Lauren Child

Thats the last time we serve curried beans in the mess before PE.

"Well Wilkins, given the number of the regiment to have succumbed with D&V, I think we may need to reassign you out of the cook house"

Is there any chance somebody could post some pics of the differences between versions? This may be a silly question, but I've not come across the differences before.

#i can't help wonder if we can scale these up - http://www.mechanizedbrick.com/mb.html

Theres a good free PDF creator called PDFill. I use it a lot to "print" PDF files from word, as it shows up as a printer. If you scan in documents to PDF they will likely be quite large sized as you scan them in as graphics rather than text, so it records every dot that makes up a letter rather than just that letter. You can do character recognition with some software to avoid that problem but thats not 100% reliable so you need to proof-read afterwards.

I'll get you a date and let you know.

"No, I said I wanted Quantity 1, 1000 wide O-Ring...." Or possibly a computer games reference... "curse you Sonic the Hedgehog"

Thanks everso Andy! Now I can show my friends what I was driving

Thanks to all that came - its the vistors and the participants that make it and we all had a fantastic day with a great atmosphere and some excellent visiting vehicles. The mystery vehicle is an Astros rocket launder ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astros_II_MLRS ) and has seen a lot of work. We've had to delay showing it off as it has some new inhabitants. Once they've flown the nest we'll be able to display more of it and put the finishing touches to the restoration. The crane looks to have got too hot and suffered from fuel starvation on the cavalcade. She started and ran perfectly after a brief nap while the Scammel gave her some help and she cooled off. If anyone got some good pics of the Gecko I'd love to see them - she was my ride and unfortunately was the second casualty of the day when we had a re-occurence of tyre pressure problems and had to leave the arena unexpectedly. The show saw the return of the "women drivers" curse, as one of my colleagues also missed out having tripped over and done herself an injury just before the cavalcade. Both colleague and Gecko are due to make a full recovery however :-D Again many thanks to all that came - I'm sure we'll all be discussing our favourite vehicles for many weeks to come, and the prize winners were all gorgeous. The show team all put in a lot of work and the end result made it all worth it. Even the weather held off until the end of the day, giving us a nice summers day despite the predicted forecast. The heavens openned just as the last vehicles were packing up. Plans are already afoot for next year and I hope to see you all there again:yay:

Some more setup photos from today

Same here -the weather forecast has been steadily improving through the week though so fingers crossed.

Some setup photos to whet the appetite

Is that a rubber coupling in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me? :cool2::shocked:

Camping is on the field directly next to the site, so you enter through the museum, but camp "off-site" next door. No planned events for Saturday night but there are plenty of people around.

I think money is short for everyone, public funding or not, and we all need to make sure we support our museums in any way we can. Different museums have different strategies and constraints on fund raising, but at the end of the day if people don't support the museums in one form or another they may not be around for future generations. Shows are one way of supporting any museum, and this weekend I urge anyone reading to consider attending or displaying, whether it's at Duxford (Military Vehicle Show), Shuttleworth (D-Day Air Display), Debach (Airfield Open Day), or any other museum. We all need all of the help we can get.

Glad to see all of the interest! It should be a good show - we have more vehicles pre-registered this year than we had last year, and more armour. Chev & Rambo you should have PM's. Hope to see you there. The last few weeks have been insanely busy, but if I get a chance I'll try and take some photo's of the setup to whet your appetites. TTFN Lauren

Inside the Centurion engine bay there is a canister with records and info. If its still there it should provide lots of information.

I hope they keep all of the engineering exhibits - there were some really unusual and interesting bits and bobs in there, especially on the aircraft side.

Just a quick reminder - we are coming up to the last week for registration. Let me know if you have any queries!

Fingers crossed here as well

yep - you're right - I had a brainfart moment. I was thinking of the BMP-1 episode. I'm sure the guy says it was in Tank Girl.

The Water & Power tank is a PT76. It's the same one as one of the ones that was on Tank Overhaul. Sub girl offers to let them "do it up in my garage", and they turn it into an M5 Stuart. Presumably this angered the soviet union who applied pressure for sub-girl to get cut out of the film, hence no sand-digging submarine and a re-hashed ending. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qroalgqHBoI&feature=related and the original ending with sub girl Now if I had that kind of paint, I'd be "doing up" all sorts of vehicles

Updated the first page with more information and the entry form. As ever, Duxford is free for exhibitors as long as you get the booking form back before the deadline and comply with the terms and conditions. Drop me a line if you need any information - duxford@laurenchild.net

The 6th of June is now confirmed as the date for this year's Duxford Military Vehicle Show. More details will follow during the next couple of weeks. Please update you calendars! At the moment I'm trying to organise something for the Saturday evening while we've got a collection of owners camping over. Ideas are welcome and I'll post more info as and when I have it. Hope to see you there! Lauren Entry-Form-2010-final.pdf

Tank Girl does rock - I know the words to that film almost off by heart! Glad to see more girls following in Lori Petty's footsteps! :-D Glad to see you liked Duxford! You'll have to come back for our show in June :cool2: