Open Day Thanks

steve winstone · Post by **steve winstone** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 9:03 pm

Hi Gill & Mark,
I would like to add my thanks for a wonderful day. It was great to put faces to the names. I look forward to next year.

Thank you again
Steve Winstone

Post by **Armortek** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 9:04 pm

Thank you, to you all! for coming and making it the amazing day it was.

Of course it is all of you and your fantastic models that makes it the very special day that it is.

It was indeed a record attendance, and an amazing display of model building talent.

Competition winners were as follows:

Best Allied Vehicle, Lee Sellars for his Sherman

Best Tiger 1, Simon Manning for his Early Tiger 1

Best â€˜Otherâ€™ German Tank, Clive Lockwood for his Panther

Best â€˜Otherâ€™ German Vehicle, Nigel Allen for his Sdkfz 7

Best in Show, Simon Manning for his Early Tiger 1

Our â€˜funâ€™ competitions â€˜Guess the weightâ€™ and â€˜Guess the quantityâ€™ were won by Denny Patterson and David Gray respectively.

It was particularly good this year to meet so many new customers who I am sure were inspired by the customer models on display.

The day goes by in a flash for both of us and although I know we spoke to very many of you if there was anyone we missed we can only apologise.

We would also like to give a big thank you to those have helped us in the run up to the day. Mark Mitchell who I must have rung 100 times during the week asking for yet another sign, certificate, competition form! And then still finding time to help us set up on the Friday and taking all the photos on the day. Chris Fry for his help on the Friday and with parking on the day. Lee Sellars, Dave Dibb and Nick Ashford for donating prizes and last but not least the brilliant support given by our family.

Follow this link for more photos on the gallery

http://www.armortek.co.uk/gallery/main. ... emId=12340

See you all next year!

Best wishes
Gill and Mark

clive Lockwood · Post by **clive Lockwood** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 9:13 pm

Thanks Gill and Mark for a brilliant day great to see everyone's models and meet there owners, loking forward to next year allready,
clive.

Stewart Ashton · Post by **Stewart Ashton** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 9:27 pm

Clive!

So nice to meet you in the flesh so to speak!

Sorry I had to leave before you landed

Erm!! You must have landed or you couldnt have posted?

Or could you

Great day out mate.

Regards Stewart

Tim Bowman · Post by **Tim Bowman** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 9:28 pm

Congratulations Gil and Mark for such a successful day. The record turn out is a testament to the quality of your products as well as your customers.

Thank you to all for sharing the pictures from the day for the rest of us, who wish we were there, to look at. Great stuff!!

Outstanding looking models!

Kind regards from California
Tim

Stewart Ashton · Post by **Stewart Ashton** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 9:47 pm

Bearing in mind that I have never been to this part of our island, as soon as
we approached the area I said "This has got to be a ww2 USAF base purely by looking at the layout of the place. In fact I believe that there were two USAF airfields next to each other.

Where we went used to be the first US naval airbase established in 1943.

Believe it or not most of the buildings are original with slight modifications,

Check out this site:

http://devonandsomersetmc.co.uk/dunkeswell.htm

The taxi driver that took me home said that his father worked at the base.

B24s were part of three squdrens based there!

Being an ex flyer enthusiiast I thought that this might of interest to some
members.

Regards Stewart

Robert E Morey · Post by **Robert E Morey** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:11 pm

Great photos in the airfield gallery of the countryside. Even some of France. Lovely, would love to see it myself. The lancaster coming in for a landing is a great pix although a little fuzzy.
Thanks for the link Stewart.

Jeff Hyder · Post by **Jeff Hyder** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:22 am

Thanks for a great day.It was great to put names to faces and to meet old friends with a common interest.

Thanks again Jeff Hyder.

stuart holden · Post by **stuart holden** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:30 pm

Many thanks to Mark and Gill and there family and friends for making it a fantastic event and to all the people i met through the day great to put faces to names . cheers stu

Richie Wignall · Post by **Richie Wignall** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:22 pm

Hi Guys

Just a couple of pictures of the open day. I thought I took more

Richie

Graham Conabeare · Post by **Graham Conabeare** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:39 pm

Many thanks to Mark and Gill for all their efforts a great day,and all the guys who's expertise was on display.brilliant weather can't wait for the next one.great pic's.
Graham

Colin Richards · Post by **Colin Richards** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:38 pm

Many thanks again Mark, Gill family and friends, a most enjoyable day was had by us all. It was so nice to meet fellow customers and see some fantastic models. Congratulations to all the winners. Hope to see you again next year.

Colin