Pack rats. Tanks with lots of gear
#417
Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Thursday, November 06, 2014 - 05:27 AM UTC
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This is meant to represent a Sherman V of the Three Rivers Regiment, near Regalbuto on Sicily (Hope I got the markings right!). Still a WIP.
John,
That tank is in Olive Drab, right? It looks brown on my monitor, so just checking. The markings look basically fine but unless you have a photo, the squadron markings on the turret were ususally further back at about the midway point. You also are short the WD number on both sides of the rear of the hull.
Paul
Paul Roberts
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Posted: Thursday, November 06, 2014 - 06:23 AM UTC
I was wondering how they would get a 400-500 lb motorbike up on their back deck, until I saw the tankette on the real Sherman and a jeep on a T-34. Wonder how they managed that?
Jim
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Posted: Thursday, November 06, 2014 - 08:59 AM UTC
Great pics guys, keep them coming!
Jesper, there's an even better view here:
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John,
That tank is in Olive Drab, right? It looks brown on my monitor, so just checking. The markings look basically fine but unless you have a photo, the squadron markings on the turret were ususally further back at about the midway point. You also are short the WD number on both sides of the rear of the hull.
Paul
Hi Paul, thanks for the feedback. The tank is OD, I took the pic with my phone. I don't have a picture of the tank, but I used this drawing from "armouredacorn.com" as a guide:
(they're still a bit too far forward)
I didn't get any WD numbers or a name for the tank, but it was from "A" squadron, 3RR.
John
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Posted: Saturday, November 08, 2014 - 11:51 PM UTC
Does anyone have a close up of the smoke dischargers on the right of the turret?
John
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Posted: Sunday, November 09, 2014 - 12:27 AM UTC
Look like those fitted to the Matilda :
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"Find the Bastards, then Pile On"
Col. George W.Patton III 's standing order for the troopers of the 11th Armoured Cavalry Regiment
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Posted: Sunday, November 09, 2014 - 05:40 AM UTC
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This is meant to represent a Sherman V of the Three Rivers Regiment, near Regalbuto on Sicily (Hope I got the markings right!). Still a WIP.
John
I've often seen bicycles stowed on Allied vehicles, but never a motorcycle. The unprotected gas tank would be a huge fire hazard if it were hit by a tracer. You don't want burning gasoline sloshing down into the tank's engine compartment. The US Army briefly experimented with carrying scout motorcycles on the engine deck of M2A4 light tanks before the war, and dropped the idea. In the 1980's, the Army considered carrying a scout motorcycle inside the M3 Bradley, but again, dropped it as a fire hazard.
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Posted: Sunday, November 09, 2014 - 12:59 PM UTC
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In the 1980's, the Army considered carrying a scout motorcycle inside the M3 Bradley, but again, dropped it as a fire hazard.
Seems that the idea wasn't definetely dropped
Exercise Iron Star 1994 :
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"Find the Bastards, then Pile On"
Col. George W.Patton III 's standing order for the troopers of the 11th Armoured Cavalry Regiment
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Posted: Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 03:15 PM UTC
Back to WW2. Some T-34s were fitted with "bedspring" armor, but it looks like a few were fitted with the rest of the furniture
(Berlin 1945) :
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Dalarnas, Sweden
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Posted: Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 03:22 PM UTC
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Seems that the idea wasn't definetely dropped
Exercise Iron Star 1994 :
H.P.
Do you have any more info on this (type of) vehicle/construction??
No need to clutter up the thread, so we could talk about it through pm...
Working on:
Reworking Italeri/Zvezda T 34/76
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Posted: Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 04:29 PM UTC
PM sent Ron
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"Find the Bastards, then Pile On"
Col. George W.Patton III 's standing order for the troopers of the 11th Armoured Cavalry Regiment
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Posted: Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 07:25 PM UTC
Wow! T'anks for all of the photos. A few I have seen, but most are new to me.
Lots of ideas for future builds.
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Posted: Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 07:34 PM UTC
Interesting mod..."
A Sd.Kfz.251 Ausf.D makes an unusual mode of transportation for a family of Romanian refugees. A rudimentary roof have been fabricated in the same way as the cart visible in background and a German Zeltbahn waterproof shelter triangle covers the back of the roof. The rain guards on the stowage boxes are a late war addition." (Refugee Camp, Wallern, Czechoslovakia, June 18, 1945) :
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"Find the Bastards, then Pile On"
Col. George W.Patton III 's standing order for the troopers of the 11th Armoured Cavalry Regiment
Dalarnas, Sweden
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Posted: Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 07:50 PM UTC
There are pictures of a 251 pulling a number of wagons,too. Maybe the same group?
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Posted: Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 08:36 PM UTC
Well loaded Hellcat (Domazlice, Western Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, May 1945 ):
Full sizeH.P.
"Find the Bastards, then Pile On"
Col. George W.Patton III 's standing order for the troopers of the 11th Armoured Cavalry Regiment
Rhone, France
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Posted: Friday, November 14, 2014 - 01:36 AM UTC
DKW NZ 350 ( or 250 ?) + Pz IV =
I'm not sure this one has made it to the other bank...
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"Find the Bastards, then Pile On"
Col. George W.Patton III 's standing order for the troopers of the 11th Armoured Cavalry Regiment
#417
Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Friday, November 14, 2014 - 10:20 AM UTC
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Hi Paul, thanks for the feedback. The tank is OD, I took the pic with my phone. I don't have a picture of the tank, but I used this drawing from "armouredacorn.com" as a guide:
If you are using Barry's images, then you are generally OK.
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(they're still a bit too far forward)
I didn't get any WD numbers or a name for the tank, but it was from "A" squadron, 3RR.
His artwork, though, is only as complete as the photos he's based them off so in this case he must not have been able to see the WD number. You _can_ have a tank without a name (although if one tank has a name beginning with the squadron letter, you can bet they almost all did) but you can not have a tank without a WD number. Even if you completely make it up, ya gotta have a WD number in three places on the tank OR dirty it up so much that the normal locations for the number are all covered with something opague.
No way around it. All tanks had the WD number. :-)
Paul
Paul Roberts
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Posted: Friday, November 14, 2014 - 11:53 PM UTC
Frenchy, you must be the pack rat of pictures! You seem to have a load of pictures that fit any request. Thanks for always sharing with us
Paul, I found some white transfers with individual letters and numbers so I fabricated a WD number: T140243. Thanks for the heads up!
John
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Posted: Friday, November 14, 2014 - 11:57 PM UTC
Talking about tanks and motorcycles...
Just came across two pics from an older thread showing New Zealand SAS rides in Afghanistan (thanks to Bill Ritchie) :
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"Find the Bastards, then Pile On"
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Posted: Saturday, November 22, 2014 - 05:47 AM UTC
I know this isn't an AFV, but it sure is packed!
John
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Posted: Saturday, November 22, 2014 - 07:46 AM UTC
I hate moving!
Fyn, Denmark
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Posted: Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 10:48 PM UTC
Here's another I just ran across:
The caption was:
Soldiers from Oscar Company, 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment Battle Group, take a moment to rest.
Panjwa'i District, Afghanistan. 22 September 2010
John
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Posted: Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 11:18 PM UTC
Love this last photo...
sleeping in mid-day sun....
Life,, IS, unfortunately...
measured by the number of breaths we take,
but the moments that take our breath away,
are the moments that we wish;.,.,
Eternity remembers Of us.
