very nice composition and different

Thanks Eladine.

this is a Chinese hand of a Chinese person, should not people in the photos be Chinese too, lol, good job and good luck.

Edit: you are welcome

Orientallad: Thanks for comment. Today is my birthday. Everybody is invited to a sunny day and lots of fun.......!

Nix the white fingernails, and show the original image in SBS.
Edit: Sorry, didn't realize you had just posted. Nice work on the restoration.

@CMYK46: You are very fast I didn't complete the uploading yet! Thanks for your comment! I'll fix it!

Secret note to Author. When submitting an entry you can tick the box on the submission page that says "Publish entry later (via 'my contest entries')" and then you have all the time in the world to get it right before anyone sees it. You can check your links, your SBS and see how the image looks in Hi Res. Then when you are all done just go to My Stuff>My Entries>Hit the "Publish Entry" button. Voila, you have a perfect submission. That is until someone notices something else is wrong ... happens to me all the time but at least I get some of the problems taken care of before anyone can see!

@CMYK46: Thanks for the edit, friend!

@arca: Really? I didn't realise it before how it could help me the "publish entry later", thus I didn't check it! I'll use it each time from now! Thank you!

But you never fixed the blinding white fingernails...

This was difficult! Trying to get the shadows..can't just duplicate and desaturate because i was using a multiply filter..will do a sbs tomorw as it's too late now and i'm knackered..

Nice job, author! The shadows look just fine to me.

Cheers!!

very sentimental! gl

The tonality really makes it feel nostalgic! I agree with Bob, the shadows look fine, nicely done. (I'd love to have Basil Fawlty's car, I love Britcoms).

nice collection...lol...cool work author...GL

Nice external source find, and good integration of contest source. I'm also a Fawlty Towers fan, spotted that right away.

Very imaginative work of art. It's **** cool! GL author!

Thank you very much

Good imagination...the best of a bad lot.

Nice Job This is same idea I was thinking before site went down Well done

lots of hard work in the SBS.. good luck author

Nice construction, I tried to do this once, it took me hours, got bored and never submitted
Glad to see you had the patience.
When i chopped I was getting inspired by this: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/177048 & other similar pics on sxc.
Maybe you had some reference pics as well - there's no shame in admitting & posting them.
It's not like we can invent tanks, with so many details without help, and no sane voter will pretend that..

I'm not sure what 'star' means,( I though Chinese, not Soviet), and I'm not sure why you used sepia, either.
In case you wanted to make it look like an old photo from the big war, I would suggest adding some scratches, imperfections, maybe some decoloration (dodge) on the edges, to make it authentic. Good luck.

thanks greymval for the extensive comment .
1. no reference image is used in this image (i do know about tanks and this one can't even turn the turret lol, sadly i've seen my share of tanks some 12 years ago) .
2.the star is placed on the tank when the partisans capture it from the nazis .
3.i will try to make it older with imperfections and all thanks for the suggestion

edit: ok i hope i didn't destroyed it too much

very nice!

Very nice work and integration with the background, including the paper texture.

well executed...gl author

very well built, and respecting the subject of the image, very good

Congrats!

Congrats