Tankfest, a day out at Bovington (Updated)

Modeling Subjects Armor
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about the Tiger 2 in france, the man in charge of restoring the Tiger 1 wanted to have a look to see how the cooling system fitted up to the engine, so he went over to France to see if they could show him with there Tiger 2, they wouldnt even lift the hatch on itor sell any of there hundreds of spare parts. what a complete bunch of [censored]

back with more photos
a half track Jeep

Weasel

Austin Tilly

Sherman

T34

Iraqi T72

Valentine Duplex Drive

Comet (come on Tamiya make one of these[bow])

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Salivating…I doubt I’ll ever make it to Aberdeen let alone Bovington, so thanks again for the pictures.

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Thanks for the pics, i wish we had something like Bovington in NZ. real live tanks are fairly rare here. I have never seen one moving in real life(sigh) oh well, Bovington on the OE i think.[:D]

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Thanks for all the pix!

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I’m still trying to get the “SS”'s sorted out on Sherman suspensions. Can someone tell me which one is on the Sherman in the picture? I think its HVSS, but that just a WAG. Thanks.

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What is the deal with the french not letting him look at the engine compartment , could they not tell he wasn’t some schmoe off the street ? Were they hiding some kind of military secret ?[;)] Thats just ridiculous and yet another reason to dislike the french , ( and I am part french BTW , but the swede offsets it !) Anyhow they have done an excellent job on the restore , a little tuneup and she should be almost as good as new ! Very kool ![8D]

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Heres some more photos (i had to make some room to host more)

WW1 Mk1
(The first thing you see when you go into the museum is a German soldier [censored] himself and looking at this)

you then go around in a trench and you get to see the reat of it

Pics of the Tiger 1

This man was in the Firefly that knocked out Wittmann (missed his name, and im not sure what story he’s in))

Panzer 2

Pershing (it looks like there repairing it, the side bins were of and looked a bit rusty)

Char B

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Why are we trying so hard to make our tiger models more realistic when the real one looks like platic? He-he-he.

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Heres some more[:D]

Shermans

Roberts wallpaper

Firefly

Sherman Flail

Grant

Baby Sherman, Locust

Ram

Stag

Churchill Crocadile

Cromwell

AEC

Centaur Dozer

Honey

Guy Mk1

Buffalo

251/1

Stug III G

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thats alot of pics!! thanks for sharing

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Buff -
HVSS or Easy 8 suspension

VVSS

Early Sherman M3 suspension

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Love the Stug, Firefly and Cromwell, etc. Thanks for all the pics. What camera are you using? Pics turned out nice.

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The cameras my dads Fuji Finepix S5000 its a great camera, he was lucky he got it back
some of the others are taken with a Kyocera finecam S3, (that i want to get rid of and get a Fuji Finepix S5000)

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What happened to the link I posted? Some forum rule broken? No one want to videos of the tiger?

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More, more ,more ,more, more, more ,more ,more ,more ,more, more ,more ,more, more, more, more ,more, more, more.,

Please.Ta.

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Video of Tiger here:-
www.akula971.com

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it was posted in the other thread about The Tiger

its a great site, thanks for posting it Comfy

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Caveman,

Great pics again [tup] Awesome !
Thanks

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Cool pix, Jon! Thanks!
Cool vid link, Comfy!
Thanks!

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I would be lucky to see half of that in my life!
That must have been a huge festival. The only tanks I’ve seen are Shermans, a Churchill, a Centurion, and some small Brittish APC’s[;)]