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Just a quick update to replace the old M35 pattern on my Soviet figs. I even remembered to include guard badges this time!
(Also- neck decals are a pain in the ass to apply)
A friend of mine is working on a WW2 era film and these are two of the characters.
Lit with a 3x4 photoflex softbox
Edited in Capture 1 Pro. To purchase/try it check out the link below.
Ausgemusterte Schutzhütte aus Beständen der Sowjetarmee, zurück gelassen in einem Feuchtgebiet im Umfeld einer ehemaligen "Russenkaserne". Offenbar dienten diese primitiven Blechhütten den wachhabenden Soldaten als Unterstand.
Mobile shelter once used by the soviet army. Left behind in a wetland in eastern Germany, not far from a former soviet military compound.
I beleive this is a FM2 model with a motor drive fitted. The lens is a 500mm mirror lens from Nikkor. This camera was used by a part of the British Army called BRIXMIS who gathered information in the Soviet zone of control in the former East Germany during the 1980s. There is an exhibition about BRIXMIS in the National Army Museum at Chelsea (as of March 2023).
1960 Zorki 4 with Jupiter-8 pose for some more Sunday morning camera porn. I just disassembled and cleaned/relubed the Jupiter which now focuses like buttuh.
I liked the idea of the real world fighter contest, so I thought I would try to come up with something. Note that this isn't an actual entry (no digital entries allowed). I wanted to do a Soviet craft from the cold war era. See the other image for a explanation of how it works
The Motherland Monument is a monumental statue in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.
The stainless steel statue stands 62 m (203 ft) tall upon the museum main building with the overall structure measuring 102 m (335 ft) including its base and weighing 560 tons. The sword in the statue's right hand is 16 m (52 ft) long weighing 9 tons, with the left hand holding up a 13 by 8 m (43 by 26 ft) shield with the State Emblem of the Soviet Union.
the 1950s, a plan circulated of building on the spot of the current statue twin monuments of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, nearly 200 m (660 ft) tall each.[6] However, this did not go ahead. Instead, according to legend, in the 1970s, a shipload of Communist Party officials and Soviet sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich looked across at the hills by the Lavra and decided the panorama needed a war memorial. Vuchetich had designed the other two most famous giant Soviet war memorials, The Motherland Calls in Volgograd and the Soviet soldier carrying German infant constructed after the war in East Berlin. However, Vuchetich died in 1974, and the design of the memorial was afterwards substantially reworked and completed under the guidance of Vasyl Borodai.
Final plans for the statue were made in 1978, with construction beginning in 1979. It was controversial, many criticised the costs involved and claimed the funds could have been better spent elsewhere. When director of construction Ivan Petrovich was asked to confirm the costs of 9 million rubles, he responded that this was a conservative estimate. The statue was opened in 1981 in a ceremony attended by Soviet president Leonid Brezhnev.
In modern-day Kiev, the statue remains controversial, with some claiming it should be pulled down and its metal used for more functional purposes. Financial shortages mean that the flame, which uses up to 400 m3 (14,000 cu ft) of gas per hour, can only burn on the biggest national holidays, and rumours persist that the statue is built on unstable foundations, something strongly denied by the Kiev local government.[7][8]
In April 2015, the parliament of Ukraine outlawed Soviet and Communist symbols, street names and monuments, in a decommunization attempt.[9] But World War II monuments are excluded from these laws.[10] Director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance Volodymyr Viatrovych stated in February 2018 that the state emblem of the Soviet Union on the shield of the monument should be removed according to the decommunization laws
Original black and white photo can be seen here - img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5625/89690682.1/0_b9521_d563075_orig
ГАИ-ГБДД 80 лет (Москва. Парк Горького)
Moscow, Gorky Park. GAI-GIBDD 80 years
Camera: Canon EOS 55
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70-210mm
Film: AGFA Vista New 100 (exp. 09.2003)
ApertureValue=4, ExposureTime=1/125 ISO=64
Photo taken: 02/07/2016
Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500
1943 Mosin sniper. The sling is also original Soviet WW2 and was captured by the Finnish in the 1939/1944 era. The dog collars are post war Soviet,The original dog collars were dried and shriveled and I had to replace them
1942 TP-4 Periscope
1942 Ushanka hat
1953 Romanian Tokarev
All items original WW2 besides the Romanian Tokarev
The Soviet partisans were members of a resistance movement, controlled and coordinaded by the Soviet government, which fought a guerrilla war against the Axis occupation of the Soviet Union during World War II.
