Paul Drake

Spotted today at Henstridge Wings and Wheels show, posted some pics in Aviation forum as well.

Let us know how well it goes on and how good the finish is please.

Wilco, if the weather holds out I will be using it next week.

I've just spent this week re-painting my 109 with Marathon Coating Nato green satin.

I gave it a quick lick to wake up the tired paint work earlier in the year, but decided to do it properly ready for winter.

I have never rollere'd paint before, and I'm really impressed how well and easy it went on.

I preped it pretty well, that helped, and gave it 2 coats, dont do too much at a time, this paint dries very quickly, and 'picks up' if you over roll it giving a pitted rough surface, but I soon got the hang of it.

No idea how this stuff would spray, but it would need a lot of thinning I think.

Because it dries so quickly its difficult to paint by brush over large area's, atleast thats what I found anyway.

The interior was done with another batch months ago, the new batch matched perfectly, I'm pretty sure this paint will last a good few years too.

I got mine off eBay, but the company is:

Safegaurd coatings

26 Buckland rd

Penmill Trading estate

Yeovil

Somerset

BA215HA

 

01935 472817

I hope this is of some help

Terry

It's good to know there's someone who can supply that close to home (Ilchester).

I have just purchased some NATO paint from AesopPaint on ebay. They seem to be reasonably priced.

RAF Sea King HAR 3A ZH542 doing circuits at RNAS Yeovilton.

In Facebook speak, FFS!

I have just checked the link, and my unit is not even listed, 5 Armoured Workshops REME, Hamm, Germany, 1951 / 1958. ????????

I think it still has to be completed, I was looking for RMP units and there aren't any.

Send them an email and tell them about your unit.

Hello all,

For those who may not have found it already, I found this tonight, which may be useful in determining where your vehicle may have served, and what kind of uniform its crew might have been wearing;

http://british-army-units1945on.co.uk/default.aspx

I have found some info which may be of use, but doesn't tell you if the vehicle served overseas, only that it belonged to units who were serving overseas during the periods stated. It may have spent all its life as a hack at Ternhill.

1 QLR 84. Paderborn. 33 Armoured Brigade.

1 RWF 84/85. Falklands. 143 Brigade.

2 R Welsh 93. Fermanagh. 160 Brigade.

3 Mercian 96/97. Hong Kong. 143 Brigade.

Note that some of the units on the card didn't exist as those units on the dates shown;

e.g. 3 Mercian in 96 was still Staffordshire Regt.

Also stumbled across this tonight, looks useful.

http://british-army-units1945on.co.uk/default.aspx

Anything to do with rope making?

Thank you :-) i will try harder then lol. I walked round war and peace for hours trying to perhaps find similiar land rovers associated with regiments mentioned on the deepcut report but again no joy.

Can you post the info from the cast document?

And very nice it is too, also sold in the pound shop in Yeovil.

There are some good pics in the Tankograd books on BAOR The Final Years and Salisbury Plain Traing Area, including one of an MK carrying a Midge reconnaissance drone. A couple of pics of those Commers in service in the BAOR 1945-1079 one, and a few various pics in British Army Transport and Logistics.

If it's internal is it anti condensation paint?

http://www.bpindex.co.uk/suppliers/5171/PAINT_Anti-Condensation_./

Or this, at the top of the UK milspec list

http://www.paintservices.co.uk/qpl.php

Both Indestructible Paint Co Ltd and Witham Oil & Paint (Lowestoft) Ltd are listed in BDEC as suppliers of various paints to MoD.

great pics of upottery by the way did you meet any of the cast ! :-)

No, their stand was full up from the time they came (about 14.00) to the time I left at 17.00!

Saturday I was at the Upottery Wings and Wheels event. This is the old RAF Smeatharpe near Honiton.

Heavy rain in the morning, so there wern't many wings about, but brightened up in the afternoon.

A plethora of re-enactors, Jeeps, Dodges, plus a convoy bringing cast members from Band of Brothers, who had done a charity parachute jump. The ladies of the Legendary Smeatharpe WI were in attendance as usual. They cook a mean bacon butty.

When I bought mine, I found (after months of searching the internet) an Order of Battle of the division to which my vehicle might have been attached in the 1980s. But it does take some searching. Quite a bit of information came from old boys and reunion sites.

Flt Lt Jon Egging. R.I.P.

The same picture is in Pat Ware's Antar book, and given it is credited to the Thornycroft Society, they will have some pretty detailed info about it

 

The caption next to the photo is quite detailed as follows:-

 

"In late March 1950 the first Antar tractor hauled the machinery semi trailer to one of the London ports, probably Tilbury, where it was subsequently shipped to the Lebanon. Clearly it caused considerable excitement as it travelled through the London suburbs, and here the loaded trailer, together with its police escort, is about to turn from the A10 onto the A406 North Circular Road in Edmonton, North London. The tractor is running on Thornycroft's trade plates, and has the slinger rings already in place in the wheels ready for loading"

 

Should set you supersleuths on the tail of the London Rioters - They wouldn't stand a chance :-D

Ah, so it was the whole thing that was going abroad, not just the box on the trailer!

Paul, sorry to have missed you, I did'nt go until the Sunday, though precious little in the way of vehicles turned up then. They do hope to get a proper date and set up for next year with a lot more advertising..(so I've been informed, we shall see.)

You should have come yesterday mate, The wind was very gusty and across the runway.. ground loops were the order of the day resulting in there being serious damage to a visiting Cessna Bird Dog, and nearly a similar thing with a Bucker Jungmann, I think he only suffered slight damage to a wing tip. All the others handled the conditions very well.

 

Nice beat up at the end of the day by the B.O.B. memorial flight's Spitfire and Hurricane.

 

Next week is the do with a lot more vehicles, military and classic at Smeatharpe Airfield. You might like to give that a try.

 

Jeff

Smeatharpe/Upottery is one of the events on my calendar for next weekend, lots to choose from, but Upottery is closest.

There is a website dedicated to old cinemas. I looked up Gaumont Theatre / Regal Cinema. (It says Gaumont Theatre on the canopy). Looked at some pictures and there it was. It was sadly demolished in the late 80s. There are also a few pictures on flickr, one of which I post here.

It was the Gaumont Theatre / Regal Cinema in Edmonton, London.

I would say that some could, knowing when patterns and colours changed helps I suppose.

Visited today, exhibiting the Landy, mate from Bath brought his Mk4 Cortina. Some interesting aircraft, but needs more vehicles, especially vintage ones. I can recommend the Mega Breakfast in the cafe. And the Dunkeswell Memorial Museum is just across the road.