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My intended day one of riding destination became my starting point. Shun, who I had given accommodation to in Australia, paid me back a favor by putting my bicycle into his new car and driving me 100km on a super wet day. I had planned to catch a bus half way, but locals thought it would be difficult, local buses rarely carry bicycles. So I took up Shuns offer and I was very glad I did, we had a lovely talk during the drive, I found out his parents were sent to this area during the Cultural Revolution. Heqiao was an old town and had some interesting historical displays. Very much the low season, a few buses arrived late in the day.
Intended as a photographic iteration, the original work was very clear. Metadata shows the photographer's exploration with a 1/2 second exposure/handheld.
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Intended to depict the Ingalls farm at Plum Creek. The frosting did not admit of sufficient detail to depict the leeches in the creek, nor the locusts.
The architect, Gideon Shryock, had intended for the courthouse to have a six-column Doric portico, a cupola, and additional porticos on the wings. The building would be completed by metopes and plain friezes as a full entablature, and engaged pilasters regularly sequenced. Shryock resigned from the project in 1842. It was finally completed in 1860, with Albert Fink, a bridge engineer, and Charles Stancliff in charge. Fink reduced the number of columns for the Doric portico, and did not build the additional porticos and cupola. The Louisville Daily Journal said it was a "elephantine monstrosity".
Construction on the courthouse began in 1837, and both the City of Louisville and Jefferson County governments starting using it in 1842. Slave-trading was held by the courthouse in the 1840s, as were speeches calling for the abolition of slavery. When the courthouse was originally built, it was hoped that it would be the Statehouse for Kentucky. This hope was the goal of James Guthrie, but due to the capital staying in Frankfort, it became known as "Guthrie's folly". It did see some state government use during the American Civil War, when it briefly housed the Kentucky State Legislature when Frankfort was acquired by Confederate forces.
After a fire in 1905, the building was renovated by Brinton Davis. When he visited Louisville in 1948, Frank Lloyd Wright referred specifically to the Courthouse when he said, "Louisville's architecture represents the quality of the old South; we should not build this type of building anymore but we should keep those we have left." This was after efforts in the 1940s to demolish it for urban renewal.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Improvements to the building includes placing a statue of Henry Clay, designed by Joel T. Hart, on the main floors, and extensive renovations in the 1980s. The Jefferson County Courthouse Annex at 517 Court Pl. was listed on the National Register in 1980.
Since the merger of the former City of Louisville with Jefferson County, the building was renamed Louisville Metro Hall and now primarily houses the offices of the Mayor of Louisville Metro. In addition, the offices of the Jefferson County Clerk, the Kentucky Court of Appeals and the Kentucky Supreme Court Justice for the Louisville district are located in this building.
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Intended as a little boy's complement to the girl's train of 1957, only a few prototypes were made in lighter colored cars. This is the 2002 set made by Lionel as a tribute to the original. Two cars of this set are not shown.
Intended subject of preceding bokeh misfire, performer Vinsantos during a Freaksheaux to Geaux show at the Allways Lounge in New Orleans.
Intended to shoot a sunset over the sea, but that turned out to be a very uninteresting one, so decided to try out some twilight shots, but then one of my cameras malfunctioned and while figuring out why it was behaving erratically the light fell down further, but then the view of the waves lashing against the beach in that low light seemed all the more lovely, so tried to capture that instead. At Fort Aguada, Sinquerim, Goa, India.
The Eurofighter Typhoon was planned to be a Supersonic Interceptor Fighter Aircraft intended to shoot down enemy bombers, but this was changed and the type was developed into a Multi-Role Fighter Aircraft which can be used to carry out several different military tasks, which included bombing. It is a very sophisticated design, and it's development was much slower than originally anticipated, work on the project began back in the early 1980's. The Eurofighter Typhoon entered Royal Air Force operational service in 2006, they are flown by airforces of other countries including Austria, Germany, Italy and Spain.
The Eurofighter Typhoon is a ''Multinational'' twin-engine, Canard delta wing, multirole fighter, and was originally designed as an air superiority fighter and is manufactured by a consortium of Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo that conducts the majority of the project through a joint holding company, ''Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH'' The NATO Eurofighter and Tornado Management Agency, representing the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain, manages the project and is the prime customer.
The aircraft's development effectively began in 1983 with the Future European Fighter Aircraft programme, a multinational collaboration among the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Previously, Germany, Italy and the UK had jointly developed and deployed the Panavia Tornado Combat Aircraft and desired to collaborate on a new project, with additional participating EU Nations. However disagreements over design authority and operational requirements led France leaving the consortium to develop the Dassault Rafale independently. A Technology Demonstration Aircraft the British Aerospace EAP, first flew on 6th August 1986, a Eurofighter Prototype made its maiden flight on 27th March 1994. The aircraft's name ''Typhoon'' was adopted in September 1998 and the first production contracts were also signed that year.
The sudden end of the Cold War era reduced European demand for fighter aircraft and led to debate over the aircraft's cost and work share and protracted the Typhoon's development, entering operational service in 2003 and is now in service with the air forces of Austria, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, Saudi Arabia and Oman. Kuwait and Qatar have also ordered the Typhoon, bringing the procurement total to 623 Aircraft as of 2019.
The Eurofighter Typhoon is a highly agile aircraft, designed to be a supremely effective ''Dogfighter'' in combat. Later production aircraft have been increasingly better equipped to undertake air-to-surface strike missions and to be compatible with an increasing number of different armaments and equipment, including 'Storm Shadow' and 'Brimstone' missiles. The Typhoon had its combat debut during the 2011 military intervention in Libya with the UK's Royal Air Force and the Italian Air Force, performing aerial reconnaissance and ground-strike missions. The type has also taken primary responsibility for air-defence duties for the majority of customer nations.
The Typhoon is a highly agile aircraft both at supersonic and low speeds, achieved through having an intentionally relaxed stability design. It has a Quadruplex Digital Fly-by-Wire Control system providing 'Artificial Stability' as manual operation alone could not compensate for the inherent instability. The fly-by-wire system is described as ''Carefree'' and prevents the pilot from exceeding the permitted manoeuvre envelope. Roll control is primarily achieved by use of the ailerons, pitch control is by operation of the canards and ailerons, because the canards disturb airflow to inner elevons and the yaw control is done by a large, single rudder. Engines are fed by a chin double intake ramp situated below a splitter plate. The Typhoon features lightweight construction (82% composites consisting of 70% carbon fibre composite materials and 12% glass fibre reinforced composites) with an estimated lifespan of 6,000 flying hours.
