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Wednesday, 8 July 2015

SYW Vignettes

"I said don't let go of the rope!"

Captured Prussian battery.

I knocked these off over the weekend. I'm reasonably pleased with the results.

Posted by Colin Ashton at 12:22 pm

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6 comments:

Der Alte Fritz8 July 2015 at 14:03
Nicely done!

I had to look at the first picture several times before noticing the butt of the joke, poor fellow. :)
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tidders9 July 2015 at 11:38
Super little vignettes
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ColCampbell509 July 2015 at 18:37
Very nicely done!

Jim
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