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Portside profile of a model by Neptun #1002. One can understand the British Admiralty's apprehension when she sortied from Norway with KMS Prinz Eugen, intending to raid Allied convoys on the North Atlantic. With her speed, armament and cunning she could beat anything the British could throw at her; except she had an Achilles heel, which a British naval air attack fortuitously struck, leading to her sinking on May 27, 1941. Her looks are compelling, and if esthetics were applicable to war machines, she certainly was a leader in attractive proportions and massing, as were most of the Kriegsmarine capital ships.

Credit again to Wolfie.

Vidarr is another one of Thor's brothers.

fun shoot in the South Coast Botanical Gardens Yesterday

just one beauty dish slightly to left of me

TRUCKFEST PETERBOROUGH

4,585 m plus Anhänger-Kupplung (- 4,725 m)

1,700 m Höhe mit Aluschienen

2,100 m Breite mit Spiegel ausgeklappt

1,829 m Breite - Spiegel eingeklappt; auch während kurzer Fahrt einklappbar

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Modern "SUV"

"The Grand C4 Picasso is comfier and more versatile than the SUV crossovers that are all the rage."

NCAP Overall Rating

5

Vehicle Homologation Class

M1

(M1

Vehicles used for the carriage of passengers and comprising not more than eight seats in addition to the driver's seat. (Passenger car)

Special purpose vehicles (M1)

)

Manufacturers Corrosion Perforation Guarantee - Years

12

EC combined

47 MPG = 6 litres per 100 kms

My Expierience

using as Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) - sportlich, flott

7 Litres per 100 kms = 40 MPG

"Sports" are Cars with significant high performance features

here; Citroën C4 Grand Picasso

150 hp, 2.0 l 16V Turbocharger

Passenger cars: heavy PC/H 3,500 lb (1,588 kg) and over

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_classification

Large MPV aka

People Mover aka

Minivan

But: Market Segment

The Citroën C4 Picasso is a compact multi-purpose vehicle (MPV), available as a five-seater and a seven-seater version, called the Grand C4 Picasso (wiki)

via

Samsung / Galaxy S7

Nach vier Jahren:

top Auto, schnell und sparsam, vielseitig, zuverlässig

7 Sitzer, ideal für die vielen Enkel

mit Audi A6 klasse vergleichbar

Kawaii MatchBox - Yummy!

RECIEVED - From diegosmomkristina

Lovely thankyou sweetie x

Kawaii MatchBox - Yummy!

SENT - To Rynn

My Second KMS .... Enjoy the gifts :)

KMS BRANDENBURG BATTLESHIP

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIJO3D-tc4g

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Bedford KM refuse trucks

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Volvo FH 500.

Get up state. Ithaca. This was a fun weekend. Thank you to all the guys at cap matches color. Outline by lobs.

Farina. A pastoral lease was taken up here in 1859 by George Davenport of Macclesfield and Beaumont and William Fowler. It was along the Leigh Creek (which flows occasionally into Lake Eyre) and the area was known as Government Gums. A town site was surveyed here in 1876 near the water reserve but no farming lands were ever surveyed. The town was declared in 1878 at the same time as the government was planning the northern railway and settlers arrived late that year. Although this region was far beyond Goyder’s

Line (its northern limit was Orroroo - 316 kms to the south) Governor Jervois in his wisdom named the town Farina from a Latin word for flour. The grain paddocks never eventuated but a thriving town emerged based on the railway, supplies to the sheep and cattle stations, mail routes to properties along the Birdsville and Strzelecki tracks and occasional mining in the Flinders and Gammon Ranges. The government was so optimistic about the future of this area that they laid out a town with a north, south, east and west terraces with 432 town blocks and 88 suburban blocks with small acreages. Although the first buildings were in timber or canvas, stone structures soon followed with the foundation stone of the Transcontinental Hotel laid by a local Aboriginal woman on 5 June 1878. The hotel was licensed in 1879 as was the second hotel in town the Exchange Hotel. The railway was pushed up through Pichi Richi Pass to Quorn and Hawker in 1878 and extended to Farina in 1882. Chinese men were employed on building the railway and some settled in the town. Farina was the rail head from 1882 -1884 when the line went to Marree.

The town boomed in the 1880s. It soon had 100 adults and 50 children. The galvanised iron government school opened by 1882. Almost from its inception the town had two general stores, a couple of short lived breweries (within the two hotels), saddler, blacksmiths and underground bakery. Dozens of camel trains lined the streets loading goods for outlying stations. By 1886 Farina had 300 residents, about 30 houses an Anglican (wooden) church and 8 teamsters. Before 1900 it had a stone Police Station, a stone Post Office and telegraph station, and an enlarged school and the Catholics were raising funds to erect a Catholic which occured in 1897 and removed to Murraytown in 1937. After 1900 the town began to decline as the rail head was pushed beyond Marree to Oodnadatta by 1891 but it remained the staging post for camel trains to outback stations. Railway cottages were built for workers stationed in the town and an “Afghan town” emerged about a mile from the town. It was where all the Afghan cameleers lived with their families. Often they married Aboriginal women as their choices were limited at that time. But some of the Afghans (and some Chinese) were known to attend Methodist Church services well into the 20th century. As the population declined the churches suffered. By 1912 the Methodist Church seems to have closed and Methodist services were held in the assembly room of one of the hotels. Who said Methodists never went into hotels? The wooden Anglican Church survived for many years into the 1930s. A newspaper in 1928 noted that Farina had two churches, 50 children at the school, 50 houses, 73 adults on the electoral roll and a hotel.

