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Re: Intro Flash Caps go here !
« Reply #150 on: October 28, 2006, 12:33:13 AM »
Oh its like a monkey off my back, all this time I was looking for a man  :lol3:!

Heres the spoiler Slowhatch,it came from Signal :)
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I got some new info,
Few sources have said that the race continued to Belarus after Finland. And I don't think it was just a connection point.

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Re: Intro Flash Caps go here !
« Reply #151 on: October 28, 2006, 12:48:59 AM »
I've attached a kmz for the Rodina Mat. I've looked around for Ukraine tourism and Belarus tourism  and the results are slim (on the other hand, running through a mine or swamp is the last thing I would think of for Finland  :hlol). A lot of the interesting stuff, like the Swallow Castle and 7-km bazaar, is down by the Black Sea. One more time:  :yess:

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Re: Intro Flash Caps go here !
« Reply #152 on: October 28, 2006, 01:27:40 AM »
 :yess:   Nice one puddin.   :tup:   Looks like our "golden boy" turned out to be a "silver girl".   :snicker:

This find raises puddin to the "La Puesta Del Sol" level of TAR detectives. (a rare breed indeed).

You deserve the TarJunkie999 "dancing banana" victory dance.    :whip:    :lock

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Re: Intro Flash Caps go here !
« Reply #153 on: October 28, 2006, 02:49:54 AM »
:jumpy: You absolutely rock. Are we done here?

Aah right we still have the waterfall. I'm 80% sure it's in Mauritius/Madagascar though...
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Re: Intro Flash Caps go here !
« Reply #154 on: October 28, 2006, 10:48:33 AM »
WJW   :woohoo:

That's Wow, Just Wow!

I put it into Wikipedia for you Puddin.

And we have High Rez in Kiev!  Here is the Rodina Mat

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Re: Intro Flash Caps go here !
« Reply #155 on: October 28, 2006, 05:21:28 PM »
Now we know where the whole "Belarus/Estonia" rumor came from...they went to Ukraine instead...which of course is nextdoor.

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« Reply #156 on: October 28, 2006, 05:37:55 PM »
:hyper: I'm just glad we got the location fixed before it happens or umm...I mean in TV time not real time :D .

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Re: Intro Flash Caps go here !
« Reply #157 on: October 29, 2006, 01:30:08 PM »
I mentioned in another post that my parents live in Ukraine -- I even THOUGHT about the Statue of the Motherland but thought -- "no, it's silver." YEAH, PUDDIN!!!!  :tup:

BTW, you can climb that statue -- my dad has done it. Possible roadblock?

I have been waiting for them to go to Kiev forever! Woohoo! Can't wait to do some spoling with new clips!!

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« Reply #158 on: October 29, 2006, 01:45:29 PM »
Great mwooden! any ideas of why it looks gold? I'm having a hard time finding a picture or reasons why?

mwooden can you give us a timeline update when you have time?  :kuss:

heres one picture, sort of goldish..is it the sun playing tricks?


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« Reply #159 on: October 29, 2006, 01:48:54 PM »
New route spec in the spoilers thread, Puddin!  :tup: Also, yep, think it's just a lighting thing that's making it look gold.


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« Reply #160 on: October 31, 2006, 10:55:08 AM »
Thanks gingher!!!

So that I could help in the Google-ing soon.
It's "Ouarzazate" NOT "Ourzazate" :)

And on Morocco still, I saw this pic on wiki:


So the falls on the preview might be the Ouzoud Falls :)


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Re: Intro Flash Caps go here !
« Reply #161 on: October 31, 2006, 02:27:26 PM »
Hate to be a wet blanket, seeing as how we have all the intro caps pegged now, but that tank isn't at the museum in Kiev. I've been to that museum a couple times and there's no terrain like that (mud, pines) anywhere around that area. The tank very well could be Ukrainian, but it's not at that site.

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« Reply #162 on: October 31, 2006, 02:46:12 PM »
I questioned the tanks mwooden, it was just a guess.

