Monday, September 07, 2009
Soviet Fords, and Chevrolets
English Russia is tracing the history of the Soviet motor industry. Part one covers the beginnings, which mostly consisted of copying others' designs.
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English Russia is tracing the history of the Soviet motor industry. Part one covers the beginnings, which mostly consisted of copying others' designs.
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Monday, July 06, 2009
Building a little UAZ
Check out these pictures of one dedicated modelmaker's project to copy a UAZ jeep.
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Check out these pictures of one dedicated modelmaker's project to copy a UAZ jeep.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Typhoon class
Pictures from a tour around a Typhoon class submarine. It looks forlorn, like it's waiting to be broken up, but still impressive.
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Pictures from a tour around a Typhoon class submarine. It looks forlorn, like it's waiting to be broken up, but still impressive.
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Monday, October 20, 2008
A brief history of the MIG
English Russia has a quick history of all the models of plane made by the MIG company.
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English Russia has a quick history of all the models of plane made by the MIG company.
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Monday, October 06, 2008
Russian train pictures
English Rusia has some very nice pictures of Russian trains and railways. I wonder if anyone's built any Russia based layouts? Given the grand scale of the Russian network they'd probably have to be in one of the really small scales.
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English Rusia has some very nice pictures of Russian trains and railways. I wonder if anyone's built any Russia based layouts? Given the grand scale of the Russian network they'd probably have to be in one of the really small scales.
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Baikonur and St. Petersburg
English Russia keeps delivering the goods with cool photo collections. The Baikonur space launch facilities in Kazakhstan, as photographed by a visitor and the darker side of St. Petersburg.
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English Russia keeps delivering the goods with cool photo collections. The Baikonur space launch facilities in Kazakhstan, as photographed by a visitor and the darker side of St. Petersburg.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Russian Aviation Museum
A few pictures of Soviet aircraft parked up in a Kiev aircraft museum.
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A few pictures of Soviet aircraft parked up in a Kiev aircraft museum.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Mini Moscow
Moscow Town Hall holds architectural models of the city which look impressive in this set of photos.
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Moscow Town Hall holds architectural models of the city which look impressive in this set of photos.
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Monday, April 21, 2008
Alternate Soviet navy
English Russia has photos of planned Soviet helicopter and aircraft carriers that never made it beyond the planning- and display model- stage.
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English Russia has photos of planned Soviet helicopter and aircraft carriers that never made it beyond the planning- and display model- stage.
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Friday, April 11, 2008
Soyuz on the train
io9 has pictures of a Soyuz rocket being hauled across the desert to its launch site by a diesel train. It might be hard to scale match a model of the rocket (or even find one, I couldn't get a match for "Soyuz" at Hannants) and a Russian train, but think of the diorama possibilities.
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io9 has pictures of a Soyuz rocket being hauled across the desert to its launch site by a diesel train. It might be hard to scale match a model of the rocket (or even find one, I couldn't get a match for "Soyuz" at Hannants) and a Russian train, but think of the diorama possibilities.
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Labels: diorama, inspiration, pictures, reference, rocket, Russia, Space
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Thursday, April 03, 2008
Russian WW2 memories
A collection of personal photographs from a Russian soldier's collection.
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A collection of personal photographs from a Russian soldier's collection.
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Saturday, February 09, 2008
Russian soldiers in Chechnya
This photoset from English Russia shows Russian troops in less hectic moments during the Chechen conflict.
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This photoset from English Russia shows Russian troops in less hectic moments during the Chechen conflict.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
St. Petersburg reconstruction
The anniversary of the siege of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) was recently celebrated with a huge reconstruction of the battle featuring authentic uniforms and tanks.
Wikipedia history of St. Petersburg/Leningrad
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The anniversary of the siege of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) was recently celebrated with a huge reconstruction of the battle featuring authentic uniforms and tanks.
Wikipedia history of St. Petersburg/Leningrad
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
American weapons in the Soviet army
English Russia has a gallery of American weaponry sent to the USSR during World War 2.
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English Russia has a gallery of American weaponry sent to the USSR during World War 2.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
GAZ 51 hot rod
Oh those crazy Russians. The GAZ 51 was a Russian workhorse during teh Second World War. Now one of them is being turned into a custom pickup.
Model Wheels do a GAZ 51 in 1:72nd, if you want to emulate the project.
