#m.jpg

[chrisbangs]

#excuse me. #m.jpg

[mrokat]

an abandoned village in Slovakia

#mine #m.jpg #church #village

[carnalsighhs]

now if i had anyone to send these to we wouldn't be here but. well.

#Reblogs off bc i attracted some weird people on my old blog😐 #m.jpg

[fujikasa]

blessing everyone here with these hyub & hwe from the NYC show before i sleep

#seunghyub #hweseung #nflying #m.jpg #nf@nyc23

[girlking]

vanity got the better of me

#m.jpg

[danjaley]

Posepack: 18th Century Portrait

Family portrait poses; some may even be useful for everyday situations. I numbered them by source-painting, but there are actually a lot of possibilities to combine and arrange them.

The armchair is the one I happen to have in Blender. In some cases (like pose 2) a slimmer model may work even better.

The child in pose 3 is holding a twig or riding crop originally. I left this open to photoshop or use with buymode-objects.

The standing poses 4a and 4b come with lots of variations. The pair can either be toddler-child or child-teen/adult, or even all three in a row. There are also alternative arm-poses for the girl standing in the back. I made the clutching at dress pose for the child with this dress. The Princess-dress from Generations or Windermeresimblr's edit have the same frills.

In pose 5 the child is slightly stretched.

Download: SimFileshare | Dropbox

Portrait1 Francis Hayman: Jonathan Tyers and his family. 1740 National Portrait Gallery UK

Portrait 2 [only found this as part of an essay with restricted access...] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/0ce22c45-eae8-4bb2-acda-fc7429ba4cb2/ahis12247-fig-0015-m.jpg

Portrait 3 William Hoare R.A.:The Pitt Family. exhibited in 1761. At artfund-org.

Portrait 4 Thomas Gainsborough: The Baillie Family. c. 1784. The Tate.

Portrait5 Charles Willson Peale: Robert Goldsborough & Family 1789. Image here.

#ts3cc #ts3 cc #s3cc #tumblr download #ts3 poses

[scudelia55]

https://www.imago-images.de/bild/sp/1041828128/m.jpg

There you go! 🫶🏻

OMG U ARE A SAVIOR😭😭💖💖!!

whoever’s askinggg here’s the pic:))

#charlos #c² #scudelia55inbox #not Carlos looking away and not looking at neither of them:(((

[trainsinanime]

German street car lights

I researched this for my own reasons (that I may post about later), but I decided to put it here so I don't forget it.

Headlights. Taillights. We know how they work, we've all seen cars before. White in front, red in back, orange turn indicators, braking makes red extra bright. But for streetcars it's not always quite that simple, which makes modelling a challenge.

First of all, front: All cars and trucks and indeed all modern streetcars have two main headlights, side by side, roughly at the outer edges of the vehicle. Modern german streetcars actually have a third headlight up on top, legally required but barely visible. In this picture of a TW 6000 from Hanover (don't worry, the track curves away there, I was well clear of where the train could travel), it's the tiny little lamp above the destination display.

The idea is to make streetcars like big trains, which (in Germany, and for new trains in all of Europe) have three white lights in an upside-down V configuration in front (exceptions apply). The third light is supposed to make it clear that the thing hurtling towards you is a train. I'm not sure how well it works in this case.

But that is a fairly recent thing. For a really long time, well into the 1970s, the standard was a single central headlight. Consider this train in Vienna (note the pride flag, not relevant, just for fun):

This is a type E₂ train, first introduced in 1978, still in use today (though probably not for much longer, if you're in Vienna and you see one of them, take a picture).

Now, Austria isn't Germany, but the standards between the two countries weren't that wildly different. As far as I can tell there was no one time when dual headlights were introduced; some cities bought trains with two headlights, some with one, often at the same time. The E₂ here was sold with single headlights to Vienna, Braunschweig, Augsburg, Duisburg and a couple of others, but also with dual headlights to Düsseldorf.

