Photo Reference Resource including images of China
Recommendations: 205
About the Project
I've decided to change this project to a general photo reference resource for paining and modelling. I'll be including images I've taken of a wide variety of subjects which I think will useful as reference pics for painting and modelling. Recently I visited China for several weeks, and whilst there I visited several locations which included a permanent movie set of a town set in early 20th Century China. The movie set is just outside the city of Shenyang in Northern China. This is one of several permanent movie sets dotted around China. There is another just outside Shanghai, which is much bigger and cover several historical periods. Unfortunately just before I returned to the UK, the Shenyang movie town set caught fire and parts of it were destroyed. The aim of this project is to allow anyone use the images as a picture resource for building terrain for gaming in China between 1900-1949, which includes WW2 for all those Bolt Action players. I will also include some images of older buildings that would have been in use still in the Early part of the 20th Century, which will include temple buildings.
Related Genre: General
This Project is Active
Summer Palace Part 1 - Suzhou Street
The Summer Palace is a vast estate of lakes, gardens and palaces on the outskirts of Beijing. It was the Imperial garden during the Qing Dynasty, it covers approximately 2.9 km square.
The Suzhou Street was built in 1762, as a copy resembling Shantong Street and canal in Suzhou by the Emporer Qianlong. In 1860 the British and French destroyed parts of it which were rebuilt and restored in 1988.
Construction of the Shantang Canal started in 825 AD, during the Tang Dynasty by Bai Juyi, a poet and the Cishi (modern-day equivalent of the prefectural governor) of Suzhou, to provide a link between Huqiu and the city. The sludge dug out from the construction formed a dam along the north bank of the canal known as Baigong Dam in honor of Bai Juyi. A street was built on the dam, which later became the modern-day Shantang Street.
The site it massive and it’s spread allover the estate, I spent a day there and only saw a fraction of the Summer Palace.
Forbidden Palace (Beijing) Part 1
We decided to visit this in the early morning arriving at 8:30am when it opened hoping to avoid the crowds only to turn up on a day when schools from all over China had arrived for a visit. So it was rammed lol
It was also a really hot day, and once in side a lot of the palace has white walls, so the sun bounced off every surface which made it even hotter. The site is huge and is literally a warren of different buildings and walkways. It’s one of those places you really should visit if you go to China.
Temple complex in Chengdu
This was a temple complex on the side of a mountain near Chengdu, you climb up through the complex to the top of the mountain, where the views are supposedly pretty amazing, the problem was when we visited a fog descended by the time we reached the top lol
Some Chinese Architecture
Pagoda style building
Part of a Buddhist temple
Decorative Lantern using on the outside of a building
Another lantern style used to light the outside
Chinese buildingThese are some images I’ve taken on several trips to China. I’ll be adding more images of some of the historic buildings from various periods in Chinese history.
Military (Gulf War)
Here’s some of the images I took on a cheap 35mm compact camera during the Gulf War (Desert Storm). It’snot all of the pictures I managed to take. I’ll have to head up to the attic to locate a small photo album I have. I did take a lot of images of battle damage to Iraqi vehicles, so I’ll try and find those.
Iraqi Tank
Tank Rounds
Checking M109 rounds
M109 
Iraqi Artillery Gun
Rear of M109
Side View M109
Rear of Ammo Wagon
