GP Series by VapourArt - Official Thread for GP Spheroid, GP PAPS, X, GP Piccolo, GP SnP and more - Part 2

[Woody7781]

woody, I was all excited because I made a strawberry rhubarb pie that came out tasting as close to it as I can imagine it to be...

then I did the vanilla...bam

Wow. Sounds delish! I need to learn how to do this stuff.

 

[StrikeIII]

Wow, missed a lot and can't keep up with all the past pages. Good evening my GP Fam!

I got a little too excited about the vapourday thought it was for the Ti. [emoji14]

Thanks P, for the silver plated Heron GPins. [emoji106]

I hope everyone had a great weekend!

Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk

 

[anavidfan]

Been playing catchup on the forum again.....

Thanks to all who commented about some of my passions a while back (many pages). So another passion…..

I have been a very serious Lepidopterist since 1960, not as a profession but as a passion like with all of the natural world. Am well traveled to study their life histories right where they live, from true deserts to tropical rain forests to arctic/alpine habitats and everything in between. Some of the places I visited took days to get to by any means found to be possible. Some I wished I could flap wings to get to instead of long harsh hikes and climbs. I reared them by the 100's of thousands over the years in both personal and collaborated projects with professionals worldwide to learn new things about their life histories, to rebuild colony numbers, try to prevent extinctions and did projects to purchase land to save some of those habitats from the hands of man in Costa Rica, Brazil and Madagascar. During my course over the years I discovered many new specifics of the life histories in dozens of species. While I did all species and their host nectar/larval food plants in an area when I visited it, I specialized in four families and am among the most knowledgeable concerning those. Heck, I even did a rearing project for the USSR to save a species from extinction during the Cold War because I was one of the few that knew how to rear them successfully at the time. Nature's treasures are far more important on this planet than politics IMO. My last active field years were spent right near home in the Spring Mountains. They are an island of habitats from high plateau desert to alpine that is isolated far removed from the higher habitats by desert many miles from them elsewhere. With the genes pools isolated as the climate/habitats changed, many of the plants and animals evolved into their own subspecies and some to species level there over the eons. They are not found anywhere else on earth. Almost all of the endemic Lepidoptera there are endangered now due to habitat loss, some at the hands of man, some from the drought here that's ran on for many years, and from many fires started by lightning. Some of the species/subspecies are now thought to be extinct. For example, one subspecies that is in one of the families:subfamiles I specialized in (Saturniidae: Hemileuciinae) used to fly up there in hoards because of the huge base of their larval food plants that once was there (Symphoricarpos). But with large tracts of the plants destroyed they had not been seen flying for a few years when I moved here 17 years ago. None has been seen again at all since the 3 larva I found up there back in 1998. They are a species that lays several egg rings on several different scattered plants (200-300 eggs). But days on end searching for weeks with my ex and son, I only found those 3 early instar larvae. I reared those in hopes of doing a hand pairing to get a start at least in hopes of a string of new generations for years to rebuild from, but the one male didn't emerge before the two females died of old age at 8-9 days. I mounted them for my synoptic collection because they may have been the last of their kind on earth.

Anyway, if you like Lep pictures I can post them by the handfuls until long after the cows come home.

Thank you so much, nice to see a fellow bug lover. I have tons of photos Ive take of live and specimens. Did you take those photos? Do you collect and keep live insects? Im dying to get some Mantids and Beetles someday, but dont know where to get anything other than tarantulas and scorpions. I prefer to keep insects that dont bite I have a tarantula but my cat is keeping him in constant stress and needs a new home.

 

[yankeebobo]

Thank you so much, nice to see a fellow bug lover. I have tons of photos Ive take of live and specimens. Did you take those photos? Do you collect and keep live insects? Im dying to get some Mantids and Beetles someday, but dont know where to get anything other than tarantulas and scorpions. I prefer to keep insects that dont bite I have a tarantula but my cat is keeping him in constant stress and needs a new home.

The cat, or the spider?

 

[yankeebobo]

Jo keeps staring at her mod. I really am believing there is more in there than she's letting on.

 

[anavidfan]

Sorry, I just have to share some of my insect picts, I never get to show them off. When I do, I get blank looks...
If anyone wants to see my wierd pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/118513214@N07/

 

[anavidfan]

The cat, or the spider?

Paul the Tarantula needs a home. He gets "no love" from anyone else in the family.

 

[cliffy15]

Just curious... The competition... How does that effect on/off?

