ossie Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 Hi ya Well what can I say about myself well lets just start at the begging. Served 14 years in the ARMY until 1987 in the Armoured Engineers where I served on Centurion ARK, AVRE.BRIDGELAYER also Chieftain AVLB and AVRE. Becoming a Driver Mech B1 & a commander. I then after leaving the army I was apart of the Duxford restoration society looking after a lot of different vehicles. I was involved with the Centurion AVRE on scrap heap challenge. I now work on tanks for a living for the MOD. I AM mad about Centurions. Been involved with AFV CLUB with the design for there Centurion plastic kit range. So I hope I can help some one some time. Would love to own a Centurion strv 104 or Chieftain AVLB. But I do not own anything at this moment in time. Ossie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Daymond Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 Hi Ossie, welcome to the forums, they're a friendly bunch on here. ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick W Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 Welcome aboard Ossie, Im sure you will find it all very entertaining, and you never know, maybe informative at a long shot! ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeEnfield Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 Hi Ossie, Join in the general mayhem, that produces such interesting infomation,.............and ir your VERY lucky,.......maybe's even a DANCING GIRL or three,.....( :whistle:) ;-) Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPTA team Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 Welcome aboard Ossie They are a mad bunch on here. I may have a few more pictures for your cool web site. Now you have joined up to the mad house have a look down on the Salisbury Plain event page, you may like to come along for this weekend. Im sure some nice guy on this forum will let you have a ride in there vehicle :whistle: :whistle:. Tony- Plain Military Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazz Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 Hello Ossie, Welcome to the forum, Baz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abn deuce Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 Welcome to the Club House and the Best Forum on the Web . Ownership of anything Militaria is optional of course , We will all be looking forward to any photo's and or tales of your experiences with those Vehicles you have been working on . :computerterror: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 welcome to the only place that EXPECTS tanks on the lawn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 Welcome Ossie, be glad to look at ant ics of your time in the service if you have any. Revellie at 04:00, TonyB is cooking so we go down the cafe :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 I'll have you know I can burn water with the best of them :angel: And the MV owner's favourite, The smell of bacon sarnnies in the morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeEnfield Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 I'll have you know I can burn water with the best of them :angel: And the MV owner's favourite, The smell of bacon sarnnies in the morning. THAT SMELL,..................Was THAT YOU cooking bacon,................ :shake: :shake: :shake: :died: ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 The way to an MV owners heart, food of the god's. :angel: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapper Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 just don't serve any more bloody cous-cous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ossie Posted December 10, 2007 Author Share Posted December 10, 2007 hi all thank you all for your commnets , some of you know me allready but for those who do not i was in the Armoured Engineers for 14years and i work on tanks for a living for the MOD at Bovington. so i see enough each day to not want one at the moment and i get to drive as well. speak soon Tony did you ever get those walk arounds of the AVLB OR CHAVRE Ossie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPTA team Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 No sorry mate, still working on it. They seem to be hiding them away somewhere. I did manege to catch up with Warminsters a few months back but they were busy laying at the time for me to get a walk around. I did ask, really I did. By the time we had drove over to Larkhill they had disappeared in a cloud of dust. I need to do it soon as time is running out for the poor old Chieftain AVLBs and AVREs :cry: :cry: We are getting the new Trojan and Titan down here soon. Jazz has informed me they should be here by Feb. :banana: :banana: I will have some pics of the new Terrier as soon as Chris gets them on a disk. Will give you a shout as soon as I get them. Tony :tup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ossie Posted December 11, 2007 Author Share Posted December 11, 2007 hi tony titan and torjan i see evry day but i can not take pics. never mind. be quick before they go. Ossie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazz Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Ossie, You might know my Brother Ray Merchant, Works for BAE? whom make Trojan and Titan, mainly on development work ex REME chap. Baz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ossie Posted December 12, 2007 Author Share Posted December 12, 2007 Hi Barry. No i dont have much dealings with BAE if i can help it. so i dont know your brother. speak soon ossie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazz Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 no trouble Ossie thanks and take care. Baz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylvester Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 Hi Ossie, :-D Welcome to the club!! ;-) You must be a mate of Greg's then?? :nut: He's invited us up there to join but... Shift work is a bit of a sod at times eh!! :banghead: Anyway, good to see you on here ...Have fun! Fred & Annika :banana: :yay: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diomaniac Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 On 12/7/2007 at 5:27 PM, ossie said: Hi ya Well what can I say about myself well lets just start at the begging. Served 14 years in the ARMY until 1987 in the Armoured Engineers where I served on Centurion ARK, AVRE.BRIDGELAYER also Chieftain AVLB and AVRE. Becoming a Driver Mech B1 & a commander. I then after leaving the army I was apart of the Duxford restoration society looking after a lot of different vehicles. I was involved with the Centurion AVRE on scrap heap challenge. I now work on tanks for a living for the MOD. I AM mad about Centurions. Been involved with AFV CLUB with the design for there Centurion plastic kit range. So I hope I can help some one some time. Would love to own a Centurion strv 104 or Chieftain AVLB. But I do not own anything at this moment in time. Ossie Hello everybody, my name is Andi, I'm 55y. old, from Bavaria, no soccer-fan, just 1/32-35scale modeller and so a special 'Hello' to Ossie! My actual dio, with Trumpeter's Fairey Swordfish I converted to the float version, is after some 350 hours soon coming to an end and my next madness, I decided to plunge in, may could, should, would be a Centurion AVLB...🙏🏻 Although I already bought the AFV handbook, some awesome books about the tank and Australian armor in Vietnam, unfortunately there will never be enough satisfying pictures...🙈 Also l found some good pics online, but none about the bridgesection inner sides, their connections, single/pair links...🙇🏻♂️ Do you or anyone else of the friendly bunch know if such photographs, or, ideally a bridge constructionplan, exists anywhere and how to come in possesion of this desprately needed things? Kind regards Andi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Welcome in. Please post model pictures. Some of us can deal with 1:1 scale ,but anything smaller is beyond us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diomaniac Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Hello Tony, thanks for your response, l'll try to post pics of my actual dio. It's my first time in a forum, I don't possess a computer and manage all online-stuff with my Samsung S9, no joke!😅 The first three were taken today, showing the missing waves and the-worst-work-to-do: painting figures🙇🏻♂️ but I look forward to finish it... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diomaniac Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 😅 Pretty easy!👍🏻 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baz48 Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 How's the back, last time I saw you you were having trouble with it - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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