@golikell looks like another adventure into the world of dirt for me lol
You’re never too old to play with sand and dirt!
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@golikell this is very true
Just a quick update. I did a priming coat on the brick layers with Mr Surfacer 1000. Sorry for a delay in updates on this. It’s been primarily filling and sanding and just me trying to be more deliberate. That and I’m also building a 2S14 from trumpeter, which is me breaking my own rule of don’t have more then one project going at a time. But sometimes rules need to be broken.
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I just wonder if it was to assist horse-drawn traffic, to enable the beasts to gain traction?
A million years ago when the Commander in Chief (General Sir Charles Huxtable since you ask) was retiring from the Army a surprise farewell parade was held (and practiced in secret); this involved an escort of mounted Hussars and sand was strewn on the tarmac outside the HQ - which is how I know of the practice folks!
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@BootsDMS now that is an interesting fact.
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It was actually quite funny in that the General, who was nobody’s fool noticed from his lofty eyrie in the office block which was the HQ, the workmen spreading sand. He asked his Military Assistant (MA):
“What are those chaps spreading sand for Mike?”
MA (who was responsible for the surprise ceremony the following day): “For when it’s frosty General”.
General: “But it’s August Mike”.
MA: “They’re practising for the winter General”.
General: “Good God”.
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that was great Brian. No doubt there were probably some poor lower enlisted spreading that sand around and cleaning it up!
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To be fair, it was all civilian workers. Come the day it went very well; The MA took the General on a very circuitous route around the HQ, to enable him to bid farewell to all the staff. In the meantime, a Land Rover, converted to a reviewing model, had been borrowed from Buckingham Palace, and secretly positioned so that as he left the building by a Fire Exit, it was ready and waiting, as was the mounted escort of Hussars, and as this particular procession began, with all the staff lining the road (as soon as the General had visited their department they decanted from the building), together with soldiers from representative units of the command, the regimental band from his old regiment hove into view playing the regimental march.
It was only a relatively short route, and at the end as he dismounted, a group of Army Chefs presented him and his wife with a massive baked loaf of bread in the shape (and detail) of his original cap badge.
He had tears in his eyes; mind you, he’d a lot of service under his belt, beginning as a subaltern in the Battle of the Hook in Korea(!)
Prior to his HQ walk-around we all assembled in the Private Office (of which I was Chief Clerk) where we presented him and Lady Huxtable with a salver, or rose bowl (I can’t quite remember) appropriately engraved, and then quaffed a fair bit of champagne.
As it was the Aide de Camp’s last day as well, (a young Captain) I took him to the Warrant Officers’ & Sergeants’ Mess where we continued the motion; I have no recollection of getting back to my married quarter that evening whatsoever.
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Thinking of adding Sdkfz 7 or 11 but not sure which would be more appropriate. I’ve been eyeing afv clubs Sdkfz 11 but i know the layout is different in both vehicles.