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Ricky-Roo302 — THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY
Published: 2006-09-13 13:00:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 6492; Favourites: 51; Downloads: 623
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Lately I've been feeling..................I dunno----------Rootin' Tootin, I guess.Anyway, I thought I'd have a go at drawing an old west Locomotive, and rather than just drawing the train, I wanted to think of something interesting to do with it. I had several ideas, but my daughter had the best idea: throw in a couple of masked desperados.................(Thanks, Tikara!!!)
I now officially have Spurs that jingle jangle jingle............. hope you like......
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This is fantastic! The train is just awesome and I just love the horses!!
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vertually no western themes pictures on DA
so i like that this is here
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...I know what you mean---lots of horses but not much in a western/cowboy setting. That's something to think about.......
THANKS FOR THE FAVE!!!
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yeah i like westerns (most of the time)
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you're welcome!
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...my very thoughts!!!!
Thanks for visiting, wimpy3!!!!
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"Aaaaaaannnnnnndddd it's a hat-trick of faving!" to quote the immortal Jerry Lewis; or Wayne Gretzky. Both are cool in their own way.
Of course I'm faving this because I'm called TRAINwrekcomics, and this is a TRAIN robbery!
It's a sign! 80
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wow this is so cool i love the way the train fades off into the distance and the horses running along side it, i've always wanted to draw something like this before.
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Thank you, Katie---and Thanks especially for the FAVE!!!!
........so tell me about your Avatar---why a wreath????/
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oh, my avatar - it's from a book that i read called the gift and it's the first of a trillogy, that was the front cover of the book
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Oh, I see.....
Who is the author of the book ?-----I will search for it on Amazon......
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the author is alison croggon and there are three books so far - the gift, the riddle and the crow and it's a fantasy. best books ever
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I'll check 'em out---Thanks!!! (I love to read....)
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Hey, Katie---sorry to abandon our chat, I really DID go immediately to Amazon to search out "The Gift" (turns out it's only in hardback at present and costs over $20---can't quite afford it at present, but I will eventually aquire the Trilogy when I have some extra $$$$$)
...regarding my reading preferences, it would be a shorter list to itemize what I DON'T read. I read everything. Poe, Shakespeare, A. Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes---YES!!!), politics, opinion, theology, Scripture, Graphic Novels and comic books, Time, Newsweek, on and on and on....
How 'bout you? Do you have any interests outside the Fantasy genre of "The Gift"?
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no worries ... hmmm.... well i love almost any type of fiction and i love anne fine's books as well as philip pullman another fantasy writer and C.S Lewis and ... Nicholas Evans who wrote the horse whisperer but i haven't read it yet but i'm currently reading the divide which he also wrote. lots of other authors too 
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Hey, I'm right there with you regarding C.S Lewis---I have a Daily Devotional called "A Year With C.S. Lewis", which is a collection of excerts from his various Christian books. And of course his Narnia Chronicles and Perelandra trilogy are Fantastic......
Nice chattin' with you, K
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you too. yeah i'm still reading the narnia chronicles never heard of the perelandra trilogy though i'll have a look. nice shatting with you
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...the trilogy is:
OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET
PERELANDRA and
THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH
.....great Sci-Fi
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oh cool i think i might get them
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Great !! I like especially the train and the horses, and the mens, and the ground, and the background, too...
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Hey, Thank you for the kind words and the Fave---and Congratulations on your recent Photography assignment here in Kodiak; I'm not at all surprised---you're VERY talented. If you're not doing so already, you should be putting your amazing Photos into a Portfolio to eventually show to a potential employer, someday in the future.....
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and here i was congratulating you
thanks
I've actually been working on a portfolio.
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Very cool piece. I can just imagine this moving, very well developed, much action is in this piece. Very well done
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That's a pretty cool train robbery. I especially like the detail you put on the train.
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Thanks for the Fave!!!!! As I said above, it was basically all about drawing an old locomotive---the rest was just an interesting setting in which to put it.............
Thank you for stopping by, all the way from Texas!!!!!
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Yeah, Texas rocks!!! Y'see, the trains here don't look like that anymore. I wish they did. Makes a more Western feel to it. Are there any kind of trains in Alaska?
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Yes, I'm sure there are trains on mainland Alaska---I live on an Island, no trains on Kodiak.
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Cool, I wish I could live on an island! Hey, but do you get to see any Kodiak bears?
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Yes, Eli, I do get to see bears. They often hang out outside of town at the city dump looking for dinner, but they have been seen scrounging around in the dumpsters within the city(all of Kodiaks' dumpsters have signs that say "BE BEAR AWARE!!").They can be very dangerous, so I don't really go looking for them, but tourists to the Island often book Flightseeing tours to spot bears from a small plane. This island is a Paradise of animal life; it is a sanctuary for American bald eagles, and there are sea lions down at the harbor, whales passing through on their migrations, foxes, deer, Alaska King Crab, salmon, halibut, sea urchins, all manner of sea life.......and aside from all of that, it is so BEAUTIFUL up here in Alaska. This is really a most amazing place!!!!
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The bears wander into the city?! Wow. I hope they don't hurt people if no one bothers them.
Sounds like a great place to visit. But I bet I wouldn't be used to the cold weather. It's kinda warm down here.
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Really well done 
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Thank you, MIDeviant.
At tha risk of asking a stupid question----have you ever heard that American expression "rootin' tootin'"? I love playing with the English language, with all of its' ridiculous slang (will-nilly, hootchy-kootchy, hunky-dory, oopsy-daisy, on and on and on.......
I really like watching Prime Minister's Questions on C-SPAN because, although the accents can be (what we Yanks would call) "thick", every member of Parliment speaks with such wonderful articulation. ---and then I watch our own American congress, and they sound like neanderthals by comparison.....
My heritage is British (my last name being Chamberlin), and I'm very proud of that.
Thanks for dropping by to comment!!!!!
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That's very interesting to read, and yes we have heard of "rootin' tootin'" but you never hear it mentioned in speech. It's very much associated with 'rednecks' or Texas Cowboys - kind of what we see in your picture! It's usually used in conjunction with American marketing - indeed - we would see a KFC advert with 'The Colonel' saying 'try our new rootin' tootin' spicy chicken' or something along those lines. Willy-nilly is very much an old woman's phrase, hunky dory is used occassionaly as a light hearted way of saying 'fine'. 'Ooopsy-daisy' is typically used by mothers interacting with their babies, or at least thats how I see it being used (Ooopsy-daisy, you've spilt your milk') and I've never heard of hootchy-kootchy! If I can think of any more I'll let you know. But it's not the sort of thing you hear every day
p.s - There are a family of 'Chamberlins' in this area - British indeed!
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EEEEEEEEE!~ The train came out awesome! <3 And I'm glad you used my idea on adding bandits on horses, too X3 I'll be sure to have mom look at this and see if she has any complaints X3
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You have a cute scream, Daughter..........
Thanks for the FAVE!!!!!! and for the great idea!!!!!
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... Ahahahah, very funny X3
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This is, by FAR, the most detailed drawing I've ever seen. X_x...
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Thank you KatamariMiracle, I used several photo references to make sure I got it looking properly complicated--took forever!!!! Thanks for the FAVE!!!!!
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That's very good!You got the Wild West all down.
Great job!
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Thanks very much for the FAVE!!!!!
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I love the horses. God I can't do mechinary, Kudos for the train. That looks great.
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........so are you, Beast
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