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...to 'updateing' our vehicles for the Dust Tactics setting.
Posted 28 September 2011 - 03:34 PM
...to 'updateing' our vehicles for the Dust Tactics setting.
Posted 28 September 2011 - 10:48 PM
Nice job on the SdKfz 234. You just added a scope to the turret, if I'm not mistaken.
Love the camo scheme and the extra foliage to break up the profile.
Posted 29 September 2011 - 12:08 AM
Nice, nice work. Like the camo scheme...doesn't get in the way of the added foliage, etc. Great detailing.
Posted 29 September 2011 - 03:04 AM
the MG is also from DT. My point being that it only takes a little bit to make out standard vehicles fit in with the DT setting. what would be great is if there were some way of getting 'bits'.
Posted 29 September 2011 - 12:14 PM
theguildllc said:
what would be great is if there were some way of getting 'bits'.
I totally agree, and have come close to buying a second box set just to use for parts.
Posted 28 January 2012 - 10:02 AM
Can i ask what brand foliage that is and where you got it from? I also use a lot of regular vehicles in my armies and add in little DT bits to make them fit. I like the paint scheme. Once i get time ill post some of my conversions as well.
Posted 28 January 2012 - 01:13 PM
The foliage is 'The Army Painter' brand and it's 'Ivy'. I just clip off small sections and soak em in watered down wood glue for a couple minutes then place em. It dries shiney so after I seal the model with Testor's Dullcote I go back and dry brush a lighter green oveer it. Hope that helps, and I look forward to seeing your conversion work. Have been thinking of doing some E series or other conversion too, too much other stuff on deck right now.
Posted 28 January 2012 - 04:29 PM
Wow nice, thanks for sharing this!
Awesome talent!
Posted 28 January 2012 - 05:18 PM
Thanks for the reply. Ill check it out. I really like the effect you gave to that puma. I have done now one standard and one converted to the 75mmpak40. im awaiting my 20mm turret like you have from quarter kit over in france. should have it soon.
Posted 28 January 2012 - 05:46 PM
This is what im looking to add some foliage to:
Posted 28 January 2012 - 05:47 PM
not sure if this better image.
Posted 28 January 2012 - 07:10 PM
Looking great, good useage of the MG gunner on your 251. How did you do the PAK75 conversion on the 234 body? Is it a kit or did you shoehorn it in and scratch build the rest? Looks good. I plan on doing a couple more 234s now that Tamiya has em in 1/48.
Posted 29 January 2012 - 02:09 AM
I get all my conversion kits from Quarter Kit over in France. Great guys and they have a lot of cool stuff. Its euros though so it can get a little pricey. Its under gasoline kit range or conversions in the category section. If you order mention my name I have been trying to get them extra business as they have some really great items. they sell dust to but again its in euros.
Posted 29 January 2012 - 02:13 AM
Forgot to say thanks for the compliments. I dont have much time to paint to great detail so i try to at least get to game play grade paint jobs. Ill try and budget mote time to get the little extras added on soon like more battle damage, etc. I think the ivy though is a nice quick solution you are using and very effective for what it is. Thanks for sharing.
Posted 30 January 2012 - 03:05 AM
I love your vehicles! They look great with very nice paint job and the dust figures and MG's really turn them into dust vehicles!
I'm painting a part of my Germans as Aufklärungs troops, so they would really like to have a half-track or armoured car to go with the theme!
What scale kits did you use? 1:48?
Posted 30 January 2012 - 03:12 AM
Thanks. I used Italeri's 1/48 scale 234 Puma with an ICM 222 turret swap, Tamiya has it too. Looking forward to seeing your work.
Posted 30 January 2012 - 09:23 AM
I dont want to steal "theguildllc's" thunder but for my pics the models are mostly 1/48 scale tamiya or italirea but the half track with turret was from WESPE models. For my conversion parts i order from Quarter Kit out of France. They have great stuff. Just thought i would share that.
