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This is Victoria in a tshirt she got from her big sister. She was about 2 in the picture on the left and 16 on the right.
The same thing happened with this photo of Charles Lindbergh's airplane. It's a little disconcerting to take photos of two of the most famous aircraft in American history, only to have them look green. I'm hoping someone at the museum by now has made changes to the night lights, such as using LED lamps that are brighter but use less electricity and are closer to the color temperatures of both daylight and tungsten. After all, it has been forty-four years since I took these photos.
I shot this photo (as I did the others) with my Vivitar 400/SL camera, using Eastman Kodak 5247 motion picture stock, rated at ASA 100. I used my Vivitar 28mm wide angle lens.
This set mixes it up a bit with both a pretty blonde and brunette goddess! You can see them both modeling the Gold 45 Revolver swimsuits as well as a 45SURFER camera bracket mount for shooting stills & video at the same time.
Here's some epic video of the beautiful goddesses:(pretty closeups!)
Nikon D800 Photos of Brunette and Blonde Swimsuit Bikini Goddesses with Pretty Green Eyes and Pretty Blue Eyes shot with the Nikon D800E and Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II AF-S Nikkor Zoom Lens!
Shot in both RAW & JPEG, but all these photos are RAWs finished in Lightroom 4 ! :)
All the Gold'N'Virtue swimsuits with the main equation to Moving Dimensions Theory on the swimsuits: dx4/dt=ic. Yes I have a Ph.D. in physics! :) You can read more about my research and Hero's Journey Physics here:
herosjourneyphysics.wordpress.com/ MDT PROOF#2: Einstein (1912 Man. on Rel.) and Minkowski wrote x4=ict. Ergo dx4/dt=ic--the foundational equation of all time and motion which is on all the shirts and swimsuits. Every photon that hits my Nikon D800e's sensor does it by surfing the fourth expanding dimension, which is moving at c relative to the three spatial dimensions, or dx4/dt=ic!
Modeling both the the Gold 45 Revolver(TM) Gold'N'Virtue(TM) Black Bikini and the Red, White, an Blue American flag bikini!
May the HJM Goddesses guide, inspire, and exalt ye along yer heroic artistic journey! all the bets on your Heroic Journey from Johnny Ranger McCoy!
Same Water Vole, taken from same position, same lens, same Denoise and sharpening settings, no crop, only difference one taken with my D7200 and one taken with the V1, this is just a comparison for the folks who like to be in the know, Mr Vole was very good to me sitting still while I changed camera bodies, The Kingfisher unfortunately wasn't so patient, so same bird same camera, different perches lol only 22 left now Neil :-)
Same plant with many of views.. Late afternoon, so the flash went off on the first two and natural light on the last two images.. I was standing under the plant and looking up...
When this installation was first on view, many have questioned what it was intended to mean. The words “Same but not equal” was painted in all caps on top of a collage of Thai newspaper “khaosod” on linen canvas. The panel was placed on top of two piles of Thai rice. Although the pile of rice appears the same, one pile of rice is ordinary rice and the other, apparently, is premium export-grade Thai jasmine rice.
To one art blog Blouin Art Info [1], it is a commentary about ABHK, where Art Basel Hong Kong, though featuring many of the same galleries seen Art Basel Switzerland and Art Basel Miami, is in many ways different than their counterparts given the type of art works being shown in comparison.
To me, it is a commentary on a larger issue where news media speak of the same kind of political news though their analysis and content is highly different.
Art is up to all kinds of interpretation. I have no idea if the artist created this piece specifically for ABHK, if so then perhaps that does have some validity. It is interesting nevertheless, though I would most certainly not pay 100-150k USD for it which is apparently the asking price for this work [2].
