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Yes we have a few tracked vehicles, but not lots

One of the stars arrived today, Rugged Robin

Andrew Baker bringing three of his CVRT's & doing a synchronised driving/pyro display,

An Abbot,

A couple of M3 half-tracks

A 432, a 434

And a Ford Universal Carrier.

 

And also have more wheeled armour this year.

 

Total MV count currently just under 400 & thankfully the weather forecast is improving. And even if it does rain it won't get as sticky as last year when it just rained for weeks in the run up to the show.

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Yes we have a few tracked vehicles, but not lots

One of the stars arrived today, Rugged Robin

Andrew Baker bringing three of his CVRT's & doing a synchronised driving/pyro display,

An Abbot,

A couple of M3 half-tracks

A 432, a 434

And a Ford Universal Carrier.

 

And also have more wheeled armour this year.

 

Total MV count currently just under 400 & thankfully the weather forecast is improving. And even if it does rain it won't get as sticky as last year when it just rained for weeks in the run up to the show.

 

 

Thanks !

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Partially set-up last evening and had great difficulty getting the tent pegs into the hard ground ! Great sunset though. It did rain a little overnight but, agree with Paul, ground conditions are quite solid. Weather forecast seems to be improving every few hours.

 

Looking forward to a great show !

 

Cheers

 

Steve 82

 

Image - camp @ 04:45am (yes, really !)

 

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Just got back. The Shorland struggled up some of the hills but all back safe & sound.

 

Despite the wind, a very enjoyable weekend. Many thanks Paul to you & your team for the work in planning & implementing the plans with a high standard of safety awareness, which was good to see.

 

Glad I made the effort to go, relieved the rain pretty much held off.

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A great friendly show with the added attraction of the excellent Camp Display, which is well worth the visit.

 

Paul was in charge of Rugged Robin for the duration, here is a vid of him giving it a last good thrash around right at the end of the show before I prized the keys from his clenched fist.. :-D

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Sorry about the wind noise...

 

 

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Hi Guys,

Thank you so much for the support & making this our best weekend yet. It was just so much fun & ran so smoothly, thankfully without incident.

 

And thanks so much to Dave M for letting me use his quad on the Thu & Fri and a big thank you to Bernard for travelling up to bring the Rugged Robin. Very kind of him to let me use it as my 'Staff Car'. Not only is it a great little runaround but it turns more heads than a Sherman! Rugged Robin put smiles on so many faces & left quite a few scratching their heads wondering if it really was an Ex-Falklands Special Ops vehicle.

 

If you asked me which vehicle was photographed the most it would be a tight race between the Robin & the Albion.

 

The other main highlights have to be:

The 1916 Albion, which Great War Truck spent much of the weekend drooling over.

The camp looking its best & jam packed with people especially on the Sunday.

The Garrison firing all the guns

And their night time display with the searchlight and firing of the 3.7inch, I think four rounds was just spectacular, wait till you see the pictures, they are awesome.

Andrews CVRT driving/pyro display just gets better.

The battle continues to improve.

Oh and finally, seeing FV1609 in his onezee was hilarious!

 

So do please post any pics you have.

cheers

Paul

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Friends of the rivets relaxing Hic !

 

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It did make my dad and I smile when we saw all those bottles on the table when walking around on Friday evening.

 

Meanwhile I also make an unexpected appearance in Bernard's video :D

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Whilst pics are being sorted, thought I would post a pic of one of the other highlights which has to be the display of the searchlight & gun being fired at night, it really was an incredible site and hasn't been done at a show for a few years.

 

Four cartridges, each having 750 grams of black powder, certainly made me jump, set off a few car alarms, sent shock waves through a few tents & cracked a window in one of the nissen huts!

 

Pic courtesy of Richard Kyte.

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Great show and, hats-off yet again to the organisers and landowner for putting-on such a grande show ! Much better weather than last year and, despite a few showers, the surface never muddied up the whole time !

 

So many aspects of the show are developing that it is difficult to do justice to all. However, here are a few random pics for starters.......

 

Several more to-come.....

 

Cheers

 

 

 

 

VMARS Radio Camp

 

Radio Camp - Rons K9

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Radio Camp - inside of Ron`s K9

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Radio Camp - looking South

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Radio Camp - Mog and K9

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Radio Camp - Mog set-up

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Arena

 

The boys having fun......

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Paras on the move.....

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Germans on the move

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And now some general pics around the site. So much more Living history (most welcome btw) this year.

 

Busy, busy, busy...

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Can we have one for the Tesco - run.....?

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Great scenarios

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Lots of public interest....

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Champs !

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Full public carpark...

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Landies 1

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He assured us the pidgeons were real.....

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Lovely bikes...

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Zeltbahns...

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...and yet more zeltbahns........

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A couple of kubels......

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Nice truck....

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Keeping warm on the Saturday.....

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Yet another display......

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Nice truck...

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Volvo

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More to come...........

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Hi Steve,

Thanks for taking the time to post, whilst it was overcast at least we didn't get much rain on the Saturday.

Was good to see many VMARS members supporting the radio section, so thanks for your help with the co-ordination of.

cheers

Paul

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Hi Paul,

 

Just a quick thank you for a great Evesham show - it just gets better and better. Couple of pics of Ian and I doing the serious duty of doing fire cover with the TACR-1 :-) and the rare gathering of three Volvo TGB 1111s!

 

Cheers,

 

Paul

 

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Every year I keep meaning to take a few more pics to capture the scale & atmosphere of the show but I always seem to get distracted & just run out of time. Thankfully one of our members Brian climbed the watchtower late afternoon on the Sunday, so here's a panoramic view:

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BH Tower entrance med.jpg

BH Tower Dingos med.jpg

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