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Elizabeth Shue vs Kate Beckinsale
Elizabeth Shue (0-5-0 Pts. 263 Avg. 52.60)
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Kate Beckinsale (4-1-0 Pts. 363 Avg. 72.60)
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Good questiion, let us answer it.
Just about to finish this one up, if I don’t get distracted which I am at the moment as I am house hunting. Just the start, getting ideas but maybe sometime this year. I hope. But here is where we stand.
Sturmpanzerwagen A7V
Just working the last few sides and will post the completed build next week.
Previous Builds.
Sturmgeschutz IV Sd.Kfz. 167
The Sturmgeschütz IV (StuG IV) (Sd.Kfz. 167) was a German assault gun variant of the Panzer IV used in the latter part of the Second World War. It was identical in role and concept to the highly successful StuG III assault gun variant of the Panzer III. Both StuG models were given an exclusively tank destroyer role in German formations and tactical planning in the last two years of the war, greatly augmenting the capability of the dwindling tank force available to the German army on the Eastern and Western fronts.
I’d estimate that 100% of IMAO commenters are in that opposite category.
Study Claims Almost One Third of Gen Z Are Sexual Deviants
Citizen Watch Report
“Good evening Mr. Walrus. It seems we have a tiny problem.”
“A tiny problem, what is it?”
“It is when something doesn’t go the way you intended. But that’s not important right now.”
“Haha, so what happened?”
“It seems Miss Welch published my winner instead of Miss Monroe’s winner for the previous week.”
“Well, publish Miss Monroe’s and everything will be okay.”
“That’s it?”
“Well, that and then the spankings.”
“After that?”
“……”
Winner
This week.
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Happy New Year everyone. Hope your celebrations were fun. We have an end of the year recap for you all and an announcement of the upcoming group that will start on January 8th.
We have been running round robin tournaments for groups of 8. The winners then reached the Divisional round robins of the 8 victors. Eventually the 8 divisional winners will go head to head. Whether we pursue that to yet another level remains to be seen. I know we haven’t run out of babes to see compete.
Past Winners
Group A Monrena Baccarin Group B Evangeline Lily Group C Katherine Ross Group D Shakira Group E Jane Seymour Group F Grace Kelly Group G Michelle Pfeiffer Group H Joan Severance Group I Alexandra Tydings Group J Farrah Fawcett Group K Linda Ronstadt Group L Kathy Ireland Group M Margot Robie Group N 3-way tie Group N Carla Harvey Group O Mia Sara Group P Milla Jovovich Group Q 3-way tie Group Q Elizabeth Hurley Group R Kaley Cuoco Group S Rita Hayworth Group T Elizabeth Shue Group U Kate Beckinsale Group V Catherine Zeta-Jones Group W Olivia Newton-John Group X Jennifer ConnellyDivision Winners
Division 1 Morena Baccarin Division 2 Milla JovovichDivision 3 Match ups
See you January 8, 2024!
A little late. The free app I was using to transfer photos from my phone to my computer updated and then demanded money for it to work. I deleted it but had to find another way. I did, so here we are.
My recent work was the Bismarck.
A long build given the number of pieces. I got through the bow with seemingly no problems.
I then got the stern done and tried to connect. Quelle horror! Somehting was slightly off. I couldn’t see where so I had to tear down the bow and rework it. I don’t know how I messed up the first time around but the second time was the charm.
After that it was clear sailing to the end.
Looks pretty neat. Next build will probably be a lot smaller, a scout car of some such. Haven’t decided which. I think I will wait until the new year. I hope everyone will have joyous one. How bad will 2024 be?
KMS Bismarck
Bismarck was the first of two Bismarck-class battleships built for Nazi Germany‘s Kriegsmarine. Named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the ship was laid down at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg in July 1936 and launched in February 1939. Work was completed in August 1940, when she was commissioned into the German fleet. Bismarck and her sister ship Tirpitz were the largest battleships ever built by Germany, and two of the largest built by any European power.
In the course of the warship’s eight-month career, Bismarck conducted only one offensive operation that lasted 8 days in May 1941, codenamed Rheinübung. The ship, along with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, was to break into the Atlantic Ocean and raid Allied shipping from North America to Great Britain. The two ships were detected several times off Scandinavia, and British naval units were deployed to block their route. At the Battle of the Denmark Strait, the battlecruiser HMS Hood initially engaged Prinz Eugen, probably by mistake, while HMS Prince of Wales engaged Bismarck. In the ensuing battle Hood was destroyed by the combined fire of Bismarck and Prinz Eugen, which then damaged Prince of Wales and forced her retreat. Bismarck suffered sufficient damage from three hits by Prince of Wales to force an end to the raiding mission.