General characteristics –
▪︎Role – Multi-Role Fighter / Air Superiority Fighter
▪︎National Origin – Multinational
▪︎Manufacturer – Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH
▪︎First Flight – 27th March 1994
▪︎Introduction – 4th August 2003
▪︎Status – In Service
▪︎Primary Users – Royal Air Force / German Air Force / Italian Air Force / Spanish Air Force
▪︎Produced – 1994 to present
▪︎Number Built – 592 as of November 2023
▪︎Developed From – British Aerospace EAP
▪︎Variants – Eurofighter Typhoon Variants.
▪︎Crew – 1 or 2
▪︎Length – 52 ft 4 in
▪︎Wingspan – 35 ft 11 in
▪︎Height – 17 ft 4 in
▪︎Wing area – 551 sq ft
▪︎Empty weight – 24,251 lb
▪︎Gross weight – 35,274 lb
▪︎Max takeoff weight – 51,809 lb
▪︎Fuel capacity 11,010 lb / 1,367 imp gal
▪︎Powerplant – 2 x Eurojet EJ200 afterburning turbofan engines, 13,500 lbf thrust each dry, 20,200 lbf with afterburner.
▪︎Maximum speed – 1,600 mph or Mach 2.35 at altitude / 950 mph at sea level or Mach 1.25
▪︎Supercruise – Mach 1.5
▪︎Range – 1,800 mi / 1,600 nmi
Information sourced from – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurofighter_Typhoon
I'd intended to go to a home communion service this morning, with the family of a chap who can't get to church. However, I got the address wrong and ended up in Eastleach instead of Fairford. However, when I rang the vicar to check, it didn't matter, as the couple had had to cancel it earlier in the morning! I didn't mind, as I'd had a good cycle ride, and seen pheasants, a rabbit, buzzards and a group of deer - and I got home in time for Bargain Hunt!
After lunch, Mike & I drove to Swindon to get me a new computer. My laptop is seven years old, the replacement battery is getting unreliable, and I'm running out of storage. We got an all-in-one rather than a laptop, but I'm waiting until tomorrow to set it up.
This morning.
The sun's not yet up over the horizon, but the clouds overhead are already tinted pink.
*squints at horizon*
Hmmm. It appears in this picture the water may be running down south towards the antarctic.
Anyway, here i am on the boardwalk the runs around the rocks between Curl Curl Beach and Freshwater Beach.
I had intended to take a walk over the next headland to the north (between Curl Curl and Dee Why Beaches) ... but somehow i ended up heading south to Freshwater Beach, and once started on that route, there was enough to keep me fully occupied for the time i had available.
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It had been intended to complete the extension of Berlin's tram route M10 to Moabit by 2020, but due to problems in the planning system it was delayed. On 11 August 2021, the official 'breaking the first sod' was celebrated by the BVG and Berlin Senator for Transport and the all-clear has now been given for construction to begin.
I'm using these photos as the basis of cataloging the whole construction period up to the opening, which is now scheduled for the first half of 2023.
To view as intended, view from about 2 to 3 feet from monitor. cross eyes until a 3rd picture appears at the center. This should appear 3-D. This belonged to my mother in law before she passed away.
Iphone 6 Plus Lock Screen Wallpaper. Minimal Gray With White Clock intended for Iphone 6S Plus Wallpaper Dimensions - Iphone 6s Wallpapers
My edit of this floral image is intended to show lots of detail. See this LARGE: www.flickr.com/photos/mikeygottawa/37156058766/sizes/o/
In my dreams, NASA contacts me to help edit some galactic imagery that they want to enhance. Yeah, right. Like that'll really happen. Still, I can dream.
This Slideshow link will always start with my Most Recent Flickr Photo. See Mikey G Ottawa's Flickr Slideshow HERE: www.flickr.com/mikeygottawa/show
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I'm Not Shy to promote my Flickr work. Told them I had more than 1M views here. Since then it's climbed to 4.1M views. CTV Regional Contact gave me 3 minutes on the local CTV News here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C2U_01ajdw
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This one wasn't intended to be blurry, and I wasn't even going to post it originally, even though I thought it was a really cool-looking restaurant and I loved the colors. But then I thought about it and realized that the blurriness really expresses what I think about LA. There's always a haze of some sort about, and the people always feel distant and impersonal (even when they're cutting you off and flipping you off, there's a sense of detachment). Before I moved to Oregon, I had spent about 20 years on the outskirts of Los Angeles, and in all that time, I never figured it out, ultimately never wanted to, and never ever warmed up to it. It's like the place is constantly in its own fog machine...like you could turn it off, and it would just vanish.
My intended day one of riding destination became my starting point. Shun, who I had given accommodation to in Australia, paid me back a favor by putting my bicycle into his new car and driving me 100km on a super wet day. I had planned to catch a bus half way, but locals thought it would be difficult, local buses rarely carry bicycles. So I took up Shuns offer and I was very glad I did, we had a lovely talk during the drive, I found out his parents were sent to this area during the Cultural Revolution, this is how they met. Heqiao was an old town and had some interesting historical displays. Very much the low season, a few buses arrived late in the day.
The intended audience for this project was energetic, young or young-at-heart women with a sense of humor. More specifically, I was targeting people who live to hunt down screamin’ deals.
I hoped that these illustrations would communicate the feeling of finding the perfect dress for the perfect price. So often when shopping, we find exactly what we want, for exactly 10x what we hoped to pay. So when one does find that gem, the elation can be overwhelming, even crazy.
I enjoyed illustrating the character depicted. I giggled the whole time I was drawing.
These final pieces could have been improved with better planning. I don’t love the hole-punch through the clothes hanger—it wasn’t intentional and that is apparent. If I had more experience with Illustrator I could have spent more time fine-tuning.
I had originally only intended on studying Harris' work in Shimoda, but obenjo kusanosuke visited here and I decided that I had to visit. I hope to return and take a few more (read: better) photos. Thank You for the referral, obenjosan!
This monument was originally dedicated (as one can see) on Sunday, December 19th, 1936. It remained relatively unscathed by the unrelenting incendiary carpet bombing of the Americans during WWII, but there was enough damage that it needed a renovation and a new placement a little over 23 years later on Thursday, May 12th, 1960.