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Untitled (same but not equal), 2013
Newspaper on Linen, Rice
286 x 220 cm
# Rirkrit Tiravanija
b. 1961 Buenos Aires, Argentina
1980 Carleton University
1980-1984 Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada
1984 Banff Center School of Fine Arts
1984–86 School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1985-86 Whitney Independent Studies Program
1982 Moved to New York, NY
Rirkrit Tiravanija (Thai: ฤกษ์ฤทธิ์ ตีระวนิช, pronunciation: [rɯk-rit tira-wanit] or Tea-rah-vah-nit) is a contemporary artist residing in New York, Berlin, and Chiang Mai. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1961. His installations often take the form of stages or rooms for sharing meals, cooking, reading or playing music; architecture or structures for living and socializing are a core element in his work.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rirkrit_Tiravanija
# Shanghai Gallery of Art 沪申画廊
3F, No. 3, Zhong Shan Dong Yi Road
200002 Shanghai
China
# Notes
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2. artsy.net/artwork/rirkrit-tiravanija-untitled-same-but-no...
# SML Data
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+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°10'22" E
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Mixed media installation by Rirkrit Tiravanija (b. 1961): Untitled (same but not equal), 2013 (Newspaper on Linen, Rice) / 沪申画廊 Shanghai Gallery of Art / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14129
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Was so cold this day and I only had an hour of daylight left. Did the twigs know what an amazing frame they would make?
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Another gorgeous June day at Brick Lane, Spitalfields and Columbia Rd, an East London summery Sunday
So proud is Astoria of its history and architectural heritage that enlargements of vintage streetscapes hang in the windows of downtown buildings.
These two photos capture the same stretch of Commercial Streets several years apart.
Judging by the style of the cars on the left, I'd say the photo was taken in the 1920s. However, it would have to be after 1922, the year of the great fire, because what we see here is the new downtown that came into existence around 1924.
The photo on the left is dated 1935.
Let's see what we can learn about the businesses whose names appear on the signs.
LEFT: 1920s
Fellman's Department Store
Morton Nelson Building
1343 Commercial Street
Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 576 - 579
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
WERNER H. FELLMAN, a progressive and enterprising citizen of Astoria, owns one of the largest department stores in the city, as well as one of its prosperous industries, and is regarded as one of the community's most valuable citizens, having shown a helpful and effective interest in local public affairs. Mr. Fellman was born in Uleaborg, Finland, on the 14th of February, 1881, and is a son of Abram and Maria (Elfving) Fellman, also natives of that country, where the mother is still living. The father, who is deceased, was a university graduate and a successful merchant and was prominent and influential in his community, and the Fellman family has played a prominent part, educationally, financially and in a business way in Finland since 1582. To Abram Fellman and his wife were born six children, of whom four are living.
Werner H. Fellman is the oldest and the only one to come to the United States. He attended private schools for four years, had six years of high school work and four and a half years in Brahestad Borgare and Handelsskola College, in Brahestad. On completing his college work he took a postion as bookkeeper in a mercantile establishment, and later served as cashier for a large logging company for nine months.
In 1902 Mr. Fellman came to the United States, locating in Astoria, Oregon, where he went to work as a shipping clerk for the Hammond Lumber Company. Later he was employed for a few months in H. H. Zaph's furniture store, going from there to David Shanahan's furniture store. Six months later he was made manager of the store, which position he held for one and a half years, and then, desirous to see more of the United States, he went to Reedley, Fresno county, California, where he bought a farm. He planted it to peaches, grapes and oranges, and soon afterward sold it at a good profit.
He then returned to Astoria and bought the Shanahan furniture store, which he enlarged, increasing the stock, putting in the largest and finest stock of furniture on the lower Columbia river, doing business under the name of Astoria Furniture Company.
In the big fire of December, 1922, Mr. Fellman lost heavily, but with the enterprising spirit which has characterized him in all of his business career here, he at once erected a fine two-story and basement concrete building, seventy-five by one hundred and twenty-five feet, in one of the best business locations in the city, and in this building he has one of the most complete lines of goods to be found in this section of the state, carrying, besides furniture, floor coverings, crockery, stoves, women's ready-to-wear, dry goods, millinery, and men's goods, and the rapid and steady growth of his business has abundantly vindicated his judgment in making the additions to his original line.
