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Published: 2006-10-06 18:29:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 3986; Favourites: 81; Downloads: 36
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Description The winter 1941 was fatal for the Germans. Their advance on whole Eastern Front has been stopped. Therefore, the Wehrmacht laid siege. The Soviets had the chance to change the tides of the war. And they used it.

Here, a lone early-production BT-7 with old, cyllindrical turret performs a recon outside Leningrad after a massive blizzard...

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Giftart for

I managed to finish it today. Sketch done on Wednesday.

Hope you all like it.

Comments welcome.
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Comments: 46

Enforcer57 [2015-04-10 20:57:06 +0000 UTC]

Very nice. And a command tank with the radio antennae. Great touch.

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CKyHC [2012-07-21 16:08:31 +0000 UTC]

зверь машина :3

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MichaelKrein [2009-10-30 00:58:33 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful picture but I think the trees in the background have too few details and look a bit unrealictic.

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zaku1986 [2009-09-29 17:16:17 +0000 UTC]

Ten śnieg ci świetnie wyszedł.

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Max-CCCP [2009-06-30 15:05:13 +0000 UTC]

Super

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Hichii-Chan [2009-06-01 19:09:04 +0000 UTC]

Oh... thats kinda sad...

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Sickpete [2009-05-13 22:17:20 +0000 UTC]

Looks just perfect,great picture and I like the abandoned machine gun ^^
Great work

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SillySoviet [2008-11-24 09:10:02 +0000 UTC]

I spy with my little eye...frozen germans.

Nice work here, I love the details on the tank, perfect atmosphere, a great work.
Nice gallery as well.

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xxandriuchaxx [2008-06-15 20:29:29 +0000 UTC]

Just great!

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Wokangoman [2007-12-06 01:35:30 +0000 UTC]

wow you have lots of detail there good job

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zaboojca [2006-12-13 09:00:14 +0000 UTC]

Kurcze ten rysunek naprawdę wyraża prędkość ...

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JanBoruta In reply to zaboojca [2006-12-13 10:27:43 +0000 UTC]

Dzięki, postarałem się

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A-Teivos [2006-11-08 20:39:18 +0000 UTC]

You made a great atmosphere on that picture. Very cold and snowy (the MG-42 with a dead soldier under the snow is a very lets say important detail, a big plus). The BT-7 is of high quality... only the back part of the turret wasnt conical on the older series. On the newer series the entire turret was of conical shape, but I guess you know that
Definitely a picture worth a fav.

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JanBoruta In reply to A-Teivos [2006-11-08 21:07:46 +0000 UTC]

I based on some artworks depicting early command BT-7's with BT-5 turrets with radio frame.

Thanks!

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A-Teivos In reply to JanBoruta [2006-11-08 21:17:46 +0000 UTC]

Riiight. Interesting is, how one can track most of russian tanks to one ancestor... BT-2
Or the similarity of T-34 with BTs... those are things I could chat hours about

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JanBoruta In reply to A-Teivos [2006-11-09 06:47:28 +0000 UTC]

Not only BT-2... Even the Christie tank!

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A-Teivos In reply to JanBoruta [2006-11-09 21:58:32 +0000 UTC]

Well, that was NEARLY the same
The irony is that it was an american inventor who made it XD

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x-CC-x [2006-11-01 07:34:26 +0000 UTC]

The nature of the drawing resembles as if it was colored~

I like the sketchyness, the pines, the thick blanket of snow and the ice-mist on the running gear conveying motion. Very cool effect~

Poor Fritz though. Forward Tankist!

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JanBoruta In reply to x-CC-x [2006-11-01 09:46:38 +0000 UTC]

Hey thanks I don't like the Soviets too much but they got cool tanks though

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x-CC-x In reply to JanBoruta [2006-11-01 10:32:04 +0000 UTC]

np man~

cool is right~ And prolly the best tanks of that war (*tho I still dig Shermans~ )

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Bouben [2006-10-30 14:50:50 +0000 UTC]

f.a.n.t.a.s.t.i.c.

man, you rocks!

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Sturmgeschutz [2006-10-15 05:39:09 +0000 UTC]

Very nice.