I'm a bit noobish but I've never actually chased any unicorns ;-) that being said I think there are a bunch of people, here, that I think SHOULD have them more than I

 

[BILLB OKC]

thanks for sharing, Spydro

 

[Cucco]

I'm a bit noobish but I've never actually chased any unicorns ;-) that being said I think there are a bunch of people, here, that I think SHOULD have them more than I

I look at it this way.. There are 90 in total. There are a couple handful of us here, 'The Family', on the bench. I hope that each and every one of us, on that bench, get one. Better us, than the rest of the world. And, If I was lucky enough to get one, and another on the bench did not, at least I would then be in a position to possibly make things right, if I knew another would love her more than I would.

 

[wildvet]

I look at it this way.. There are 90 in total. There are a couple handful of us here, 'The Family', on the bench. I hope that each and every one of us, on that bench, get one. Better us, than the rest of the world. And, If I was lucky enough to get one, and another on the bench did not, at least I would then be in a position to possibly make things right, if I knew another would love her more than I would.

Well said Cucco!

 

[Idaholandho]

Regardless of the line that has and will form for the Ti, my position follows.
We are all Perseas and Team GP fans, friends, family etc., and regardless of whom is going to try, all of us are on the "bench" for one reason or another.
I think Yankeefroballs mentioned a park in lieu of the proverbial bench due to size issues. I much like that setting.
Visually I see us mingling, laughing, vaping, drinking, barbecuing, hugging and such. The "bench" visually to me stifles the flow and creates pressure and stress.
I'm pretty Damn excited as well but, my vote is to empty the bench and all bet back to mingling.
I put far to much thought in it didn't I?

 

[wildvet]

Regardless of the line that has and will form for the Ti, my position follows.
We are all Perseas and Team GP fans, friends, family etc., and regardless of whom is going to try, all of us are on the "bench" for one reason or another.
I think Yankeefroballs mentioned a park in lieu of the proverbial bench due to size issues. I much like that setting.
Visually I see us mingling, laughing, vaping, drinking, barbecuing, hugging and such. The "bench" visually to me stifles the flow and creates pressure and stress.
I'm pretty Damn excited as well but, my vote is to empty the bench and all bet back to mingling.
I put far to much thought in it didn't I?

Love this!

 

[Idaholandho]

I'm a bit noobish but I've never actually chased any unicorns ;-) that being said I think there are a bunch of people, here, that I think SHOULD have them more than I

In the beginning, Lord Perseas created his kingdom and all resident Family as equals.






Don't forget it either.

 

[Woody7781]

I'm crying. You guys are the just cutest bunch ever.
But best believe, I'm going out swinging!!!!!! Just kidding. Lol.

 

[btobw]

So much catching up to do - I've been on holiday for two weeks and decided on a self-imposed break from *all* internet connections. My mother turns 90 in three weeks. She originally comes from Queensland and her four surviving sisters still live there (she comes from a family of 10, with 8 siblings still alive). So my Mum and I went on a driving holiday up to the warmer climes of southern Queensland for a family reunion with all the sisters - two of them older than Mum (my Mum on the right):

This is the Australian version of Miami at sunset in winter. The people on the beach are fishing - not very successfully as far as I could see.

I missed the last Vapour Day ... the first one for ages that was in waking hours here. I already have a SS X and a Paps Lux. Decisions, decisions, decisions. But I think I'll be getting a Lux X in preference to the Ti - assuming I wake up at 4am for the next vapour day.

 

[Woody7781]

Ughhhhh. While browsing Facebook, I see 2 different high end modders. One is making a dual coil Heron, the other copied (albeit a horrid looking copy) the concept of the GPin. I commented (had to) on the post saying "don't copy the best, BE the best". I may get banned lol. I am biased but honestly GP is the ONLY modder that I actually stand up for. I hate it to see people stealing someone else's ingenuity. There is thought put into every product from GP. Innovation. I don't see it anymore anywhere else.

 

[anavidfan]

I think I saw that MOD, its kinda a mix of features taken from various designs, "engineered in Manchester, England"?

 

[Woody7781]

I'm not sure of the atty. the mod is apparently a clone of some Korean mod that the maker was associated with Kato (of the Hammer fame) I've never seen it before. But the GPin they used is literally funny. I laughed when I saw it. It's horrendous.

Edit. I guess the atty I saw was actually a dripper with an extension that they are releasing soon that makes it a dual coil Heron copy.

 

[anavidfan]

Then its not the one I saw that seems to be the "it" mod right now. It looks mostly like its inspired by the X but different button, even the logo is very similar to that of the Rose atty.