In November, 1925, Mr. Fellman still further enlarged his scope of operations by buying together with Mr. Frank Patton, Astoria Banker, the Freeland Table Company's factory in Astoria. It was a small plant, which has been replaced by a fine new factory building, one hundred and seventy-five by one hundred and ninety feet, in which is now installed a complete equipment of most modern wood working machinery, and here he is now producing high grade furniture. He uses native wood, principally alder, with walnut and mahogany veneer, and specializes in making dining room suites, tables, ladies' desks and secretaries and novelty furniture of all kinds. The factory employs several traveling salesmen and fifty-five men, many of whom are skilled and highly paid workmen, while in the store he employs from twenty to thirty clerks, salesmen, and women. The factory products find ready sale throughout Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, British Columbia and the Hawaiian islands.
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Mr. Fellman is a member of Temple Lodge, No. 7, A. F. & A. M.; belongs to all of the bodies of the York and Scottish Rites; Al Kader Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., at Portland; Astoria Lodge No. 180, B. P. O. E.; the Modern Woodmen of America, the Finnish Brotherhood and the Astoria Golf and Country Club.
For many years he was chairman of the Merchants Association, a director of the Chamber of Commerce and also its vice president. He served on the school board of Astoria two terms, also as chairman one term, and was chairman of the building committee at the time the city expended three hundred thousand dollars for new school buildings.
Mr. Fellman gave freely of his time in supervising the erection of these buildings, in order to protect the city's interests, and today Astoria's schools are second to none in the state.
In 1923 Mr. Fellman was appointed Finnish consul for the entire northwest, but, because of the pressure of his private business, he had his jurisdiction cut down in 1925 to include only the state of Oregon, and he is still serving in that capacity. In the discharge of his duties as consul he has made one return trip to Europe where he has been knighted into the Order of the White Rose, first class of Finland.
He is a keen student of public affairs, being well versed in political economy, and has shown himself a capable and successful
man in every relation in which he has been placed, being a man of high principles and true to his obligations of every character. Cordial and friendly in manner, he has a host of loyal friends throughout the community in which he lives and is highly regarded by all who know him.
Photo: www.usgwarchives.net/or/clatsop/photos/bios/fellman1275gb...
Photo size: 127 Kb
File at: files.usgwarchives.net/or/clatsop/bios/fellman1275gbs.txt
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Barton Hotel
M. H. Smith Building
1255 - 1271 Commercial Street
In the heart of the Astoria Downtown Historic District, the Commodore Hotel occupies the 1925 Lewis Building, designed by John E. Wicks, Astoria's most influential architect. The hotel operated from 1925 until 1968, first as the Barton Inn Hotel and then as the Commodore. Shuttered for 40 years, the Commodore reopened in 2009 after an extraordinary renovation. Retaining the original doors, windows, woodwork, and fixtures-all meticulously rehabilitated-the Commodore is now a shining example of the highest standards of contemporary design and construction. The Commodore shares the historic Lewis Building with the legendary Street 14 Coffee, which you can enter directly from the lobby.
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On April 6, 1923, Dr. M.H. Smith, local physician and surgeon, announced he was having plans and specifications drawn up for a business block on the north side of Commercial Street between Twelfth and Fourteenth Streets. On April 15, 1924, a building permit was granted to contractor John Hedstrom for the construction of a $20,000, one-story concrete building for Dr. M.H. Smith.
On May 17, 1924, Dr. Smith announced that the building was to be a three-story structure. The two top floors were be used as a 36-room hotel while the ground floor was suitable for offices and shops. On August 11, 1924, it was announced that Mrs. Katherine E. Barton of Portland had leased the hotel portion of the building. The Barton Hotel opened for business on October 25th [, 1924].
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By October 29, 1924, the Smith Building was fully occupied; Byler's Variety Store occupied the eastern storefront, Johnson Optical Store was located in the middle of the building and Coffeeland Grocery Store occupied the western portion of the building.
