Picture source:Finnish army

Started by Aksu, 11 December 2016, 04:09:28 PM

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Aksu

Hullo,
Just in case you want to model some Finnish (or Soviet) stuff, you might find the Finnish army picture library useful. The English front page is at http://sa-kuva.fi/webneologineng.html
There are around 160.000 images there. Searchable by period and Finnish keyword.
Cheers,
Aksu

Aksu

And by the way, if you can read Finnish, the picture captions are hair raisingly politically incorrect from today's point of view, being the original war time descriptions.
Cheers,
Aksu

fsn

I've just dipped in and there's some good stuff there. The Blenheim and the Morane-Saulnier are making me want to create a Finnish air force.

I keep resisting the Winter War, mainly because of the terrain but ...

I'm weakening.
Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

fsn

Quote from: Aksu on 11 December 2016, 04:20:30 PM
And by the way, if you can read Finnish, the picture captions are hair raisingly politically incorrect from today's point of view, being the original war time descriptions.
Cheers,
Aksu

Just used Google Translate to translate some of the caption.

"Gravel road maintenance will be repair of Karma near the pond."

That's pretty racy! 
Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

petercooman

Quote from: fsn on 11 December 2016, 04:54:09 PM
I've just dipped in and there's some good stuff there. The Blenheim and the Morane-Saulnier are making me want to create a Finnish air force.

I keep resisting the Winter War, mainly because of the terrain but ...

I'm weakening.

I'M at the other end of the scale,I have the terrain already, but keep thinking about wich scale of engagement I want...