A semi-fictionalized tweetstream intended to highlight the inherent unscalability of thanking people for retweets, whether for not-so-subtle self-promotion or [more] genuine gratitude. What if everyone did it? And isn't feeling gratitude for someone retweeting something you tweeted ultimatlely a manifestation of ego (i.e., the person expressing gratitude is assuming the retweet was about them, vs. what they were tweeting about)?
This trip was intended to see a freight path planned from Kings Cross - Newcastle (originating from Wembley). However, this never ran, but we did end up seeing some newly repainted class 91s, as well as a 465 and some other stuff.
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Some background:
The second half of the Second World War saw the Focke-Wulf Fw190, in its various forms, emerge as the best of what was available to the Luftwaffe. The dedicated fighter version was a high performance, heavily armed machine. Its development had a precarious beginning, against a 1938 specification issued by the Technisches Amt, RLM. The first prototype took to the air on June 1, 1939. After a series of improvements and even radical changes, the design culminated in the fall of 1940 in the pre-series version Fw190A-0.
Development of the thoroughbred fighter continued in the guise of the Fw190D, which began to reach Luftwaffe units in the second half of 1944 and was the result of mounting an in-line Jumo213A-1 engine into a modified Fw190A-8 airframe. The Fw 190 D (nicknamed the Dora; or Long-Nose Dora, "Langnasen-Dora") was intended to improve on the high-altitude performance of the A-series enough to make it useful against the American heavy bombers of the era.
With the D version the power plant was changed from the radial engine of earlier models to a 12-cylinder inverted-V liquid-cooled engine. The Jumo 213A generated 1,750 PS (1,730 hp; 1,290 kW) and could produce 2,100 PS (2,100 hp; 1,500 kW) of emergency power with MW 50 injection, improving performance to 686 km/h (426 mph) at 6,600 m (21,700 ft). In order to fit the new engine in the Fw 190 fuselage while maintaining proper balance, both the nose and the tail of the aircraft were lengthened, adding nearly 1.52 m (5.0 ft) to the fuselage, bringing the overall length to 10.192 m (33.44 ft) versus the 9.10 m (29.9 ft) of the late war A-9 series. The lengthened tail required a straight-sided bay, 30 cm (12 in) long, spliced in forward of the rear angled joint and tail assembly of the fuselage. To further aid balance, the pilot's oxygen bottles were moved aft and located in the new bay. This gave the rear fuselage a "stretched" appearance.
Furthermore, the move to a V12 engine from a radial engine required more components to be factored into the design, most significantly the need for coolant radiators (radial engines are air-cooled). To keep the design as simple and as aerodynamic as possible, Tank used an annular radiator (the AJA 180 L) installed at the front of the engine, similar to the configuration used in the Jumo powered versions of the Junkers Ju 88. The annular radiator with its adjustable cooling gills resembled a radial engine installation, although the row of six short exhausts stacks on either side of the elongated engine cowling showed that the Jumo 213 was an inverted V12 engine.
While the first few Doras were fitted with the early flat-top canopy, these were later replaced with the newer rounded top "blown" canopy first used on the A-8 model, and it offered the pilot an improved all-around field of view, esp. backwards. With the wider canopy the shoulder and head armor plating design was changed, too. Some late-model Doras were also fitted with the broader-chord Ta 152 vertical stabilizer and rudder, often called "Big Tails" by the Luftwaffe ground crews and pilots. The centerline weapons rack was changed to an ETC 504 with a simplified and much smaller mounting and fairing.
The fighter lacked the higher rate of roll of its close coupled radial-engined predecessor. However, it was faster, with a maximum speed of 680 km/h (420 mph) at 6,600 meters (21,700 feet). Its 2,240 horsepower with methanol-water injection (MW 50) gave it an excellent acceleration in combat situations. It also climbed and dived more rapidly than the Fw 190A and was superior in turn rate, so that it proved well suited to the dive-and-zoom ambush tactics favored by the Schlageter fighter wing's pilots from November 1944 onward, when the wing converted to the Fw 190D. Many of the early models were not equipped with methanol tanks for the MW 50 boost system, which was in very short supply in any event. At low altitude, the top speed and acceleration of these examples were inferior to those of Allied fighters.
Sporting good handling and performance characteristics, the D-9 made an effective medium altitude, high speed interceptor, although its performance still fell away at altitudes above about 6,000 m (20,000 ft). When flown by capable pilots, the Fw 190D proved the equal of Allied types.
As it was used in the anti-fighter role, armament in the "D" was generally lighter compared to that of the earlier aircraft—usually the outer wing cannon were omitted so that the armament consisted of two 13 mm (0.51 in) cowling-mounted MG 131s, with 400 rounds per gun, and two wing root mounted 20 mm MG 151/20E cannon with 250 rounds per gun; all four weapons were synchronized to fire through the propeller arc. The wings of the Dora still were capable of carrying outer wing cannon, though, and also still had the electrical circuits and attachment points from the A-8 fighter for the underwing BR 21 rocket- propelled mortar rounds, although none appeared to have used these operationally.
The first Fw 190 D-9s started entering service in September 1944, with III./JG 54. It was quickly followed by other units including I./JG 26 which flew its last operations on the A-8s on 19 November 1944. Slightly more than 1.800 Doras were eventually built.
Due to the worsening situation some Doras were not only employed as daytime interceptors, a few of them were also transferred to night fighter units and used in “Wilde Sau (Wild boar)” tactics: instead of being guided towards their aerial targets through ground radar stations; the pilots were given a free hand to over-fly bombed areas to see if they could locate bombers using the ground fires below, and attack these individually. To improve these independent attacks, the Fw 190 D-9/R11 was a dedicated night fighter conversion which used a standardized Rüstsatz (equipment package); about thirty airframes in total were modified from regular day fighters in this way.