Posted 30 January 2012 - 09:29 AM
Keep shareing, you're not stealing any thunder. Open thread, come one come all, and post pics of your DT'ed/Vk'ed vvehicles. Besides, now I have a new source of 1/48 to investigate!


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Re: Analysis for Edit - 3 - Australia/MIL - U.S. Basing Agreement and the U.S.-Australian Relationship - medium length - LATE - 2 graphics
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current trading importance/economic linkage to the US, despite our recent
regional economic relationships. US is important to Australia for security
purposes, but the global financial crisis in 08 absolutely debunked the
decoupling theory too. It's one element that is always underplayed in
Australian press - our economic relationship/importance with the US. Of
course China is our number one trading partner, followed by Japan, but US
still plays a key role here.
One thing that might be mentioned in the discussion below (although
understand if it's better left said in another update) is the Indian piece
of the puzzle (i'm talking militarily here as it's a mil update, not a
strategic one). Canberra is positioning itself for an era of Chinese,
Indian and sustained US power (the uranium sales is one way of
transforming Oz-India relations). Just as trilateral coordination helped
to improve the Japan-Australia relationship, it can also facilitate closer
ties between Australia and India and spur India's involvement in the
developing regional security architecture.
On 11/16/11 7:29 PM, Chris Farnham wrote:
That's my writing, not Nate's. I was suggesting to add that Australia
must and has always relied on a great power patron given our geographic
and demographic realities meaning that this is not simply an ideological
or historically based choice that Australia makes/is making.
And yeah, the wording is clumsy, I got sick of trying to frame it
correctly so just chucked it in like that leaving it for some one else
to sort out. However, I've had that coffee now and should take
responsibility for it.
Until late in the piece we had a preferential trading agreement with GB.
Of course that was mostly linked to our colonial history and Australia's
penchant for being "more British than the British". But it was also
based in that until the rise of Asia there weren't too many great
markets for our exports other than with Europe. That's where the word
'reliable' came from.
Addressing our historical need for trade agreements with partners
outside our region until Asian growth and US trade was able to replace
doesn't undermine our trade relationship with the US. It just describes
Australia's reality.
On 11/16/11 7:12 PM, Lena Bell wrote:
Just having my first cup of coffee now Chris (I actually think the par
you highlighted is okay as is)
Nate, this part is clumsily worded though - 'has always been forced
to rely on a great power patron to supply security and up until the
recent emergence of Asia starting with Japan in the 1980s and more
recently China, a reliable trading partner'... after China & Japan,
US is our third biggest two-way trading partner. Our all ordinaries
are inextricably linked to Dow Jones/S&P movements so I wouldn't
underplay the economic linkage to US, despite the importance of
China/Japan as recent trading partners.
Also interesting is the public support for this; polling results from
the Australian Lowy Institute for International Policy show public
support for the US alliance at record highs. According to the 2011
Lowy Poll, 59% of Australians say the alliance is very important for
Australia's security (up from 36 percent in 2007).
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On 11/16/11 5:58 PM, Chris Farnham wrote:
just one suggestion below in response to Nate's concerns.
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Sent: Thursday, 17 November, 2011 10:16:28 AM
Subject: Analysis for Edit - 3 - Australia/MIL - U.S. Basing
Agreement and the U.S.-Australian Relationship - medium
length - LATE - 2 graphics
*will take additional comments in FC.
*unless this is supposed to post in the next couple hours, please
check with Farnham and Lena before mailing to see if they have any
tweaks, adjustments or additions. I want this to come off as
balanced and un-American centric as possible so their input will be
valuable. I can incorporate if we're not mailing it until 8am CT or
U.S. President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Julia
Gillard formally announced Nov. 16 that the United States would be
expanding its military activity and cooperation with Australia as
early as next year. The U.S. and Australia have a long history of
military cooperation with longstanding and closely aligned
geopolitical interests. Yet this most recent agreement appears to
mark only the beginning of what looks to be a major expansion of
cooperation between the two countries and more active sharing of
Australian facilities. Be careful here with WC on 'beginning' -
AUSMIN actually agreed to enhance US military presence in Australia
late last year. The two governments established a bilateral working
group to develop options that would broaden US access to Australian
facilities and bases, among other cooperative activities.
