Battle of the Bulge (1 Viewer)

[Warrior]

Was playing around with the new camera today, took some shots of a Battle of the Bulge set up.........

 

[Warrior]

More shots; I still have to figure out how to make the pictures bigger..........

 

[Warrior]

I like the clarity of the images, just wish I could get the size to be similar to my old camera..........

 

[Ken & Ericka Osen/H&A Studio]

Very nice George!
As you well know, the weather outside reminds us Northerners how terrible it must have been to be out in the cold day and night without relief. I get cold to bone just shoveling out the drive these days, much less sitting in a foxhole in the middle of the winter.
Are you gaming with this set up?
Ken

 

[Warrior]

Thanks for the feedback Ken; funny you mention the cold. I was just outside for about a minute and I am chilled to the bone. Imagine being out there day and night for weeks on end, incredible what those soldiers went through.

I really don't game, just enjoy setting up these dioramas as I call them and admiring them for several days, then tearing them down and doing something else.........

 

[Louis Badolato]

Thanks for the feedback Ken; funny you mention the cold. I was just outside for about a minute and I am chilled to the bone. Imagine being out there day and night for weeks on end, incredible what those soldiers went through..........

And it was the coldest winter in Europe in a century. Those were brave, tough men out there saving our lives.

 

[debrito]

And it was the coldest winter in Europe in a century. Those were brave, tough men out there saving our lives.

i was told that the coldest winter was 1942-43.

 

[Louis Badolato]

i was told that the coldest winter was 1942-43.

My source was a book called "Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle in Bastogne" . . . the author was obviously a bit subjective so it is possible 42-43 was a worse winter. What was your source?

 

[Ken & Ericka Osen/H&A Studio]

Louis,
If you think 'Seven Roads to Hell' is good then you really have to get Don's other two books. The first one is about the Normandy drop and the second one about Market Garden... Altogether they are a great read ...He is a Michigan boy too!
Ken

 

[Louis Badolato]

Ken,

I've read all four of Ron Burgett's books: Curahee, a Screaming Eagle in Normandy, A Screaming Eagle in Holland, Seven Roads to Hell, a Screaming Eagle in Bastogne, and On to Berlin. They are some of my favorite first hand accounts of WWII, right up there with the late great George MacDonald Fraser's "Quartered Safe out Here".

 

[Warrior]

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[Louis Badolato]

George,

I like your old camera better - my aging eyes can't see any details of the tiny images from your new camera, no matter how clear they may be.

 

[The Lt.]

George I see you kept with the winter trend that's hit the Country with another well thought out major diorama which is very nicely done....The Lt.

 

[Alexdakar]

George try Image Resizer from Microsoft to reduce the megabytes of your picture but not the size. The download should be on the right side.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx