Mal's Blog

My other Blog on food

2011-03-16T05:50:00.000-07:00

My Blog on eating around in South Australia.

http://eatingabout.blogspot.com/

Eating around in Adelaide SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Food. We all need it. The eating around BLOG is a review of the places people tend to stop and eat at while out shopping or during a busy day. Not necessarily the fancy restaurants but take away or simple dining. Not always fast foods, but certainly the situations where you dont have time to take too long over a meal.

A Journey to the end of the earth.

2010-12-20T16:28:00.001-08:00

This is the cover of my latest wargames book. It deals with wargaming the convoys to Russia during WW2.

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2010-12-18T19:05:00.000-08:00

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Other paintings

2010-12-08T02:31:00.000-08:00

I dont often do paintings of this type, but my wife likes this sort of subject so here are two I did for her.

Rounding up the bats at dawn. A Witch and a Wizard herd Bats into the castle towers while through the open gates the Wizard's white Rabbits go out to feed and play.

Teaching a Phoenix on the road to below. An adventurer prepares by training her helper.

2010-12-07T00:01:00.000-08:00

USS OKLAHOMA 1930. Cover art.

Acrylic on canvas. Original presented to the US Navy by the Australian minister of defence.

More paintings

2010-12-06T23:28:00.000-08:00

Post WW2 AA frigate HMS LLANDAFF painted for a friend who served on her. Presented for his 50th birthday

USS ALABAMA late 1944 cover art. Original for sale.

Spanish civil war cover art. Original for sale.

2010-12-06T08:46:00.000-08:00

Old cruiser HMS Eclipse

Russian cruiser ASKOLD

German Grossetorpedoboote

French Cruiser Du Chayla

German cruiser EMDEN

German armoured cruiser Gneisenau

Battle cruiser HMS Invincible

German light cruiser Karlsruhe

Old British cruiser HMS Blake

Standing by sinking ship

HMAS SYDNEY Town class cruiser.

British Town class cruiser

German torpedo boat S25

2010-12-06T07:30:00.000-08:00

Various sketches and silhouettes prepared for articles, books etc.

French Lion class

British Grimsby class

British Later Grimsby

Sloop HMS Hastings

Trawler HMS Kingston Olivine

HMS Maron an ocean boarding vessel

HMS Scimitar

Ex USA destroyer

British R class Battleship

HMS Skate

HMS Palomares AA ship

Short range escort V&W

HMS Verdun WAIR V&W

HMS Windsor SRE V&W coastal escort

HMS Liberia

A to I class DD as an escort

Corvette Pentstemon rescues survivors of U131. Convoy HG76 December 1941.

Earl Flower class corvette

Later Flower class corvette

AA Ship HMS Springbank

Dutch sloop FLORES

French 1500 ton class

French Super Destroyer

British S class submarine

Constable Dog and characters from Baroombla

2010-12-06T01:59:00.000-08:00

The following are drawings from my unpublished late children to early teenage book 'Constable Dog'.

The little railway town of Baroombla. Somewhere in the Never-Never-land.

Boss of all the beef cattle in the area.

Blaaaack Baaart, King of the sheep.

Even in a far outback town there could be traffic problems. Especially with Emus.

Constable Dog's home and station.

Constable Dog's love. Fifi the tourist dog who won his heart.

Fifi back in France with her pups, courtesy of Constable Dog.

The Kangaroos were only too quick to have a good laugh if anything went wrong.

Constable Dog loved playing Cricket. But a Kangaroo had to dress up when other teams visited as it was a Humans only competition.

Sometimes the only way to stop speeding Emu's was a speed trap.

The Emu's were a continual speeding problem and although Dog frequently gave them tickets, they were after all just Emu's so they ate them.

Constable Dog at the wheel of the Landrover while the human policeman took a nap.

Kangaroo Blue, the retired old Police Roo that ran his own remote station.

Rex the rescue dog who was relief pilot for the Flying Doctor Service. But could only fly in straight lines.

Some of the numerous locals.

The sheep flock avoids capture by climbing to the top of the desert rocks.

Some slithery locals.

The dead spider was a traffic hazard and had to be demolished.

The modernized Baroombla Hotel.

