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Flashback: Pioneered Animal Sculptures

Building sculptural gateways with pioneered frames is an Israeli Scout tradition. Here are a few posts about it: Pioneered Animal Sculptures More Pioneered Animals Step by Step Dove Sculpture... 6 days ago

SketchUp 2013 Released

SketchUp 2013 was released last week. Most of the drawings on this blog were produced using SketchUp, and many of them are available for download here . In 2013, there have been many tweaks to usability and appearance of the basic tools in... 2 weeks ago

Dream Catcher Gateway

The theme at KonTiki this year was the Wild West, and my troop, Ninth Benoni, decided to lean towards Indians rather than Cowboys. One of our Assistant Troop Scouters, Greg Gardiner, designed this gateway, and led the Scouts in harvesting the... 3 weeks ago

Flashback: Pioneered Hot Tub

From the Ropes and Poles archives : In 2007, a the Senior Scouts of Scouting De Veste Hasselt built this fire-heated pioneered swimming pool ... 1 month ago

KonTiki 2013 - Rafts by Night

Arrowe Park hosted approximately 3,500 people over the Kontiki weekend, but the highlight, and the purpose, of the weekend was the raft flotilla. Here are some of my photographs of the rafts assembled in the bay at night. Yesterday was a good day... 1 month ago

Pioneering Drawings on iPad - Autodesk Formit

Most of the drawings on this blog have been created using SketchUp, a great, cheap 3d modeling program for Windows and Mac. There have been a few attempts to make an equally intuitive modeling app for tablets, and I think Autodesk have something... 1 month ago

Kontiki 2013 Featured in Local Newspaper

Benoni is the city which hosts Gauteng KonTiki , and the front page of the local newspaper this week featured KonTiki, along with a full page of writeup and pictures . From the article : Scouting groups from across Gauteng assembled at Arrowe Park... 2 months ago

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