tartan-ninja

not even a very good fake....:sleep:

nope sorry private build based on Brave Class Hull and engines Brave Challenger was built at Vosper as a high speed yacht for Stavros Niarchos in about 1960. Her original name was Mercury. She was sold some years later to an Italian named Roberto Memmo who eventually sold her to Wensley Hayden Bailey. It was Hayden Bailey who changed her name to Brave Challenger. She is still to be seen in Portsmouth harbour some times at Gunwharf and sometimes at Gosport. Her design was based on the "Brave Class" and like them powered by 3 Proteus. She has achieved speeds of 60 knots and perhaps plus. Fine looking boat though....want it.. now where's that lottery ticket i lost down the back of the sofa ?:cool2:

I was wondering what these were...we still have two in the signals store...no one knew what they were and no one wanted to throw them out....:nut:

Any idea where she ended up, would luv to see it when cleaned up...:cool2:

Google map of where She is :-D

There is a Good T34/85 at Winney Hill FIBUA Village at Cattrick few years back...it was complete when i saw her....

Hi guys can i get the link to Vid on Y tube please ?

another couple...will get the older Afghan ones sorted out Er please ignore the idiot in front of the MTLB....

Cheers Andy/Tony Got a few more bits to drop in of all types and models.... When I finsh playing in Green part time I do plan to get a wee AFV to play with......would luv a ferret or a Fox. would settle for a LR Wimk as i was a landophile for many years and ran a few defenders and a Range Rover, but due to work and overseas commitments i had to sell them and go Normal..Bugger!

Yes Andy fantastic looking boats..My Dad took me to see them when they were in Troon Marina when i was a kid...I thought they were Dark Class UK Boats for years than i started to look them up to see where they went..a sad end to one of the old girls.

Hello all these pictures are of a NASTY Class boat wrecked in Campbelltown Loch across from the NATO jetty... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tjeld_class_patrol_boat A Norwegian Tjeld class boat they were used all over NATO and for famously by the Americans in Vietnam... powered by the awsome Napier Deltic diesel engines.. This one was bought with four of her sisters in Norway and taken to Troon they lay there for many years in the harbour/marina then sold in the early 90's...one was returned to Norway, another to the south on England (Cornwall) and again restored, and this poor thing ended up here... Here is a link for more info on the class... http://www.ptfnasty.com/

I think I know just the place :cool2:....Tank Grave yard outside Kabul easy to get stuff here the Americans lifted a FT17 WW1 vintage tank from here and there has been loads of early biplanes recovered in the last few years from the other smaller scrapyard off to the left of this picture...think it would cost a fortune to get it home though :-( Got a few more to scan, its got T34's, T34/85's, BRDM's BTR's, BMD's, MTLB's, T55's and T62's and quite a few other Types.... pity its not the most handy place at the moment...but who knows in a few years !

Ahhh dont know who has it now but it mine for at least all of 5 Mins...Knew i should have hidden the thing....LOL :-D Cheers for the post I thought the Danes had had it away...:rofl:

thought you should have at least one modern-ish Snatch wagon.. and an Early Wimk...:-D no fancy 50 cals for us...:cry:

My unit still has them (for the mortar platoon and Anti Tank platoon) and uses them,though not often main complaint is the gearbox...you need to "Use The force" to find second gear :-D They are top heavy when loaded and terrible off road...Nice looking. But rubbish :-( I liked driving it though... (never found any problems with the brakes, but our LAD Det says they got kits to sort it)

Hi, just checked posts on Warrelics, i posted the same question this week and Eddy8men on here has found this pic of the A39 Tortoise taken in the Range in 1991...looked the same in 2006.. :yay:

Aiming marker pole for GPMG SF for the lamp...thats why its got the black and white paint !!! tut...Tankies :-D Sorry beat to it...LOL

and to End our Ex we got two days off in Paris.. This FT17 was in the French Army Museum...Wee Cracker Eh?

The VAB's were all over this camp, (Satory outside Paris) few different models were there

more of the AMX 30's and the Sherman

Sorry I never got a close up of the Sherman, the AMX 30's were nearer to my location..... However i know some of Jocks took pics of it so will get them on when i get them....

Think ive mucked up already..oops I'll stick to range hulks and anything interesting i come across.... Sorry MOD's no offence meant.... TN

Some Arty this time..I'm not great with bits of Arty....so i'll leave it to you guys to name it...:sweat:

And some more..this time its two Wrecks outside the wire... at the Airport... both had one hell of a "knock" at one time..:shocked: I was told most of the Armour was knocked out during Op Granby rather than the later telic....

some more, T55's loads of them..hundreds maybe....This one was out side the DANBAT camp......last thing i saw of it was heading off on a low loader...