The destruction of Hood spurred a relentless pursuit by the Royal Navy involving dozens of warships. Two days later, heading for occupied France for repairs, Bismarck was attacked by fifteen Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers from the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal; one scored a hit that rendered the battleship’s steering gear inoperable. In her final battle the following morning, the already-crippled Bismarck was engaged by two British battleships and two heavy cruisers, and sustained incapacitating damage and heavy loss of life. The ship was scuttled to prevent her being boarded by the British, and to allow the ship to be abandoned so as to limit further casualties. Most experts agree that the battle damage would have caused her to sink eventually.
The wreck was located in June 1989 by Robert Ballard, and has since been further surveyed by several other expeditions.
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Fokker Dr. 1 “Red Baron”
The Fokker Dr.I (Dreidecker, “triplane” in German), often known simply as the Fokker Triplane, was a World War I fighter aircraft built by Fokker-Flugzeugwerke. The Dr.I saw widespread service in the spring of 1918. It became famous as the aircraft in which Manfred von Richthofen gained his last 17 victories (plus two earlier ones in the Fokker F.I prototype in September 1917), and in which he was killed on 21 April 1918.
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Sandra Bullock vs Kristy Swanson
Sandra Bullock (3-3-0 Pts. 420 Avg. 70.00)
VS
Kristy Swanson (3-3-0 Pts. 351 Avg. 58.50)
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Hi everyone. Looks like we had a tie this past week the will have to be broken. This will entail a revote for the match. This time it will be on a 1 to 5 scale instead of 1 to 3 so we hope to avoid another tie. We did get a result for the other match which you can see below. So get out there and vote.
Results
Lily Aldridge 75 Ties Lorena Duran 75
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Michelle Jenneke 98 Defeats Myla Dalbesio 63
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Playoff
Lily Aldridge vs Lorena Duran
Lily Aldridge
VS
Lorena Duran
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“Good morning Miss Welch, I have a big surprise for you.”
“You always say that.”
“This time I really mean it. Ta-Dah!”
“What’s up with the luggage?”
“For you, for the trip.”
“Where to?”
“Las Vegas. I even packed for you.”
“This is all Victoria Secret Lingerie.”
“Imagine that. And it’s enough for two weeks.”
“Two weeks, that long?”
“You betchya. The voting this week will be open until the 15th and there will be some special guest interns for next week.”
“I can hardly wait. Here is last week’s winner and the new entries.”
Winner
This week
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Thank God it’s Friday and I hope you all have a great weekend planned. I’ve got World Series watching and model building to do. Speaking of which.
I’ve gotten into box two of four and there were no great problems.
I’m up to bag 7 and might be able to finish the box off this weekend.
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Focke-Wulf FW 190 A-3
The Fw 190 A-3 was equipped with the BMW 801 D-2 engine, which increased power to 1,700 PS (1,700 hp; 1,300 kW) at takeoff by improving the supercharger and raising the compression ratio. Because of these changes, the A-3 model required a higher octane fuel—100 (C3) versus 87 (B4). The A-3 retained the same weaponry as the A-2. The A-3 also introduced the Umrüst-Bausätze factory conversion sets. The Fw 190 A-3/U1 and U2 were single experimental Fw 190s: U1 (W.Nr 130270) was the first 190 to have the engine mount extended by 15 cm (5.9 in), which would be standardized on the later production A-5 model. The U2 (W.Nr 130386) had RZ 65 73 mm (2.9 in) rocket launcher racks under the wings with three rockets per wing. There were also a small number of U7 aircraft tested as high-altitude fighters armed with only two 20 mm MG 151 cannon, but with reduced overall weight.
The Fw 190 A-3/U3 was the first of the Jabo (Jagdbomber), using an ETC-501 centerline bomb rack able to carry up to 500 kg (1,100 lb) of bombs or, with horizontal stabilizing bars, one 300 L (80 US gal) drop tank. The U3 retained the fuselage-mounted 7.92 mm (.312 in) MG 17s and the wing-mounted 20 mm MG 151 cannon, with the outer MG FF being removed.
The Fw 190 A-3/U4 was a reconnaissance version with two RB 12.5 cameras in the rear fuselage and an EK 16 gun camera or a Robot II miniature camera in the leading edge of the port wing root. Armament was similar to the U3, however, and the ETC 501 was usually fitted with a 300 L (80 US gal) drop tank. See A-2 for production numbers.
In autumn 1942, a political decision diverted 72 new aircraft to Turkey in an effort to keep that country friendly to the Axis powers. These were designated Fw 190 A-3a (a=ausländisch (foreign), designation for export models) and delivered between October 1942 and March 1943. The Turkish aircraft had the same armament as the A-1: four 7.92 mm (.312 in) synchronized MG 17 machine guns and two 20 mm MG FF cannon. There was no FuG 25 IFF device in the radio equipment.
