Bovington Tank Musium pictures

13b20here you go then a better picture of it

ive got the AFV clubs kit, one of these days im going to make it

<wiping tear from eye> Thanks C.C., I haven't seen a M-548 16 ton vehicle since '87. Used to drive the silly things, you know. Also drove jeeps and M-109's. Factoid for anyone that cares: We used to heat C-rations in the stack of the 548's. The entree can would go right in the exhaust stack and when you figured it was hot you have someone gun the engine and out pops the can! Cooking in the field is sooo much fun, don't you think?!

i couldnt get that high up but i took a photo of the drivers guners part where there are no hatchs just wire mesh

Hi, Cave!

Thanks for even MORE pix!
Yup, I'm aware of the late trax and 18-tooth drive sprockets, and I have the Friul set (ATL-37) to do 'em up right!

This was vehicle Fgst.Nr.V2, the second prototype vehicle, which was un-zimmed, had the flat front fenders (like the Tiger I), the telescoping snorkel system, and the 18-tooth drive sprockets (which was on the first 2 prototypes).

According to Jentz and Doyle's GERMANY'S TIGER TANKS-VK 45.02 to TIGER II, Fgst.Nr.V2 was completed by Henschel in January 1944, and was found intact by the British at Henschel's Haustenbeck testing facility, where it had the original cross-country tracks fitted (that funky type with the multiple parts per odd link, and kinda blank links between the larger ones, like you see on Jagdtigers). Somewhere between Huastenbeck and Bovington those tracks were exchanged for the late-model tracks it wears to this day.

I'm doing the mid-80's Bovington version, which was a solid dark yellow with balkenkruez on the hull sides.
I've got a list of 27 modifications that I have to make to the kit to represent Fgst.Nr.V2 as it appeared then.

And your pix are a great help! Those funky exhaust pressure testing pipes (well, the one that's left!) were hard to see in all the pix I had.

You don't happen to have any pix of the top of the turret, do ya? The cupola's gone, and I need to see the detail up there. The one pic I do have shows only half the cupola opening, which is, as are all the missing hatches, covered with wire mesh.

Thanks for all the help, Caveman!

J-Hulk do you know the Kingtiger at Bovington has the late drive sprocket and tracks

like these

do you know the history about the tank? was it that they had a porche turret and stuck it on a late Tiger 2 hull?

I visited the museum 12 years ago with the Harrow Model Society.
because we were an organised (pre notified) visit we were allowed to climb all over the reserve collection - inside and out
I have sime pics somewhere -mostly Iraqi stuff

If you contact the museum , they have a lot of reference material for sale and will provide a price list.
This includes a lot of plans for modified equipment , it is the official Royal Tank Regiment museum after all.

SNIF SNIF i can smell the deisel burning cool pics wish they had something like that over here.

your welcome

Caveman, I can't thank you enough!
Those shots of the Tiger II will really help out with my build.
Interesting to see how that vehicle has changed since the 80's, which is the "version" that I'm doing.

Thanks for those, and all the other beautiful pictures.
Gotta get over there and see that all for myself one of these days!

I going to send you an e-mail John with my other e-mail address. If you could send me any / all Sheramn and related pics that you can. It certainly would be appreciated.

BTW ... this would be the T-14 Assault Tank .... please tell me you have lots of pics of this one !!!!

yeah sure you can use them my name is Jon Wilkinson
i took photos of a locust, a M10 Achiles, M8 greyhound, a Ram, T26 pershing, Cromwell, Churchill, Archer, Lee Grant with big turret,
and this

and lots of german stuff and others

These are just fine Jon ... hi-res eats up too much space ..... is it ok for me to use these on my site ? I'm going to be doing an upgrade in the next few weeks.
Also with your permission I'd use your name in the credits ... gotta give credit where credit is due.

Shermanfreak if you want i could send you the high res photos for you site, or are these good enough?

im downloading Quicktime now, i thought i had it [:0]it looks a great site thanks
heres some more Shermans

Not 100% sure how many came out in this configuration John .... most references just lump them in with M4A1's.

Did you check out that virtual tour ?

yeah it did say it was named after a Michael, how many shermans were made like that one?

Oops forgot this tidbit .... the name "Michael" on the first British Sherman was probably in honour of Michael Dewar, then head of the British Tank Mission. (source - Hunnicut)

Captain Jon - Have you taken the virtual tour of the Patton Museum at Fort Knox. You get some pretty good angles of the King Tiger and other vehicles.

Here's the link: http://www.generalpatton.org/qtvr/qtvr01fS.html

Work your way through the museum and have fun !!!!!

Tigerman the shermans painted in gloss is probably to do with it was the first sherman us Brits got and it was named Michael
im not sure of the whole story, plus it might have been painted gloss for parade

Shermanfreak the sherman did wallow in the pig sty the same one the M548 is going througe

J-Hulk heres the back of the turret

the rear


there you go J-Hulk ive got more photos of it just have to resize them
as i said in the thread you asked about the back of the tiger "i'll get some"

53Ryder they are good links but sadly the photos on there arnt as good as the ones im posting i took 160 photos,
any links to the Kingtiger at Fort Nox?

Great pix, Caveman!
Any of the Tiger II?
I'm building that vehicle right now, as it appeared in the '80s.

Thanx for the tanx!

Kick Ass!!

Thanks for sharing,

Thanks for thinking of me Captain ...... great shots of the M4A2 E8 ..... looks like it took a wallow in the local pig sty, just the way a tank should look.

Good shots of "Michael" also.

Thanks for sharing with us.

Nice pics Caveman. Stupid question, but why is the first Sherman painted with what looks like a gloss?

"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."-R.E.Lee

Sorry about the typo's on the links to Bovington's website's!

Try:

www.tankmuseum.org or

www.tiger-tank.com or

www.d-daytanks.org.uk

These should work...and if not well...maybe it IS rocket science!

These will be nice for references CC. Thanks.

here are the other photos of the tanks that were driving around there area
the M548 was taking peaple for rides around the arena
the Tiger 1 wasnt there today but i will be going down the as soon as it gets back





tell me if there too big and ill resize them again

its ok 13b20 ive got other picture of that sherman Chinese T55/54 copy and a Jagdkannon that have driven through the mud
ill post some more

I copied the 3rd pic captain. I hope you don't mind. That shot was perfect! Thanks, Bob.

If you cannot afford to get to Bovington...then do like me and do the next, or second next best thing.
Go to their website at:

<www.tankmuseum.org.uk>

and check out their Tiger tank restoration project at:

<www.tiger-tank.com>

and check out their D-Day stuff at:

<www.d-daytanks.org.uk>

With a family of 4 kids getting to their website is alot more feasible for me, although going there in person would be more fun!