution.

It seems several major Hollywood movie studios have obtained a preliminary injunction against CyberBunker operator CB3ROB Ltd. & Co. KG from the Regional Court of Hamburg. The injunction , which was granted without an oral hearing, stated that CB3ROB and Managing Director Sven Olaf Kamphuis were now prohibited from connecting The Pirate Bay website and its servers to the Internet.

yesterday Kamphuis officially confirmed receiving the injunction and has decided to stop routing The Pirate Bay’s traffic until his lawyers have carefully read and reviewed the legal documents. This decision has resulted in downtime for the world’s largest BitTorrent site.

A Pirate Bay insider told a well known torrent site that they are not planning to wait for a decision from the Cyberbunker team, and that they’ve already set the backup process in motion which will bring the site back online. The Pirate Bay’s servers are untouched and getting the site up and running only requires the routing (IP-tunnel) to go through another provider.

It may take several hours before this process has been completed and before all ISPs see the new AS-path. rumors around the internet state things will return to normal as soon as possible, probably within hours.

Ever since The Pirate Bay’s servers were raided back in 2006, the operators of the site have taken extreme measures to ensure that there are proper backup mechanisms in place and that the locations of the servers are well concealed. Where the servers are actually located remains a mystery.