Bovington Tank Museum (1 Viewer)

[Rob]

Great series of pics. Some interesting vehicles and colour schemes.

Thanks for posting Rob:salute::

Brett

You're very welcome mate.

Don't tell Howard otherwise my name will be mud with him, but my battery ran out before I got to post WW2 Tanks.....but will be going back to rectify that:wink2:

Rob

 

[TomNT]

Great pics Rob what a exceptional place just goes to show how out of scale everyone is,those german tanks are HUGE thanks again Rob for posting.

Even bigger when you see them up close and personal mate! I was like a kid in a lolly shop when I visited the Musee Des Blindes museum in France several years ago. I think I would have given Marc a run for his money with the amount of pic's I took with me camera!

Tom

 

[lancer]

Rob, thanks for posting all these wonderful pictures. That is one impressive museum. So many different AFV's and so well kept. I like the way many of the vehicles are opened up for looking inside via doors, hatches, cut-aways, and even a window. I am also impressed that the museum has 2 versions of the Royal Tiger, along with the Tiger I. -- Al

 

[Sentaapua]

Rob,

Tanks for sharing, I mean thanks for sharing!^&grin. Seriously I loved to see these great pictures! Visiting Bovington is certainly on my to do list before I depart, and seeing these pictures just made it move up on the priority number... I hope next time I visit England I'll finally be able to make it!

 

[Rob]

Rob, thanks for posting all these wonderful pictures. That is one impressive museum. So many different AFV's and so well kept. I like the way many of the vehicles are opened up for looking inside via doors, hatches, cut-aways, and even a window. I am also impressed that the museum has 2 versions of the Royal Tiger, along with the Tiger I. -- Al

Happy to do it my friend:salute:: Really do agree Al, I was knocked out by all the different versions of many different afv's. Also I have never seen so many WW1 tanks in one place either. And the smaller vehicles are very well represented too, they had three of the Dingo armoured cars in differing versions. That Royal Tiger is something else, very impressive, easy to see how it was pretty much only a Typhoon could take it out!{eek3} Imagine firing a Piat at that thing?! I doubt the crew would even hear it!^&grin

For the sake of honesty and fairness I should point out that my much better half took the pics......as you can imagine I was running around like a headless chicken going ' Get that one love' ' and that one' ' Wayne will want that one' ^&grin:salute:: (I don't know how she puts up with me Al...but glad she does!:salute:

Glad you like them mate

Rob

 

[Rob]

Rob,

Tanks for sharing, I mean thanks for sharing!^&grin. Seriously I loved to see these great pictures! Visiting Bovington is certainly on my to do list before I depart, and seeing these pictures just made it move up on the priority number... I hope next time I visit England I'll finally be able to make it!

^&grin

My friend , you will love it and it will be well worth the trip. What they have not got isn't worth seeing! Next time you come over we will definitely meet up. Sorry I missed you this time
Best
Rob

 

[lancer]

Happy to do it my friend:salute:: Really do agree Al, I was knocked out by all the different versions of many different afv's. Also I have never seen so many WW1 tanks in one place either. And the smaller vehicles are very well represented too, they had three of the Dingo armoured cars in differing versions. That Royal Tiger is something else, very impressive, easy to see how it was pretty much only a Typhoon could take it out!{eek3} Imagine firing a Piat at that thing?! I doubt the crew would even hear it!^&grin

For the sake of honesty and fairness I should point out that my much better half took the pics......as you can imagine I was running around like a headless chicken going ' Get that one love' ' and that one' ' Wayne will want that one' ^&grin:salute:: (I don't know how she puts up with me Al...but glad she does!:salute:

Glad you like them mate

Rob

Rob my friend, it is one of life's great mysteries as to how grown boys like us manage to find good women willing to put up with our, how do I put this, odd interests. I look at my wife of 37+ years and I can only think of Jimmy Doolittle's autobiography title, "I Could Never Be So Lucky Again". Bless them all.:wink2:^&cool -- Al

 

[Rob]

Rob my friend, it is one of life's great mysteries as to how grown boys like us manage to find good women willing to put up with our, how do I put this, odd interests. I look at my wife of 37+ years and I can only think of Jimmy Doolittle's autobiography title, "I Could Never Be So Lucky Again". Bless them all.:wink2:^&cool -- Al

Amen to that brother!:salute::

Rob

 

[Fort-Stamford]

Rob,

Are you going to post the photos in an album (of course titled "Bovington Tank Museum") or the Treefrog gallery? It would be a great reference source on the forum. If you make an album, it would be a plus if you can rename the jpg file with the name of the subject tank or armoured vehicle. Thanks for sharing, I just wish I knew of this museum on my past trips to the UK or when I lived there in the 70's.

