How often you drive by a random location and see something unique? At least here in north Texas. Is not everyday you get to see a genuine British Abbott SPG, in North Texas of all places; but here we are.
It’s in not in too bad of a shape, but it definitely seen better days. The color will help me tons for painting my Cr.1.
Any pics of it?
Standing in Texas sun for a while?
Yeah. Just a little. 
I was in Mellrichstadt, visiting the garrison museum of Panzergrenadier Bataillon 352. Some good soul parked his Feldumschlaggerät forklift a few miles outside.
That’s about 4 1/2 hours from me. There’s also a Ferret driving around North Texas.
Help your CR 1? Well, it will if you’re keen to paint an almost wreck!
Do not take that as a baseline to paint a Cr1 …that Abbott has a mega bleached finished and nothing like a wagon in service
Oh You funny, you!
Oh! I know. I know. Don’t mind my bloviating.
I know where there’s an Abbot in someone’s front garden, under a carport-like structure, in the Netherlands 
I never did work up the courage to ring the doorbell and ask to see it up close, though.
When it was newly put there, about twenty years ago (the photo above is from Google’s street view back then), it was plainly visible from the street but bushes have grown up since to hide it.
Why not taking several hundred of pics and measurements and send it to Takom?
Nice pics.
Is it an ex BATUS Value Engineered version, or a BAOR vehicle?
Mal
BAOR black and green? BATUS sand and grass green? That looks like very faded black.
No, that’d just be the paint, the Value Engineered version was an export version, that was cheaper than the BAOR issue vehicle, had various bits left off. Seem to recall the Indian Army bought a bunch, but can’t recall exactly what was left off.
Mal
It’s always sad - well - to me at least, when one encounters an old warhorse like this, ready for the junk pile; I remember as a 6 year-old boy (roughly) the debut of the Abbot at the School of Artillery’s annual firepower show, open to the public, which was about the most impressive thing I’d ever seen.
There they were, a couple in the static stands for schoolboys and their Dads to crawl all over, and then a battery’s worth (peacetime establishment 6 x guns) motoring into the arena and performing several shoots. The beasts all in shiny bronze green, (as were most of the vehicles on display back then, save for a couple of M109s still in a US paint scheme of olive drab).
This is how I remember them in the firing arena - although there’s only 4 shown here and it’s not taken at the School of Artillery:
Turrets traversed then “Bam!”
It was just so impressive, as it was meant to be; recruiting wasn’t a problem back then, partly I’m sure, due to shows like these.
Now, where is that Accurate Armour 1/35 Abbot…?
The whole box had a bit of a Humpty Dumpty moment a while back. It’ll be fine, but has been moved back several spots in the queue for now.
Methinks Boots is thinking about another Abbot-box, standing on the floor about four feet from my left foot …
