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michaelmaltby
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the source:https://www.flickr.com/photos/dizzyfugu/with/9730536744/
Thank you.
Very creative, Dizzyfugu
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michaelmaltby
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Escuadrilla Azul
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Never seen one like these one.
A Coastal Command camo Wellesley, including ASV aerials and a four gun turret and NACA-type long-chord engine cowling?
Seems a very well done 3D tender.
Edit: tender=render
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I wish! So cool!
Андрей
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In 2012, on the main square of the village of Bub (located 200 km from Perm) a monument to
Matryona Ivanovna Yakovleva. The sculpture is a modestly dressed woman in a kerchief with her hands folded on her knees, in the background - an airplane. During the Great Patriotic War Matryona Yakovleva donated 100 thousand rubles for the construction of combat aircraft for the Red Army.
Matryona Ivanovna was born in 1894 and lived with her husband Sergey Semenovich Yakovlev in the village, together they ran a big farm. In 1942 Matrena Ivanovna saw her husband off to the front. She was very worried when the radio read about the fierce battles near Stalingrad, thinking that he could also be there, and she wanted to do something to help. Having learned from someone that the combat fighter costs about 100 thousand rubles, she decided to sell everything and to collect money for the plane.
All the livestock went under the knife: cows, pigs, sheep, poultry. She sold the meat at the market in Perm. After cattle all the food-stuffs: honey from her apiary, butter, flour, pickles and jams left the house. Matrena Ivanovna sold everything and collected a hundred thousand. She put all the money into a canvas bag and brought it to the local branch of the State Bank and transferred every penny to the Defense Fund.
Matrena Ivanovna's husband returned from the war alive. He was wounded more than once at the front, and died in 1956. The Yakovlevs had no children of their own, but during the war, Matryona Ivanovna adopted a boy, Semyon Ieredchenko, and brought him up. After a fire burned down the house where the Yakovlev family lived for almost half a century, Matryona lived in the homes of her fellow villagers, who were honored to host such a guest. In 1982, the collective farm, where Matrona Ivanovna had worked for many years after the war, built a new spacious house for her. It was there that she celebrated her centennial. Until the last, she worked in the vegetable garden, kept livestock. From this house she was escorted to her last journey. Matrena Ivanovna died in 1995, a few months before her 101st birthday.
Money for the monument was collected all over the world. All the fellow-villagers responded, gave as much as they could. The memorial was initiated by the Perm Krai branch of the Russian Peace Foundation. This monument has become a symbol of all women of the Kama region, who made an invaluable contribution to the Victory.
On the monument is written, to Matryona Ivanovna Yakovleva from grateful descendants.
Matryona Ivanovna Yakovleva. The sculpture is a modestly dressed woman in a kerchief with her hands folded on her knees, in the background - an airplane. During the Great Patriotic War Matryona Yakovleva donated 100 thousand rubles for the construction of combat aircraft for the Red Army.
Matryona Ivanovna was born in 1894 and lived with her husband Sergey Semenovich Yakovlev in the village, together they ran a big farm. In 1942 Matrena Ivanovna saw her husband off to the front. She was very worried when the radio read about the fierce battles near Stalingrad, thinking that he could also be there, and she wanted to do something to help. Having learned from someone that the combat fighter costs about 100 thousand rubles, she decided to sell everything and to collect money for the plane.
All the livestock went under the knife: cows, pigs, sheep, poultry. She sold the meat at the market in Perm. After cattle all the food-stuffs: honey from her apiary, butter, flour, pickles and jams left the house. Matrena Ivanovna sold everything and collected a hundred thousand. She put all the money into a canvas bag and brought it to the local branch of the State Bank and transferred every penny to the Defense Fund.
Matrena Ivanovna's husband returned from the war alive. He was wounded more than once at the front, and died in 1956. The Yakovlevs had no children of their own, but during the war, Matryona Ivanovna adopted a boy, Semyon Ieredchenko, and brought him up. After a fire burned down the house where the Yakovlev family lived for almost half a century, Matryona lived in the homes of her fellow villagers, who were honored to host such a guest. In 1982, the collective farm, where Matrona Ivanovna had worked for many years after the war, built a new spacious house for her. It was there that she celebrated her centennial. Until the last, she worked in the vegetable garden, kept livestock. From this house she was escorted to her last journey. Matrena Ivanovna died in 1995, a few months before her 101st birthday.
Money for the monument was collected all over the world. All the fellow-villagers responded, gave as much as they could. The memorial was initiated by the Perm Krai branch of the Russian Peace Foundation. This monument has become a symbol of all women of the Kama region, who made an invaluable contribution to the Victory.
On the monument is written, to Matryona Ivanovna Yakovleva from grateful descendants.
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Good shots guys!
vikingBerserker
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That is so cool!
Crimea_River
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I agree about the Wellesley. Flaps down and flying at what looks like 35000 feet. Gotta be a fake.
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Rear Admiral Ernest J. King, U.S. Navy, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, arrives aboard aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) in his new Curtiss SOC-1 aircraft, 2 June 1936. Note the plane's glossy blue flag color scheme.
Michael (and anybody who copied or posted the above or similar photos by a modeller known as D i z z y f u g u - I can recognize his models from miles), be careful with posting his creations without giving him credit or not mentioning his name . Even if you do it for fun, make a joke or else he'll come (sooner or later) after you, looking for his copyrights.
You've been warned!
Cheers!
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