Papav66

Looks a lovely setting with those timber buildings & a great place to camp,

Yes thats correct, the iron connection is in the mould pattern. Interesting history as they also made shell & bomb casings

Its quite satisfying when we look back and work out that we've moved/lifted a combined weight of 80 tons. Bob James is then going cover it up again & tarmac inside and another member is going to arrange for some sounds effects, so yes its a great team effort.

Last piece finally on and almost finished. Certainly another interesting addition to the camp.

When you walk in it is quite light inside but must have darkened when packed with 50 men, but don't think they used white w.

Halfway there, but we made a slight change by putting the escape hatch in the middle instead of the end.

Think one side is ok otherwise you'll get print showing through from the other unless you have a really heavy fabric. What stops it blowing off pole? or how about an eyelet top & bottom? Should print be further over to the right as its appears to over the stitching?

Thanks for replies, v interesting. We are still cleaning them up & will post as we progress.

Yesterday, Sat 10th May we started to re-build the Stanton. Good job we numbered all the pieces. But after 68 years it was a bit of a bugg3r lining some of them up so we had to use the diggers for a little push here & there.

Been watching your threads from the time you started posting your saga & by the time you actually get it on the road, I think you're going to be much older! Someone probably saw the address you were sending to & opened it in the hope they could clone your vehicle until they realised what it is. Or perhaps it will still turn up in a few days. Best o luck.

I'd be interested to also see inclusion of: landing craft, subs, hovercraft & more modern stealth

Took a few loads to bring back to camp as we reckon the whole lot weighs about 20tons! Concrete base has gone down today and bought new bolts, then planning to erect again on the Saturday so will post our efforts then.

1st post ok 2nd No 3rd can see first pic but not others 4th can see minibus 5th No

This show was a bit different, and not all static, a one off. It was to celebrate 60 years of Land Rovers, not just MV's and had every type of Landy there & no two were the same. There were road runs from the Solihull factory to Gaydon, arena displays with parades of vehicles, & demonstrations of models old & new & demos of various bits of kit, Land Rover club stands, stalls, rides around the off road track, go karting & a large museum to go round. So there was lots to do, I just went as a visitor with children, it was busy and we enjoyed the atmosphere

Went today, (Sunday) also liked this Arctic diorama but especially liked the 2a Gunship

Yeap, having the rights colours does make it look much better, thank you.

for those interested in its location here is an aerial view from multimap http://www.multimap.com/maps/?hloc=GB|weston%20subedge#map=52.07146,-1.8185|20|32&loc=GB:52.06959:-1.81828:14|weston%20subedge|Weston-sub-Edge,%20Chipping%20Campden,%20Gloucestershire,%20England,%20GL55%206 then if you zoom out & go North West for about a mile you see the airfield, or go South East to the other side of the road & zoom in, you'll see more shelters in the field. I just enjoy roaming on these maps.

Think the plan is to wash inside, then place waterproof membrane outside as will be part buried & partly hidden by a cotswold stone wall. But thats going to take more than a day to put back up. Apart from the cow cr4p its was dry inside as they had sealed all the joints with bitumen

thanks for making me chuckle, bet the chap carrying the car shell was really chuffed at the thought of building his car.

doesn't look that old to me, reckon he's just after some free labour to remove a load of bricks, what do you think?

here's a better close up taken today 3rd May

This is another one of Bob James's finds for his WW2 camp near Evesham. Located near what was Honeybourne airfield, Worcs, the landowner had already demolished two but said we could have this one, but boy it was a hard graft. Looking at the surrounding fields I was surprised to see so many others. Took five of us all day to dismantle & remove several tons of concrete & couldn't have done it without Bob's JCB & jack hammer, as we also had to remove several tons of soil & parts of the original blast walls along with a lot of cow crap inside. 18 Sections either side, bolted together resting in a concrete channel. So here's a few pics of it being dismantled.

Here's one I made earlier, well last Saturday 26th April. After having primed the two new Nissen huts at the South Midlands MVT clubhouse near Evesham, we've started to camouflage them. Seemed to take an age painting, green, black & brown & a bit tricky up top making sure you didn't slide off as you can only go so far with a ladder+ the tin was getting hot in the sun.

Restoration work has now started on these two searchlights, but we are missing the top fans and housings, so if anyone knows of any sitting around then please let me know. Thanks Paul