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Orcs

Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 20 February 2021, 12:31:31 PM
Among other "improvements" postwar bombsites became urban car parks, or venues of ad-hoc cycle speedway clubs.

In my home town of Ilford, the Super Cinema took a V1 strike.
Postwar the site was rebuilt as the glamorous new C&A store.

Slightly further north the Fairlop Oak Pub's rubble became home to several cycle speedway groups.
When the New Fairlop Oak was built, a fundraiser constructed a track on the edge of the old Fairlop airfield, and the action shifted out there.


I grew up in Goodmayes just outside of Ilford.  Our house had a crack up the outside wall from where a bomb landed in the Goodmayes Park. The crack was still there when we sold the house on my parents death in 2010.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -Mencken, H. L.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

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Hi FSN

QuoteA Troop of Centurions from 6th Royal Tank Regiment

The tank in the middle doesn't look right to me, not 100% sure that it is in fact a Centurion........just maybe it's a.......

Cheers Paul
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fsn

 :P 

Even covered with foliage the beauty of the Centurion is quite distinctive!

Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

fsn



Even disguised as a fish.





Painting competition 2022.
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Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

Raider4


Lord Kermit of Birkenhead

Well there was an attempt to make a DD version, it didn't work !
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Hi

I the 1970's 4RTR's Chieftain's  still had 'eyes' on either side of the turrets, it was a 4RTR thing.  :)

Cheers Paul
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Lord Kermit of Birkenhead

Dates back to 1917 - Chinese Labouers decied the Mk IV's need eyes otherwise they couldn't see where they were going !
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Steve J


Ace of Spades

I like a bit of 'nose art', pin-ups and names on planes and fighting vehicles. I even like the Korean War 'Tiger' paint jobs and fish-tail exhausts on motorcycles but this.... my god.
It's blasphemy really...

Cheers,
Rob
2014 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

fsn

Quote from: ianrs54 on 23 February 2021, 12:17:26 PM
Well there was an attempt to make a DD version, it didn't work !
;D ;D ;D ;D

=D> =D>

Well played Sir.
Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

Orcs

Quote from: ianrs54 on 23 February 2021, 12:17:26 PM
Well there was an attempt to make a DD version, it didn't work !

I  had a  couple of girlfriend's who were DD versions.  They worked well :d
The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -Mencken, H. L.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Lord Kermit of Birkenhead

Quote from: Orcs on 24 February 2021, 12:59:29 PM
I  had a  couple of girlfriend's who were DD versions.  They worked well :d

Alus knew Orcs wuz crude  :(
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Sometimes, you find very odd things going through the archives.  This is the crew of a Pan-Am Boeing 747 posing on an abandoned Iraqi T-54-55 in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, with burning oil wells behind them.

Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!