Bovington Tank Museum Gallery

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http://home.comcast.net/~szee1a/Bovington_Tanks/BovingtonTanks.html
 
My friend and I visited Bovington Tank Museum in May 1977. Took thousands of neat photos and got to touch/crawl onto/and have picture with all their AFV's. Its one of those places you want to go back to again. Next time instead of only one week, I want to spend whole summer exploring the UK. Great place, neat people, weird driving on the left side, awesome pubs, wargaming clubs/conventions and love their B&B's.

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Oh, and in case someone wondes what those buckets hangong off the back of German tanks are for: cooling water. The easiest and most expedient way of quickly refilling. :biggrin1:
 
If only they had restroed them properly...
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Tiger II paint job does suck.
They have rebuilt a Tiger I, called the "Bovington's Tank".
It still has its original company/platoon number of 131.
There another video on how they rebuilt it.
Sandblasted down to the original colors and match them up as best they could.
Here a video of it, for once a year they ride her out for the public.
[video=youtube;dR9f6zrh4dM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR9f6zrh4dM[/video]
 
The Tiger I is nice, but at least with the repainting of the Panther G they failed. Epically.It looked good it int's original paint scheme (which definitely was more or less 100% accurate), but the curent one is just... well, I'd say it gives me eye cancer.
 
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This tank is a Tiger II, wasn't that the tank you were referring too?
 
No, that paint job is acceptable. I talked about the Panther G that's displayed in Bovington, too, although not in these pictures here. Check the link in the original post. :biggrin1:
 
That Panther pic is so colourful that it looks like a gaymobile, my enhanced version below is much more manly..:)

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It still is a Tiger II and NO Panther. With the so-called "Porsche turret" which makes this an early Tiger II.
 
Yes I meant to say King Tiger, the original pic was far too colourful.
I told Bovington 30 years ago that some of their colour schemes were krap but obviously they didn't listen
 
I think I was that little kid.
(or certainly could have been)

Seriously though, was that the real color scheme of the TigerII?
Was it for sitting in a wheat field or the Russian steppe?
 
They reckoned that it took five Shermans to take out a Tiger 1, and four were expected to be lost while doing it.
 
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