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RIGHT: 1935
Imperial Grill
1312 Commercial Street
Another new building for Astoria's reconstructed district was announced on May 28, 1924, when it became known that Mrs. Mary F. Dealy and Mrs. J.S. Malone would erect a one-story structure on their property on the north side of Commercial Street between Twelfth and Fourteenth. It was also learned at this time that the building would be leased by M.B. Gallagher, proprietor of the Imperial Grill. On September 21, 1924, a building permit for the amount of $15,000 was issued to contractor John Hedstrom for the erection of this 25'x 95', concrete building. The Imperial Grill Restaurant occupied this building from 1925 through 1952. It currently houses Columbia
Chocolates.
If restored, this building would be significant for its contribution to the streetscape. It is locally significant for its long term tenant, the Imperial Grill.
Siddal Hotel
1255 - 1271 Commercial Street
On March 18, 1931, Mark Siddal, Sr., leased the Smith Building and in addition to locating his sporting goods store there, he took over management of the hotel. The hotel portion was remodeled and renamed the Siddall Hotel. The hotel burned Febmary 22, 1952, but was quickly repaired and rebuilt. The building currently houses the Siddall Apartments, an office for the community police and the downtown caretaker and shops called Downtown Thrift, Let It Rain and Astoria Health Foods.
Some background:
The idea for a heavy infantry support vehicle capable of demolishing heavily defended buildings or fortified areas with a single shot came out of the experiences of the heavy urban fighting in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942. At the time, the Wehrmacht had only the Sturm-Infanteriegeschütz 33B available for destroying buildings, a Sturmgeschütz III variant armed with a 15 cm sIG 33 heavy infantry gun. Twelve of them were lost in the fighting at Stalingrad. Its successor, the Sturmpanzer IV, also known by Allies as Brummbär, was in production from early 1943. This was essentially an improved version of the earlier design, mounting the same gun on the Panzer IV chassis with greatly improved armour protection.
While greatly improved compared to the earlier models, by this time infantry anti-tank weapons were improving dramatically, too, and the Wehrmacht still saw a need for a similar, but more heavily armoured and armed vehicle. Therefore, a decision was made to create a new vehicle based on the Tiger tank and arm it with a 210 mm howitzer. However, this weapon turned out not to be available at the time and was therefore replaced by a 380 mm rocket launcher, which was adapted from a Kriegsmarine depth charge launcher.
The 380 mm Raketen-Werfer 61 L/5.4 was a breech-loading barrel, which fired a short-range, rocket-propelled projectile roughly 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) long. The gun itself existed in two iterations at the time. One, the RaG 43 (Raketenabschuss-Gerät 43), was a ship-mounted anti-aircraft weapon used for firing a cable-spooled parachute-anchor creating a hazard for aircraft. The second, the RTG 38 (Raketen Tauch-Geschoss 38), was a land-based system, originally planned for use in coastal installations by the Kriegsmarine firing depth-charges against submarines with a range of about 3.000 m. For use in a vehicle, the RTG 38 was to find use as a demolition gun and had to be modified for that role. This modification work was carried out by Rheinmetall at their Sommerda works.
The design of the rocket system caused some problems. Modified for use in a vehicle, the recoil from the modified rocket-mortar was enormous, about 40-tonnes, and this meant that only a heavy chassis could be used to mount the gun. The hot rocket exhaust could not be vented into the fighting compartment nor could the barrel withstand the pressure if the gasses were not vented. Therefore, a ring of ventilation shafts was put around the barrel which channeled the exhaust and gave the weapon something of a pepperbox appearance.
The shells for the weapon were extremely heavy, far too heavy for a man to load manually. As a result, each of them had to be carried by means of a ceiling-mounted trolley from their rack to a roller-mounted tray at the breech. Once on the tray, four soldiers could then push it into the breech to load it. The whole process took 10 minutes per shot from loading, aiming, elevating and, finally, to firing.
