UK Tank BBQ AUG02

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In August 2002 members of the UK Tank Club had another get together at their proving ground in West Sussex. Here are a few pictures of that weekend.

The first few pictures show some of the members models apart from mine! Here we see Chris Leech's 1/8th Panther with the excellent Infra Red commanders sight.

This is Peter Shaw's (him of Discovery Super Models fame!) super detailed 1/6th King Tiger. Lots of dots!

Here is Chris Walkers 1/8th JagdPanther together with some smoke from one of his Pyros!

This is Jim Cusworth's 1/6th Tiger proudly showing it's new working headlight.

Jim's Tiger and my Panther trying to find some Russians.

And here's one of them, Howard's T-34 pretending to be real, and doing a good job of it.

Humpy tinkers with Chris Leech's Panther, trying to remove the IR night sight without him seeing!

Just to prove that even my models do break down occasionally here's a picture of me repairing my JagdPanther track.

While Jim fiddles with his Tiger.

Before it's messy debacle Mark Spencer took his super detailed King Tiger around the assault course to prove that the biggest can do what the smallest can do!

These next few pictures show Mark's party piece at the BBQ crossing the small stream.

As you can see it went in quite deep so he had to go in after it.

He thought he'd try what we were doing earlier in the year but the mud was deeper this time.

After extricating it from the mud it looked a bit sorry for itself and smelly!

And it wasn't the only thing that smelt. Here we see a new use for a gun barrel!

Finally we see a collection of models battling against Chris Walker's pyros.

The good thing about these get togethers we have is the exchanging of ideas and comparisons with the models.

There's always somebody who's had a problem and has worked out a solution so why struggle? That's what being in the UK Tank Club's all about.

While some of us ran our models others posed Dragon figures with there's against Peter Shaw's new ruined buildings.

Here's a picture of Howard's excellent T-34 coming up out of the mud.

And away.

The old faithful, my JagdPanther doing the rounds.

My Panther on one of the bridges at the proving ground.

Here's a good low angle view of Jim's Tiger 1 showing the headlight to good effect.

This picture isn't of the best quality but is included because of the novelty of seeing two 1/6th King Tigers in formation! These are tow of the three that were there that weekend. One is Marks and the other belongs to either Tav or Micheal Allen I forget which!

   

Here's a rarity, one of the Mark-1-Tanks T-80's. This did as well around the course as did the WWII models.

Good old Howard doing the honours with the BBQ.

As promised on a previous BBQ page here is a picture of my 1/8th Panther firing it's 8mm blank starting pistol at night. Apologies for the poor quality of the picture but it was taken from a video using a CamCorder with infra red capability!