Guys, I have booked a ticket to Tankfest at Bovington for the Friday. Is anyone else planning to go. A Panther and Jadgpanther are visiting this year. Sunday and Friday tickets are still available.
Sadly not this year - but it's something I've been meaning to go to for some time.
Do please let us know what you think of it, Mike!
I cannot go Mike, bit you have chosen excellent weather. Well planned!
It's always good to go, but we have found having done Tankfest 3 years in a row, and staying at a local campsite too, to go the next day and have a few beers with friends etc,that going every other year is a better thing to do;otherwise it gets a bit same (y) ????? Other than an odd tank or two it was, we found the same as the last year ??? Especially as a gamer I am then back at the venue a week or two after for the Wargames show, then it makes Bovington a bit of a chore.
Miles
Have agreat day out Mike, where is the Panther from?
Is the Panther the one confiscated from a private person in Germany? Otherwise it is from the US collection that was sold off. Forget the name of the person who died (Littlefield?).
So it would not be this one.
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1FERN_enFR799FR800&q=saumur+panther&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj_693b9P_iAhVCQEEAHRenBYwQsAR6BAgDEAE&biw=1510&bih=717
Looking at the Bovi web site, it will be the one from Saumur.
'The 50 ton German war machine is part of the collection at the Musée des Blindés in Saumur. The restoration of the Panther and its transportation across the Channel has been generously funded by TANKFEST sponsors, World of Tanks'.
hope that you had a great day out and that it was not too hot to enjoy the show.
Here's a link to the french equivalent of Tankfest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WP5LklgBys
here's a couple of tanks this last summer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3OOVcOF7fw
Nice clips, Les. I liked the Sherman doing what looked like a handbrake turn in the mud, and those big German tanks.