There were a variety of rocket-assisted round types with a weight of up to 376 kg (829 lb), and a maximum range of up to 6,000 m (20,000 ft), which either contained a high explosive charge of 125 kg (276 lb) or a shaped charge for use against fortifications, which could penetrate up to 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) of reinforced concrete. The stated range of the former was 5,650 m (6,180 yd). A normal charge first accelerated the projectile to 45 m/s (150 ft/s) to leave the short, rifled barrel, the 40 kg (88 lb) rocket charge then boosted this to about 250 m/s (820 ft/s).
In September 1943 plans were made for Krupp to fabricate new Tiger I armored hulls for the Sturmtiger. The Tiger I hulls were to be sent to Henschel for chassis assembly and then to Alkett, where the superstructures would be mounted. The first prototype was ready and presented in October 1943. By May 1944, the Sturmtiger prototype had been kept busy with trials and firing tests for the development of range tables, but production had still not started yet and the concept was likely to be scrapped. Rather than ditch the idea though, orders were given that, instead of interrupting the production of the Tiger I, the Sturmtigers would be built on the chassis of Tiger I tanks which had already been in action and suffered serious damage. Twelve superstructures and RW 61 weapons were prepared and mounted on rebuilt Tiger I chassis. However, by August 1944 the dire need for this kind of vehicle led to the adaptation of another chassis to the 380 mm Sturmmörser: the SdKfz. 184, better known as “Ferdinand” (after its designer’s forename) and later, in an upgraded version, “Elefant”.
The Elefant (German for "elephant") was actually a heavy tank destroyer and the result of mismanagement and poor planning: Porsche GmbH had manufactured about 100 chassis for their unsuccessful proposal for the Tiger I tank, the so-called "Porsche Tiger". Both the successful Henschel proposal and the Porsche design used the same Krupp-designed turret—the Henschel design had its turret more-or-less centrally located on its hull, while the Porsche design placed the turret much closer to the front of the superstructure. Since the competing Henschel Tiger design was chosen for production, the Porsche chassis were no longer required for the Tiger tank project, and Porsche was left with 100 unfinished heavy tank hulls.
It was therefore decided that the Porsche chassis were to be used as the basis of a new heavy tank hunter, the Ferdinand, mounting Krupp's newly developed 88 mm (3.5 in) Panzerjägerkanone 43/2 (PaK 43) anti-tank gun with a new, long L71 barrel. This precise long-range weapon was intended to destroy enemy tanks before they came within their own range of effective fire, but in order to mount the very long and heavy weapon on the Porsche hull, its layout had to be completely redesigned.
Porsche’s SdKfz. 184’s unusual petrol-electric transmission made it much easier to relocate the engines than would be the case on a mechanical-transmission vehicle, since the engines could be mounted anywhere, and only the length of the power cables needed to be altered, as opposed to re-designing the driveshafts and locating the engines for the easiest routing of power shafts to the gearbox. Without the forward-mounted turret of the Porsche Tiger prototype, the twin engines were relocated to the front, where the turret had been, leaving room ahead of them for the driver and radio operator. As the engines were placed in the middle, the driver and the radio operator were isolated from the rest of the crew and could be addressed only by intercom. The now empty rear half of the hull was covered with a heavily armored, full five-sided casemate with slightly sloped upper faces and armored solid roof, and turned into a crew compartment, mounting a single 8.8 cm Pak 43 cannon in the forward face of the casemate.
From this readily available basis, the SdKfz. 184/1 was hurriedly developed. It differed from the tank hunter primarily through its new casemate that held the 380 mm Raketenwerfer. Since the SdKfz. 184/1 was intended for use in urban areas in close range street fighting, it needed to be heavily armoured to survive. Its front plate had a greater slope than the Ferdinand while the sides were more vertical and the roof was flat. Its sloped (at 47° from vertical) frontal casemate armor was 150 mm (5.9 in) thick, while its superstructure side and rear plates had a strength of 82 mm (3.2 in). The SdKfz.184/1 also received add-on armor of 100 mm thickness, bolted to the hull’s original vertical front plates, increasing the thickness to 200 mm but adding 5 tons of weight. All these measures pushed the weight of the vehicle up from the Ferdinand’s already bulky 65 t to 75 t, limiting the vehicle’s manoeuvrability even further. Located at the rear of the loading hatch was a Nahverteidigungswaffe launcher 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. For close-range defense, a 7.92 mm MG 34 machine gun was carried in a ball mount in the front plate, an addition that was introduced to the Elefant tank hunters, too, after the SdKfz. 184 had during its initial deployments turned out to be very vulnerable to infantry attacks.
Due to the size of the RW 61 and the bulkiness of the ammunition, only fourteen rounds could be carried internally, of which one was already loaded, with another stored in the loading tray, and the rest were carried in two storage racks, leaving only little space for the crew of four in the rear compartment. To help with the loading of ammunition into the vehicle, a loading crane was fitted at the rear of the superstructure next to the loading hatch on the roof.
Due to the internal limits and the tactical nature of the vehicle, it was intended that each SdKfz. 184/1 (as well as each Sturmtiger) would be accompanied by an ammunition carrier, typically based on the Panzer IV chassis, but the lack of resources did not make this possible. There were even plans to build a dedicated, heavily armored ammunition carrier on the Tiger I chassis, but only one such carrier was completed and tested, it never reached production status.
By the time the first RW 61 carriers had become available, Germany had lost the initiative, with the Wehrmacht being almost exclusively on the defensive rather than the offensive, and this new tactical situation significantly weakened the value of both Sturmtiger and Sturmelefant, how the SdKfz 184/1 was semi-officially baptized. Nevertheless, three new Panzer companies were raised to operate the Sturmpanzer types: Panzer Sturmmörser Kompanien (PzStuMrKp) ("Armored Assault Mortar Company") 1000, 1001 and 1002. These originally were supposed to be equipped with fourteen vehicles each, but this figure was later reduced to four each, divided into two platoons, consisting of mixed vehicle types – whatever was available and operational.
PzStuMrKp 1000 was raised on 13 August 1944 and fought during the Warsaw Uprising with two vehicles, as did the prototype in a separate action, which may have been the only time the Sturmtiger was used in its intended role. PzStuMrKp 1001 and 1002 followed in September and October. Both PzStuMrKp 1000 and 1001 served during the Ardennes Offensive, with a total of four Sturmtiger and three Sturmelefanten.
After this offensive, the Sturmpanzer were used in the defence of Germany, mainly on the Western Front. During the battle for the bridge at Remagen, German forces mobilized Sturmmörserkompanie 1000 and 1001 (with a total of 7 vehicles, five Sturmtiger and two Sturmelefanten) to take part in the battle. The tanks were originally tasked with using their mortars against the bridge itself, though it was discovered that they lacked the accuracy needed to hit the bridge and cause significant damage with precise hits to vital structures. During this action, one of the Sturmtigers in Sturmmörserkompanie 1001 near Düren and Euskirchen allegedly hit a group of stationary Shermans tanks in a village with a 380mm round, resulting in nearly all the Shermans being put out of action and their crews killed or wounded - the only recorded tank-on-tank combat a Sturmtiger was ever engaged in. After the bridge fell to the Allies, Sturmmörserkompanie 1000 and 1001 were tasked with bombardment of Allied forces to cover the German retreat, as opposed to the bunker busting for which they had originally been designed for. None was actually destroyed through enemy fire, but many vehicles had to be given up due to mechanical failures or the lack of fuel. Most were blown up by their crews, but a few fell into allied hands in an operational state.
Total production numbers of the SdKfz. 184/1 are uncertain but, being an emergency product and based on a limited chassis supply, the number of vehicles that left the Nibelungenwerke in Austria was no more than ten – also because the tank hunter conversion had top priority and the exotic RW 61 launcher was in very limited supply. As a consequence, only a total of 18 Sturmtiger had been finished by December 1945 and put into service, too. However, the 380 mm Raketen-Werfer 61 remained in production and was in early 1946 adapted to the new Einheitspanzer E-50/75 chassis.
