Dummy Tanks

[jarndice]

43, Not so much an avid fan of Charles Dickins although I can quote the first line of "A Tale Of Two Cities" "It was the best of times it was the worst of times" But all my life I seem to be a follower of lost causes.
You have solved something that has puzzled me over the years I have titled myself "JARNDICE"
Why I am so often erroneously called "JAUNDICE" ?:haha:
Now to the "Chieftain" This otherwise decent cold war British (Vickers) Main Battle Tank was the worst heavy Tank to enter service with the Royal Armoured Corps because of the biggest waste of money ever spent on the "Leyland Multi-Fuel engine, I am being kind when I call it a disaster, Fortunately the "Antar's" were still in service to tow them off of Sennelager and other well known Chieftain resting places and back to the workshop at Fallingbostal and other centre's of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineering excellence for yet another engine rebuild!!
The Tank was finally sorted out which is probably why you think they were decent vehicles, Not the earlier version I promise.
I have served alongside American soldiers and Marines and one of the best and most impressive aspects was the way they adapted to any given situation,
My two favourite nations servicemen are American and Australian, brave men with brains who have but one failing they did try to out drink us :
Oh, my claim to fame is that three of us having gotten a cab for Mrs Bono (CHER) then got her husband (SUNNY) drunk as a skunk,
They were in the far east, I cannot say where, entertaining the American and Australian forces,
We were not there???
Because Prime Minister Harold Wilson told that nice President Kennedy he would not commit British servicemen to that conflict,
Very noisy for a place I wasn't at!!! And mildly hazardous.
shaun

[palepainter]

I find it a bit shocking that there is no British RC Armor, with the contingency of support that the UK has in this industry. Really.

[mike1268]

I find it a bit shocking that there is no British RC Armor, with the contingency of support that the UK has in this industry. Really.

Plus we made the first tank. Talk about kick in the nuts

[jarndice]

Mike, We also invented amongst other ball games, both Rugby and Cricket and a fat lot of good that has done us,
Sir Christopher Cockerill invented the Hovercraft, and the world beyond these shores makes great use of his invention, indeed everyone except us,
The army formed a squadron of them in the 60s but that has long been abandoned and yet the American armed forces devoted a lot of tax dollars forming units that saw service as assault vehicles,
A nice Scotsman living in Hastings invented Television, now whatever happened to that?
Dr Barnes Wallis invented the Geodetic structure that formed the fuselage of the Wellington bomber, he also invented the Bouncing bomb, and the Earthquake bomb, and a handy devise that the American and Soviet and Russian air forces use called the Swing wing,
One of his last projects was an aircraft that would fly at hypersonic speed on the edge of space to get passengers and freight to Australia in 3 hours, last week the Government gave a British company a handful of the taxpayers money to help in a similar project only 40/50 years late.
There is a long list of inventions that this country have produced, some of them quite useful, like the Industrial Revolution and the Railway, along with steam and jet engines and Radar and less we forget Penicillin,
A drug that saved even my unworthy life.
With almost no exceptions we have given these wonders to the world and received little recognition in return both individually or nationally.
Thank goodness their is a Heaven or we would never get our just reward.
shaun

[DRC]

I remember seeing a TV programme a few months back (I think it was on YouTube), it was one of those 'find a wreck and do it up' ones. The subject was a Centurion, they traced it's history back to sometime like 1948, then found photos of it being used in Aden and finally in the first Gulf war and fitted with a breaching gun. It had been fitted with the first generation Chobham armour and then sold off as surplus in the late 90s.

[43rdRecceReg]

To Jackalope, in particular.
Whoops, I think you might have read the tone of my reply wrongly. You were teasing; I get that. I was teasing too (for 'Jack', read: 'Jackanapes'- or 'cheeky person', for 'twas what I had in mind). The problem with written communications is that the sly winks, the nudges, and the non-verbal joshing signs are missing...and misunderstanding can follow. I really don't want to make any waves here; just friends with common interests. Sorry, if that wasn't clear. I have a brother in Sandwich, Mass., and two American nephews, and sometimes I've found my american sister-in-law doesn't quite get the brit style of banter between my brother and myself. Und so ist das Leben, wie unsere Deutsche Vetter sagen! As for campaigning for Brit representation in the field of Armoured modelling, I applaud and salute you and, as a raw recruit here, with little knowledge of what has been discussed before, want to learn from you too......But, I still think that the Sherman is an ugly tank..with too high a profile for enemy gunsights. Nudge, Nudge. As an old highland fart I refuse to use these smiley things..Still smarting though that the Yanks (because of our WW2 debt to them) made us cancel the TSR2; a wonderful UK fighter-bomber and far superior to the Phantom F4...nudge, nudge
Roy.

[jackalope]

43, then I sincerely apologize to you for my harsh reply. This is where being on a global forum is sometimes hazardous, being a yank I had never heard of Jackanapes befores, I took it to be you were implying Jackass.

Again I apologize for any mix up due to my being ignorant of some of the temp more common in the UK.

Terry

[RobW]

Looking at the existing offerings we'd possibly only get the Cruiser tanks and their offspring (Comet etc) as the basic structure already exists (T 34). I think the tracks/road wheel configurations on the Churchill & Mathilda might be too complex?

[HERMAN BIX]

And that's all it takes to solve the riddle of international discrepency in the written word.

I am going to hold this up as an example to all members....,,,,

What is said, is not always what is implied , it can be how we react and behave after the fact that defines who we are & what we expect others sharing this place to behave like.

On the eve of Armistice day, let us not forget what bound our nations together at a time of need, but also not to continue to chastise the foe long vanquished and whose sons & daughters are now considered friends.

Tanks, models made of plastic & metal, a hobby we all share, and whose common interest is often manifested in very old black & white pictures taken by scared men in difficult circumstances, and I hope to Christ , I never have to see visited on my own children to relive.

Things will be said, but no one is shooting at you, feelings will be hurt, but no one is shooting at you, loved ones will be afflicted with incurable disease, still, no one shoots.
Let's just enjoy, take what's said & written, put it all into perspective and jus 'X' out if things become intolerable.

[jarndice]

AMEN, Herman.
shaun.