An odd offer but...

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:14 am

As the normal mapping of ships is becoming the norm for the newer ships I thought I'd make this odd offer.

I work in an establishment where I have access to lots of old and not so old armoured vehicles - mainly ex-soviet stuff - if anybody would like any pictures of grills, hatches, angled plating, turrets then I'd be happy to take a selection. I don't have a great digital camera - it's a point and click 5MP job with a fairly shoddy flash but could be used to take good enough pictures to act as a starting point or give some inspiration.

Just a thought...

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:23 am

So how is the job in the Soviet Arms Dealership going?

Captain Hesperus

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:34 am

Yeh, now that would be a Tim-Burtonesque "reimagining" of a classic British Movie of the '60s - "One of our T-72s is missing"

They're quite literally museum pieces - used for teaching (how armour and armoured vehicles work) - they're generally "driveable" but not "functional" (i.e. the engines work and they can be moved around under their own power, but the guns and other "lethal" equipment is either missing or decommisioned)

JohnnyBoy · Post by **JohnnyBoy** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:41 am

DaddyHoggy wrote:
They're quite literally museum pieces - used for teaching (how armour and armoured vehicles work) - they're generally "driveable" but not "functional" (i.e. the engines work and they can be moved around under their own power, but the guns and other "lethal" equipment is either missing or decommisioned)

So... which one do you and your colleagues use to nip down to the petrol station for lunchtime snacks???

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:45 am

JohnnyBoy wrote:
DaddyHoggy wrote:
They're quite literally museum pieces - used for teaching (how armour and armoured vehicles work) - they're generally "driveable" but not "functional" (i.e. the engines work and they can be moved around under their own power, but the guns and other "lethal" equipment is either missing or decommisioned)
So... which one do you and your colleagues use to nip down to the petrol station for lunchtime snacks???

Oh I wish! They're in the "gun shed" - under lock and key - not that a brick wall represents much of an issue for a 60T main battle tank in determined hands...

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:48 pm

DaddyHoggy wrote:
JohnnyBoy wrote:
DaddyHoggy wrote:
They're quite literally museum pieces - used for teaching (how armour and armoured vehicles work) - they're generally "driveable" but not "functional" (i.e. the engines work and they can be moved around under their own power, but the guns and other "lethal" equipment is either missing or decommisioned)
So... which one do you and your colleagues use to nip down to the petrol station for lunchtime snacks???
Oh I wish! They're in the "gun shed" - under lock and key - not that a brick wall represents much of an issue for a 60T main battle tank in determined hands...

*pulls up in Tesco's forecourt*
"Fill 'er up with diesel please. Oh, and can you check the exhaust? I think that last car I ran over knocked it loose..."

Captain Hesperus

JohnnyBoy · Post by **JohnnyBoy** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 5:43 pm

Captain Hesperus wrote:
*pulls up in Tesco's forecourt*
"Fill 'er up with diesel please. Oh, and can you check the exhaust? I think that last car I ran over knocked it loose..."

*gets out in private car park that's covered in signs like this...*

"Wow, what a convenient location to park. Must use this place more often."

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:22 pm

The new view from my office doorway

I do like where I work very much!

Fully working T72 (gun disabled

) complete with fording snorkel (would you want to be 10ft underwater relying on just the snorkel for your air and your engines air supply... no, me neither!)

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:27 pm

And if I lean over the balcony and look straight down I can see this...

So, if anybody is seeking inspiration for hull shapes, platings, hatches etc...

Lestradae · Post by **Lestradae** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:23 am

Are you working for Torchwood or something?

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:06 am

No, here. Specifically the building in the middle picture - although the picture doesn't do the scale of the building justice (it's 100m long for a start)

Gimi · Post by **Gimi** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 7:46 pm

DaddyHoggy wrote:

No, here. Specifically the building in the middle picture - although the picture doesn't do the scale of the building justice (it's 100m long for a start)

Hey, I spent a year there when it was still RMCS (1997). Enjoyed it a lot. (Hard work though)

Don't recognise your building though. One of the new ones?

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:08 pm

I did my Masters part time there starting in 1999 graduating from the last ever RMCS graduation in 2005 when it became the Defence Academy.

Small world.

Gimi · Post by **Gimi** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:44 pm

DaddyHoggy wrote:
I did my Masters part time there starting in 1999 graduating from the last ever RMCS graduation in 2005 when it became the Defence Academy.

Small world.

It is a small world.

Did my masters there as well (final year)

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 11:59 am

And I failed to answer your whole question: The DCC (Defence Capability Centre) is built at the back (front?) of the old Gun Sheds/Ammo Hall - next to (and infact in the old carpark of) Malborough Hall. If that makes any sense to you...

There are no Welsh people here, so I'm pretty sure it's not Torchwood...

Although the new JSCSC looks a lot like (from the front - couldn't find a decent photo) like the saucer from the 80s TV show - 'V'...

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An odd offer but...

An odd offer but...

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