first trial of the LJ78 Landcruiser

I wanted to get a feel for my Landcruiser's capabilities, so found a short greenlane route. It's start was just over the road from a job i was doing, so I was wsas starting quite late at about 5pm. The route was a bit technical, with a steep rock step, wet and muddy areas, and forest. I was impressed!

     

Aquisition: Landcruiser II LJ78 'Prado'

I was after a 4x4 camper and something a bit different. Eventually I came across the Toyota Landcruiser LJ78, and it came with accessories like a winch and rooftent. There are loads of images and videos of this truck online in the hands of the previous owner. Here it is in a local quarry

 

The model is quite rare and has a world-wide following. Here are some others

    

Overland inspiration

after working as a designer of graphics for about ten years, Jesse of http://www.cruxstudio.com/portfolio/ set up this site about 2008 and bought himself a truck to convert into an overland campervan to go travelling. he's self-taught applied design engineer. he turns his hand to most things, uses solidworks, now earns a living designing and building custom designs and machines and vehicles for himself and others. he also has http://www.trailslesstraveled.com/vehicles/19/ and http://store.gatosbros.com/ his build and travel threads on pirate4x4 are awesome

surf trip in bog-standard old cars to Morocco! http://magicseaweed.com/news/sahara-surf-part-2-into-morocco/4437/

these guys have traveled a lot of the world in their mercedes. amazing stories.
http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/37908-Mercedes-W123-Expedition-300TD

a novice crosses africa in a new suv (check the photo at the bottom of the page from when he was practicing driving off road before the trip) http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/95051-Transafrica-with-a-Land-Cruiser-200-(Diesel)/page5

a pair of hiluxes from northern ireland to capetown http://www.surfingafrica.net

installation for National Trust at Penrhyn Castle

Concept and build project, of immersive interpretation exhibit 'Quarry to Port', including 3m backlit landscape model depicting 200yr industrial/landscape history, table, display case, and 360-degree landscape photography with overlaid infographics.
          

work in progress

                      

couple of blogs that interested me today

http://benheck.com/ computer maker modder

http://meandthenightsky.blogspot.co.uk instructables stargazing hacker engineer from the Philippines

takin photos with my telescopic mast of Fictoria Doc in Caernarfon

    

Testing a telescopic mast rig and taking some shots at Caernarfon's Fictoria Dock, 

Looking towards Galeri, and Cwmni Da, Twthill in the distance, nice perspective on the curvature of the dock wall. A plain sunset by Caernarfon standards, but still stunning.