War and Peace 2007

leesellars · Post by **leesellars** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:50 pm

Hello Chaps

There are going to be some good diaramas set up at the Armortek stand so we will look forward to seeing you there.

Lee

John Sander · Post by **John Sander** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:56 pm

There are Lee! Robin will be there with his winter dio, and Kampfgruppe vonAbt will be there in all our glory. If anyone wants a flavour of the vonAbt contribution check our site, www.vonabt.co.uk. Chock full of Armortek models it is, plus the most impressive 1/6th scale dioramas in the world. Honest. Modest, me?

Nigel Allen · Post by **Nigel Allen** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:42 am

Just to say a big thanks to Gill and Mark for a great day on Saturday at the War and Peace show. Looking forward to seeing the photo of us all standing in the mud. The only issues was getting out, had the drive the car about a mile with mud up to the axles, but in the end made it to the main exit and then got stuck in the mud

. Big thanks to the police for pushing me out.
Thanks again for a great day.

Nigel.

John Sander · Post by **John Sander** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:08 pm

To echo Lee's comments - thank you Mark and Gill. The show was excellent fun, with lots of visitors to the Armortek stand. The stand was huge. Dave showed his Ferret (?) and Vince showed his Schwimmwagen. We had a Kampfgruppe von Abt diorama set up as part of the stand, where we had a Siebel ferry lay out, a desert scene by Lee, and a winter scene by Robin.

I have uploaded by photo set to the Armrtek Photo Gallery. Click HERE to view.

As you can see it was quite a show.

Kent Wiik · Post by **Kent Wiik** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:58 pm

Thanks John for posting!
So interesting for us who wasnÂ´t there.

Is it the Late Tiger we are waiting for seen on the 7th photo?
If so, do you have any closer shot please

Cheers
Kent

Martin von Bargen · Post by **Martin von Bargen** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:41 pm

Yes, really interesting photos!

Kent, I think you are right. It seems to be the new Tiger

I thought the same as I saw the 7th photo.

Let's hope that John has a closer one (or two...

)

Martin

Tim Bowman · Post by **Tim Bowman** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:06 pm

John,

Thank you for sharing the great photos. There sure wasn't a shortage of neat stuff to look at!

Tim

John Sander · Post by **John Sander** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:50 pm

Thanks for the compliments, but no other Tiger photos, sorry. Maybe Vince has some.

Mike Gormley · Post by **Mike Gormley** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:38 pm

Thanks for sharing the pictures John!

It looks like it was quite a show

Mike

Allan Richards · Post by **Allan Richards** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:26 am

wow !!! lots of photies, I had a great day at the stand on Friday and the Tiger went really well with the models getting a lot of public interest. I got told off at the local car wash on Saturday when I hosed most of the Hop farms mud off my car all over their clean forecourt. Theres just no pleasing some.

I think Armortek have an ideal spot there, close to the food, beer tent and arena, so lots of passers by. Thanks to Mark and Gill - I hope you do well and pick up some good orders. I'm sure the M2 will be very popular model, I've already broached the subject with higher authority but I think it will take a while to obtain full financial approval!!

leesellars · Post by **leesellars** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:05 am

Hello Chaps

What a week a very busy one. The weather was as follows sun,sun,sun,sun.,rain Mud,Mud rain,rain Mud.
The models coped very well and the only major thing that let them down was the batteries as they wasnt gettting a full deep charge.
The vehicles were very nice and as John Sanders told my son Sean the scenery was good as well.HUBBA HUBBA HUBBA.

Lee

John Sander · Post by **John Sander** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:06 pm

Never too young to learn Lee!

Post by **Armortek** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 2:17 pm

Well it was certainly an excellent show despite the mud!

We had a record number of customers visit our stand and it was really great to see you all. Also our sincere thanks to everyone who brought their models to display each day, and to those who who stayed with us through rain and shine all week!!!

Going to Waitrose shopping in David Ward's Ferret was certainly a new experience for me, as was a trip round the muddy showground in Vince Abbott's Schwimmwagen.

Here is a picture of us on Saturday having 'fun in the mud' sent to me by Vince who is currently on 'flood watch' and has lost his internet connection.

Gill and Mark

Dave Dibb (Armorpax) · Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:09 pm

Hi All,

it has to be said the show was a lot less dusty than usual

My apologies to Gill for only being 88% right with the forecasts and I promise to try harder next year

I still say rain is rain and it was only the quantity that was in question

As said the weather was not the best but I still had a great time and it was good to finally put faces to many of the names, my thanks to Lee for taking all my pocket money but at least now amongst other things I have a Dragon Kett and some nice rare bits to detail it with.

We are now back and unpacked and will hopefully be restoring normal service within the next few days,

Best regards

Dave

Nigel Allen · Post by **Nigel Allen** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:44 pm

Gill,

Could you make the pictures a bit bigger next time

As I need to fill my 52 inch PC screen.

Nigel.

Had a great day and the picture just shows how muddy it was.