Specifications:
Crew: Six (driver, radio operator/machine gunner in the front cabin,
commander, gunner, 2× loader in the casemate section)
Weight: 75 tons
Length: 7,05 m (23 ft 1½ in)
Width: 3,38 m (11 ft 1 in)
Height w/o crane: 3,02 m (9 ft 10¾ in)
Ground clearance: 1ft 6¾ in (48 cm)
Climbing: 2 ft 6½ in (78 cm)
Fording depth: 3 ft 3¼ (1m)
Trench crossing: 8 ft 7 ¾ in (2,64 m)
Suspension: Longitudinal torsion-bar
Fuel capacity: 1.050 liters
Armour:
62 to 200 mm (2.44 to 7.87 in)
Performance:
30 km/h (19 mph) on road
15 km/h (10 miles per hour () off road
Operational range: 150 km (93 mi) on road
90 km (56 mi) cross-country
Power/weight: 8 hp/ton
Engine:
2× Maybach HL120 TRM petrol engines with 300 PS (246 hp, 221 kW) each, powering…
2× Siemens-Schuckert D1495a 500 Volt electric engines with 320 PS (316 hp, 230 kW) each
Transmission:
Electric
Armament:
1x 380 mm RW 61 rocket launcher L/5.4 with 14 rounds
1x 7.92 mm (0.312 in) MG 34 machine gun with 600 rounds
1x 100 mm grenade launcher (firing anti-personnel mines, smoke grenades or signal flares)
The kit and its assembly:.
This fictional tank model is not my own idea, it is rather based on a picture of a similar kitbashing of an Elefant with a Sturmtiger casemate and its massive missile launcher – even though it was a rather crude model, with a casemate created from cardboard. However, I found the idea charming, even more so because the Ferdinand/Elefant was rather a rolling bunker than an agile tank hunter, despite its powerful weapon. Why not use the same chassis as a carrier for the Sturmtiger’s huge mortar as an assault SPG?
The resulting Sturmelefant was created as a kitbashing: the chassis is an early boxing of the Trumpeter Elefant, which comes not only with IP track segments but also alternative vinyl tracks (later boxing do not feature them), and casemate parts come from a Trumpeter Sturmtiger.
While one would think that switching the casemate would be straightforward affair, the conversion turned out to be more complex than expected. Both Elefant and Sturmtiger come with separate casemate pieces, but they are not compatible. The Sturmtiger casemate is 2mm wider than the Elefant’s hull, and its glacis plate is deeper than the Elefant’s, leaving 4mm wide gaps at the sides and the rear. One option could have been to trim down the glacis plate, but I found the roofline to become much too low – and the casemate’s length would have been reduced.
So, I used the Sturmtiger casemate “as is” and filled the gaps with styrene sheet strips. This worked, but the casemate’s width created now inward-bent sections that looked unplausible. Nobody, even grazed German engineers, would not have neglected the laws of structural integrity. What to do? Tailoring the casemate’s sides down would have been one route, but this would have had created a strange shape. The alternative I chose was to widen the flanks of the Elefant’s hull underneath the casemate, which was achieved with tailored 0.5 mm styrene sheet panels and some PSR – possible through the Elefant’s simple shape and the mudguards that run along the vehicle’s flanks.
Some more PSR was necessary to blend the rear into a coherent shape and to fill a small gap at the glacis plate’s base. Putty was also used to fill/hide almost all openings on the glacis plate, since no driver sight or ball mount for a machine gun was necessary anymore. New bolts between hull and casemate were created with small drops of white glue. The rest of the surface details were taken from the respective donor kits.
Painting and markings:
This was not an easy choice. A classic Hinterhalt scheme would have been a natural choice, but since the Sturmelefant would have been converted from existing hulls with new parts, I decided to emphasize this heritage through a simple, uniform livery: all Ferdinand elements would be painted/left in a uniform Dunkelgelb (RAL, 7028, Humbrol 83), while the new casemate as well as the bolted-on front armor were left in a red primer livery, in two different shades (Humbrol 70 and 113). This looked a little too simple for my taste, so that I eventually added snaky lines in Dunkelgelb onto the primer-painted sections, blurring the contrast between the two tones.
