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                        Berlin diorama

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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Berlin diorama
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 8, 2005 1:40 PM
                        I am building a diorama of inner city Berlin near the end of the war. It may sound trivial, but what color would German fire hydrants be at this time?

                        EJH
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                        Abdiel
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                          September 2004
                        • From: Florida...flat, beach-ridden Florida
                        Posted by Abdiel on Thursday, September 8, 2005 2:09 PM
                        It's hard to tell since all the pictures of that place and time are in black and white. I'm having a similar color issue with a lamp post in a Battle for Berlin dio I'm working on Confused [%-)]
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 8, 2005 3:23 PM
                        Your are an artist, and this is your medium. I say paint them whatever color makes sense to you.
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                        Abdiel
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                          September 2004
                        • From: Florida...flat, beach-ridden Florida
                        Posted by Abdiel on Thursday, September 8, 2005 4:30 PM
                        Zaphod

                        Actually, professionally speaking, this is my medium:



                        I just dabble with plastic scale modeling Wink [;)] But I take your point.

                        Cheers,
                        Eric
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                        rebelreenactor
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                          October 2003
                        • From: Clovis, Calif
                        Posted by rebelreenactor on Thursday, September 8, 2005 5:49 PM
                        You could easily get off with the lamp post being black or a dark to medium green. Not sure about those fire hydrants though.
                        John
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                        hemble
                        • Member since
                          January 2005
                        • From: Queensland/Australia
                        Posted by hemble on Thursday, September 8, 2005 6:16 PM
                        Hi ehoffman

                        As far as memory serves the hydrants will be red that was the universal colour for them in every major city - ie Germany, Australia, America, Canada, England

                        Ron
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 9, 2005 9:39 PM
                        they were purple....ur guess is as good as mine!!! id make them grey, or if ur leaning towards red, id paint them red and give them a heavy black wash.
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 10, 2005 11:34 AM
                        Check the BW photos-if the hydrants look black-they were either black or red. Red shows up as black in BW.
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 11, 2005 4:42 PM
                        Fluorescent orange.

                        With purple polka-dots.



                        Evil [}:)]
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 11, 2005 6:03 PM
                        Heres a pic of a fire hydrant in america 1945 i think,but dont know if this will help you out or not:
                        http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.firehydrant.org/pictures/i/0588.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.firehydrant.org/pictures/ebmud01.html&h=420&w=336&sz=40&tbnid=VTBYsmfPkkEJ:&tbnh=122&tbnw=97&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhydrants%2Bin%2B1945%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8
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                        samreichart
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                          December 2003
                        • From: Virginia, USA
                        Posted by samreichart on Sunday, September 11, 2005 8:15 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by Abdiel

                        Zaphod

                        Actually, professionally speaking, this is my medium:



                        I just dabble with plastic scale modeling Wink [;)] But I take your point.

                        Cheers,
                        Eric

                        Beautiful work on that sculpture... I like the water surface, and the roots holding it up. I'm trying to decipher what type of fish.. walleye? pickerel? pike? awesome design...
                        Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur :)
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                        Abdiel
                        • Member since
                          September 2004
                        • From: Florida...flat, beach-ridden Florida
                        Posted by Abdiel on Sunday, September 11, 2005 8:48 PM
                        Thanks Sam

                        It's a 42" snook, one of my favorite gamefish to have tuggin' at the end of the line!

                        Cheers!
                        Eric

                        PS It's sculpted in copper, bronze and stainless steel.
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                        Harrowbeer
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                          October 2004
                        Posted by Harrowbeer on Monday, September 12, 2005 4:45 AM
                        Just to add greater confusion, hydrants in the uk are yellow!! Sorry
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 12:13 AM
                        Laugh [(-D] I agree with a previous statement ... make the post whatever colour you like ... also agree that anything from green - grey spectrum is going to be great

                        Cheers
                        Vasso
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 3:25 PM
                        Daft question but did they have hydrants in Germany ? The ones in the UK are just concrete posts with yellow signs on the front. Don't know what they look like in Germany but if they are any thing like the US , then they will likely be red but almost black from all the bombing as Double D said.
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                        screensize
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                          July 2005
                        Posted by screensize on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 3:37 PM
                        http://www.poessnicker.de/9.htm

                        red or blue-green I´d suggest
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