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Oh those crazy Russians. The GAZ 51 was a Russian workhorse during teh Second World War. Now one of them is being turned into a custom pickup.
Model Wheels do a GAZ 51 in 1:72nd, if you want to emulate the project.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Russian tank museum
English Russia has photos from a tank museum near Moscow. Started in 1931, the collection now numbers near 300 vehicles.
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English Russia has photos from a tank museum near Moscow. Started in 1931, the collection now numbers near 300 vehicles.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
MAKS 2007 International Air Show
More airshow pictures from English Russia.
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More airshow pictures from English Russia.
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Russian photo reference
English Russia remains a great source of photographs for reference and inspiration.
World War 2 Photos by Dmitri Bal'termants
Military Aircraft Show in Monino. Moscow
Abandoned Trains of the Soviet Era
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English Russia remains a great source of photographs for reference and inspiration.
World War 2 Photos by Dmitri Bal'termants
Military Aircraft Show in Monino. Moscow
Abandoned Trains of the Soviet Era
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Friday, June 22, 2007
A tank from a lake
Tanks from the Second World War are still being pulled out of the lakes around St. Petersburg. If I remember my history correctly, the city was resupplied across the frozen lakes during the winter phases of the siege and at times the ice broke. The site refers to it as a "BT" tank. You can get BT5 or BT7 tanks in 1:35th scale from Zvezda, or BT5, BT7 or BT2 from Unimodel in 1:72nd. A salvage operation like this would make for an interesting diorama.
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Tanks from the Second World War are still being pulled out of the lakes around St. Petersburg. If I remember my history correctly, the city was resupplied across the frozen lakes during the winter phases of the siege and at times the ice broke. The site refers to it as a "BT" tank. You can get BT5 or BT7 tanks in 1:35th scale from Zvezda, or BT5, BT7 or BT2 from Unimodel in 1:72nd. A salvage operation like this would make for an interesting diorama.
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Friday, June 08, 2007
Bizarre Russian tanks
Strange Russian tank designs on English Russia.
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Strange Russian tank designs on English Russia.
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Miniature Moscow
This huge model of Moscow dates back to the Soviet era, and is a three dimensional snapshot of the city at the time. It has become increasingly expensive to maintain and was put up for sale for $3million (or maybe $380,000). Someone with 400 square feet to spare bought it last August.
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This huge model of Moscow dates back to the Soviet era, and is a three dimensional snapshot of the city at the time. It has become increasingly expensive to maintain and was put up for sale for $3million (or maybe $380,000). Someone with 400 square feet to spare bought it last August.
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Monday, June 04, 2007
Mad Russian trucks
Two photo galleries on English Russia-
A scrap yard of mad looking trucks and amphibians.
A part tracked ambulance.
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Two photo galleries on English Russia-
A scrap yard of mad looking trucks and amphibians.
A part tracked ambulance.
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Friday, May 25, 2007
Ekranoplan
Jalopnik has video of Ekranoplans, Soviet era transport planes that used the Wing-In-Ground effect to skim mere feet above the waves.
Revell released a model of the A90 ekranoplan.
Remote control WIG effect models.
Alternate history ekranoplan.
An ekranoplan blog.
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Jalopnik has video of Ekranoplans, Soviet era transport planes that used the Wing-In-Ground effect to skim mere feet above the waves.
Revell released a model of the A90 ekranoplan.
Remote control WIG effect models.
Alternate history ekranoplan.
An ekranoplan blog.
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Labels: inspiration, reference, Russia
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Sunday, May 20, 2007
A bundle of reference links
Whilst going through the archives of Spinneyhead, I've found a few posts and links that might be of interest to modellers-
Fetch!
The Russian dog anti tank mine.
Captured
In the dynamic flow of a battlefield equipment can get lost or captured. A quick trip through captured and repurposed weaponry-
The world of captured planes
Captured Planes
Captured Allied planes (Warning- cheesey beyond belief music, which is a shame because there are some very useful images here.)
A collection of pieces about captured B-17s
Fleet Air Arm planes captured by the Axis
A gallery of tanks captured by the Germans
Modelling a captured Russian KV-2
Israel made good use of captured T54s and T55s and various other vehicles.
Russian tank museum, including many captured tanks.
Captured First World War tanks.
Ships captured by the German Navy.