The agreement is laying the groundwork for regular use of
Australian training grounds by American Marines (including
independent training), with the at least occasional rotation of a
2,500-strong Marine Air-Ground Task Force slated for 2016.
Meanwhile, airbases like Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Base
Tindal could host American combat and support aircraft - including
aerial refueling tankers and strategic bombers. Ports like Royal
Australian Navy (RAN) base HMAS Coonawarra in Darwin (already a
regular port of call for American warships) and HMAS Stirling (Fleet
Base West) south of Perth could see the forward basing of American
aircraft carriers, surface combatants, amphibious ships, auxiliaries
and submarines as well as considerable expansion of logistical,
repair and rearmament capacities.
This is only one - if a central - element of the reorientation,
rebalancing and rationalizing of the American military presence in
the region that has been underway for more than a decade. Already,
the Pentagon has undertaken a massive effort to expand the military
capacity of the island of Guam. Construction is also underway in
South Korea and Japan. In the Philippines, the sustained presence of
U.S. special operations forces and advisers has far outlasted its
original justification of confronting Abu Sayyaf. And Singapore,
already a regular port of call for American warships, is being
discussed as the first foreign forward base for the U.S. Navy's new
USS Freedom (LCS 1).
Looming budget cuts have also come into play. The Pentagon is
looking to do more with the same or less resources. This forward
basing allows warships and crews to spend more time on station and
less time in transit, which translates into the same presence to be
sustained with fewer vessels as well as less wear-and-tear and fuel
being burned outside getting to and from bases in North America.
Alternative deployment and basing paradigms (including rotating
crews between a warship or submarine in theater) are being examined
with increased interest.
But the bottom line is that the U.S. military in particular and
Washington in general has found most of its bandwidth consumed by
the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But with the Iraq withdrawal
almost complete (though the problem of Iranian power in the region
still unaddressed) and the drawdown of forces in Afghanistan slated
to accelerate in the coming years, the U.S. has slowly been able to
turn its attention to other key areas of the globe.
What the U.S. has found is an increasingly assertive and aggressive
China, particularly in
South China Sea>. China has been using this window of opportunity to
its reach and influence and strengthen its own military posture in
the region>.
From a geopolitical standpoint, there is
inherent tension given increasingly overlapping national interests>.
In practical terms this has left many in the region - from South
Korea to Vietnam to Australia - nervous about the longer-term
implications of China's increasingly assertive rise and the
increasingly aggressive exercise of military power (as well as
paramilitary maritime entities). In other words,
China's People's Liberation Army-Navy has expanded,> there has been
mounting interest in joint training with and even hosting American
military forces around the region.
At the end of the day, much of the current American posture is still
more a legacy of the Cold War than it is a reflection of current
military dynamics and concerns in the region. In other words, for
the United States there is plenty of room for repositioning forces
in the region without any shift in larger geopolitical, strategic or
military intentions.this is true, but it's clear that US strategy
presumes existing basing architecture is not sufficient to meet
emerging challenges in the region, otherwise they would not have
pursued this agreeement.
For Australia,
tightening of an already strong relationship between Canberra and
Washington makes enormous sense>. The Australian Defense Forces have
long been an important and capable ally of the U.S. military and the
relationship entails more access to intelligence and training as
well as more sophisticated defense hardware than Australia could
provide for itself independent of that relationship - and an
American ally brings considerable reinforcements to the table when
Australia chooses to intervene in its neighborhood.