Soviet military equipment abandoned by retreating Ethiopian troops in 1991 can still be seen along many roads in northern Eritrea. This tank is just east of Keren.
Camera: Mamiya 645 PRO TL
Lense: Mamiya-SEKOR 80mm, F2.8
Film: Fuji PN160NS
Processing: PS13, digitized with Epson V370
Decided to redo one of my Mosins similar to how I did to the Polska Mosin a while ago.
Also made a sawed off PPSh, becausssse *sawed offs*.
Original Black and white photo can be seen here - waralbum.ru/wp-content/uploads/yapb_cache/3271_25.7xy05x8...
A Soviet monument in the private grounds of the UN headquarters in Geneva. It is dedicated to the men who conquered space. I think it works as a representation of mankind thrusting into space. The faint contrails remind the observer that we are up there. Also, making a faint appearance, is the the moon, halfway up the parabola of our ascent to space.
Made Flickr's "most interesting" gallery for 17th May 2007.
Lomo LC-A, Lubitel 166, Lubitel 2, Fed 50, Smena 1, Sokol Automat, Voskhod, BeLomo Vilia, MMZ Shkolnik, Etude and Elikon 535.
Now, from Soviet steam to Soviet diesel. This picture shows a closeup of the great TT scale Roco model of a M 62. The environment was made by Midjourney version 4. While in the meantime, I switched to version 5, I still have some nice looking version 4 pictures on stock that are worth to be used for my mixed media art.
Duga-3 (NATO reporting name Steel Yard) was a Soviet over-the-horizon radar system. It was developed for the Soviet ABM early-warning network. The system operated from 1976 to 1989. Its distinctive and mysterious shortwave radio signal came to be known in the west as the Russian Woodpecker.
Two stations of Duga-3 were installed: a western system around Chernobyl and an eastern system in Siberia.
The transmitter for the western Duga-3 was located a few kilometers southwest of Chernobyl (south of Minsk, northwest of Kiev). The receiver was located about 50 km northeast of Chernobyl (just west of Chernihiv, south of Gomel).
The Soviets had been working on early warning radar for their anti-ballistic missile systems through the 1960s, but most of these had been line-of-sight systems that were useful for raid analysis and interception only. None of these systems had the capability to provide early warning of a launch, which would give the defenses time to study the attack and plan a response. At the time the Soviet early-warning satellite network was not well developed, and there were questions about their ability to operate in a hostile environment including anti-satellite efforts. An over-the-horizon radar sited in the USSR would not have any of these problems, and work on such a system for this associated role started in the late 1960s. Duga-3 could detect submarines and missile launches in all of Europe and the Eastern coast of United States.
The first experimental system, Duga-1, was built outside Mykolaiv in Ukraine, successfully detecting rocket launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 2,500 kilometers. This was followed by the prototype Duga-2, built on the same site, which was able to track launches from the far east and submarines in the Pacific Ocean as the missiles flew towards Novaya Zemlya. Both of these radar systems were aimed east and were fairly low power, but with the concept proven work began on an operational system. The new Duga-3 systems used a transmitter and receiver separated by about 60 km.
A 35 man (plus guides) trip to the Ukraine exploring Chernobyl, the village, Duga 3, Pripyat and Kiev including Maidan (Independence Square) and observing the peaceful protests underway.
Some new faces, some old, made new friends and generally we were in our elements.
Rhetorical question but did we have a blast? You bet!
Amazing group, top guys. Till the next time!
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