Chuck

 

[Rob]

Rob,

Are you going to post the photos in an album (of course titled "Bovington Tank Museum") or the Treefrog gallery? It would be a great reference source on the forum. If you make an album, it would be a plus if you can rename the jpg file with the name of the subject tank or armoured vehicle. Thanks for sharing, I just wish I knew of this museum on my past trips to the UK or when I lived there in the 70's.

Chuck

Hi Chuck,

I've tried to make albums before but somehow it never worked, but I'll have another look at them.

Best
Rob

 

[johnnybach]

Prospective visitors - read on.

http://www.tankmuseum.org/Museum_Exhibitions

 

[Fort-Stamford]

Hi Chuck,

I've tried to make albums before but somehow it never worked, but I'll have another look at them.

Best
Rob

Rob,

If you are having trouble with existing photo images being to large in size (anything over 190KB), they can be reduced in size with photoshop type software without losing clarity or sharpness. If you don't have the software, I may be able to help. If you use a smartphone to take the shots, select Medium resolution when sending to yourself (via your PC email address); but if you transfer the photos from phone or camera to your PC via USB cable, the resolution will be the one selected (normally 2mb in size), thus requiring resizing on your PC before uploading to the forum's album.

Chuck

 

[sammy719]

Hi Rob,

Thanks for sharing the photos of a great collection, got to admit the close ups of that Tiger are just unreal, couldn't imagine to many fellows were happy to see that nasty on the battlefield...Sammy

 

[Rob]

Rob,

If you are having trouble with existing photo images being to large in size (anything over 190KB), they can be reduced in size with photoshop type software without losing clarity or sharpness. If you don't have the software, I may be able to help. If you use a smartphone to take the shots, select Medium resolution when sending to yourself (via your PC email address); but if you transfer the photos from phone or camera to your PC via USB cable, the resolution will be the one selected (normally 2mb in size), thus requiring resizing on your PC before uploading to the forum's album.

Chuck

Thanks Chuck, that is very helpful.I will have to have a go at making an album for these or creating a special thread.

Hi Rob,

Thanks for sharing the photos of a great collection, got to admit the close ups of that Tiger are just unreal, couldn't imagine to many fellows were happy to see that nasty on the battlefield...Sammy

My pleasure Sammy. It must have been pretty frightening coming up against one of those Tiger I's in a tank let alone on foot!{eek3} You have to hand it to the Germans they made some pretty superb fighting machines didn't they and when it came to Tanks we were often playing catch up. They learned any lessons from WW1 much faster than we did.

Rob

 

[Cyber Field Marshall]

Thanks for taking the time to document your visit to Bovington. Lots of great history to be seen there for sure. They have quite a collection of vehicles.

 

[ChrisTay]

Green with envy. Just love some of the camouflage patterns in these pictures.

For the desert front, can anyone enlighten me as to why they use these light blue color in the Matilda? What does it really do?

Rgds,Chris

 

[Mitch]

supposed to blend the AFV with the horizon. At distance it causes a distortion to the eye with the desert and skyline, sand and blue thus enhancing the concealment of the AFV.

Mitch

Green with envy. Just love some of the camouflage patterns in these pictures.

For the desert front, can anyone enlighten me as to why they use these light blue color in the Matilda? What does it really do?

Rgds,Chris

 

[wayne556517]

supposed to blend the AFV with the horizon. At distance it causes a distortion to the eye with the desert and skyline, sand and blue thus enhancing the concealment of the AFV.

Mitch

Great question Chris often wondered that myself,and thanks Mitch for the answer.

 

[ChrisTay]

Thanks Mitch. In fact, I was greatly confused at one point when I surf the Internet and someone posted that it should be grey in colour. These actual photos also confirmed that the light blue was really used.