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Posted: **Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:10 pm**

Pleased to hear your coming on sunday Richie, so if the weather is crap are we still meeting up for a crack? going to have to meet up with Ian anyway to get my track pads.

Posted: **Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:15 pm**

hi clive

i up for anythin

richie

Posted: **Sun Feb 15, 2009 5:49 pm**

Hi All,

Another interesting meet

. Some photo's below, in a slightly different location due to the entrance to our normal running area being a little muddy. Great to see you all today and a big welcome to our newie Duncun

Ian's 1/6th Scratch built Chieftan

Duncan geting some help off Vinny, Paul M and Richie

My Panther with the back of Leighton Hall in the background

Richie's Tiger next to Lisa's creation and the start of our bombed out village

Clive's scratch built 1/6th Sherman

Another view of Clive's Sherman

Clive's Sherman in firing mode

And with a nice big flash

Mine & Richie's on the prowl along the muddy track

Richie's Tigers stripey wheels

A nice long flame (Thanks Clive & Richie that made my day

)

Some video's to follow later.

Thanks Antony

Posted: **Sun Feb 15, 2009 5:55 pm**

Hi Antony

Great pictures. Love the firing shot

. A great day and great company. Glad I could help out on your tank. See you in two weeks.

Richie

Here's a couple of pictures that Lisa took today. My tiger playing cat and mouse with Ian's tank.

Posted: **Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:03 pm**

Great shots Ant, love the firing shots ,well done mate didnt think you would get them.

Posted: **Mon Feb 16, 2009 5:20 pm**

Looks like you had a good day running. There are quite some achievements with both the scratch built Sherman by Clive and now a scratch built Chieftain from Ian. I would verymuch appreciate some more details on these tanks. The Sherman firing pictures also look great

Posted: **Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:50 pm**

Hi Antony.
How did you get this flame?

Have you used the system about which Lionel wrote in this post http://www.armortek.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=802 ?

Posted: **Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:30 pm**

Hi

No its not propane. its a blank firer.

When i was working on Antonys panther, i made a charge to release a small amount of gas in exaust, then lite it on start up,

very nice, but as they say DONT TRY THIS AT HOME

Richie

Posted: **Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:00 pm**

Hi All,

The first of three video clips:

Second clip of Clive's Sherman firing. Believe me the sound is a lot louder than it is on the video.

Thanks Antony

Posted: **Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:35 am**

Nice videos and photos guys! The Cheftan really tears up the sod - just like a real tank. The Sherman is awesome - fantastic build.

Heres a real Sherman firing. It looks to be a ex-Israel Super Sherman gun, 105mm?

Bob

Posted: **Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:51 pm**

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the comments and your vid. What amazes me is the little recoil, if at all, the 105mm barrel has. I know the vid is a little shakey but the barrel doesn't appear to recoil much at all. Is this because it's a blank

Compare this to the Jagdpanther, which was also firing blanks:

I know our videos don't sound very loud but I can tell you when you're not expecting the bang you still jump

Just order a load of blanks for our next meet and contemplating a few smoke grenades too

Thanks Antony

Posted: **Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:19 am**

Antony,
I'm sure its a simulator round, or blank. Still makes a nice bang though!

Posted: **Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:03 pm**

Hi Guys

The wife is hard at it with the bridge

she isnt half hammering my power tools

will post a couple of pics later

richie

Posted: **Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:06 pm**

> she isnt half hammering my power tools

Surely she should either be using the power tools, or hammering ...

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Posted: **Sat Feb 21, 2009 7:18 pm**

Hi Guys

Pictures as promised.

Adrian - she's now wanting her own pink power tools, how bad will I look with these!!!

p.s I've just seen in the photo that she's even drinking my Fosters

Richie