Ah, it was not a destroy but demolish action… I know I couldn’t. If it has taken me months to create something, I cannot bring myself to destroy it…
I indeed was talking about the photo’s of the final results… 
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Congratulations Tim! You are now in post-production and editing! This is a huge step. The hard part is over. You can wind down from here.
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Well in fact the wind-gusts also launched the sub-station and broke a side-wall. Easily fixable, but it kinda persuaded me it had outlived its purpose, and I experienced some weird kind of therapeutic benefit in stamping it down to a pulp. Nihilism maybe, a reaction to 5 years of pent-up frustration? My wife, bless her, saw the veins in my teeth & saved the yellow house from the same fate.
Yeah now into post-production & free of Hollywood strikes too! I had to laugh about winding down though, I’m actually feeling the opposite. Publish & be damned? Director’s cut? Sequel? Who knows, I only have a single shot of Heydrich’s ultimately fatal wound and in many ways that’s all that matters.
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I think this has to do with your lack of mojo in combination with a standstill period of too many months… It all came out at once, with the poor construction as sole victim… R.I.P.
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Tim , how close to the big reveal are you , give or take five more years ?
I should talk , other than individual vehicles here and there I don’t think I’ve totally finished any large dio let alone trash some of its builds .
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I’d say you’re safe to take that round-the-world bungee-jumping tour you’ve talked about so often, and get home (taller then you ever were before) in time for the final curtain.
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Ok, standing by to stand by, mission control!
Your photo odds don’t sound so great, but I recon ya got em all now, good form, mate!
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I’ll tell ya what Tim , Erwin said if you finish this by the end of 2023 , he’ll show up at our BBQ meeting wearing nothing but a grass hula skirt and a coconut bra …
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I doubt this can be called tempting…
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Testing…
I’m now sure there will be two sets of final photos, one of the immediate aftermath with Kubis running away (in technicolor) and the other of the police investigation, in mono.
Following my own honesty rule, in this trial shot I digitally enhanced or faded several things - the top left corner (edge of base was showing), the tram coupling (I hadn’t noticed it had parted during photography), the horizontal join between the two halves of the base, and of course the catenary. (As you can see, rigging all those wires for real would have been…yeah)
I guess the above can serve as a general statement for all the photos to come too, I’ll be doing the same with them where necessary. As you may have noticed I’m taking my time, I think/hope it’ll be worth it 
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Tim , that’s about the coolest looking model photo that looks like the real thing !!!
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Simply fantastic Tim; And the rest…? Don’t keep us waiting(!)
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Gobsmacking. Amazing. Unbelievable. Photo-realistic. Brilliant.
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What he says… ^^ 
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Thanks guys, it becomes increasingly hard to step back & see things as they are (i.e. through others’ eyes) so it’s comforting to know I’m not completely delusional, I really appreciate your responses/likes. I should say again that because of the time/meteorological/mojo pressure I was under I’d only give myself a 6 or 7 out of 10 overall for the photos that survived the brutal deletion session. There were so many views/perspectives I’d originally wanted to get which I either never shot or were useless. We’ll see, my opinion doesn’t matter anyway.
Meanwhile a teaser to increase Brian’s (understandable) impatience, from the colour set…
I doubt I’ll use this one, it’s just an impression of the post-blast panic – alas the shattered panes on the other side are obscured by reflections but they kinda hint at what’s happening behind, which will be seen in detail in the final set. Tweaks? I turned the saturation down a tad, the blazing Sydney sunshine wasn’t realistic. And a slight distortion-correction to straighten the tram’s body lines, the Iphone was way too close. Ironic I probably won’t use this photo, just about the only one that doesn’t need catenary & other adjustments 
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It’s hard to believe how long you have been working on this diorama. Your detailing is fantastic.
Cheers,
Ralph
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Thanks Ralph you’re too kind. Long-suffering regulars over the past 5+ years are probably yelling “damn right hard to believe how long!” - they’ve aged 10 years…as have I. Not that I have any defense, but in my defense perhaps this project’s like a fine wine needing the fullness of time to mature, develop complex aromas, palette, rich colour…or maybe it’s just “corked” 
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With this level of historic accuracy and detailing it is no wonder this takes a while…
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Corked.
(only kidding!)
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Are you sure that isn’t a real photo that slipped in by mistake!?
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