Test Beds
I've just been to the Museum of Science and Industry and checked out the aviation hall. Interesting stuff-
Avro Lancasters were used as flying test beds for jet engines. Video of the tests is online here.
The Avro 707 isn't quite a flying wing, but I have a soft spot for the delta wing planes such as this and the Vulcan.
A picture of the Hafner Rotachute (more) hiding away in the corner of a painting has given me ideas for another novel way to land assault troops. The Germans used similar devices for spotting from U-Boats.
But the most affecting plane in the whole display is still the tiny Yokosuka OHKA, a suicide jet that was pretty much a desperate last gasp from the Japanese.
Wing and a Prayer
The Me-163 'Komet' was quite an astounding beast. I alluded to a similar plane when the Wasp squadron visited Dreamland (Chapter Three, blink and you miss it). Flight Journal has a long interview with one of the Komet's chief test pilots.
It also has to be remembered that the Germans weren't the only ones experimenting with new and unusual aeroplane designs. The Allies' first jet plane was the Gloster Whittle, a pre-cursor to the Meteor and test bed for jet engines.
The 'Hiller-copter' and Landgraf H-2 were early twin bladed helicopter designs.
America experimented with flying wings in designs such as the XP-56 and XB-35, which I've mentioned many times before, but there were also experiments with gliders along the same lines.
The Brits also experimented with flying wings, as well as canard and tandem wing designs.
Even the Swedes got in on the act with the Saab 21A.
And also- Engines of the Red Army
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Whilst going through the archives of Spinneyhead, I've found a few posts and links that might be of interest to modellers-
Fetch!
The Russian dog anti tank mine.
Captured
In the dynamic flow of a battlefield equipment can get lost or captured. A quick trip through captured and repurposed weaponry-
The world of captured planes
Captured Planes
Captured Allied planes (Warning- cheesey beyond belief music, which is a shame because there are some very useful images here.)
A collection of pieces about captured B-17s
Fleet Air Arm planes captured by the Axis
A gallery of tanks captured by the Germans
Modelling a captured Russian KV-2
Israel made good use of captured T54s and T55s and various other vehicles.
Russian tank museum, including many captured tanks.
Captured First World War tanks.
Ships captured by the German Navy.
Test Beds
I've just been to the Museum of Science and Industry and checked out the aviation hall. Interesting stuff-
Avro Lancasters were used as flying test beds for jet engines. Video of the tests is online here.
The Avro 707 isn't quite a flying wing, but I have a soft spot for the delta wing planes such as this and the Vulcan.
A picture of the Hafner Rotachute (more) hiding away in the corner of a painting has given me ideas for another novel way to land assault troops. The Germans used similar devices for spotting from U-Boats.
But the most affecting plane in the whole display is still the tiny Yokosuka OHKA, a suicide jet that was pretty much a desperate last gasp from the Japanese.
Wing and a Prayer
The Me-163 'Komet' was quite an astounding beast. I alluded to a similar plane when the Wasp squadron visited Dreamland (Chapter Three, blink and you miss it). Flight Journal has a long interview with one of the Komet's chief test pilots.
It also has to be remembered that the Germans weren't the only ones experimenting with new and unusual aeroplane designs. The Allies' first jet plane was the Gloster Whittle, a pre-cursor to the Meteor and test bed for jet engines.
The 'Hiller-copter' and Landgraf H-2 were early twin bladed helicopter designs.
America experimented with flying wings in designs such as the XP-56 and XB-35, which I've mentioned many times before, but there were also experiments with gliders along the same lines.
The Brits also experimented with flying wings, as well as canard and tandem wing designs.
Even the Swedes got in on the act with the Saab 21A.
And also- Engines of the Red Army
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Labels: inspiration, Military, pictures, reference, Russia, World War 2
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Friday, May 18, 2007
Russian reference picture
From English Russia-
Russian snipers of World War 2. Modelling link- 1:35th scale WW2 Soviet snipers by Zvezda.
The aircraft carrier Riga/Varyag. Varyag on Wikipedia. I can't find any Varyag models yet.
Moscow 1967.
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From English Russia-
Russian snipers of World War 2. Modelling link- 1:35th scale WW2 Soviet snipers by Zvezda.
The aircraft carrier Riga/Varyag. Varyag on Wikipedia. I can't find any Varyag models yet.
Moscow 1967.
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Labels: reference, Russia, ship, sniper
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