In fact, there was even a dual headlight version for Vienna, but specifically only for the Wiener Lokalbahnen, a sort of interurban railway that used streetcar tracks at the Vienna end of its route. This seems to have been a common division of headlights: Single for the purely city routes, double for the longer-distance ones, until everyone standardised on double, eventually with the third headlight on top.

For added confusion, some cities, most notably Stuttgart and Hanover, used double headlights stacked on top of each other. I assume that's meant to count as one headlight, just doubled up in case one burns out.

A very rare specialty: Two headlights side by side but mounted centrally, seen in Frankfurt am Main and I don't think a lot of other places. It's not relevant, I just want to show it because it looks so silly.

Picture: TdVG Harthweg M+m.jpg, © MdE on Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia-DE, License: CC-BY-SA 3.0 DE

Next, turn indicators. All trams have turn indicators on their sides, generally at window level, but within the window level it's anyone's guess. Some place them near the roof, some more near the middle or bottom of the windows, it seems to be whatever the operator prefers. Turn indicators at the front, near the headlights, are surprisingly not that common. Most single-headlight trams don't have them, the turn indicators on the side have to be enough.

However, the turn indicators are often found at the rear of the train, and that also puts them on the front of dual-direction vehicles (which many trams aren't). See this Frankfurt trailing car, which can only run at the end of the train:

Picture: H-Beiwagen Schwanheim 01052009.JPG, © Urmelbeauftragter on Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia-DE, License: CC-BY-SA 3.0 unported

You see two red tail lights, and two orange blinker lights. And, in fact, on a dual-direction train from Frankfurt, you'll see the same lights on the front:

Picture: Peter Stehlik 2012.02.18 015a.jpg, © Peter Stehlik on Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia-DE, License: CC-BY-SA 3.0 unported

But this wasn't always the case. Consider the SSB B2 trailing car from Stuttgart. It has neither motor nor cab, and must always appear at the end of a train. Despite this, it has a (single) headlight for some reason. Perhaps for when the train needs to back up? Below it is a single red tail light. The two other red things near the coupler are just reflectors.

Actually, is that a red tail light? I took that picture in 2013, so it's been a while, and it looks pretty orange, both here and in some historic pictures, e.g. this one from 1979:

Picture: Stuttgart-ssb-sl-2-bw-654287.jpg, © Kurt Rasmussen from bahnbilder.de, found on Wikipedia, licensed for any use as long as the author is credited

Colors on old photographs are a bit of a crap shoot, and in newer videos the B2s definitely have red tail lights, like here:

But in that video it also doesn't have a headlight, so who knows what rebuilds that one in the video has been through.

Of course, if it's a single orange light, that raises the question: What's that for? Orange tail lights? As far as I can tell, probably not. In fact, a combination that is surprisingly not that uncommon is a single red and a single orange tail light, e.g. here on a historic tram in Nuremberg.

That yellow/orange light is not the "backwards turn indicator". It's the brake light.

Yes, orange brake lights used to be a thing in Germany. For cars, they were phased out in the 1960s. I think historic cars are still allowed to have them, if you can find one. For streetcars, they were phased out a bit later.

Specifically, 2016.

Until then it was legal and very common to have yellow brake lights on trams, even some very modern ones. These are usually combined with the rear turn indicators: If they both light up steadily, the tram is braking, if they're blinking, the tram is about to turn. According to Wikipedia, if it's braking and turning, then one light will light steadily, the other will be blinking, similar to those red turn signals some cars in the US use.

Note, however, that "make the red tail light brighter" (or "turn it on") seems to have been absolutely legal as well, just not super popular. This video from 1974, the final year of the streetcar system in Aachen shows both types of brake lights in action:

At this point the streetcar network in that city was in terminal decline, and all the cars there were either second-hand or cheaply rebuilt 1950s stuff, so it makes sense that the lighting system was all over the place.