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« Reply #163 on: October 31, 2006, 04:35:46 PM »
No problem. Just search for an armored unit or tank proving ground nearby (it might be a museum, like the Dennis/Andrew FF, but...I doubt it). Until we can read the uniform (I've had no luck with the patch so far), that's about as close as we're going to get, because the pine forest and mud are generic.

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« Reply #164 on: October 31, 2006, 07:07:19 PM »
Hey, another newbie delurks!!

I have been avidly following the messages here and am quite impressed!   :hallo25

Now onto some info regarding the tanks, DH sent me this link in this regard. It appears that just 43 little miles from Kiev is Desna Military Base and for a price, people can shoot, drive a vehicle or live like a soldier.

Here's the link:

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TRAVEL/NEWS/10/09/ukraine.tourism.reut/index.html

Glad to be posting here and thank you all for the great spoilers!!   :tup:

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« Reply #165 on: October 31, 2006, 08:22:09 PM »
Welcome aboard MrsEbbles :hithere: ! I just checked out the link and DH's lead is looking good  :tup:!

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Re: Intro Flash Caps go here !
« Reply #166 on: October 31, 2006, 08:55:03 PM »
Welcome aboard MrsEbbles :hithere: ! I just checked out the link and DH's lead is looking good  :tup:!


 :yess: 
He looked at the tank picture with driver that's upthread and recognized the tank (despite it's added-on greeblies) and knew instantly that it was Ukrainian. He couldn't figure out the patch due to it being too blurry. He then found some pictures of various models of the T-72 and T-80 Russian tanks but just sent me this link to the article instead. I can post the pictures he found if you like.

Ahhh, the joys of being married to a man who loves TAR!   :hearts:

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« Reply #167 on: October 31, 2006, 09:07:10 PM »
From the link:

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From AK-47 assault rifles to T-72 tanks and Mig-29 fighter jets, Ukraine is offering anyone with money to burn the opportunity to fire, drive and fly the same military equipment that during the Cold War was on hair-trigger alert for a NATO attack.

The tank in the credits is a T-72.   :tup:

And it is close: 47 miles away from Kiev

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Re: Intro Flash Caps go here !
« Reply #168 on: October 31, 2006, 09:32:15 PM »
Nice MrsEbbles,we hope you and DH stick around an post with us  :jumpy: !

Now are we done here?  :yess:

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« Reply #169 on: October 31, 2006, 09:50:44 PM »
Nice find, Mrs.E!  :waves: According to the Alaris site, Desna/Desniansky is the closest firing range to Kiev:
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Clients of Alaris company may visit any of four offered firing ranges of Ministry of Defence of Ukraine:

Desniansky firing range (50 km from Kyiv).
Angarsky firing range (Simferopol, Yalta region at Crimean peninsula).
Uzhgorodsky firing range (20 km from Uzhgorod).
Yavorovsky firing range (70 km from Lviv).


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Re: Intro Flash Caps go here !
« Reply #170 on: November 01, 2006, 06:31:29 AM »
Nice work, Mrs. E!  :yess: Intro caps are done!

Looking forward to D/K with a grenade launcher. :popcorn:

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« Reply #171 on: November 01, 2006, 07:42:35 AM »
^^ yep! looking forward to that, too. (they will be there right?  :lol3:)

Hope my falls will be right :)

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« Reply #172 on: November 01, 2006, 07:48:49 AM »
Just adding a pic from the Alaris site Slowhatch put up -- looks like our tank and our terrain. Can't determine which of their locations this pic comes from, but since the pitstop is in Kiev, can't imagine they'd go any further than Desniansky.

Yep, think those falls are a match, qingher!  :tup:

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« Reply #173 on: November 01, 2006, 08:04:43 AM »
I'm so proud...  :lol3:
Anyways, looks like these CBS monkeys did not recycyle anything in this season's intro...

not enough challenge :hahaha:

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Re: Intro Flash Caps go here ! Updated and complete!!!
« Reply #174 on: November 03, 2006, 07:46:55 PM »
Updated!! :werock:  :woohoo: