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    Spasm

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    1. Yep, bits of grimey motorcycle, fish wrapped in tin foil with a couple of eggs (luvly when it comes out) and anything that needs a deep clean (wouldn't be any good with getting paint off). I haven't tried just dug relic helmets yet as I'm a bit nervous as I'm now banned from the dishwasher.

      I was caught due to the filter having some 'orrible stuff in it and then cracking a floor tile having dropped a nice clean Harley head that I was inspecting. Damn.

      Best thing for paint is the hot gun and/or a hard case stripper (the ones Chris likes)

    2. Try the dishwasher with some added gunk. Works a treat as it self cleans and the admin staff doesn't notice. Until the filter gets clogged up!

      Tip: Keep your eye on the filter and clean out every now and again otherwise you'll be banned from using.

    3. Pete

      Looks like a good thing. Didn't know that the ol' commonwealth were doing the same.

      From the British Legion:

      When Gemma from the West Midlands visited the CWGC Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium with her local Explorer Scout Unit, she wrote to us: “I know that not everyone can be remembered as individuals, but I felt it was a shame for some people to have dozens of poppies and crosses while others had no one left to remember them.”

      I haven't received any details yet but given the histories that some of our members have collected and having those sorted, stored and available on t'tinternet can only be good for future generations' interest and knowledge.

      Imagine if we had those sort of details available from several hundred years ago.

    4. Shame that the archaeologists never had time or resource to get to the end of the bunker.

      It also seems as though it was never actually occupied as the forces were pulled back before the work was complete. Must have been a quick retreat as quite a lot of specialised hand made tools were discovered.

      A couple of German items were also discovered but only around the entrance that perhaps says that the advancing Germans although finding the bunker never ventured inside probably suspecting traps.

      Interestingly, hand driven tunnels and headings (without a can) are built much the same way today.

    5. Jock

      Very nice indeed. The single Hans Liska skizzenbuch from 1944 with most of his WW2 pictures. Very sought after.

      I have his Airforce and Army skizzenbuchs from 1942 and 1944, combined they have many of the pictures as in your single one but not all. He also did sketches for the German magazines which are pretty hard to find but I do have a few.

      His sketchbooks for Daimler Benz and the US Racing circuits are very expensive as a set, again, if you can find them all.

      Drool :love:

    6. Efficio

      Welcome. We'd love to see what you've found, tell you both what they are, and what they're worth. I did leave a box of stuff in New York last time I was there so first dibs.

      It's a bit confusing trying to upload pictures but it's worth persevering, click the 'reply to this topic' black button at the top right and go from there.

      I for one, think the stuff is worth thousands and thousands at least :)

    7. Hucks

      The books are actually smaller than the displayed pictures here. I really struggle with any handwritten German so I can't help much.

      Would be nice if someone could help with deciphering some of the hand written notes. All my translations are through bing and that doesn't help that much in some cases especially when I can't read the handwriting.

      Would be pretty easy to scan both the books and load them into the document archive (assuming I can figure out how it works) if people are interested.

      As an aside, I also have the Hans Liska WW2 sketchbooks.

    8. Eigener's friends told how they hadn't seen him laugh. Eigener was interested in things that other men pass by without a glance or might ignore. Everything appealed to his artistic eye. He examined where most were merely bored. He watched gun fire and clouds, sun and mud, the clear nights, the Volga mist.

      He thought of no man as his enemy, and so dearly did he love this land that he hoped one day to return to Russia and to live in a house in the hills beside the Don.

      Some pages are quite beautiful but grim

    9. Then came the winter and Stalingrad.

      It was here that Eigener was commissioned to carry out the design for the Stalingrad arm shield.

      His submitted design included a silo amid the snowy ruins of the city beside the Volga. In the centre of the shield a dead soldier. Around the soldier's helmet a crown of barbed wire and across the design, in bold letters, the single word 'Stalingrad'. The design was turned down by headquarters. 'Too demoralising', said the comment in the margin of the drawing.

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