If there is a concern over US-centrism the below section may wish to
be considered:
Given Australia's relatively small population of around 22 million
on a large and geographically isolated expanse of land Australia has
always been forced to rely on a great power patron to supply
security and up until the recent emergence of Asia starting with
Japan in the 1980s and more recently China, a reliable trading
partner. Until the end of the Second World War this power patron and
trading partner was Great Britain given Australia's Anglo-Saxon
colonial heritage. As the United States emerged as the leading
western power after the 1940s Australia seamlessly shifted its
reliance from England to across the Pacific solidifying the
relationship with the United States in 1951 with the ANZUS Security
Treaty. This treaty remains in force today, was successfully invoked
after the 2001 Sept.11 attacks and forms the legal and practical
foundation of the Nov16 announcement to expand the US military
presence in Australia. For Australia tightening the already strong
relationship between Canberra and Washington makes enormous
sense....... etc. etc.
Keep in mind that I still haven't had that coffee yet..
But the tension between China and the United States is unavoidable
in the region at this point.
Any rebalancing at all that is not the U.S. military pulling back from
the region will continue to make Beijing unsettled and anxious. And
each country in Southeast Asia will be viewing the arrangement from
its own position - Indonesia, for example, will be nervous about being
between China and additional American forces in Australia and the
Chinese attention that may entail. You might consider going further
here by saying that no one really wants a dominant power in the
region. Look at the end of the Cold War. The natural element of the
world is to push back against the singular dominant power. In many
ways, China-US tension is a good thing for these smaller countries.
They can exploit this to make sure neither is dominant. The problem of
course is that although healthy competition in the asia pacific region
may lead to stability in the long-term, the concern is during the
short-term when it's all getting worked out.However much Obama denied
the point at the signing ceremony, the tension is there between China
and the United States and Beijing will continue to refine its own
military posture and disposition in response to changes by Washington
in the region.
Related Analyses:
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Rodger's DG/Varyag piece if its ready
Chris Farnham
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Children can make new friends at the kids' club where they'll enjoy organized activities designed especially for kids, or find fun in the video-game room. A restaurant, Acqua, offers al fresco dining, and adults can relax with a cocktail by the fire at The Olive bar. A seasonal poolside bar and coffeehouse are also on site. A business center is open 24 hours a day and wireless Internet access is available in public areas for a surcharge.
- 24-hour front desk
- Children's club (surcharge)
- ATM/banking
- Number of floors - 8
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee shop or café
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Express check-out
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Hair salon
- Free Wi-Fi
- Designated smoking areas
- Computer station
- Luggage storage
- Babysitting or childcare
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- One meeting room
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Multilingual staff
- Total number of rooms - 357
- Picnic area
- Poolside bar
- Porter/bellhop
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Year Built 1962
- Conference space size (meters) - 2508
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Pool cabanas (surcharge)
- Pool sun loungers
- Garden
- Spa services on site
- Supervised childcare/activities
- Children's pool
- Outdoor pool
- Use of nearby fitness center (complimentary)
- Wedding services
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-in
- Full-service spa
- Beach/pool umbrellas
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Marina on site
- 24-hour business center
- Conference space size (feet) - 27,000
- Tennis on site
- RV, bus, truck parking
- Conference center
- Outdoor tennis courts 8
- Number of buildings/towers - 7
Available in all rooms: Wireless Internet access (surcharge) , Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
Self parking (surcharge), RV, bus, truck parking
Room Amenities
- Video-game console
- Pay movies
- Iron/ironing board
- Daily housekeeping
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Hair dryer
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Air conditioning
- Desk
- Premium bedding
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Balcony or patio
- Phone
- Premium TV channels
- Complimentary toiletries
- Pillowtop mattress
- Complimentary weekday newspaper
- Microwave (on request)
- Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
- In-room massage available
- Private bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- Room service (limited hours)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Satellite TV service
- Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
- MP3 docking station
- Down comforter
Where to Eat
acqua - a California Bistro - Overlooks Mission Bay. New American cuisine for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Dining available on wrap-around patio. Wine cellar with more than 3,000 bottles from around the world.
the olive - Extensive bar and martini menu and New American cuisine. Outdoor patio with fire pits.
fresco's - Poolside dining, snacks, and cocktails. Open seasonally from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
aroma - Coffeehouse serving Starbucks coffee.
Room Service - Available from early morning until late evening.
