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Ever heard of Hans-Joachim Marseille? Or "the star of Africa"?
Whilst researching colour schemes for my update on my very outdated Bf109 (Thanks Pickle Gambino and MechanixLego for inspiring me to revisit my old moc) from three years ago, i stumbled across a very interesting read about a daring german Pilot Ace and his black, south African Companion Corporal "Mathew ‘Mathias’ Letulu" in the midst of the second world war.
Marseille was the best flying Ace during WW2 in North Africa - even though he initially sucked at flying, had to survive multiple crash landings and got kicked out of several squadrons because of his arrogance, drinking and not following commands.
He didnt care much about the Nazi Party either and valued friendship and life more, thus flying onto enemy airfields to deliver dog tags of fallen pilots and befriending a black POW, who became his close friend.
Full Story here - its worth the read!
samilhistory.com/tag/corporal-mathew-mathias-letulu/
and
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Joachim_Marseille
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I borrowed some elements of the Canopy Technique from MechanixLego. Without his Moc i would have never known this Nexo Knight shield exists in transparent. Its the perfect Part!
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Check out his stream its worth it.
Also check out out PickleGambinos Stream full of excellent WW2 Mocs and 1/48 scaled Models
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Scale wise its a 1/45 Model of a Messerschmitt Bf 109-G-2 with the livery of the "Yellow 14". Its real life version will get the stickers its currently missing.
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Looks like there are customers already, but I did not notice any helmets anywhere...
Melb Bike Share launched today.
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The bicycles are a heavy-duty design, have three speeds, weigh 18 kilograms and have a small basket on the front.
A lovely scheme to celebrate Polish Independence for this LOT Boeing 737 Max 8 rotating out from the 09 right end of London Heathrow airport.
UP 8366, wearing UP's new and wingless paint scheme, shoves on the rear of an empty rock train at Tower 26 near Downtown Houston.
The train is on the recently added, second northeast connector track at the interlocking. This allows trains to more easily bypass Englewood Yard, which this empty unit train will be doing shortly after it rounds the corner here.
RLUVEQ 12 (Rock Empties- Lufkin, TX to Olden, TX)
(DPU) UP SD70ACe #8366
Houston, TX
August 13th, 2023
D-ANRE - Airbus A-330-941NEO - CONDOR
at Toronto Lester B. Pearson Airport (YYZ)
c/n 1971 - built in 2020 (Air Asia X ntu) - stored -
delivered to CONDOR 03/2023
For sure this colour-scheme stands out!
On finals to land at London Heathrow airport is the eye catching EL AL retro schemed Boeing 787-900 Dreamliner.
Just a classic broadside roster of this veteran still going strong three quarters of a century after rolling off the erecting shop floor in LaGrange.
On a quiet Halloween morning a splash of sun momentarily illuminates an ominous sky and a few lingering fall leaves as the Conway Scenic Railroad's 1030 AM Valley Train pauses beside the former Boston and Maine Conway freight house at about MP 133.3 (as measured from North Station in Boston) on the Conway Branch, owned and operated since 1974 by the Conway Scenic after having seen its last freight depart two years prior.
Running around to couple to the north end of their train is CSRR 573 an EMD GP7 that was built new for the Maine Central Railroad in Sep. 1950 and was delivered in this B&M style maroon scheme during the era when the two railroads were still jointly managed. The veteran geep has called the Conway Scenic home for three decades since being purchased from Guilford Transportation, the successor to the Maine Central, in 1995.
Conway, New Hampshire
Friday October 31, 2025
An inquisitive Red Fox contemplating where to find food next, thinking the camera setup might be it, comes close to my lens. I had been wanting to get fox images for a while shooting with a wide angle lens.
Yesterday I finally got that chance.
Сокол Автомат (Sokol Automat) by Lomo soviet camera
Индустар 70 2.8/50 lanthanum (Industar 70) by Lomo
Tessar type, inverted scheme
CN 3944 & GECX 2037 lead CN 120 through Ville St-Pierre on a rainy morning, as they pass parked grain cars.
Departing and rotating out from Glasgow Prestwick airport is this Cargolux freighter airliner in the special cutaway scheme. Cargolux is a Luxembourgish cargo airline with its headquarters and hub at Luxembourg Airport. With a global network, it is one of the largest scheduled all-cargo airlines in Europe. Charter flights and third party maintenance are also operated. The 747-8 which is one of the aircraft operated by Cargolux is the third generation of the 747, with a lengthened fuselage, redesigned wings, new engines, and improved efficiency. The 747-8 is the largest 747 version, the largest commercial aircraft built in the United States, and the longest passenger aircraft in the world.
The 1983 paint scheme of the #90 Junie Donlavey owned Chameleon T-Bird of Dick Brooks. This was a custom made piece. The results were excellent.
CSX GP38-2 2689, still in YN1 paint at the time, sits in Monon, IN in the summer of 2007. YN1 is long gone from CSX.
I walked off the street, through a pair of wooden french doors, into into a dimly lit atrium. I had my Taurus revolver drawn, as I had information from a reliable source that a mafia boss, Rufus Valentin was holding my nephew, Julius Crown, an journalist for the Metropolis Star, captive here. I crept to the grate in the middle of the door of the room adjoining the atrium, and peeked in. There Julius lay, trussed up with a sack over his head. Rufus stood, whiskey flask in hand, cackling at Julius with one of his henchmen who was wielding a bat. I grasped the doorknob of the door, turned it, then kicked it open. It caught Rufus on the back of the head and he fell forward, smashing a already broken bottle into bits. The henchmen turned and eyed me menacingly. I strode into the room...
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For the Brick Noir category of the MA's: Foggy streets and mysterious figures, trench coats and fedoras, and cigarette smoke that seems to have a life of its own. Build a scene based on the dark crime films from the 1940's.
I could really use everyones' opinion on whether or not this fits the category.
Enjoy and God Bless!
One of the sharpest paint schemes to grace an SD45-2.
Trona Railway's lease units were rebuilt into SD40-2 by AMF at Montréal in 1992. We found them on a November afternoon at the Trona enginehouse. The shiny quartet (3001, 3006, 3003 and 3005) would leave for Searles Jct. long after sunset, so this was the best we could get.
Trona, California
November 1996
Rotating out from London Heathrow airport's 09 right end of one of the main runway's is the Air Malta Airbus A320 painted in "Valletta - European Capital of Culture 2018" special colours scheme.
The Odakyu Electric Railway's fleet of railway cars are, for the most part, uniform. They mainly operate a fleet of silver and blue painted EMUs. With the exception of the Romancecars and one, red 1000 Series set, the 8000 series are the outliers. Built from 1983-1987, the 8000 Series are some of the oldest stock on the Odakyu Railway. They handle local, rapid, and express services across its network. After the completion of the 8000 series in 1987, Odakyu switched schemes to the silver and blue we see today.
Here, 8558 leaves Shinjuku behind on a Rapid-Express bound for Fujisawa.
Odakyu Odawara Line. Odakyu 8000 Series
Minami-Shinjuku, Shibuya Ward, Tokyo.
Metra 106, recently repainted into the newest paint scheme for the company, arrives into New Lenox, IL on a inbound train.
VMH2592 LF19FXT seen at Ealing Common working on route SL8 towards Uxbridge.
The SL8 is simply a renumbered 607. All the existing express routes will get renumbered as part of the Superloop scheme.
The allocated Evosetis had gained route branding as well as being refitted with USB charging. Blinds also drop the "Limited Stop" as seen here it just says Uxbridge. The branding only highlights key place names which are not easy to read by some.