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November 2024

  • UPDATE : Ronald "Ron" Volstad and Stephen Andrew

     

     


     
     
    A Tribute to these awesome and famous Artists.


    A major rework of both sites with the urgently needed SEARCH function to better explore the 110(!) of Ron's drawings.

    Now you can filter by year, season, front and unit, to e.g. quickly get all "Fallschirmjägers" in 1944 (you guess it : the Green Devils at Cassino ;-).

    Should also decrease loading time on slow connections by a lot.

    Though a hell of programming AJAX,PHP and JSON for a 67-year old retired guy...

    Check it out, give me a feedback and, as always, ... have fun !!

     

October 2024

  • UPDATE : Ronald "Ron" Volstad
     
     
     
    A Tribute to this awesome and famous Canadian Military Artist,


    ...finishing with no less than 109 (!) of Ron's drawings.

     

September 2024

  • UPDATE : Ronald "Ron" Volstad
     
     
     
    A Tribute to this awesome and famous Canadian Military Artist,


    ...constantly uploading additional drawings, 58 in total by now.

     
  • NEW ENTRY : Stephen Andrew
     
    A Tribute to this awesome Scottish Military Artist well-known for his Osprey and Concord drawings,
    ...starting with the German Army Grenadiers.
    Minor adjustments : Increased contrast and sharpness, HSL, Level/Curves adjustments, background removal thus isolating the figures.
    More to come, as always : Enjoy!
     
  • NEW ENTRY : Masami Onishi
     
    A Tribute to this awesome Japanese Military Artist working for the well-known TAMIYA military boxart team,
    ...starting with the famous TAMIYA BOXART every modeler knows.
    Minor adjustments : Increased contrast and sharpness, HSL, Level/Curves adjustments, background removal thus isolating the figures.
    More to come, as always : Enjoy!
     

August 2024

  • NEW ENTRY : Ronald "Ron" Volstad
     
    A Tribute to this awesome and famous Canadian Military Artist,
    starting with nine of his countless boxarts for Dragon.
    Minor adjustments : Increased contrast and sharpness, HSL, Level/Curves adjustments, background removal thus isolating the figures.
    More to come, as always : Enjoy!
     

July 2024

June 2024

May 2024

  • NEW ENTRY : The Rail at War

    ...a new series on the "Deutsche Reichsbahn" [German Rail] at War, starting with the huge...

    BR 52
    Kriegslokomotive
     
    A hell of a steam loco, and a hell of a drawing. Pretty sure I overlooked something...
     

April 2024

March 2024

  • NEW ENTRY : Flak guns and Flak SPGs

    ...a new series on the best "fighter killer"s,
    starting with the excellent late-war Rheinmetall (still in business!)

    3.7cm Flak 43
    Medium AA Gun
     
    A hell of a gun, and a hell of drawing for me ;-)
     

February 2024

February 2023

January 2023

December 2022

November 2022

September 2022

August 2022

June 2022

February 2022

January 2022

December 2021

November 2021

October 2021

January 2021

    HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU !

  • NEW BOOK :

    Die Schlacht um Wien 1945 (The Battle for Vienna 1945)

    An outstanding documentation by Dr.Markus Reisner, Austria.

    Hardcover with 656 pages, incl. 600 photos, maps and illustrations.
    49,90 Euros, in German, English version under development.

    I had the honour and pleasure to contribute with 50 profiles.

    Click the cover image to see some sample pages [pdf, 10MB].

June 2020

  • UPDATE : Guestbook
    ... added the Guestbook at last, feel free to make your entries

April 2019

March 2019

February 2019

January 2019

A healthy and peaceful New Year to all of you !
Looking forward to see you in 2019 !

November 2018

October 2018

  • NEW ENTRY : Camionetta AS 42 »Sahariana«
  • Fast and well armed Italian LRDG-hunter
  • UPDATE : The Battle for Rome, September 09-11, 1943
  • Added the Camionetta AS 42 Sahariana at Porto San Paolo

September 2018

  • NEW ENTRY : The Battle for Rome, September 09-11, 1943
  • Short but costly clash between the former allies after Badoglio's armistice on Sep 08, 1943
    First item in the new category "Campaigns"
  • UPDATE : Fiat-Ansaldo M13/40 Medium tank
  • With "Ariete" in North Africa

August 2018

  • NEW ENTRY : Marder IID 7.62cm Panzerjäger [Tank Hunter]
  • #3 of a series on German Marder Tank Hunters...
  • NEW ENTRY : Marder II 7.5cm Panzerjäger [Tank Hunter] » Kohlenklau «
  • #2 of a series on German Marder Tank Hunters...
  • NEW ENTRY : 15cm sFH 13/1 on ex-French Lorraine Schlepper
  • I couldn't withstand the temptation now that I finished the Lorraine chassis...
  • NEW ENTRY : Marder I 7.5cm Panzerjäger [Tank Hunter] on French Lorraine Schlepper
  • Start of a series on German Marder Tank Hunters...

January 2018

  • NEW ENTRY : 39.M Csaba Armoured Car of the Hungarian Army.

A healthy and peaceful New Year to all of you !
Looking forward to see you in 2018 !

December 2017

  • NEW ENTRY : Toldi Light Tank of the Hungarian Army.
  • NEW ENTRY : Raba Botond M38 1.5-ton 6x4 Troop Carrier of the Hungarian Army.
  • NEW ENTRY : M40 Nimrod AT and AA SPG of the Hungarian Army.
  • NEW ENTRY : Medium Tank Zrinyi II Assault Gun of the Hungarian Army.

November 2017

  • NEW ENTRY : Medium Tank Turan II Medium Tank of the Hungarian Army.
  • NEW ENTRY : TACAM R-2 Tank Hunter in the Romanian Army.
  • NEW ENTRY : Skoda Light Tank »R-2« in the Romanian Army.
  • NEW ENTRY : Skoda Light Tank »PzKpfw.35(t)« in the 6th Panzer Division.
  • NEW ENTRY : Skoda Light Tank »LT vz.35« in the Slovakian Army.

October 2017

  • NEW ENTRY : German Medium Tank »PzKpfw.IV Ausf.G« - Early Production - Front View.

September 2017

  • NEW ENTRY : Romanian 76mm Tank Hunter »TACAM T-60«
  • By searching for the current year (e.g."2017") you can easily list the last updates.
  • NEW ENTRY : SdKfz.234/4 8-Wheel-SPG »Pakwagen«
  • Please don't forget the »SEARCH« function to look for and jump directly to a specific site, e.g. "Tiger", Ford" etc.
  • Due to new "responsive" site character the amount of mobile device visits has increased from 0(zero) to 30 percent. Amazing.

August 2017

After fiddling around with all the amazing web programming stuff I finally got my new site up and running. Hope you like it !
Reunited at last the two "Engines" on one single entry site for better overview.
Had to brush up my PHP skills and to dive deep into unfamiliar frameworks like jQuery and Bootstrap, sure a challenge for a 60-year old, but lots of fun as well.
Hence the long delay since the last new drawings, sorry.