Hi all,
in various other English speaking forums, mainly with aircraft background, I am known as "Romantic Technofreak". I wanted to register as this here too, but somehow the romanticism in the name failed to become accepted, and so only the second part of my chosen nickname may show my freakish affection to technical beauties and curiosities of all kind. My give name is Holger.
Once I started to collect pictures from the internet because hotlinking for the other forums sometimes did not work any more - the original site had disappeared. I had to open an image account on my own, and I found out what fine (and cheap!) pleasure it is to search the web for appropriate pictures.
It happened that I got fascinated not only by aircraft,but by land vehicles too, including military ones. So the collection grew, but not always there was a usable picture designation.
And this is the reason why I am here. Every now and then I need help for identification of military vehicle types. You can be sure that I already did my best to find it out otherways before I start a request here.
Fur my purposes, I have to say that I find the following rule a bit strict:
I am not going to copy pictures from books at all, if there is a copyright remark or not. I only want to show pictures that have been already uploaded to the internet. I mean to remember years ago there have been discussions about the unauthorized spreading of pictures in the net, but, when on both side no economic interest existed, nothing fruitful evolved.
So it is questionable how strict you want to handle this rule. To get the written permission for any picture is impossible or impractical, and the expect that anybody complains the simple publishing of a simple picture I consider being very little. I nearly can't imagine that it ever really happened.
So, I hope we can go ahead without any trouble.
Regards, Technofreak