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David Skeldon
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Centurion ARV

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Hi.
Picture of the progress of my ARV.Still lots to do.

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Love it David, keep the pics and the words coming, is she alive as I am really interested in hearing and seeing some good video , nothing to Hollywood just some atmospheric close low passes of the camera cheers Phil.
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Hi.
First time outside.still lots to do.


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Magnificent, David, another brave feat of model engineering.

Good to see you've got the Fitters' hotel on the back, aside from the bridgelayer, the worst thing in the battle gruop to camouflage in a wet wood at night. You'll have to include some "slabs" of Tennants in the back - the fee extorted by the Recy (recovery) Mechs for recovering bogged tanks. I recall one of ours also had an engineer's workbench on the front and oxy-acetylene tanks and welding gear which was also used for cutting the tracks on a bogged tank. (Yes, the manual provided instructions for blowing them off with PE but in peacetime, we weren't trusted with explosives).

Looking forward to seeing it in the flesh one day.

Thanks for sharing the pics.

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Re: Centurion ARV

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Hi,
A couple of videos of testing...








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good to see another interesting vehicle from you david, always gives the forum that something different, regards simon manning.

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Very nice job.

Stephen, the Cent ARV Mk2 carried a set of Oxy-Acetylene bottles as standard equipment, housed in the light sheet steel locker on the front right corner of the upper superstructure. They slid in at an angle.

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awesome job there. well done.

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Hi.
Thanks for the positive comments.

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David they look great, so much work but well worth the effort , keep the videos coming regards Phil. :D
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Hi.
Now painting to resemble a gulf war ARV.


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