Will you be at the MAFVA Nats this June? I’d love to see the floating saucer in all its glory!
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Sorry Tom, we don’t attend that one. Stonehenge Modellers (ie me and Pate Smith) will be at:
6 Apr Yeovil
Aug (tbc) Avon (near Bristol)
6 Sep (tbc) Farnborough (not yet decided)
4 Oct Abingdon
10-13 Oct Belgium (Mechelen) - our biggie as it were
We’ve not been to Belgium for a couple of years - we used to go regularly - so we’re really looking forward to this one; as the Royal Marines might say, it’s a good run ashore(!)
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Yes they were, I learned it on a M60A1.
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I’ve been overthinking things on the TV-8; I started messing around with vehicle positioning poles, then a brush-guard for the searchlight and it all got a bit much. However, although I’ve binned the idea, here is where I was at, at one stage:
Far too much imagination(!)
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Just about ready for primer:
Wipers and washer nozzles to the TV cameras:
Hatch details - which I nearly forgot:
And model railway flock applied to the underside of the turret which will represent mud; with no trackguards this thing would have gotten filthy very quickly:
Primer - now to be applied tomorrow - in daylight.
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Great looking thing!
And those jerrycans look tiny on that huge thing 
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At last, despite the predations of domestic life (see thread “Chrysler TV-8” if you’re remotely interested, and there’s no reason at all why you should be):
And the accessories and crew - still a bit of work to do there:
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Looking mighty good there!
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The searchlight looks like its in its perfect spot.
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Thanks Dan, that’s what I reckoned. I think I read somewhere - back in the mists of time - that if it’s too close to the optics of whatever, one gets light back-scatter or similar. A sort of bloom of too much light - I think - I’m clearly no expert, but anyway, that errant thought seemed logical, so there it is!
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I used the IR sight way back when (on a M60A1) and didn’t know that. I wonder how these even older IRs worked?
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Whoa Dan! I must stress I have no idea that what I appear to have dragged up from my ailing memory has any credence whatsoever; I could easily be confusing the issue with thermal imaging stuff - which means I’m talking out of my rear end (not unknown!).
I was also thinking about white light not necessarily IR.
There again, of course, it’s a What-If and perhaps I don’t even need to justify very much at all, save that I like things to be sort of plausible as it were.
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You’re doing a great job on making things up!
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Yeah - I’m good at that; a lifetime in the Army lying, cheating and stealing(!)
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I take it, you have your LSGC , as they never found out.
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I do indeed Frank; what was it - 15 years’ undetected crime?
Sixth one along in this rather murky pic taken on the D Day commemorations last year (showing off a bit here):
The rest are Blair’s Wars, apart from an Omani medal and a couple of Jubilee ones.
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Now that is a cracking pic Frank, cracking!
(So, somehow you secured yours then - LS&GC that is (!))
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