Nearby Things to Do
Located in Mission Bay Aquatic Park's 4,600-plus acres of beaches, coves, and islands, this 18-acre resort includes a nearby private beach and dock, outdoor pool area, children's wading pool, and four spa tubs.
Two putting greens are on site, and five lighted tennis courts include a practice alley and tennis instructor. The resort also features a full-service spa (surcharge) and a well-equipped fitness room (surcharge).
Mission Bay Aquatic Park and San Diego beaches feature numerous recreational opportunities including surfing, scuba diving, kayaking, boating, fishing, and personal watercraft. Mountain biking and horse riding are among additional options in the San Diego area.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Scuba diving nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Segway rental/tour on site
- Parasailing nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Aerobics on site
- Basketball on site
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Kayaking on site
- Motor boating on site
- Pilates classes on site
- Playground on site
- Rowing or canoeing on site
- Sailing on site
- Tennis on site
- Water skiing on site
- Windsurfing on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
- Beach volleyball on site
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
Spa Services
- Hot stone massage
- Deep tissue massage
- Swedish massage
- Prenatal massage
- Steam room in spa
- Thai massage
- Reflexology
- Sports massage
- Detoxification wrap
- Sauna in spa
- Spa tub in spa
- Massages
- Outdoor treatment areas
- Couples treatment rooms
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Hydrotherapy treatments
- Ayurvedic treatments
- Number of treatment rooms 9
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessibility equipment for the deaf
- Accessible bathroom
- Accessible path of travel
- Braille or raised signage
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Payment types
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
- Resort fee: USD 22 per accommodation, per night
- Spa access (may be limited)
- Fitness center access
- Sporting facilities or equipment
- Business center/computer access
- Phone calls (may be limited)
- Additional inclusions
- Self parking fee: USD 34.00 per day (in/out privileges)
- Late check-out fee: USD 75.00
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 25.00 per night
We should mention
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the resort prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Children 18 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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Microsoft PowerPoint is an application used for constructing presentations, and comes with the Microsoft Office suite. For more information, see the vendor's site found at the following link.
Remote exploitation of an integer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.'s PowerPoint could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the current user.
The vulnerability occurs during the parsing of two related PowerPoint record types. The first record type is used to specify collaboration information for different slides. One of the fields in this record contains a 32-bit integer that is used to specify the number of a specific type of records that are present in the file. This integer is used in a multiplication operation that calculates the size of a heap buffer that will be used to store the records as they are read in from the file. The calculation can overflow, resulting in an undersized heap buffer being allocated. By providing a large value for the record count, and inserting enough dummy records, it is possible to trigger a heap based buffer overflow.
Exploitation of this vulnerability results in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user opening the file. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker needs to convince a user to open a malicious file. If the targeted user is running PowerPoint 2000, and the "Office Document Open Confirmation Tool" is not installed, then it is possible to exploit this vulnerability directly through the browser.
Modern versions of Windows (XP, Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008) contain heap allocators with protections against generic heap exploitation techniques. These protections include heap cookies and safe unlinking techniques. However, by default the Office applications use a custom allocator that does not use the normal heap allocator, and does not contain the same level of protection.
iDefense has confirmed the existence of this vulnerability in the following versions of PowerPoint:
PowerPoint 2000 SP3
PowerPoint 2002 (XP) SP2
PowerPoint 2003 SP2
PowerPoint 2003 SP3
PowerPoint 2007, PowerPoint 2007 SP1, and PowerPoint Viewer 2003 are not affected.
Since PowerPoint Viewer 2003 is not affected, using it to view untrusted or unexpected PowerPoint files is a valid workaround.
Microsoft has released a patch which addresses this issue. For more information, consult their advisory at the following URL:
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned the name CVE-2009-0221 to this issue. This is a candidate for inclusion in the CVE list (http://cve.mitre.org/), which standardizes names for security problems.
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12/11/2008 - Vendor Status Update
01/16/2009 - Disclosure Projected
01/20/2009 - Vendor Clarification
02/19/2009 - Vendor Status Update
05/12/2009 - Coordinated Public Disclosure
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