The wall built to stop being blown away by the desert wind.

Pisinpot was smaller than Baroombla but had a good cricket team.

Wombats were sometimes called on as Special Constables when Constable Dog was on a break.

Crow, Crows....they were everywhere.

The Mosquitoes were so big you needed a cricket bat to squish them.

The GREAT NORTHERN CENTRAL SOUTHERN YOWIE in full night camouflage.

“Eatus Gobbleupia Intoxicatus”.

From an identi-kit drawing provided by Larry the Fettler of the one he saw on the way home from the Pub New Years Eve party.

Constable Dog himself. A fine, efficient and loyal creature who really ran Baroombla.

2010-12-06T01:37:00.002-08:00

Cover art for CONVOY.

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Cover art for DEADLY WATERS.

2010-12-06T01:33:00.000-08:00

US Navy destroyer escort with an Atlantic convoy 1944. ORIGINAL for sale.

HMS GOOD HOPE

2010-12-06T01:31:00.000-08:00

Pencil drawing of HMS GOOD HOPE prior to WW1. She was sunk at the battle of Coronel early in the war

2010-12-06T01:27:00.000-08:00

Australian light cruiser HMAS ADELAIDE shown during WW2 with funnels reduced to three and modern AA fitted, as well as radar and gunnery directors. She carried depth charges aft as she was often used for escort duty.

2010-12-06T01:24:00.000-08:00

An early 1930's Japanese dive bomber. I painted several aircraft for one of my grandsons.

2010-12-06T01:21:00.000-08:00

ORIGINAL FOR SALE.

WW1 built, the destroyer HMS SKATE was the only three funnel destroyer in the British navy by the outbreak of WW2. She saw considerable service despite her age and was thoroughly worn out by 1945.

2010-12-06T01:17:00.001-08:00

The full Vladmir Monomakh painting.

2010-12-06T01:12:00.000-08:00

Reduced painting of Russian cruiser Vladmir Monomakh during the night phase of the battle of Tsushima to suit it as cover art.

2010-12-06T01:10:00.000-08:00

ORIGINAL FOR SALE

U107 trails convoy HG76, December 1941.

2010-12-06T01:08:00.000-08:00

Soviet Victor III submarine at sea. Oil on canvas. Original for sale.

2010-12-05T04:25:00.001-08:00

These early destroyers were often referred too as the 30 knotters because of their speed. Most had lost a few knots by WW1.

HMS Cherwell was one of the River class destroyers with four funnels in tightly grouped pairs.

HMS Moy was also a River Class destroyer but to the later design.

HMS VIKING was the only six funnel destroyer to serve in the British navy.

HMS Zubian was created from the damaged destroyers ZULU and NUBIAN. The intact bow of one was joined to the intact stern of the other to create a new ship after both had been severely damaged. The new vessel so created was given a combination of the name of both ships she was made from.

This is a series of drawings depicting some of the older destroyers of WW1, plus a Russian destroyer of the Russo Japanese war.

WW1 Cruisers

2010-12-05T04:21:00.000-08:00

Dawn patrol in the North Sea 1918. Acrylic on canvas. Framed ORIGINAL for sale.

Old ships of the 10th Cruiser squadron on blockade patrol off the Shetland Islands 1914.
Oil on canvas. ORIGINAL for sale.

2010-12-05T04:15:00.001-08:00

French battleship PARIS entering LeHave under air attack 1940.
Cover art.
Acrylic on canvas. ORIGINAL FOR SALE.

More cover art

2010-12-05T04:13:00.000-08:00

German WW2 destroyer Z24 as the subject for cover art.

BATTLE OF JUTLAND

2010-12-05T04:05:00.000-08:00

Bow view of British battlecruiser HMS LION, at the Battle of Jutland. Acrylic on canvas. Cover art.
ORIGINAL FOR SALE.

Stern view of HMS Lion at Jutland. Cover art. Acrylic on canvas. ORIGINAL FOR SALE.

German Battlecruiser SMS Lutzow at Jutland. Note rear funnel painted red as a recognition mark for German ships during that sortie. Low visibility and similarity of naval flags often made identification difficult.
COVER ART. Acrylic on canvas. ORIGINAL FOR SALE.