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  Making Czech Hedgehogs
Materials are readily available from your local model shop and the total cost of each hedgehog works out to be less than 20p (excluding paint).
Cut the number of lengths of angle iron required from the length of 3 mm plastic 'angle iron'.
Each is 1.25" (31 mm) long and you will need 3 lengths for each hedgehog.
www.rapid-fire.uk.com /czechhedgehog.htm   (274 words)

  
  Informat.io on Czech Hedgehog
The Czech hedgehog (rozsocháč or ježek in Czech language) was a static tank obstacle defense made of angle iron (that is, lengths with an L- or I- shaped cross section) deployed during World War II by various combatants.
Czech hedgehogs were widely used during World War II by USSR in anti-tank defense.
Industrially manufactured Czech hedgehog were made of three L-shaped metal brackets (L 140/140/13 mm, length 180 cm, weight 198 kg; later versions: length 210 cm, weight 240 kg) joined by sheet metal, rivets and bolts (or, later in the war, welded together) into a characteristic spatial three-armed cross.
www.informat.io /?title=Czech_hedgehog   (473 words)

  
 News | Gainesville.com | The Gainesville Sun | Gainesville, Fla.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Czech hedgehog (rozsocháč in Czech language) was a static tank obstacle defense made of angle iron (that is, lengths with an L- or I- shaped cross section) deployed during World War II by various combatants.
The hedgehogs were originally used on the Czech–German border by the Czechoslovak border fortifications - a massive but never-completed fortification system built on the eve of World War II by Czechoslovakia.
However, such parameters were hard to achieve in makeshift hedgehogs, thus reducing their usefulness.
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 Modelling
With Czech hedgehogs supporting 3-5 barbwire coils, or with wooden stakes supporting the wire.
When the glue is dry, you could cut some of the barbwire for gaps, or flatten a little bit of the wire and place a prone infantryman over the flattened wire, or model a crater onto base and cut the wire above it an twist end of coil for a explosive effect.
Once done its time to age the Czech hedgehogs/wooden posts and barbed wire with a rust effect.
www.flamesofwar.com /?tabid=110&art_id=238&kb_cat_id=24   (910 words)

  
 NvB: Bored in Brno?: Save the Hedgehogs
Zdena Dvorska's dedication to the little creatures began by chance, when she was in hospital in the winter of 1970: during a walk outside discovered an abandoned hedgehog pup in the snow, which she took to her room.
There's a Czech saying about how you are a new person for every language you learn.
At some point, the Czech Republic's "second city" (that would be Brno) captured my attention, and I've since been blogging about events, arts, music, and other stuff—basically whatever interests me in and around the cityscape.
morskyjezek.blogspot.com /2006/08/save-hedgehogs.html   (302 words)

  
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 NvB: Bored in Brno?: Hedgehogs Unsafe from Drivers
Czech roads are notorious havens for unsafe driving.
The regulations might even affect hedgehogs, which do have a dangerous go of it on the roads.
The mentality of most car drivers in the country, however, is clear from her survey: they would rather kill them or maim them for life than swerve a few centimetres to the side.
morskyjezek.blogspot.com /2006/08/hedgehogs-unsafe-from-drivers.html   (412 words)

  
 SECRETS OF THE DEAD . D-Day . Clues and Evidence | PBS
The blast could destroy a jeep, or blow the tracks off a tank.
Next, Rommel placed a row of "Czech hedgehogs," devices sculpted from three metal girders or pieces of rail line welded together at the center.
The steel structures could rip out the hull of a boat.
www.pbs.org /wnet/secrets/case_dday/clues.html   (994 words)

  
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SPINY HOLIDAY HEDGEHOG: THERE ARE 2 DIFFERENT STYLES OF THIS HEDGEHOG.
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 Judge Adds Own Code To 'Da Vinci' Ruling - OffBeat News
Reuters - The search is on for Britain's small, prickly, shy -- and rapidly disappearing -- hedgehogs.
Czech coalition party turns liberal in vote quest (Reuters)
Reuters - Women commuters filled female-only, pink-striped subway cars in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro on Monday on the first day of a scheme to avert groping and other unwanted sexual advances.
www.dudespeak.com /offbeatnews1380-.htm   (3344 words)

  
 PlanetMedalOfHonor - A Member of the GameSpy Network   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Winchester hauled the human cargo around by a strap on his back, navigating around the dragon's teeth and hedgehogs.
Ahead, a medic was attending to patients behind the cover of a torched Higgins boat.
Washed up on the shore were charred DD tanks, the support he was asking for.
www.planetmedalofhonor.com /features/literature/0020.shtml   (6589 words)

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