The D-9/R11 featured flame-dampening boxes fitted over the Jumo 213A’s exhaust stubs, muzzle flame dampers for the wing root guns and glare panels on the flanks for the pilot. A blind-flying radio equipment was added, as well as a PKS 12 radio direction finder, and window heaters, too. The Rüstsatz’ core element was a FuG 217 Neptun (Neptune) mid-VHF band radar system, which came with two alternative antenna arrangements. One version featured arrays of three dipole antenna elements vertically mounted fore and aft of the cockpit and above and below the wings. The other was a more obvious set of asymmetrical ‘antler’ Yagi dipole antennas on the wings’ leading edges. In both cases a small monitor was added to the upper left of the dashboard that displayed the radar’s acquisition. The FuG 217 worked on two switchable frequencies (158 and 187MHz) and had a forward search angle of 120°. Bomber-sized targets could be detected at a range between 400–4,000 m (440–4,370 yd). The radar could be combined with an additional “Elfe (Pixie)” device to automatically measure the target distance and fire the guns at a set range, but apparently only a handful D-9/R11 night fighters were outfitted with it. To compensate for the raised drag esp. of the FuG 217’s Yagi antenna arrays, most D-9/R11s with this arrangement were outfitted with new VDM all-metal four-blade propellers.
The Fw 190 D-9/R11’s primal operator was the Luftwaffe’s Nachtjagdgruppe 10 (NJGr 10). This unit was formed on 1 January 1944 at Werneuchen with 3 Staffeln (squadrons) and built from parts of I/Jagdgeschwader 300 (1st Group of 300th Fighter Wing), which contributed the Doras which had formerly been operated as pure daytime fighters. The night fighter conversion with the R11 package was done in the unit’s field workshops, and the machines were gradually introduced to frontline service, just as they became available. NJGr 10 was initially subordinated to the 1. Jagd-Division (1st fighter division), stationed at Döberitz in the West of Berlin, a unit which also operated radar-less Bf 109Gs and Fw 190As. On 6 March 1945, NJGr 10 transferred to Liebenwalde in Brandenburg, north of Berlin, where the 2. Staffel, in which the R11 Doras were concentrated, was primarily tasked with nocturnal interceptions of fast British Mosquito bombers and photo reconnaissance aircraft that tried to reach Berlin. However, after only a single month the whole unit was disbanded, and in April 1945 the remnants of NJGr 10 were absorbed by NJG 5 (Nachtjagdgeschwader/5th Night Fighter Wing), which rather operated heavy twin-engine night fighters like the Ju 88C against slower Allied bombers; the staff was integrated into NJG 5 but all single engine aircraft were passed to other units, where most were used as daytime fighters and lost their draggy radar equipment.
General characteristics:
Crew: 1
Length: 10.2 m (33 ft 6 in)
Wingspan: 10.5 m (34 ft 5 in)
Height: 3.35 m (11 ft 0 in)
Wing area: 18.3 m² (197 sq ft)
Airfoil: root: NACA 23015.3; tip: NACA 23009
Empty weight: 3,490 kg (7,694 lb)
Gross weight: 4,270 kg (9,414 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 4,840 kg (10,670 lb)
Powerplant:
1× Junkers Jumo 213A V-12 inverted liquid-cooled piston engine with 1,750 PS (1,726 hp; 1,287 kW)
and temporarily with 2,050 PS (2,022 hp; 1,508 kW)with MW 50 injection, driving a 3- or 4-
bladed constant-speed VDM propeller
Performance:
Maximum speed: 685 km/h (426 mph, 370 kn) at 6,600 m (21,700 ft)
710 km/h (440 mph; 380 kn) at 11,000 m (36,000 ft) with MW 50
Range: 835 km (519 mi, 451 nmi)
Service ceiling: 12,000 m (39,000 ft)
Rate of climb: 17 m/s (3,300 ft/min)
Wing loading: 233 kg/m² (48 lb/sq ft)
Power/mass: 0.30–0.35 kW/kg (0.18–0.21 hp/lb)
Armament:
2× 13 mm (0.512 in) MG 131 machine guns with 475 rpg in the upper cowling and
2× 20 mm (0.787 in) MG 151 cannon with 250 rpg in the wing roots,
all synchronized to fire through the propeller arc
1× ventral hardpoint for a 300 l drop tank or a 500 kg (1,102 lb) SC 500 bomb
The kit and its assembly:
This relatively simple what-if build was inspired by the thought that, while there were some Fw 190 A night fighters with radar in Luftwaffe service, no higher-performance Dora was (AFAIK) outfitted with these systems? This was spawned by a Revell 1:72 Fw 190 A-8/R11 kit in The Stash™, and upon inspection of the sprues I saw that the kit comes with an extra sprue for the FuG 217’s Yagi antennae (and a pair of underwing pods with two 20 mm MG 151/20 for an optional fighter bomber). Since I had an Academy Fw 190 D-9 without a real plan yet in The Stash™, too, I decided to combine both into the fictional Fw 190 D-9/R11 night fighter. Effectively, it’s a kind of kitbashing, because two OOB kits were merged, but since the radar elements and some other mods are rather small this technically is just a conversion of the stock Academy Dora.
The Academy Fw 190 is IMHO a really nice kit – robust, but easily built, with very good fit (requiring little PSR) and with sufficient detail. Only cosmetic changes were made, including lowered flaps and a different pilot seat, because the OOB part is bleak and very small, as if made for a pygmy – a classic Academy kit issue!
From the OOB kit I used the optional late “blown” canopy, the Yagi antennae were taken wholesale from the Revell kit (which will find a different use some day) and mounted in the same wing positions as on the Fw 190A. More night fighter flavor came with flame damper fairings over the exhausts (also taken from the Revell kit) and scratched muzzle fairings for the wing root cannons, made from heated styrene tube material and mounted to the kit’s gun barrel tips. Biggest change was the replacement of the OOB propeller with its deep three blades with a new 4-blade prop. Inspiration came from the propeller that was mounted to the supercharged Fw 190C “Känguruh” high-altitude prototypes. It was scratched from the OOB spinner, which was filled with 2C putty and mounted onto a metal axis. Four single propeller blades, left over from two KP Avia B.35 kits (these come with two-blade props, the blades have the same length as the original Fw 190 prop’s) were glued onto the now massive spinner. Inside of the fuselage a styrene tube adapter holds the construction and allows free spinning.
The ventral hardpoint/pylon was retained, even though I rather used the Revell kit’s 300 l drop tank instead of the Academy kit’s part, because it looks better. Shackles had to be improvised to make it compatible with the pylon, though.
