Pics of the Bovington Tiger from this weekend ( pics added )

Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, May 28, 2004 6:58 PM

Did the big guy have a Camouflage bush hat on? The two next to him had Camouflage baseball caps on. I was right behind him
The press were a pain when the Tiger was driving off, getting in the way (I was shouting too) the time i was on about was when the Tiger was traversing its turret (all i could see was the coordinator (maybe the big guy was blocking me seeing the press) there was countless times he spoiled a photo of mine
Anyway it was nice to meet you there, even though I didn’t know you. I had a black Oakley T shirt/ jeans and a pair of Oakley’s on my head with a video camera around my neck and a black back pack

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, May 28, 2004 5:27 PM

I was standing next to the big guy who shouted at the pressman, he was not a co-ordinator. This pressman was wandering backwards and forwards and all over the place and screwing all our shots up. We where just too polite to say anything, until the big guy told him. His fellow pressmen at least had the courtesy to kneel down, knowing that there was a least eight people behind taking video's and photographs. Said pressman then came up and uttered things to the big guy that my mother would not approve of (my delicate ears!). Pressman was very lucky that big guy did not re-arrange his features or use him as a tripod.

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, May 28, 2004 7:43 AM

Koblenz look like a good museum, theres a Early Panther A over here thats being restored to running condition, its being done by the same bloke that owns the running Famo
Thanks

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, May 28, 2004 7:25 AM

Ok Captain Caveman. I had a look at the Bergepanther.
All it says is, that there is a Bergepanther at the "Technical Study collection of Koblenz" Confused [%-)]

( never heard of it ) and that this will be or is being restored ( it doesn't tell if it will be restored to runing condition or just for display. ) Thats all.
I hope they restore it to runing condition. Smile [:)]

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 27, 2004 11:27 PM

I'll have a look at it and see if I can translate the text. But will be later because I have to go to work now. I'll be in touch.

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 27, 2004 11:24 PM

the 3rd photo is of the Tiger moving in to park and that was right next to me so he must have been next to me to take that

anyway whats the story about the Bergpanther in http://www.rcpanzer.de/apportal/main.php your favorate link? has it just been dug up or something

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 27, 2004 11:15 PM

If you want me too, then I will delete it. And I'll remember to ask that other fellow exactly how he got the pic.

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 27, 2004 11:08 PM

yeah or it was taken of this site and put on a web page without asking
another reason to downsize photos on here

It must have been the ar Censored [censored]

ole that was in front of me Smile [:)]

camped out at the front and moaning about the coordinators getting in his way

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 27, 2004 11:04 PM

Thats incredible. You must have taken the pics at the very same second, and almost standing on eachothers toes!!
I found it on a forum for RC armor, and the fellow there also posted the other pics and a video, and the first thing that struck me was; Wow him and Captain Caveman must have been pretty close to one another.

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 27, 2004 10:59 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by monrad

It sure looks like it Captain Caveman. Where did you get it??

I took the photo i posted (i did post a high res version on sunday, maybe the other was taken by someone next to me

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 27, 2004 10:55 PM

It sure looks like it Captain Caveman. Where did you get it??

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 27, 2004 7:10 PM

Wow who ever took the first 4 photos must have been standing right next to me, or could it have been the complete Censored [censored]

that was in front of me, moaning at people getting in his way)

it sounded allot better than the video, but its a great film to see (i was outside when they started it up, it felt a bit like the T-Rex coming in Jurassic park when it was heard, then it moved into view WOW)

heres some on mine

Monrad is this the photo you used for the 4th photo?

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 27, 2004 4:13 PM

WOW that looks awesome. I'd love to be there

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 27, 2004 1:22 PM

That's just AWESOME! I've seen a 'Stug', Hetzer and 'Jagd IV' in action, but never a Tiger. I'd love to see that one! Looks like they've fixed their engine problems.

Thanks for posting the pix.

Ron

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 27, 2004 2:38 AM

Found Video of the big cat on this site:

http://www.akula971.com

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tigerman

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From: Rain USA, Vancouver WA

Posted by tigerman on Monday, May 24, 2004 10:59 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Captain Caveman

so you want to see more of the Tiger do you
its a shame i cant get the video to run on here to

Would love to hear the sound of its 88mm. Tongue [:P]

Film footage doesn't do it justice.

Eric

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 24, 2004 10:49 PM

so you want to see more of the Tiger do you
its a shame i cant get the video to run on here to

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 24, 2004 4:31 PM

Seeing a stationary Tiger at Duxford was cool, I can't imagine how awesome it would be to see an opperational Tiger in person. Thanks for the teaser! Wink [;)]

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mjohnson

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Posted by mjohnson on Monday, May 24, 2004 3:13 PM

Wouldn't love to have one of those during rush hour traffic.

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 24, 2004 2:25 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by tigerman

Awesome, now if they could only get a Kingtiger to run!

Yeah that would be nice wouldn't it. I just wish I could have been there to see this, it must have been a great experience.

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 24, 2004 12:55 PM

Nice pics thanx for those. Its nice to see Tiger that is real and not a T-34 dressed up.

Keep well.

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tigerman

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Posted by tigerman on Monday, May 24, 2004 12:43 PM

Awesome, now if they could only get a Kingtiger to run!

Eric

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wipw

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From: Utah - USA

Posted by wipw on Monday, May 24, 2004 12:32 PM

Wow! That is one nice photo chop!! Did Dwight have something to do with it?? The only big problem I see is with the commander figure in the 3rd pic. Just doesn't look right!! Maybe it's the flesh tones. Real nice dust/exhaust effect on the second one, though. I'd like to know how they do that!! lol

Seriously, thanks for sharing the pics. It's great to know they've done so much with the Tiger.

Bill ==========================================================