Tanks

51highland · 04-04-2008, 08:34 AM

I am sure I rad on here that someone (VP) likes Tanks, well here's a few minutes worth. enjoy.!!!!!!!

Owen · 04-04-2008, 09:05 AM

Cheers, my lad & I have just enjoyed watching that.

von Poop · 04-04-2008, 11:37 AM

Nice.
It may have been a bit of a disaster, but there's always something rather magnificent about a Crusader at full tilt in the desert.
Interesting Churchill shots too, wonder if it's Kingforce we're seeing?

4th wilts · 04-04-2008, 12:16 PM

i very much enjoyed the priest or sextons.lee.

Capt.Sensible · 04-04-2008, 12:17 PM

Having seen that bit of film you can understand all the signs that said 'Dust kills' or similar. An battalion armoured column advancing at battle speed must have put up a dust cloud the size of Benghazi!

nickc · 04-04-2008, 02:29 PM

this is a good film if you have not seen it before

YouTube - Churchill Crocodile

nick

Bodston · 04-04-2008, 05:25 PM

Very good. Seamless editing.

I never tire of seeing Christie suspension going full chat. Lots of shots of those very rare left-handed Grants too. Manufacturing all those tanks in the mirror image of each other, amazing.

Actually that is a major bugbear of mine. Reversing the negative of the film for dramatic effect. Are we really meant to believe that the allies only ever travel from right to left and the axis from left to right?
What is the percieved advantage of flipping the image? It becomes very obvious with a vehicle as assymetric as the the M3.
Keep them the right way round!

Gerry Chester · 04-04-2008, 06:08 PM

Thanks Highland for a great post. The Churchills are definitely those of KingForce - their tanks were the only ones to wear that distinctive camouflage.

Cheers, Gerry

04-04-2008, 08:34 AM	#1 (permalink)
51highland Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Ipswich Posts: 827	Tanks I am sure I rad on here that someone (VP) likes Tanks, well here's a few minutes worth. enjoy.!!!!!!! __________________ 51 highland www.keep-em-moving.com Là á Bhlàir's math na Càirdean (Friends are good in the day of battle) Na diobair caraid's a charraid (Forsake not a friend in the fray) Cuimhnichibh na suinn nach maireann . Mairidh an cliu beo gu brath. (In memory of the Heroes who are no more. May their Fame live on forever)

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von Poop I Like Tanks Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion. Posts: 8,471	Nice. It may have been a bit of a disaster, but there's always something rather magnificent about a Crusader at full tilt in the desert. Interesting Churchill shots too, wonder if it's Kingforce we're seeing? __________________ It's only the Internet.

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nickc Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 62	this is a good film if you have not seen it before YouTube - Churchill Crocodile nick __________________ Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."

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Bodston Very Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: just around the corner Posts: 1,444	Very good. Seamless editing. I never tire of seeing Christie suspension going full chat. Lots of shots of those very rare left-handed Grants too. Manufacturing all those tanks in the mirror image of each other, amazing. Actually that is a major bugbear of mine. Reversing the negative of the film for dramatic effect. Are we really meant to believe that the allies only ever travel from right to left and the axis from left to right? What is the percieved advantage of flipping the image? It becomes very obvious with a vehicle as assymetric as the the M3. Keep them the right way round! __________________ My mother told me, I never should, play with the gypsies in the wood.

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04-04-2008, 09:05 AM	#2 (permalink)
Owen Top Moose Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs Posts: 9,456	Cheers, my lad & I have just enjoyed watching that.

04-04-2008, 12:16 PM	#4 (permalink)
4th wilts Discharged Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: wessex Posts: 1,032	i very much enjoyed the priest or sextons.lee.

04-04-2008, 12:17 PM	#5 (permalink)
Capt.Sensible Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Directly above the centre of the earth... Posts: 407	Having seen that bit of film you can understand all the signs that said 'Dust kills' or similar. An battalion armoured column advancing at battle speed must have put up a dust cloud the size of Benghazi!

04-04-2008, 06:08 PM	#8 (permalink)
Gerry Chester WW2 Veteran Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Originally Wallasey, Cheshire - Now a world-wide wanderer Posts: 848	Thanks Highland for a great post. The Churchills are definitely those of KingForce - their tanks were the only ones to wear that distinctive camouflage. Cheers, Gerry

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