Lauren Child

It's mentionned in the REME recovery manual 1995, but there's no specifics that I can find (just a page showing it and it's bigger brother, and a page showing the A frame as an example)

Ah, my apologies - it seems that not all V8 flathead's were made the same. Some were 14mm, while others were 18mm. There's a thread about it on MLU - http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/showthread.php?t=10982

I picked up some NGK B6-L's for the CMP after reading of some issues with the thread on Champion ones. It's pretty much the same engine type so that's probably a good start.

Found it - it's an ATS-59 http://www.mortarinvestments.eu/products/jeeps,-trucks-a-motos-3/ats-59-artillery-tractor-275

I think the AT-S has a different shaped nose. www.massimocorner.com/afv/Surviving_AT-S.pdf I was going to say GT-S or GT-M but a quick peruse of the interwebds tells me it's not one of them either. http://www.soviethammer.info/blog/642900-gt-s-tracked-oversnow-vehicle/

Now I have to ask, if you strip the paint on the Pheasant, does that make you a Pheasant plucker? :angel:

I think VHF is just referring to the frequency band. You can have different modulations at any frequency. If you think about a radio wave as a wiggly line going up and down, you can change how far up and down it goes (amplitude modulation) or how many times it goes up down in a second (frequency modulation). Phase modulation is when you make the wiggly line jump to a different part of the up and down cycle (so if it was going up and you put it 180 degrees out of phase it would suddenly go back down like drawing a "w" or an "m"). You can think of the up and down wave a bit like drawing a circle. You can make the circle bigger, draw it faster, or jump the pencil across to a different part of the circle. Or you can do two or more of them at the same time (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation changes the amplitude and the phase at the same time, for a real headache)

If you are looking at paint I can highly recommend Mike Starmer's books. I've got 3 out of 4 and they've been extremely useful and interesting. He has colour matched paint chips at the rear of each book so you can identify colour or get correct ones mixed up. http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?6759-BRITISH-ARMY-COLOURS-by-Mike-Starmer Apparently there's a colour matched SCC15 available from The Vintage Paint Company, but they're not producing it at the moment (or weren't when I emailed). I've picked up some 381 olive drab from RR's warpaint range in the mean time. I know there's a lot of rivet counting on the paint side these days, and there would have been a fair bit of variation. That said, the british olive drab looks like a very different green to the more common NATO & US olive drab's. I think the British SCC15 olive drab is a much prettier colour, but that's personal choice (and I'm colourblind so I'm probably seeing it a completely different way to everyone else) :-\.

If you had a white camo net you could take your MV to a caravan/motorhome show. You've doubled you options. :idea:

I've got one of those as well (somewhere). I wondered what it was for!

Sorry - mad few days and it slipped my mind, PMing back now

This is a Canadian one that would go with CMP's and carriers.

It's a county to the south of England, but that's not important right now. Tell us about the re-enactor thing. Oh Leslie Nielsen...

I thought it looked like there was more space. I'm very jealous

It's funny how tastes change - looking back at my choices from 2008 I'd probably go for completely different vehicles these days. Call me fickle. I especially like the idea of the "Securicor van, fully laden" from one of the earlier posts. :angel:

Very nice. All it needs is a CMP instead of a jeep :cool2: The pit looks very nice - is it one of the kit ones or home made? Remember to be careful with heavier-than-air fumes.

That's intersting - is there more space for the driver in these? I got pretty wedged in a striker.

The last I heard was somebody saying "I wonder if we can fire mashed potato out of this"

It's a bit late for that, the barbecue is on the roof :rolleyes: with the GMC :shocked:

First up, make sure these are really what you want - 1050R20 is a slightly different size to 1050-20. If you hadn't picked up on it, the R means the overall outside diameter is slightly smaller. Assuming you really want R's I have 5 Continental MPT 80 M+S tyres, with plenty of wear left (one spare looks brand new, the other four are only about 5mm off of new), all in very good nick (no cracking, they look almost new) on some 20" wheels. I'm just up the road from Cambridge. Drop me a PM and we'll talk pennies.

Smug mode disengaged.... I'll keep trying then :-D

Aha - I think I've spotted something..... PM sent.

Using the cross to calibrate sights - source and destination (different colours for different projectile types ?)

Funnily enough, I happen to have some in the garage.

I quick (very careful:sweat:) look on Wikipedia tells me a Butt is (amongst quite a range of other things :shocked:) a practice target for archery. Is that along the right lines? If so I still can't picture what they are up to.