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After I finally got my Ushankas I could complete my Soviet troops for now. I hope y’all like it and thanks for taking a look!
Watch (with certification and instructions) bought in Moscow in 1988. For 8/12/2019 Macro Mondays theme "Printed Word."
Berlin - Tiergarten
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Two days after my first visit to the Iskar Gorge, my friends finally arrived in Bulgaria, so we had a longer day trip to the gorge planned.
After “waking up” from a night of absolutely zero sleep, we grabbed a taxi to Sofia Sever train station. We were going to spend the whole day in the Iskar Gorge, our last stop before catching a sleeper train to Varna later that night was Gara Bov. The plan was to photograph three trains: two loco-hauled and one RVR ER25 EMU. Luckily, all three shots went well.
At 16:29, BDZ 45 183 passed the three of us, hauling KPV 20204 towards Sofia.
After we had talked about "Lost Places" yesterday in Hof, I decided to show some images from my day back in 2014 at the Beelitz-Heilstätten, south of Berlin. Beelitz-Heilstätten is a sanatory complex of 60 buildings, built at the beginning of the 20th century. It was designed to heal workers from Berlin. In WW2 it was used as a hospital, after the war it was a Soviet military hospital. The whole ground and the buildings are a protected area today, which is awaiting its future.
This HDR pano was stitched from 3 images, each developed from 5 different exposures.
(Explore on 20170630.)
The VFW VAK 191B was an experimental German vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) strike fighter of the early 1970s. VAK was the abbreviation for Vertikalstartendes Aufklärungs- und Kampfflugzeug (Vertical Take-off Reconnaissance and Strike Aircraft). Designed and built by the Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke (VFW), it was developed with the purpose of eventually serving as a replacement for the Italian Fiat G.91 then in service with the German Air Force.
Operationally, it was intended to have been armed with nuclear weapons as a deterrent against aggression from the Soviet Union and, in the event of a major war breaking out, to survive the first wave of attacks by deploying to dispersed locations, rather than conventional airfields, and to retaliate against targets behind enemy lines.
The VAK 191B suffered from a protracted development cycle, spanning ten years between inception and flight, in part due to changing requirements, partnerships changing, and the difficulty inherently associated in the development of VTOL-capable aircraft. Ultimately, during the late 1960s, VFW took the decision to demote the development programme from targeting the type's production and instead only to test-fly a limited number of prototypes, using the VAK 191B effectively as a technology demonstrator and experimental aircraft to support the company's other activities and future programmes. On 10 September 1971, the first prototype conducted the type's maiden flight. A total of 91 flights were performed prior to the retirement of all three prototypes in 1975. These aircraft have been preserved and two are now on public display in museums.
Hey guys.
made this guy last week. I think he turned out ok. I know the pouches dont look legit but thats because I made then for a Jap soldier but changed my mind later.
This is an abandoned Soviet-era concert hall on the outskirts of Tallinn, Estonia. It was built as part of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, and in its heyday held concerts by big names like Duran Duran. Now it’s mostly abandoned and crumbling away, in a very eerie post-apocalyptic way. The kind of place I love!
For an account of my travels to Helsinki and Tallinn:
Lingonberries and Space-transcending Crows: Helsinki and Tallinn