Painting and markings:
A bit complicated, even though the model’s paint scheme was based on a real German night fighter camouflage from late 1944. This is a free interpretation of a scheme carried by a Bf 109G of 1./JG 300 in 1944 which was deployed in “Wilde Sau” night interception missions (and where the unit’s emblem stems from), found as a profile drawing (yet of dubious credibility). I slightly extrapolated the livery with the late war Luftwaffe nigh fighter camouflage practices and added personal twists. Late in the war, night fighters received a rather light livery, mostly uniform RLM 76 overall, and additional camouflage was later added in the field, e. g. irregular spots with RLM 75 and/or RLM 83, stripes or even net patterns. However, some aircraft also received black undersides again – partly as an ID measure for FlaK crews on the ground (frequently only a single wing was painted black for this purpose), but probably also as a defilade against the sky. Since this was frequently improvised with a washable soot paint, I adapted this for my model, too.
Mimicking the inspiring Bf 109’s look I gave the model an overall coat of RLM 76 (Humbrol 247), but I painted the rudders’ upper surfaces on the left wing and stabilizer with RLM 74 and 75, simulating cannibalized replacement parts. Similarly, the fuselage gun cowling and some access panels were left in bare metal. I also left the wings’ underside in bare metal/aluminum, with a leading-edge section in RLM 75 (I used Humbrol 106 as an approximation) and ailerons in RLM 76 – a frequent practice on late production Doras to save paint and speed up production.
The model then received a light black ink washing and some panel shading with lighter shades of blue grey. At this stage some decals were applied – national (simplified) markings, the unit emblem (the Revell Fw 190 A-8/R11 features the famous ‘Wild Boar’ emblem of NJGr 10) and stencils. As a member of a night fighter unit the aircraft does not carry any colored unit-related fuselage band anymore, what provides a slightly bleak look.
After this first stage the meandering RLM 75 camouflage pattern was added with Revell 77 (thinned acrylic paint), applied with a small blunt brush, dabbing the undulating lines around the markings. When this had dried up, I concocted a thin and translucent mix of very dark grey tempera, which was sparsely applied with a flat brush to all ventral surfaces and raised along the flanks into the upper camouflage, also covering the national markings but letting the original paint underneath and some markings shine through here and there. This effect was further enhanced through directional sanding on the leading edges, along the hull and at the panel lines, simulating flaking and wear and tear of the temporary dark paint, supported by some dry-brushing with light grey and silver. The tactical code (actually a 1:32 Bundesluftwaffe code number from a generic TL Modellbau sheet) was added on top of that, as if this marking had freshly been outlined with white, to make the aircraft easier to identify despite its improvised camouflage.
After some final soot stains behind the exhausts and around the gun muzzles with graphite the model was sealed with matt acrylic varnish (Italeri).
Admittedly, this is a rather simple what-if model, but the result looks quite convincing – after all, it’s a mix of real-world elements: the Fw 190D-9 existed, just as the R11 radar package, and even the paint scheme is heavily rooted in contemporary night fighter aircraft from the late 1944- early 1945 era.
Iphone 6 Plus Lock Screen Wallpaper. Minimal Gray With White Clock intended for Iphone 6S Plus Wallpaper Dimensions - Iphone 6s Wallpapers
Today I intended to walk Ruby over to the nearby shooting estate but when we got close the shooting started so as Ruby is not good with load noises and I like my skin with no holes in it we cut along the road and avoided the noise. So the upshot of it was that the deer had all moved onto the side of the road we were on so lots of images of Fallow deer and when I was nearly home a Buzzard landed in front of me on a pole and the Red Kite flew over my head being harassed by crows and seagulls.
intended Group-B Rally Car, over taken by circumstances and when the FISA scrapped Group-S, the project was shelved. 2.4ltr super charged Ascona 400 engine with X-Trac 4WD system. ex-Vauxhall Heritage Collection restored by MSD
Cropping that I intended to get this straight done by Moonie who is one programme ahead of me ♥
Yees, this version is better than the plain straightened one :) And the black boarder is still in it as well :D
This was taken in the port of Exmouth? Yes, I think so. Poooor people living/ at the rear of it. They paid much money for the view on the Exe estuary, and now they're building a hotel & more houses on the other side of the port.
Yep, still obsessed with seagulls. You know what I'm reading right now? A Chilean children's book about a tomcat teaching a young seagull to fly. Sweeeet! And I am rather proud of understanding almost everything - even though it is a shame that I need almost all the given vocabulary xD Ah, it's my first piece of Spanish since one year! Any suggestions for further reading?^^ I must not stop refreshing Spanish now that I'm motivated.
This isn't intended to be a great wildlife shot. It's just a documentation shot. We were hiking up the trail to Mystic Lake and Laurie says, "Gary stop". Well, this black bear was in the meadow to our right. I snapped a few photos at 55mm, the largest lens I had with me, because this is the first bear we have seen in Mt. Rainier National Park. We either saw the same bear again by the lake or we saw a different bear. Hard to say. Even though we yelled a couple of "hey bear" out his way, he didn't seem to notice us. On the other side by the lake, as soon as the bear saw us, he left the area. Even so, we kept track of him while I was taking the landscape shots. Laurie sure regretted not bringing her S2 along with its 400mm zoom. Now she knows better.
Oh, I cropped this a little bit to make it more interesting. The bear was in the middle of the photo because, as I said, it was a quick shot.
I intended to get a shot of the Firebird the day of the festival. What i saw upon my arival was a totally different bird than what I had seen online. It turns out that early Saturday morning vandals set the Firebird ablaze premeturely. Seventy five volunteers showed up to rebuild the bird you see here. The firebird rose from the ashes like the mythical bird it represents and the festival continued as planned. The fire you see behind the bird is the original bird. They kept the fire going all day. It is mine and the hopes of everyone I spoke with that night that the arsonists responsible will be caught.
I intended this to be a quick project which turned out to be longer than anticipated!
I first focussed on the roof and did a fair amount of re-modelling of the exhaust which is quite wrong as supplied and sits too high. Splashed a bit of paint under the grill too. The underframe has had alot of extra detailing and for some reason mine had details fitted on the wrong side so they were switched.
Hornby's painting of the front warning panel was a bit weird and at a strange angle so this has been straightened and paint matched using a splash of about every warning panel i have mixed till i felt it looked ok - Don't ask what the blend is!! Likewise for the side lettering which is another shade of EWS red... made up from random colours i have lying around. At one point i was tempted to use transfers but hopefully it looks ok!
Nameplates are Shawplan which smarten it up nicely
I've cut the glazing from perspex - took a few attempts to get the shape ok!
