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It saddens me how few bomber air and ground crew will survive to see it, my father in law was a Lancaster tail gunner, he died 30 years ago he would never talk about what happened.

Welcome, I will no doubt return to land rover at some point, I can understand your fascination with them.

I thought there was a bigger thread for these but anyway.

Have a Tilly and an armored Mat

Nice bunch of pictures, I like seeing these jobs progress, couple of things though.

Some parts after the sand blasting and galvanised

That looks a lot like Cadmium plate/passivate that I used to get done years ago, I am intrigued as I have not seem galv look like that.

And

...will post new pictures if you want.

.....Want!

Some really evocative photo's in your gallery

Welcome!

Photo's of everything, as far as I know, on the Pirbright ranges in 2010 here

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/album.php?albumid=347

Could you redo the link please?

It seems to go nowhere....well for me it goes nowhere:-(

I was going to put forward a problem with the points (250 AJS in the dim and distant past that had the same symptoms).

Are you going to keep the solution a secret?

As I was looking through the pictures my mind was on "there must be a hats off smilie for this"

This was the nearest I could find :saluting:

That is a very good start, I will be interested to watch your progress.

When I first saw the picture I thought I had missed an event at the HMVF clubhouse...I then realised that, though similar, it is not our car park but one that was obviously designed by Heineken.

(not sure if that joke works anywhere other than the UK)

That is a very nice collection! Thanks for sharing.

changes a scratch-project into an "ordinary" scale model

I know what you mean exactly, I have a scratch built model traction engine that is still in bare metal for that very reason.

It will never be painted.

Nice job you are doing by the way!

I was wondering why the censors decided to blank out the carriers name? ...Well nearly, they forgot on one of the trailors so we know it was E W Rudd:-D

There are hundreds of new photos up on the Britain from the air site, including airfields full of lancasters, a few mosquitos and the odd spitfire.

Here is an MV one for you

Fish in a barrel off the Watford Bypass, Bushey, 1949

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/download/EAW025277

A small corner

Not quite the same thing but we had a pack of small sized reverse rotation fluted drill bits. There was a particular job that required that size hole. The newest sprog was given the job and the drill, we would let them try sharpening it twice before going to the drill press, starting it in reverse (they never notice) and drilling a hole! Simple things.....

Good! another thread to follow! Keep the pictures coming please.:-D

Here we are 2 weeks later and....

Ploughman asked

Are the tippers to the bottom left of the square anything special?

This is the only view of the area so no idea of what they are I am afraid.

The other one I left here before my holiday, the vehicle can be picked out in a few photo's taken of the area as it moves through the town, it is only this photo that shows what it is.

I am off for some R & R in sunnier climes for a couple of weeks so I will leave you with Amersham, There are a series of photo's of the town taken in 1948 where this item can be seen but it is only in this one that its identity is revealed.

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/eaw013623?search=EAW013623&ref=0

As no one seemed to be interested in the GT Yarmouth one, here is what I saw.

See you in 2 weeks.

The other big item on the same picture is this...

Has anyone got the Gt Yarmouth one or don't you like this game?

You got this one alright.

As to the other one there is a V8 ford in there but there is something a bit bigger as well.

Here is another one that has a couple of items of interest. 1948 Newark on Trent.

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/eaw013673?search=Newark-on-Trent&ref=24

.....and another one Gt Yarmouth 1928

if you have pins enabled you will get this easily as someone has marked it.

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw021191?search=great%20yarmouth&ref=25

due to loss of storage

I hope you have somewhere else to work on her organised, The Mat has always been near the top of my favorite vehicle list. It looks like you are well on the way with this one,please keep us informed on progress.

Wow! All this info at the click of a button due to the member s here being so willing to share their experience and knowledge.

My experience goes something like this.

Road/show ready vehicle I purchased a Gaz 69 all up and running, found a couple of jobs to do on it but sold it for what I had paid when it was not keeping me occupied.

Barn find project Ser 2A Land rover purchased as an abandoned project, spent many hours and lots of money getting it rebuilt and back on the road for the first time in years. Sold it on as a well sorted vehicle for less than I had paid out... not by much but still a loss, this is of course ignoring the hours I put into it.

Out of the above the Landie was the best one for me as it fulfilled my need to tinker.:-D

Land rover overdrive castle nut spanner from a socket.

How are you getting the high resolution photographs?

Are you registered on the Britain from above site? Once logged in you have a zoom function.