Markings remained minimal, just three German crosses on the flanks and at the rear and a tactical code on the casemate – the latter in black and in a hand-written style, as if the vehicle had been rushed into frontline service.
After the decals had been secured under sone varnish the model received an overall washing with dark brown, highly thinned acrylic paint, some dry-brushing with light grey and some rust traces, before it was sealed overall with matt acrylic varnish and received some dirt stains with mixed watercolors and finally, after the tracks had been mounted, some artist pigments as physical dust on the lower areas.
Again a project that appeared simple but turned out to be more demanding because the parts would not fit as well as expected. The resulting bunker breaker looks plausible, less massive than the real Sturmtiger but still a menacing sight.
Same OO type ... texture and shadows ... I had initially thought those patterned stockings were a lens mark on the original image!
all these piccies wer taken on the same day just adjusted the outfit to see whats more liked out there
Fast fertig - das Bahnhofsgebäude des oberfränkischen Bahnhofs Stammbach im Zustand der 1990er-Jahre.
We were drawn from the weeds
We were brave like soldiers
Falling down under the pale moonlight
You were holding to me
Like a someone broken
And I couldn't tell you but I'm telling you now
Just let me hold you while you're falling apart
Just let me hold you and we'll both fall down
Fall on me
Tell me everything you want me to be
Forever with you forever in me
Ever the same...
-- Rob Thomas
This was shot at my favorite overlook along the Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park, Hazel Mountain Overlook.
This year I have really begun to get into night photography. I had dabbled a bit in the past, but I think my trip to Yosemite with Darren Barnes in February cemented my love for the night sky.
I didn't get out at night as much as I'd have liked to, but I believe next year that will be changing as I am planning on doing more camping so I don't have to drive so many miles in the night. After last November when I hit that deer I got somewhat hesitant about traveling for my passion during the wee hours of the night and morning.
This is a shout out to Larry Brown... "See, I am still there, just not at Midnight". LOL!!
This male Goldfinch posed nicely in the afternoon sun.
One of my favourite wee birds, a highly coloured finch with a bright red face and yellow wing patches.
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( Carduelis carduelis )
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One of my Bird Set
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Best seen Large on black - Press L
“Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long asit's the Marine breed.” — Lt. Gen. “Chesty” Puller
The uniforms may change, the battlegrounds may change, but Marineswill always be America’s warriors. Each week we’ll take a look at, how as time goes on, we remain the same breed.
(Photos courtesy of Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections and Cpl. Tyler Main)
Same old cemetery as the previous ones I've uploaded.
Nikon F4. AF Nikkor 24mm F2.8D lens. ADOX Scala 160 35mm B&W reversal film.
Same girl, same day, but different dress and studio background for a very different look...
Model Natalia Zhang
Same platform as the the Void Caster, with obviously different attributes. Feels neat getting back into things after not posting in here for like 2 years.
Same head & Body as yesterday
ItGirls Leutka EVO X - Bria Mali
VELOUR: The "Ipanema Body" For Belleza (MALI) BOM skin
REVOUL - Queeniana Vibes with hud
DAKOTA SET BY BA STORE
-Blow -up - Bubblr Gum. color change hud
Same camp site as my previous star shot... sometimes it pays to take a wrong turn... hike the wrong path... leave late enough in the day that approaching evening dictates where you camp for the night. With time running out on the evening, we decided we were going to stop... and after wandering a few hundred yards in a couple different directions, stumbled upon this amazing spot to set up a tent for the night.
I was kind of bummed the sky didn't have a little more going on... I haven't shot any landscapes I'm that keen on in a while... but I loved getting a shot of this basin we hiked up through, interesting sky or no. Looks like an abbreviated summer here in the NW, but I'm excited to make the most of it and get out in the mountains as much as I can as the snow melts.