The real horror show is the wheels! The originals remind me of Lima pizza cutters and have been replaced with EM DCC concepts 12mm wheels. I've used some disc inserts to approximate the prototype... but used the back of them and then spun then in a drill to try and get a polished disc look.
The lighting has all been replaced with my own efforts using warm white LEDs. I've used 10 functions to do markers, day, night, cab and tail lights seperately for each end.
Usual light weathering - the sides seem to stay quite clean compared to the underframe.
It was intended, in 1862, as a personal gift, albeit a slightly odd one perhaps from our perspective, for the Prince of Wales, Albert Edward (the future Edward VII) and Princess Alexandra Caroline Maria Charlotte Louisa Julia, the daughter of Christian IX of Denmark.
The man making the gift was William Derry, Mayor of Plymouth, hence the name it has enjoyed from that day to this.
Derry however wasn't prepared to fund the whole project and so managed to persuade the local Board of Health, of which he was chairman, to provide the base and tower on which to mount his clock.
Derry’s Clock had its origins in 1862 when William Derry, a local businessman, presented the Town with a clock worth £220 and half of the cost of the coloured limestone tower in which to display it. Due to Parliamentary red tape the council were not permitted to build a clock tower, but they were however allowed to build a fountain, so they included three fountains within the construction. The clock was made locally by Messrs Page, Keen and Page and had four illuminated dials, each four feet in diameter. It was constructed to run for eight days before a re-wind. The pendulum was fifteen feet in length with a one hundredweight ball attached to the bottom. Every hour would be sounded by a bell weighing two hundredweight. Although known as Derry’s Clock it is officially a fountain. It never was and still isn’t connected to a water supply. It was once said that,
‘Marriages maybe made in heaven, but in Plymouth they are arranged under Derry’s Clock’. The Grade II listed clock tower is known locally as the ‘Four Faced Deceiver.’
The intended audience for this project was energetic, young or young-at-heart women with a sense of humor. More specifically, I was targeting people who live to hunt down screamin’ deals.
I hoped that these illustrations would communicate the feeling of finding the perfect dress for the perfect price. So often when shopping, we find exactly what we want, for exactly 10x what we hoped to pay. So when one does find that gem, the elation can be overwhelming, even crazy.
I enjoyed illustrating the character depicted. I giggled the whole time I was drawing.
These final pieces could have been improved with better planning. I don’t love the hole-punch through the clothes hanger—it wasn’t intentional and that is apparent. If I had more experience with Illustrator I could have spent more time fine-tuning.
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Title: Thirty-eight plates with explanations; intended to illustrate Linnaeus's System of vegetables, and particularly adapted to the Letters on the elements of botany [J.J. Rousseau]
Creator: Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825. n 85089625
Creator: Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778. n 79109333
Creator: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778. n 79008220
Creator: Nodder, Frederick Polydore, illustrator. nr 93028470
Publisher: London : Printed for J. White ...
Sponsor: Wellcome Library
Contributor: Wellcome Library
Date: 1799
Language: eng
Description: Advertisements: p. [1]-[2] (second count)
Illustrations drawn and engraved by F.P. Nodder
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I never intended to stay in Las Vegas, but to Walmart and then continue on. But then on my way here I got stuck in traffic for over an hour(there had been an accident), it was getting dark, I was feeling really crappy (flu) and didn't fancy a 3h drive in the dark with possible snow. So I ended up staying at Tod's. I first tried the local Koa, but it was RV only and it's illegal in Nevada to sleep in your car... I do have to admit, Las Vegas at night is quite amazing.
I had intended for this picture to JUST be a close up of the table and all the different items they give you to eat. Instead, you get the whole group. I don't know what's going on with my expression.
+++ DISCLAIMER +++
Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!
Some background:
The "Entwicklung" tank series (= "development"), more commonly known as the E-Series, was a late-World War II attempt by Germany to produce a standardized series of tank designs. There were to be six standard designs in different weight classes, from which several specialized variants were to be developed. This intended to reverse the trend of extremely complex tank designs that had resulted in poor production rates and mechanical unreliability.
The E-series designs were simpler, cheaper to produce and more efficient than their predecessors; however, their design offered only modest improvements in armor and firepower over the designs they were intended to replace, such as the Jagdpanzer 38(t), Panther Ausf.G or Tiger II. However, the resulting high degree of standardization of German armored vehicles would also have made logistics and maintenance easier. Indeed, nearly all E-series vehicles — up through and including the E-75 — were intended to use what were essentially the Tiger II's 80 cm (31½ in) diameter, steel-rimmed road wheels for their suspension, meant to overlap each other (as on the later production Tiger I and Panther designs that also used them), even though much simplified. For instance, while the E-50/75’s running gear resembled outwardly the Tiger II’s, the latter’s torsion bar suspension required a complex hull with many openings, and the torsion bars themselves consumed a lot of high-quality steel. In the E-series tanks this was replaced by very compact conical spring coil packages that each held a pair of interleaved road wheels – with the benefit that all suspension elements remained outside of the hull, which could be considerably simplified, saving production time, and the spring coils and their casings saved scarce material, too.
Focus of initial chassis and combat vehicle development was the E-50/75 Standardpanzer, designed by Adler. Both were mostly identical and only differed in armor thickness, overall weight and running gear design to cope with the different weights. While the E-50 was the successor of the medium PzKpfw. V “Panther” and the last operational PzKpfw. VI “Tiger” battle tanks and their derivatives, the E-75 was intended to become the standard heavy battle tank to be used as a replacement for the Tiger II and its Jagdtiger SPG derivative.
The E-75 was built on the same production lines as the E-50 for ease of manufacture, since the types shared many standardized components, including the running gear elements and the same Maybach HL 234 engine with up to 900 hp output. However, the E-75 had much thicker armor, max. 185 mm versus the E-50’s 120 mm, and, compared to the Tiger II, the E-75 had improved hull armor all round. As its name indicates, the resulting vehicle weighed in at over 75 tons, reducing its speed to around 40 km/h, while the lighter E-50’s top speed on roads was, thanks to the powerful engine, 60 km/h. To offset the increased weight, the E-75’s bogies were spaced differently than on the E-50, with an extra pair of wheels added on each side, giving the E-75 a slightly improved track to ground contact length, and with wider tracks to better distribute the higher overall weight on the ground.