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JanBoruta In reply to Sturmgeschutz [2006-10-15 05:49:23 +0000 UTC]

Thaaanks

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Sturmgeschutz In reply to JanBoruta [2006-10-15 05:58:59 +0000 UTC]

The frozen corpse on the MG-42 is a nice touch.

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JanBoruta In reply to Sturmgeschutz [2006-10-15 06:07:39 +0000 UTC]

I'm ruthless

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Sturmgeschutz In reply to JanBoruta [2006-10-15 06:11:49 +0000 UTC]

We Polish are inherently ruthless.

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JanBoruta In reply to Sturmgeschutz [2006-10-15 06:17:15 +0000 UTC]

Death! Deaaaaaath! KIll! Kill! Kill! Do piachu! Muahaha!

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Sturmgeschutz In reply to JanBoruta [2006-10-15 06:47:29 +0000 UTC]

Precisely.

btw, what is Do piachu?

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JanBoruta In reply to Sturmgeschutz [2006-10-15 07:20:46 +0000 UTC]

"Into the dirt!", popular Polish non-coarse battle offence.

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Sturmgeschutz In reply to JanBoruta [2006-10-15 16:30:09 +0000 UTC]

How do you pronounce that? Can you write it phonetically for me?

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JanBoruta In reply to Sturmgeschutz [2006-10-15 17:19:16 +0000 UTC]

Something like that: "do: pya:hu:!", but vowels are spoken shortly, not long like in "boots". If you want more, um, "lessons" send me notes or email me or do what you want to

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Sturmgeschutz In reply to JanBoruta [2006-10-16 02:18:46 +0000 UTC]

Cool! I will do so, I'll find fun stuff to say in Polish then ask for a translation. I'm going on a school retreat tomorrow but I'll be back Thursday, so I'll try to think of stuff by then.

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EasyCompany101st [2006-10-09 16:23:18 +0000 UTC]

i pity the foo' who manned that MG42! should've had with him a couple panzerschrek rockets.

but then again, that's just 'cause when it comes to WW2 on the eastern front i'm rootin for the germans.

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KodyYoung [2006-10-07 20:21:14 +0000 UTC]

AWSOME! Great detail (I can see the dead, frozen german bodies in the snow) and job on the tank.
FULL SPEED AHEAD CAPTAIN!

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JanBoruta In reply to KodyYoung [2006-10-08 06:14:50 +0000 UTC]

Aye aye!

I didn't thinks someone will see those Germans

Thanks

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krazykrissy [2006-10-07 18:56:52 +0000 UTC]

Awesome! Great detail!

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JanBoruta In reply to krazykrissy [2006-10-07 19:18:20 +0000 UTC]

(only on tank) . Thanks

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tinuwiel [2006-10-07 13:54:57 +0000 UTC]

dobre dobre

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JanBoruta In reply to tinuwiel [2006-10-07 17:33:53 +0000 UTC]

Tym dziwniej że mi wyszło, bo jak na mnie to ekspresowo... trzy dni po (średnio) 2 godziny...

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green-falco [2006-10-07 07:51:31 +0000 UTC]

Świetne! Jak zwykle super cienie, detale... Podobają mi się też zaspy. Tylko niekture choinki wydają mi się zbyt bryłowate. Wiem, że leży na nich śnieg, ale mimo wszystko... Choć i tak są bardzo dobre.

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JanBoruta In reply to green-falco [2006-10-07 09:06:48 +0000 UTC]

Dziękować. Choinki robiłem na szybko, bo chciałem od razu wrzucać na neta

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tuomaskoivurinne [2006-10-06 20:31:56 +0000 UTC]

Very good!

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JanBoruta In reply to tuomaskoivurinne [2006-10-07 06:19:19 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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SimonLMoore [2006-10-06 20:21:32 +0000 UTC]

As usual this rocks, geat sense of speed, there should be it is a 'BT' (fast tank) !

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JanBoruta In reply to SimonLMoore [2006-10-07 06:19:07 +0000 UTC]

Dunno, I really like this tank. It-is-not-yet the T-34 but some common features can be seen.

And the Bystrokhodnyi Tank seemed very proper to me for that image.

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SimonLMoore In reply to JanBoruta [2006-10-07 08:45:01 +0000 UTC]

You can really see the development from the original Christies T3 tanks in the hull shape, its then very easy to trace developmet from the T3 through to the T34.

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