The declining town was besieged literally by sand in the mid-1930s although at that time the train service was as strong as ever. The Commonwealth Railways took over the line from Marree to Oodnadatta from the SA government in 1911 with a promise to extend it all the way to Darwin. The Commonwealth reneged on that promise but they did build the line to Alice Springs between 1926 and 1929 when the Ghan service began. The harsh environment caught up with the town in 1935. Saint-a-Becket sand hill five mills away was gradually blown towards the town and newspapers reported that locals we paying £10 a year to have sand removed from their properties. The former Exchange Hotel was half covered in sand as the building was stripped of floor boards etc and it closed in 1937. Sand clogged the rail yards. The government commissioned a report by the Soil Erosion Committee. Prolonged drought, overstocking on the outlying pastoral properties and town residents grazing their own goats, camels and donkeys on the outskirts of the town all contributed to the problem. It was proposed to plant non-edible plants to animals and to create a fenced reserve around the town upon which no animals were allowed to graze. This rectified the problem but the town was dying by then anyway. Goats were kept by outback residents as a source of milk before refrigeration rail carriages could deliver milk. They were the forebears of the feral goats throughout the Flinders Ranges today. The camels of the Afghan cameleers were also the forebears of the feral camels that roam northern SA and the NT. A District and Bush Nurses Hospital opened in 1921 in the former Transcontinental Hotel which had closed in 1918. Then the establishment of Leigh Creek and hospital in 1943 reduced the need for a hospital in Farina. The hospital closed in 1945 as it had no staff and it formally closed in 1949. The Police station closed 1951. In 1936 the Farina school had 38 pupils but that declined and the school shut in 1957. The Post Office closed in 1960 as did the cemetery and the last general store closed in 1967. A new railway line was built in standard gauge to the Leigh Creek coalfields in 1956 and it was extended through Farina to Marree in 1957 but it closed too in 1980 when a new railway opened from Tarcoola to Alice Spring. Farina became a ghost town with a handful of residents. The last resident left in 1975. The railway to Farina was torn up in 1993. In 2009 a group of Victorian volunteers began a restoration project in the town on the remaining ten stone buildings. Farina now has secured a role to play in the outback history record of Sth. Australia.

photo by chad tills

1:1250 scale model by Neptun.

A survivor of WWII, she was ceded to Russia, and had a lasting influence on Russian/ Soviet naval design that carried over well into the 1960s.

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old bltbco unit hino

KMS ODIN BATTLESHIP NORDIC CAMO

YN 560 III on Camera left fired with PW via shoot through umbrella at 1/16 power

From Banaue Ifugao to Baguio.

KMS Bus no 9999 (wonderful number)

A stopover in Aritao (i think), on the way to Baguio.

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KMS x2 swap via KMS lovers group on swapbot, sent to Leah

1:1250 scale model by Neptun, #1002. This ship catches the eye, if only because she proportions so nicely. In an imagined scene, she is beginning a starboard turn at flank speed with guns turned out.

Last weekend 8000 runners participated in the Fishermans friend Strongman Run 2014 in Hellendoorn/Nijverdal. This 'pirate' was the last competitor to cross this mudbath. He was exhausted but did not want to give up after completing 16 of the 21 kms.

Hindmarsh Island.

Our access to Hindmarsh Island from Goolwa is via the bridge which opened in 2001. The bridge is 319 metres long and 19 metres high. Hindmarsh Island leads to the Murray River Mouth beside Mundoo Island and the start of the Coorong. It is 15 kms long and about 6 kms wide and roughly one third of the island is now part of the Coorong National Park. In 1990 the SA government passed an act of parliament allowing the developers to construct a bridge so that the developers could create a marina and housing development on the island. But the SA government accepted legal liability for the financing of the bridge. The bridge became one of the great fiascos and controversies in South Australian history. Some members of the Ngarrindjeri people objected to the proposed bridge in 1994 on the basis of the water channel being part of “secret women’s business” and it being a sacred site. The controversy ended in a Royal Commission and the decision that “secret women’s business” was a fabrication. The Ngarrindjeri group then took their case to the Supreme Court in Canberra which doubted that “secret women’s business” was a fabrication but did not endorse it. The Keating federal government then banned construction of the bridge because of this Supreme Court finding. A few years later the Howard Federal government legislated for the bridge to be constructed. The controversy became a conflict point with much conflict and many competing interests. It involved state and federal governments, locals and outsiders, white and non-white Australians, men and feminists, developers and anti-development people, lawyers for and against it, anthropologists for and against it and much secrecy about the significance or otherwise of the bridge site. This conflict point mainly had direct impacts on the local people – the town of Goolwa was divided over the issue as were the inhabitants of Hindmarsh Island, the Ngarrindjeri women were divided as some opposed the concept of “secret women’s business” and others said it was nonsense. The main people to gain were the developers who had eventual success with their marina and housing estate. The “outsiders” including professors, archaeologists, anthropologists, politicians, bankers and lawyers all made gains – in monetary, publicity or humanitarian rights terms. Their moments of glory seldom acknowledged the difficulties the whole controversy had caused for the Ngarrindjeri people. Ngarrindjeri people have accepted the outcome of the conflict point and whilst they still maintain that the area is a sacred site for Ngarrindjeri women and their “secret business” they allow their people to use the bridge to gain access to their cultural lands.

