Snapper

Always is, but there are ways. I suppose you just need lots of spare time and I bet you have it in abundance (not).

This is a fantastic idea. The book would sell. It would be good to thread through it the Sherman preservation and, without being an expert (because I'm not) give any histories available of the vehicles themselves. Having the Sherman is essential to this and fortunately Adrian has the material and the position of authority to add gravitas. Maybe tie in some work from the other range regulars - an HMVF production! Sounds like a stocking filler to me.

It's his sister who has trouble keeping her feet off the furniture. The boy Stryker is just your standard fourteen year old mouth on a stick. He likes his MV's, though and drives his mum mad with Dragon stuff. You'll see him at some point, and when you do, tell him to get home and tidy his flipping bedroom.

Cheers chaps. Will hopefully see you down there at some point. Will definitely be at Kelvedon.

are you lads down at the Fort a lot. can I bring my Iltis down to say hello???

Lucky sod. I may get a day in Flanders soon.

I did Eurodisney in agony on crutches, I'd snapped my knee ligaments playing footie with my kids...it took me a while to get round in persistent drizzle. In the end the Barnes clan could stand no more and got me a wheelchair. My wife proceeded to get it stuck in tramlines and we had one Laurel and Hardy moment. Then she proceeded to crash it in to a kerb and I was thrown out on to the pavement. After that, my mate Nick drove. We ended up on the river boat trip (it was done up for Halloween. I was wheeled through to the front and allowed to get on first in front of a huge crowd. But....the wheelchair couldn't go up the step (odd...no ramp) and I had to get up and step on..a man dressed as a mummy was there to help me. As I stepped up a cry from the crowd bellowed HE CAN WALK!! Never been so embarressed in my life. I do not mind admitting after that I sought revenge on my wife and in distinctly non PC fashion I pretended to be ga ga shouting and singing and rocking from side to side. It did not get us a better table in one of the cafés.

My mrs thinks our shed is a Tardis. It has four bikes, all my Iltis spares and junk, the BBq, garden chairs, two cupboards, tool boxwes, mower, a trampolene, a play pen, several scooters, wellies, sports equipment, workmate, paint tins, decorating kit, a space hopper, lots of saws, a million spiders, several hybernating squirrels and a few old foreign number plates - there is also the bonnet AEC shaped badge off a Routmaster and a destination plate my Dad nicked off a Berlin-Hook of Holland train in 1969.

Bovy have an S Tank. Love the Bat-M style radar unit - where was it?? Sexy PW armour: Saladin, M113, Achzarit APC (Israeli built based on T55 used by the Golani Brigade, The BTR range of eight wheeler apcs, PT76, M551 Sheridan, Stryker/coyote, the new FV430 Bulldog looks like an Israeli Zelda upgrade M113, any of the big French armoured cars.

Tony, I'll log on to your site when I'm at work. I've been promising you a visit for at least five years!! Mark

cheers Lee. There are lot of people outside of this forum who assume there was only ever one D-Day. As we know, it is just the most famous.

Berni, if I showed you mine, my life in the MV world would be over.

D just means Day. There is no other meaning - same as H means Hour.

don't forget me and one other.

ouch

Dodgy Vindaloo?

I think they've lost some to IEDs blowing wheels off etc - but "lost" is a subjective term. Remember also the YouTube film we were directed to recently. They have had casualties with some foundering in deep water. Didn't some go swimming in the Euphrates with tragic consequences? Even in the underated "Courage Under Fire" the only Abrams destroyed was a blue on blue (I've been reading The Sun - I know my stuff). It is hard to imagine a situation when an Abrams would have to take on a Challenger for real. John's info about the armour is very interesting. Tony Hoare has snapped Abrams on SP - see his truly brilliant plainmilitary.com website - got any comments Tony??????

I think the two axle Chevy is, indeed, the prettiest truck and the closed cap GMC or Studebaker is a close second. For a brute I would say the Mack NO2, but I would like to see a Brockway 666 up close away from a museum. For me the most handsome of British trucks is the Militant, but I will always love the Antars for sheer scale. I don't really care for jeeps. They are nice - but I'd take a Dodge any day. I prefer the Champ - funny looking thing that it is and even my dear old Iltis which is a dogs breakfast on wheels. The trouble with all this is, given the six numbers, I'd build up a collection of them all and need you lot to help me drive them. Another smart motor is Tony Corbin's International fire truck - as seen in this months Classic Commercial Vehicles.

We were discussing logos and stuff. It was all going well until someone suggested buying up surplus KF shirts. My brief says he'll get me off the attempted murder charge once he's saved up enough money to bail me out of Pentonville.

As soon as someone has one please give us a synopsis. I think this might be a book of photos of the men as they look now with snaps from the time.

HMVF Looters at large. Very amusing. I'll have to look for you amongst all the press pics.

This is the latest gem from After The Battle, and may have found it's way into your Christmas stocking. There are not enough superlatives to describe this book, which has been my bedtime reading for a few weeks, now. Jean Paul Pallud spends literally years putting these books together and his devotion to the task is stunning. Aside from gathering an amazing collection of contemporary pictures, his skills in finding the actual locations as they look today may well be unsurpassed. The text chugs along in good order and gives a good overview, generally down to divisional or battle group level; of what is going on. Even alert readers will need to keep the roman numeric unit titles in their heads - don't mix your LXXXIXs with your XLIXs - but the clarity of it all makes things a pleasure to read. Personal accounts enliven the whole package, but for a career picture librarian like me it is the photographs and superb captions that make these books so essential. When we spoke to David Fletcher we asked him what was so special about the Tiger I (here we even see a captured train load of the things - where did they go?) - in this book it is the demise of several Tiger II and exotica such as Jagdpanthers and even a Brumbar that fill the pages alongside so many Panthers (my personal favourite of the German tanks). How Jean Paul Pallud does this amazes me and I'm hoping to ask him.

Getting it all into one big field would be amusing - but expensive....

Probably because of a raving masochistic bent.

It does snow in Afghanistan.