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Avatars and profile pictures...

ndicki

ndicki

Charter Member 2016
A lot of us have avatars which come from somewhere in particular, or which show a particular person, or which have some historical origin - can you tell us about yours, or have you recognised somebody else's?

Anybody know where mine came from?
 
I cheated. I used a stock photo that is very similar to one someone had taken of me back before the days of digital photography. So I guess you may call it pseudo-historical.
 
ndicki said:
Anybody know where mine came from?
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For some reason I've always thought it looks like it came from a Tintin comic book.

Mine though, is the communications branch insignia from the Finnish army - I was (well, still am but now in the reserve) a communications corporal. The avatar is finished in the same shade of blue as the swastikas on our wartime aircraft, the real deal looks like this:

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Mine has the correct variable thickness, the colour profile doesn't. :d
 
Crimony...

Nigel I used to know what yours was... isn't it Major or Colonel sumpin?

...as for mine, ...Isn't it one of yours?...:isadizzy:
 
I can't let that comment of Rene's go by... It's from a "Two Types" cartoon. The Two Types are for some reason in an RAF Officer's Mess, being frowned at by all the elegantly Service Dressed chaps at the bar - and one ragged RAF type, dressed much the same way as they are in cords, boots des and scruffy battledress jacket, comes over to say hello. "Desert Air Force, I presume?" asks one of the Types.

That Hurricane does look familiar...
 
I was initially concerned about using a real historical pilot, but if it was good enough for Clive.....! I've had various incarnations of mine for years now. For me he is in looks and character the epitomy of the WWII fighter pilot. Alas, there is little actual material on him.

He is Wingco Bertie Rex O'Bryen 'Sammy' Hoare DSO, DFC.

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He sported a moustache that was "6 inches for wingtip to wingtip". He was reported a saying that if you couldn't see it from behind, it wasn't a real 'touche! He was one of the few intruder aces and specialised in the lonely and highly dangerous Intruder role in which he excelled.

He went on to Intruder Operations in Bostons (Havocs) and then Mosquitos, collecting a number of DSOs and DFCs and was credited will 9 kills. He ended the War as Station Commander of Little Snoring in Norfolk. Alas, he was killed with his navigator when the Mosquito which they were delivering to New Zealand crashed in the Gulf of Carpentaria in N.Australia. [TE746 crashed into the Gulf of Carpentaria on March 26 1947 with the loss of both crew (W/C B.R. Hoare and F/O W. Colvin RAF). Wreckage was found at Sydney Island. It is believed that the crew flew into the sea while trying to identify their location after their radio went u/s.]
 
Mine is a 3D model of the french battleship Dunkerque. I did this model for PovRAY, a weel known ray-tracer, which means that there is no easy way to include it in CFS3 ... I did try to learn Gmax, but more skill than I have would be required ...
 
Great idea for a thread.

Mine is simply the Ordnance Corps insignia where I proudly served my country doing mundane tasks of historic significance like laying out the initial bunker load plans for the Southwest Asia Theater Storage Area (80-82). It was during one of those sessions that I was witness to a Colonel (Beckwith) chewing out a Lieutenant General (the XVIII Airborne Corps Commander) resulting in the briefing we were about to give being abruptly canceled. Years later I found out that the fight was over using the Delta Force for Operation Eagle Claw.
 
MINE WELL BASICALLY DESCRIBES MY WARPED SENSE OF HUMOR WHEN IT COMES TO MODDING ESPECIALLY A CERTAIN WW1 GAME THAT I USED TO MOD TO JSUT TO FIRE UP A FEW PPL
 
:kilroy:Well, I was minding my own business one day, when this hiker just happened by and snapped my photo.

*BURP* 'Scuse me.

Thank heavens it was a Polaroid camera. Do you know how hard it is to get film developed out here?:d
 
Mine is the only digital shot I have of me..:icon_lol:

Yea I am a Real Hobbit..Last of the breed I have been told..:icon_eek:

And if you believe this, I will sell you some ocean front property in Arizona too..:a1310:
 
Mine is from the cover of a book I am presently reading:
FIGHTER BOYS Saving Britain by Patrick Bishop.
I bought this book on my last voyage to London in a small bookshop near the Britsh Museum.
Every time I finish a chapter I open up the BoB game and sort of relive what I just read.
Great fun !! Off to the pub now !!
:ernae:Cheers!:ernae:
 
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