Modelling armour in Ukraine crisis




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Do you or anyone know the any dimensions of the pad and/or pedestal?

I found I have the old 1/48 Hobbycraft kit, on the fence about a before or after vignette.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bakhmut,+Donetsk+Oblast,+Ukraine/@48.5767314,37.9639403,17.08z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x40dfe61bf724c5a7:0xa398e255ecbfeec2!8m2!3d48.5986674!4d37.9980367!16zL20vMGI1OWI3?hl=en
Google maps has one 360-degree images from that corner, maybe there could be something useful in it, with the aircraft to use as measurement unit …

Maybe you can guestimate them, using the Mig as a “yardstick” ?

H.P.

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Slightly different angle compared to Frenchys first photo above

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Some more here:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Сквер+"Дружба"/@48.5753627,37.9633161,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipPeuFrssUViwYolv8Hd-znmAIfAwi1ym2OxlUsM!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPeuFrssUViwYolv8Hd-znmAIfAwi1ym2OxlUsM%3Dw203-h270-k-no!7i3120!8i4160!4m6!3m5!1s0x40dfe70d06834c7b:0x1018c1f71bd56076!8m2!3d48.5753627!4d37.9633161!16s%2Fg%2F11frb0x4sy?hl=en

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Thank you both for more photos.

Great picture.

This is sad:

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Nothing more than cannon-fodder. It’s way past being “Sad”.

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Though there’s something weird with the guy’s face :thinking: (or maybe it’s just me…)

H.P.

Probably an Anti-Russian Chechen fighter.

I was thinking about a montage…

H.P.

Luxemburg-supplied armored ambulances

https://mil.in.ua/en/news/luxembourg-handed-over-armored-ambulances-to-ukraine/

H.P.

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The shadows below the face look all wrong because he has a beard which hides half an inch of his chin
and lower edge of the jaw
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If you look at Kadyrov’s facial hair, along with some of these Chechen soldiers. It’s probably the angle of his head when the picture was taken.

Muslim facial hair (a very rudimentary and probably incomplete guide)

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I have enough trouble painting faces without having to master that Amish-look shaved upper lip! Maybe I need to build motorcyclists with full-face crash helmets…

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A helmet can hide a lot of uglyness …

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Yes I saw the beard, but it was the (lack of) sharpness of the whole face compared to the rest of the picture that bugged me…I guess I’m just splitting (beard) hairs here.

H.P.




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