The E-75 was built in several variants (“Ausführungen”) that primarily differed through the main armament and the turret. Ausführung A resembled the Tiger II a lot and was initially mistaken by Allied troops for its predecessor: hull and running gear followed the same concept and outlines, even though the E-75 had less road wheels. The turret, produced by Henschel, was outwardly almost identical to the Tiger II, too, but featured fairings for an optical rangefinder.
The initial E-75 Ausf. A were equipped with the 8.8 cm KwK 43 L/71 gun but with the option to use a new, longer L/100 barrel, too, which required a heavier counterweight and a stiffened gun mount suspension. The longer barrel improved range, projectile velocity, and accuracy, even though vehicle handling became more complicated because of the weapon’s considerable overhang.
Stronger main guns soon followed, esp. for the Eastern front where the new heavy Soviet tanks like the IS-3 and well-protected assault guns required more firepower and range to be fought effectively. The next E-75 variant, the Ausf. B, used the same welded Henschel turret, but it was adapted to accommodate the new and more powerful high velocity 10.5 cm KwK 45 L/68 gun (Ausf. B1) or the large 12,8 cm KwK 44 L/55 (Ausf. B2). The latter had less muzzle velocity than the KwK 45 but higher range and penetration capacity, thanks to heavier rounds. Both weapons shared the same gun mounts, though, what simplified production and logistics.
The 12,8 cm KwK 44 L/55 had been developed from the towed 12.8 cm Pak 44. This heavy weapon was fed with two-piece ammunition, the projectile and cartridge making up separate pieces, because a single round would have been too heavy and cumbersome to handle and store, esp. within the limited confines of a tank. As a positive side effect, the gun could be fired using three different sized propellant charges: a light, medium and heavy charge. The light and medium charges were normally used when the gun was fulfilling the role of an indirect artillery piece, where they would launch the 28 kg projectiles to a muzzle velocity of 845 m/s and 880 m/s respectively.
The heavy charge was used when the gun was fulfilling its intended role as a direct anti-tank gun, where it fired a 28.3 kg APCBC-HE projectile (PzGr.43) at a muzzle velocity of 950 m/s. With the heavy charge, and using the PzGr.43 projectile, the Pak/KwK 44 was capable of penetrating 312 mm (12.3 in) of 30° sloped armor at 500 m, 230 mm (9.1 in) of 30° sloped armor at 1000 m, 200 mm (7.9 in) at 2,000 m (2,200 yd), and 173 mms (6.8 in) at 3,000 m (3,300 yd) range.
The Ausf. B vehicles arrived at the frontlines in early 1946. Following the upgrade pattern auf the E-75 Auf. A with the L/100 barrel for the 88mm main gun, the B2 with the 12,8 cm KwK 44 was equally equipped with a longer barrel, even though only with a L/68 length and an extension of roughly 5½ feet (166,4 cm). These vehicles, some of them upgraded in field workshops, but most leaving the factories with the longer barrel, received an “/L68” suffix to their designation. Again, range, projectile velocity, and accuracy were improved, the muzzle velocity was raised to 1.050 m/s with the same heavy anti-tank charges as before.
A total of 35 128mm shells were carried – not much for a battle tank, but the huge two-piece rounds required a lot of internal space. Typically a mix of 50% high explosive and 50% armor-piercing rounds, stored in the turret and in the hull, plus 4.800 rounds for the secondary 7,92 MG 34s on board (one co-axial with the main weapon and another one to be optionally mounted onto the commander cupola as an anti-aircraft and infantry weapon; 32 ammunition belts with 150 round each were carried). Instead of the former hull machine gun the E-75 and many of its Einheitspanzer brethren featured a so-called ‘Nahverteidigungswaffe’, a grenade launcher in the turret roof, which was used for close defense against infantry with SMi 35 anti-personnel mines, even though smoke grenades or signal flares could be fired with the device in all directions, too.
Despite their formidable armor the heavily armed E-75 A and Bs were, as dedicated anti-tank vehicles, soon outfitted with additional external armor to improve frontal protection as well as the thinner roof areas against air attacks, esp. hollow charge bomblets. This was achieved by hardened steel panels that were welded over fragile areas with a little space between them and the tank’s exterior.
For additional frontal protection a modular armor package was quickly designed as a Rüstsatz, to be applied directly at the factories but also at field workshops. It was called R1 “Vollvisier” (Ventail) and covered the whole glacis plate as well as the turret’s front, gun mantlet and the front parts of its flanks. Beyond a thicker overall armor the set also provided improved frontal protection through a ballistically more efficient shape.
However, this guard came at a cost: weight. The ‘bare’ E-75 already had a combat weight of 75 tons, what already limited its utility. But the extra armor of 40 – 100 mm for the turret made from hardened cast steel segments alone weighed almost 4 tons, and the huge glacis armor plate added another 3.5 tons. The turret armor markedly stressed the turret’s bearings, and the glacis plate was rarely mounted because it made the vehicles markedly front-heavy. After several broken coil springs in the front wheel suspension its use was even forbidden. The turret protection proved to be effective, though, esp. when the tank could dictate the tactical situation and present only the hardened areas to the enemy, so that some R1 packages were actually used.
Beyond the A and B main variants, the E-75 battle tank was produced in further versions that mainly differed through their turret. Due to supply shortages with the Henschel turrets several E-75 hulls were outfitted with the so-called “Schmalturm”, called E-75 Ausf. C. The Schmalturm was originally reserved for the lighter E-50 tank and was exclusively outfitted with the 8.8 cm KwK 43 L/71 gun. It had originally been introduced with the Panther Ausf. F/Panther II interim medium tank in early 1945.
Additionally, Ausf. D carried the so-called “Beuthen-Turm”, a cast, universal turret that had been designed to be accepted by a wide range of German medium and heavy battle tanks, including not only the E-50/75 tanks but also the Panther. The “Beuthen-Turm”, baptized after its production site Oberschlesische Gusswerke Beuthen (today the city of Bytom in Poland), offered excellent ballistic protection, had a very low profile, and featured a commander cupola with a full 360° view through periscopes as well as a 200cm width stereoscopic optical rangefinder for the gunner. Like the Henschel-Turm, the Beuthen-Turm was designed to accept several heavy guns, primarily the 8.8 cm KwK 43, either with the original L/71 or the new, longer L/100 barrel.
Due to the ever-worsening situation, less than 80 E-75 hulls were completed and probably less than 50 combat-worthy vehicles arrived at front line units and were involved in battle until the end of hostilities. In service the vehicle received the inventory ordnance number "SdKfZ. 192" and was officially called "Einheitspanzer 75" (Standard tank), retaining its project abbreviation, but the short “E-75” designation from the development phase remained very common, too.
Specifications:
Crew: Five (commander, gunner, loader, radio operator, driver)
Weight: 75 tonnes (83 short tons)
82.5 tonnes with full R1 armor package (see text)
Length: 7,27 metres (23 ft 10¾ in) (hull only)
11,27 metres (36 ft 11 in) with gun forward
Width: 3.88 metres (12 ft 9 in)
Height 3.46 metres (11¾ ft)
Ground clearance: 495 to 510 mm (1 ft 7.5 in to 1 ft 8.1 in)
Suspension: Conical spring
Fuel capacity: 720 litres (160 imp gal; 190 US gal)
Armor:
30–185 mm (1.2 – 7.2 in), plus 40-100 mm external add-on armor
Performance:
Maximum road speed: 44 km/h (27.3 mph)
Sustained road speed: 38 km/h (24 mph)
Cross country speed: 15 to 20 km/h (9.3 to 12.4 mph)
Operational range: 160 km (99 miles)
Power/weight: 12,5 PS/tonne (11.25 hp/ton)
Engine:
V-12 Maybach HL 234 23.000 ccm turbocharged gasoline engine with 900 PS (885 hp/650 kW)
Transmission:
ZF AK 7-200 with 7 forward 1 reverse gears
Armament:
1× 12,8 cm KwK 44 L/68 cannon with 35 rounds
2× 7.92 mm Maschinengewehr 34 with a total of 5.200 rounds,
one mounted co-axially with the main gun and an optional AA gun on the commander's cupola
1x Nahverteidigungswaffe 100 mm grenade launcher in the turret roof
(firing anti-personnel mines, smoke grenades or signal flares)
The kit and its assembly:
I haven’t built many E-50/75 battle tanks so far, rather specialized derivatives based on the Einheitspanzer chassis. When I recently came across an aftermarket set for a fictional, 3D-printed added armor for 1:35 E-50/75 tanks with a Henschel turret I eventually thought that this concept was worth of a 1:72 model, my favorite armor scale. So, I dug out a Trumpeter 1:72 E-75 MBT (with a very long fictional 105 mm gun) and started to build and convert it using the aforementioned aftermarket set as inspiration.
Compared with the 1:72 ModelCollect kit(s) of the E-50/75 family the Trumpeter kit is very simple, but not bad in detail. There are no optional parts, and the E-75 running gear is mostly molded onto the hull – the ModelCollect kits come with individual coil spring packages and single swing arms that let you build either an E-50 or -75 from the universal basic kit, even though this solution is complicated and flimsy. All wheels and the tracks (black vinyl) of the much simpler Trumpeter offering are separate, though.
The kit’s hull consists of an upper and lower half, just like the huge turret. The hull was taken OOB, I just removed segments from the mudguards on both sides and dented the remainder for a worn look. The turret was also taken OOB, together with the gun’s mount. However, the ridiculously long, muzzle-brake-free barrel for the fictional 105 mm gun was cut off and replaced with a white metal/brass KwK 43 12.8 cm gun barrel, which looks IMHO a lot better and even more menacing, due to its massiveness!
The biggest mods were made around the turret front and flanks: I literally added external armor through 2C putty sheets, sanded/sculpted them into shape (including a separate section for the gun mantlet) and added details like openings for targeting scope and co-axial machine gun as well as bolts that hold the armor in place. Quite a tedious process but bringing the hand-sculpted add-ons into a quite edgy shape simply took time, and the parts were not supposed to be too thick.
As an extra I also cut out some 0.5mm styrene sheet bits and glued them on “pillars” onto the turret roof and over some vents on the engine deck, as an extra armor against air attacks (as described in the background, a real-life measure that was, for instance, realized on some late Panther MBTs).
Painting and markings:
The E-75’s paint scheme is another variation of the German late WWII "Hinterhalt" camouflage, even though a very free interpretation. Inspiration came from late Panther tanks, which were delivered in an overall Olivgrün (RAL 6003) livery instead of the standard Dunkelgelb (RAL 7028), and these vehicles were then camouflaged in the field with whatever was at hand. This led to some …different designs, including tanks that were only painted in green and red brown, without any Dunkelgelb at all.
That’s what I was looking for, but instead of wide bands (typical for such two-tone Panthers, some with thin edges or mottles in Dunkelgelb) I went creative and adopted a brown “giant clover” pattern over the green basis, somewhat inspired by the camouflage of Russian/Ukrainian Mi-24s in the late Nineties (with different colors, though), and also inspired by French tank camouflage from early WWII which frequently used very organic shapes to break up a vehicle’s outlines.
With a concept in mind I initially gave the model an overall coat with sand brown (RAL 8000, Grünbraun, actually the Afrikakorps’ desert paint), because I wanted the “real” camouflage in green and brown to be rather pale, flaky and translucent. To keep the applied amount of paint minimal I scribed the clover patterns and painted the green (using a mix of Humbrol 86 and Revell 45, plus a little Humbrol 90) basis with the red brown clover (Humbrol 160) shapes separately, trying to create sharp edges but still a blurry, non-opaque look with the sand brown primer visible here and there. The effect was emphasized through careful wet-sanding. The only Dunkelgelb detail is the underside of the gun barrel – a measure to reduce its contrast against the sky.
The kit received a washing with dark brown acrylic paint, the black vinyl tracks were painted with a mix of dark grey and rust red acrylic artist paint. Decals/marking were puzzled together from the scrap box, the red Tatzelwum marking actually belongs to a Luftwaffe fighter unit. Finally, everything was sealed with matt acrylic varnish (which unfortunately turned out glossier than intended, but I left it that way) another light dry brushing treatment with beige and light grey followed, highlighting surface details and edges, plus some rust marks. The vinyl tracks were rigged into place, and antenna, made from heated grey sprue material, added to the turret’s roof, and the tank’s lower areas received a treatment with a greyish-brown pigment mix, simulating dust and mud residue.
A straightforward project, even though sculpting the bolted-on turret armor took some time. But it’s interesting that the wedge-shaped front makes the tank look a lot more modern than the original, almost vertical design. The camouflage turned out a little too murky for my taste, despite attempt to lighten the Olivgrün areas.