collection of pics

[McNite]

Here are some pictures Kach and me are collecting these days...

This is the clocktower in Venice:

[Rebus]

is this ideas/buildings for a new map Mcnite?? are you making another map ??

[McNite]

Hmmmm lets say we are thinking about making one.

Here are some more pics Kach and me collected as inspirations:

[Rebus]

i like this 1, where was this taken??

be nice to see some of these recreated for ET indeed

[McNite]

Look at the filename: calnegia-bridge-tessin.jpg. The Tessin is an area in south tyrol.

We didn't take the pics ourselves btw... all of them found on the internet or scanned from a travel guide for south tyrol.
When it gets serious though I ll visit Bamberg in Germany and take some hundred pics of the old town, major church and castle there.

For TheRiver II and Redux I visited the town Wernigerode in Germany which has a cool castle and a very famous old town with tons of half-timbered construction houses. Although there was an air-raid by the RAF (i think it was RAF) in WWII on Wernigerode to destroy the train station and city, not a single bomb hit the old city. They all went down east of the old city, and nobody knows whether it was winddrift or some internal command given out for that raid.

[Rebus]

Mcnite thx for this detailed info, this is truley exciting history/info thx m8, more i say
im liking my hstory more than ever, 1 of the reasons i like to play ET obviously, my dad & grandad we're in both world wars ..

[ser]

hi there, i found this realy cool program.
its called google earth, maybe u know it, if u dont u should dowload it,
when u got it, enter a city and u will fly to it, its very cool, try it.
good for inspiration.

earth.google.com/download-earth.html

[McNite]

Here are 3 pictures of the famous "Gloriosa" bell of the cathedral of Erfurt. In the first pic you can see how huge it is. Its made from bronze, in the late 16th century.



For the interested ones: due to a hairline crack in the bell it had to be restaurated. They moved the whole bell out of the tower with a huge special crane, and had to take parts of the tower apart to actually get the bell out there.
While a lot of bells were molten in WW1 and WW2 to use the metal for the war, this is one of the few real medieval bells in Germany, and one of the biggest too.