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27-05-2007, 10:01 PM
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| Top Moose   Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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  | Not as good as Soren's...... I've merged the General purpose art thread and my not as good as Soren's thread. Tonight did a few doodles. Inspired by Soren's artwork. He has an MA, I got 'O' Level(grade A.) 'A' level , (grade D) and a OND in Graphic Design. God knows how I got the last one , I kept skiving off. If I was any good I wouldn't be a postie. So here are the two I did tonight, "Out of the mist" and "Share a fag." One based on this photo,  the other on this one,  Last edited by Owen; 21-06-2007 at 10:35 AM. |
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27-05-2007, 10:16 PM
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| Legendary Member   Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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27-05-2007, 10:19 PM
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| Ubique  Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent/France
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| Nice effort mate - liked the b/w pencil sketch best.
__________________ The WW2 Society: Remembering those from Britain & The Commonwealth who served 1939-45 - http://www.battlefieldsww2.50megs.com/ww2_society.htm |
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27-05-2007, 10:26 PM
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| Per Ardua Ad Astra   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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| The one based on the first picture I prefer too. It is still much better than I can do... 
__________________  "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few" Sir Winston Chuchill, Summer 1940 "To him the people of Britain and the free world owe largely the way of life they enjoy today" Ensciption on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-1940) Statue in London Aircraft of World War 2 Forum - A Warbird Forum |
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28-05-2007, 01:08 PM
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| Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Looks good!
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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28-05-2007, 02:33 PM
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| Ostfront is where its at!  Join Date: Apr 2004
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| Owen how did you know what my Uncle Joe looked like???? Great sketches mate. The Stalin one is really good.
__________________ "The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino) |
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