Bovington Tank Fest 2015

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Glenn, thanks for the pic!

I look really red!

Cheers, Ade.

[Glenn66]

Well you were a pinko commie rat weren't you?

[Glenn66]

Now for some Tiger action... We had to wait until almost the end of the day for the Tiger to come out and play, it was just before the finale shootout with Fury and 2 other Shermans. Apologies for the poor quality photos, I bought a new and better camera a few days later as the limitations of my old one really made themselves obvious trying to shoot across the arena.



One thing that impressed was the smooth and quiet nature of the Tiger compared to the loud, squeaking and bone rattling of the other 'heavies'.

[ironcross13]

yeah a impressive show, the tiger is something special.

im going next year for both sat sun tank fest then visit the museum on monday when its quiet
thats the plan.

best Martin

[Glenn66]

Good idea. The museum was quite busy on the Sunday afternoon, I had to do a lot of cropping to keep most of the people out of shot.

Here are some of the German vehicles from the museum...

[Glenn66]

And some Russian...

[Glenn66]

Only 1 US tank caught my eye. I think this is an early Sherman (note the 3 bow MGs, 2 with only vertical traverse)

[Glenn66]

And for the UK, this WW1 MK 5 male is a beauty!

[ironcross13]

I was there sunday, but stayed over and went back the next day the museum was quite you need a full day in the museum itself (Ade did tell me this and its true)
it was to packed on sunday and i was to busy outside to get in the museum and look

best little break i've been on in a while