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http://www.angelfire.com/pq2/armour/NWFP_30s/index.html

Marvelous set of photos.

Those Vickers MkII Light Tanks look loke toys!

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Czech article.

I've just been reading 'Wild Roads - The story of transcontinental motoring'. One of the stories concerned an attempt in 1955 to drive from England to the far east (not counting the English Channel and the Bosphorus!); the route taking in the Stilwell Road:

 

 

Sorry folks, Burma again! Is it too much to expect that things will still be there?

Very doubtful, with the price of scrap and China's voracious appetite for it, same as the planes littering the Indonesian & Phillipines upto the 1960s/70s.

Here it is on Miliblog http://miliblog.co.uk/Index.php?p=119&creativepage=6

No other mention of that reg number, surprising as you'd think it'd be snapped up if it ever came to market.

I assume it's an OT810 chassis.

SA6 "Gainful"? Plus some FV432 types.

All lurking on the Twin Lakes industrial estate, Croston near Leyland.

By the time the V2s were falling, they'd have been far better of forgetting about bombers completely.

It wasn't a Horton 229, it was a Gotha 229.

Horton made the Ho IX prototype, with Gotha being the designated manufacturer.

The only survivor, the V3, is currently being restored - to static display! - at NASM.

http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?id=A19600324000

I believe it's post-WW2 too. Monty does look quite elderly, several of the workers have their medal ribbons on. What about the officers with him? There's a couple of cap badges visible & they look quite highly ranked.

Scattered all over the place!

This one's at the Royal Artillery's "Firepower" museum, Woolwich Arsenal, London.

I assume this is ex-Iraqi, it's at Duxford. Recovery version next to it, and there's a ZSU 23-4 there too.

Most unfortunate.It's an 80% scale model.Sounds like structural failure, if the spectator's comments are right.

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Yup, up & running!

Yup, she's restored to running with the MVCG Midi-Pyrenes.

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It was fast - 475mph- but very prone to the rear engine overheating & bursting into flame.

The one pictured, the sole survivor, is on display at the NASM.

37 were constructed to some degree, probably 13 completed and a few flown in tests post war.

By the dawn of the 60s, the whole idea of the Heavy Tank had been superceded.

The IS3 and its modified versions the T10 & the IS4; the American T43/M103 (also armed with a 120mm gun) and the Conq were White (Or probably Green!) Elephants.

Thick armour was no protection to HEAT & HESH rounds and the little AT-3 "Sagger" capable of penetrating 8" of armour, angled at 60 degrees, showed what it could do in the Yom Kippur war.

I once wrote to the Tank Museum asking why SO much money was being spent on the T***r when there was so much of interest in the "unseen" collection, and they advised that the T***r brings in the punters.

 

Panzer Porn mate!

Please tell us how the 3D printing works and how you will translate this into metal.

David

I'm guessing that a 1:1 resin version could be produced & either used as-is for a static restoration, or used as a pattern to produce a mould to make steel ones from.

They're thought to be going to produce a bit of a revolution in the model making world, here's one for a mere £1500

http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/catalog/plus-personal-portable-printer-p-644.html

They work by literally printing the design, building up layers of material.

It's believed to be a "new" one. The owner, Herr Hoebig, used to own the famous "M.Murat's Field" in Trun. Concensus is that it's a bit of a big boys' Airfix kit, having been assembled from parts from a number of Tigers that were scrapped in said field.

It's a late production version, with steel-tyred wheels. Only three of them are "Of the six", Vimoutier, Saumur & Lenino-Snegiri.

I guess W&P moved because this was on the horizon?

The Slag Brothers, Rock & Gravel. Always wound up battering each other!

Not an "FT17", not an FT for that matter, but its US-built version the 6 ton M1917. This tank was purchased by Hayes Otoupalik from the John Furrer War Museum in Arizona. This tank was also one of four that

originally belong to MC Bradley Military Studios of North Hollywood, California. While this tank was in operational condition when

purchased, it was completely restored in the late 1980s and the original M1917 37mm tank gun which is registered and in live firing

condition was located and purchased to complete the turret. It is the only live firing 37mm tank gun known to survive

From "Surviving Panzers"

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A good old beast, the Buccaneer, I remember seeing one doing a display over RAF Newton, early 90s, so probably one of its last displays. I lived a few miles from Newton & was out on my bike, saw it lining up for a run-in. Lots of smoke & noise.