Final note because it didn't fit anywhere else: A single giant tail light, at least on trailer cars, doesn't seem to have ever been used in Germany, but it was not uncommon in Austria.

Picture: Wien-wvb-sl-5-c2-567109.jpg, © Kurt Rasmussen from bahnbilder.de, found on Wikipedia, licensed for any use as long as the author is credited

Other note: It seems that side turn indicators on trailer cars were optional at times. Weird.

So why do you need to know all of that? You don't. I never said you did. I did, however, because I'm currently modifying some trams for my model railroad with better lighting functions, and I wanted to know what the end result should be. The answer is, apparently, "do whatever you want", which is frankly very liberating.

I want to make it clear that this is not an expert or well researched piece. These are just the notes I made in my head while I was trying to figure this out. I almost certainly got things wrong, and I definitely missed some nuances. If you happen to know any, or can give more information on what it was like in your country, or you just feel like it, any comment/reblog with notes/anon hate is absolutely appreciated.

All pictures where no source is mentioned are © me. Use them under CC-BY-SA 3.0 if you want.

#trains #trams #streetcars #Youtube

[wosobronze]

here is Mariona with Lucy's shirt (and her own shirt on the ground in front of Lucy?)

https://www.imago-images.com/bild/sp/1033622160/m.jpg

hmmm idk then all we can be certain of is lucy gave hers to mariona🤣

[wikimediauncommons]

mountainous and high altitude compilation

in order:

Brennerbahn09.JPG

South Dome, Star King and Glacier Point, California, by Littleton View Co..png

" Canyon des Singes " and " Canyon des Rats " (9585043286).jpg

Sand Creek (Pinnacle Valley, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, USA) (27230067067).jpg

Aomori- Hotokegaura-m.jpg

Bwlch Llyn Bach - geograph.org.uk - 217862.jpg

Humboldt Redwoods State Park - California - 7398464358.jpg

Flinders Ranges SA 5434, Australia - panoramio (177).jpg

Shandur - Chitral 1.jpg

Leadville, United States (Unsplash iAW5QyehNcc).jpg

Yosemite Valley, California LCCN95514280.tif

#outdoors

[chrisbangs]

#powerpuff girls if they slayed ........ #i'm gonna sob so bad 😭🤲‼️ #m.jpg

[parcequecestnotreprojeeeet]

Can we have these photos without watermarks? Please. https://www.imago-images.de/bild/sp/1029011290/m.jpg https://www.imago-images.de/bild/sp/1029011273/m.jpg

#photo

[justmythings-stuff]

https://www.imago-images.com/bild/sp/1027989008/m.jpg

In questa foto o ha 40 anni o è un chad

Bono bono bono

#posta

[girlking]

#it me #if you feel inclined to reblog feel free to <3 #m.jpg

[bobu123]

m.jpg

[sportsfanmy]

Прогноз на матч «Айнтрахт» — «Боруссия М» 20 декабря 2023: 16-й тур немецкой Бундеслиги

Прогноз на матч «Айнтрахт» — «Боруссия М» 20 декабря 2023: 16-й тур немецкой Бундеслиги

https://sports-fan.ru/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/ajntraht-borussiya-m.jpg

В 16-ом туре чемпионата немецкой Бундеслиги 2023-2024 состоится матч «Айнтрахт Франкфурт» — «Боруссия Менхенгладбах». Встреча пройдет на стадионе «Дойче банк Парк» во Франкфурте-на-Майне 20 декабря. Стартовый свисток арбитра прозвучит в 23:00 по московскому времени. «Айнтрахт Франкфурт» Клуб из Франкфурта в текущем сезоне смотрится не так хорошо, как в прошлом. На данный момент «Айнтрахт» занимает 8 место в турнирной... Подробнее

https://sports-fan.ru/prognoz-ajntraht-borussiya-menhengladbah-20-dekabrya-2023/

#Прогнозы на Бундеслигу Германии