Captain Charles Sturt on his epic voyage down and up the Murray River in 1829/30 named Point McLeay after one of his officers on their rowing boat and Point Sturt after himself both on the edges of Lake Alexandrina. The large island near the Murray Mouth was named later by Captain John Blenkinsop after the first SA Governor Sir John Hindmarsh. Captain Charles Sturt later became an early settler in Adelaide. After he resigned his commission with the British Military Service he was granted 5,000 acres in NSW in 1835 near what was to become Canberra much later. He purchased a further 1,950 acres in NSW at Mittagong. Two years later he purchased a further 1,000 acres near Sydney where he intended to make a new home. He then overlanded cattle from NSW to South Australia in 1838 to revive his fortunes. This did not work but he was feted in Adelaide as a hero and so he sold all his lands in NSW to accept a government appointment as Commissioner of Lands in South Australia in 1839. He was soon after demoted by the Governor to Assistant Registrar. In 1844 Sturt led an expedition to the Barrier Range area of NSW and he went further trying to cross what was named Sturts Stony Desert. When he returned in 1846 he was made Colonial Treasurer which was a much higher paying position. He returned to England in 1847 to receive the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society in London for his inland explorations. Sturt returned to SA and lived on his 380 farm and orchard on the Port River near Grange Beach where had had built a cottage in 1841 called The Grange. He returned to England permanently in 1853 so his children could be educated in England. The Grange was sold by members of his family in 1877 as Sturt had died in 1869.

Early pastoralists recognised the value of Hindmarsh Island as a well-watered spot surrounded by water supplies so Dr John Rankine of Strathalbyn took out occupational licenses on most of Hindmarsh Island in 1844. He had a boat as a ferry at Clayton to cart his sheep back and forth across the channel. But in 1851 the Hundred of Alexandrina was declared and surveyed into 80 acre sections for sale to farmers. The land was quickly taken up when made available for sale in 1854 and the wealthy of Strathalbyn including the Rankins, Gollans and Maidment family bought some land. One of the early farming settlers was Charles Price. Price and his family arrived in Melbourne in 1853 when he was aged 48 but he decided he did not like Melbourne and he came on to Port Adelaide. Partly because he had a friend who lived in Goolwa. From here he took up land on Hindmarsh Island in 1853 against the wishes of Dr Rankine and he was the first to import cattle from his home county Hereford in 1866. He was also the first to import Shropshire sheep from the neighbouring county of Hereford earlier in 1855. He ran his Hereford cattle stud on the island from 1867 till his death in 1886 and during this time he sold prized cattle to George Fife Angas and john Riddoch of Coonawarra. His 983 acres were sold at £5 per acre and his son moved on to Eyre Peninsula. Charles Price was buried in the Island Cemetery. Not far away is the Hindmarsh Island School which started in 1880 and closed in 1954. The building is now a part time café of sorts. Next to that is the island butter factory with grand buttresses which operated from the late 19th century until 1936. Not far away is the Murray Mouth. There was also a Wesleyan Methodist Church on the island which opened in 1857 and closed around 1887 and was then demolished.

The local residents erected a stone cairn memorial to Captain Charles Sturt on the island in 1930 one hundred years after his discovery of the island in 1830. It is also a memorial to the other early explorer of these parts Captain Collet Barker (1784-1831) who explored here in 1831 just after Sturt. As a military officer he had served in India and explored areas in WA including King George Sound where Albany is located. Here he was in charge of the settlement at Raffles Bay with a group of convicts to control. His name was later used for the inland settlement of Mt Barker north of Albany. He was recalled to Sydney with the convicts in 1831 and Raffles Bay settlement was closed down. The Governor of NSW told him to explore the Fleurieu Peninsula region on his way back to Sydney. In SA he climbed Mt Lofty which had been named by Captain Matthew Flinders in 1802. Barker named the Sturt River which he discovered. Collet Barker then explored areas from Cape Jervis to the mouth of the Murray River. Here he was speared by local Aboriginal people. There is a fine memorial to Collet Barker in St. James Anglican Church in Sydney from his fellow officers. Barker’s journals were especially important as they convinced Sturt that the mountain he had seen from Lake Alexandrina was not Mt Lofty but another mountain. Sturt altered his maps and charts and named the second mountain after Collet Barker. This was done by Sturt in 1834.

kms transport of barnsley m1

KMS Roon @rotten_cotton_cosplays

Hébergement à Bumberet (35 kms de Chitral)

TIRUPPUR-COIMBATORE VIA AVINASHI.BRAND NEW BUS