ghasp!

I watched it for the second time the other night. It's ok, the accuracy is pretty good for uniforms and equipment, I just find the script a little difficult to take in the latter stages of the film. But then, I've seen a lot worse!

Isn't there a WWII LST doing charity work somewhere in the pacific? :dunno:

I thought the start was quite good, the masacre didn't appear to be premeditated, but the result of a single act of panic by one prisoner. Does anyone know if that's more honest to the facts than the machine gunning scene in 'Battle of the Bulge'?

It goes down hill rapidly for me after that though, especially the bit at the end when the atheist medic finds god through the sacrific of his friends, pleeaassee... :eek2:

Thanks for the info on the carb. Any idea where I might get one of the rebuild kits from?

Having taken my new toy for little run, I think I must have sucked some gunk from the bottom of the tank into the carburettor, partially blocking it. Simple job I though, just take it off and give it a clean, I've got the GMC manual after all, what could go wrong? :whistle:

Now, the carb on my GMC is made by Zenith in France, so I'm guessing that's not an original part! I've removed the four retaining screws, but the carb won't lift off, it travels about an eighth of an inch before something inside stops it moving any futher. :?

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Any ideas? :dunno:

Luckily I am a master of camoflague...

Hey presto and it's gone...

Eat your heart out David Copperfield

try again

The wife is none too happy...

I found a piece of perspex, probably windscreen glass from a glider, while field walking one of the Arnhem LZs.

I also found a .303 used cartridge, a little worse for wear, while taking the kids to feed the ducks in Richmond park. I suspect (though it is just a guess) that it was dropped from an aircraft during the Battle of Britain.

He he. I've also seen pictures of pink Spitfires ~ I think they were recce versions.

 

My father's ship HMS Aurora was painted pink for a while during WWII. The most dangerous time (pre-radar) for a ship was sunrise, when you could suddenly find yourself sitting inside an enemy fleet. They thought the colour gave them an extra 5 minutes grace over ships painted grey. Although it must have been hell for the rest of the day, not to mention when they brought it into port! :whistle:

I got mine from German e-bay, it was postwar police and the liner was wrong for WWII but the shell was identical. I guess they used the old equipement that was still available to run off another batch.

I thought the same thing, if you're going to all that trouble :schocked: why not build it full size? :dunno: But I guess the merlin engine would be a tad expensive and thirsty. :shake:

I think maybe Richard has put his finger on it when saying you might be trying to change up too early. Sounds crazy but I found - again with Mk 1 Militants - that you needed to hold the road speed for a minute (-ish) after reaching it before trying the up-shift. And the clutch movement is a rapid down-up, gear out, down-up, gear in action going up.

Oh - and have the hand on the gear lever before touching the clutch; again as Richard rightly says - too long and the synchronised speed of the components is lost!!!

 

Often wonder these days how long it would take to get back into the hang of going up and down a Militants box after not having sat in one for 30 years....

 

I took her out for another quick spin this weekend, and followed your advice. After a few minutes I was changing sweetly up through the gears and yes 4th and 5th do work! :-D Coming back down again was a it more tricky though! :whistle:

The only problem was on the way back I think something clogged the fuel jet and she lost power and stopped. :cry: I caused a pretty impressive series of traffic jams until I managed to limp her onto a side street over the course of an hour. :oops: So it looks like my next post will be about carburettors :dunno: and the one on my GMC is french :roll:

Most of the stuff is available, but at a price. The world's scrap yard and battle fields are scrounged these days. AFAIK, the collection is privately funded. Good to see that that sort of money is spent on Old Army Trucks, rather than on booze and women :-D

 

H.

Live the dream man! Booze, women and old army trucks! 8-)

We were about to head off to Arnhem for the anniversary march from the drop zones to the bridge, but none of our group had any petrol. Then one day at work, someone came in late and said there was queue of people at a local petrol station, which had apparently received a tankerload. Everyone dashed down there and after waiting in the queue for about an hour I got a tank full. It was enough to get four of us to the ferry for the trip and everything worked out fine.

I've had the same bug and really does knock you for six. There's been a bit of an epidemic in Surrey apparently. One of the hospitals round here actually put up a sign saying if you have these symptoms go home to bed, don't bother us. The cough has been with me two weeks now. I was sent to the doc by my wife (who couldn't stand another sleepless night) he said my throat was red raw and anything could set me off coughing again, which prevented it getting any better. I've now got some cough suppressent, but I'm not sure if it's helping much.

Do any of you know a place in Surrey or the surrounding area that provides parking for big green machines? :dunno: I've been trying to find somewhere local to park the GMC, but all the nearby farms etc seem to think it's too much trouble to be worth the money. The wife is not impressed! :-( If I don't get the GMC off the driveway soon, I'm likely to be the next member of the 101FC camper-van club.

Any help greatly appreciated!

I seem to be doing the right series of events for the change up, but quite often it takes me so long to engage the next gear that the speed drops off and I'd have done better just staying in the original gear. :roll:

I am double declutching (at least I think I am :dunno:) but sometimes it works and other times it just doesn't engage. :? I've never managed to get it into fourth or fifth at all. :oops: I guess I just have to get a demonstration some time, maybe at Beltring.

I guess the covers work as both weather protection and a means of deception. However, having just read 'The German Army at D-Day - fighting the invasion' which is a series of transcripts from intelligence interviews of captured German officers, it seems the Germans had no air reconnaissance capability over the south coast of England in 1944 that was worth mentioning.

I took my GMC out for a quick spin at the weekend, :banghead: or rather a crunch grind clatter. :nono: The noise coming from the box when I tried (without success) to get it into fourth or fifth was awful. :argh: Does anyone have any information on how to work the gearbox properly? :rtfm:

This threat has dredged back some memories of my grandfather, who signed up under-age for the Great War. I remember him saying (and this is the scary bit because I recon it means he was actually in a firing squad on a number of occasions) that the officer palmed the round when he loaded it, so you couldn't actually see the type of round. But I also remember him saying, it didn't do any good as you knew as soon as you pulled the trigger that you'd fired a blank or a live round. I guess by that time it was too late to make much difference.

Good question Rick - does anyone believe that there are germs still out there to be found?

 

There were some pictures of a dismatled tank in a french barn in CMV a few years ago, they were asking what tank it was. I had a look at the pics and from the rear view of the turret it was obviously a Panther, probably ausf A I seem to remember. :schocked: The thought of getting on the next train to France was very tempting! :whistle:

I went last year and can definately recommend it. :-D Driving round in a jeep and blatting off lots of .303 during the main battle :evil: what more can you ask for? The Gurka kitchen! YUM :drool: ! :tongue: !

As soon as I fired off the e-mail about Munich I realised my mistake. :oops:

Is there also a museum in Koblenz?

Do you have to cut sections out of the armour of your armoured vehicles to comply with local laws?