Doo, doo, doo . . .

. . . lookin' out my back door. Well, the winter storm that crept into the area yesterday finally came to fruition last night. This morning about 3:00, I was awakened by the wind slamming the bedroom window above my head with sleet, and since sleep was not returning anytime soon thanks to another Lego plane design mulling around in my head, I got up and built the damned thing. As I put the final touches on it and looked out my back door, I noticed it was now light and found this image irresistable.


This is what it looks like out my back door, if you open the door. I think I like the other photo better, don't you? Very impressionistic.


Here's the design that kept rolling around and around in my little bird brain. This is a Japanese Kyushu J7W1 "Shinden," a very revolutionary design for them. They actually got one or two of these into production and flown, but the war ended shortly thereafter and so did production. This plane was meant to be an interceptor for the B-29 Superfortress, like the ones that dropped the A-Bombs. How's that for irony?


Since I could not find any photos of this thing flying, I thought I'd shoot my model "in flight" as it were. This shows off the lines much better than any I did of it on the ground.


And a departing shot, again showing off its lines. Ahhh . . . Now maybe I can get some sleep. Good day for a nap, too.