A Day at the Park

Tim Bowman · Post by **Tim Bowman** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:33 pm

I am happy to say that three Armortek owners from the West Coast were able to have an afternoon out with our tanks. Unlike the UK owners, we are spread far and wide so this is a rare occurrence here. Bob Morey drove down with his Panther and Sherman from Seattle, Washington to visit some friends he has in the area and then spent a few days at my house. Sean was there with his "perfectly functioning" Tiger 1. I had my Panther. Weather was perfect and it made for some nice photo and video opportunities. Great fun!

The lethal threesome

Bob's Panther lies in wait, buttoned up, for the next target

Panther 312 arrives and forms up into position

Sean's grenadier was hanging on for dear life all afternoon

Bob's awesome Panther

Bob's Sherman (work in progress)

My Panther

These videos are my first attempt at this sort of thing. In the second one, the challenge is driving and filming at the same time.

Thanks Bob and Sean for the great time!
Happy tanking!
Tim

leesellars · Post by **leesellars** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:38 pm

Hello Tim

Fantastic There is a Battle Group West. Great photos.

Lee

Richie Wignall · Post by **Richie Wignall** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:59 pm

Hi Guys
nice tanks, and WOW BLUE SKY

We need some of that

Richie

Antony Rowley · Post by **Antony Rowley** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 11:19 pm

Great photo's of some fantastic tanks

It's nice to see more tanks out and about. I agree with Richie, it's nice to see some glorious sunshine too

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I bet they turned a few heads over there

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Thanks for sharing,

Antony

Kent Wiik · Post by **Kent Wiik** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:14 am

WOW!

Great posting, thanks for sharing this event of yours.
Nice to see the 2 Panthers that has been my biggest source of inspiration running together for the first time.

Outstanding photos and videos (and sky and grass and trees and...

)

Kent

Adrian Harris · Post by **Adrian Harris** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:56 am

Wonderful pictures Tim

That video of the three on the gravel must rate as one of the most realistic I've seen - perfect angle and the scenery appears completely to scale.

Adrian.

simon_manning · Post by **simon_manning** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 11:26 am

the tanks on the gravel looks very authentique,three great builds,careful filming,light,background scale,you could mistake them for the full size tanks,very good indeed. simon manning.

Jim Slothower · Post by **Jim Slothower** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 3:04 pm

Great Pics,

Looks like you all had a great time, cant wait to join all of you. Thanks for posting.

Jim

Lionel Champ · Post by **Lionel Champ** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 6:01 pm

Are you a fellow Scorpions fan Tim?

Ps Love the sound track with the bullets pinging off the tanks.

Jeffrey Goff · Post by **Jeffrey Goff** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 11:21 am

Great tanks and it looked like an enjoyable day out, and like others have said, the video of the tanks on the gravel is outstanding and the music inspirational, Tim dont worry about the day job, they need camera men in California
regards
Jeff

Jim Fowler · Post by **Jim Fowler** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 4:41 pm

Awesome pictures! I hope this gets to be a regular/annual thing - would love to venture out someday??

Roland Mann · Post by **Roland Mann** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:35 pm

Hi Tim,

perfect pictures, even better videos. You must have had a very enjoiable time in the park. Best video for me is the first one with the German voices. I like this one most. How did you manage this ? Is the sound a play back or is it coming through the speaker of your tanks ?

When the commander is targeting an enemy tank only 800 m away, you better fire your sprenggranate right now. Later is too late with this distance !
Is the shot on the next video ? As the gunner is answering : Sprenggranate loaded. Bummmmmmmm !!!!!!

Just perfect - Roland

Tim Bowman · Post by **Tim Bowman** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:00 pm

Thanks everyone for the nice comments. It was really fun to have three of these rolling together.

I wish I would have taken more video.

Roland, what is even more amazing is how calm the crew sounds with a threat at only 800 meters and my commander didn't even flinch, fully exposed out of the cupola. Sign of a crack crew I guess.

Unfortunately, I do not have video of the shot being fired. None of the tanks in the video have firing mechanisms.

Hopefully in a future video. I assume they would say something like, JA! VOLLTREFFER! SIE BRENNT!

I have made some sound(voice) tracks to play on an MP3 player through my Panthers speakers. The ones in the video, however were simply added to the video's sound track.

Best regards
Tim

Robert E Morey · Post by **Robert E Morey** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:13 pm

Tim,
The video's are awesome! The first is even better with the music! Great job making that video even better. Thanks for making engine sounds for my tank <with your awesome sounding Panther>. Here's a few more photos from my camera. Its was indeed a perfect day weather wise.

We should probably mention one final time how well Sean's Tiger ran compared to the Panthers.....

Tim Bowman · Post by **Tim Bowman** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 4:19 am

Excellent additional pictures Bob.

last, short video. I gotta get a blank firing unit!

Happy tanking
Tim