The War & Peace Revival Show 2013 - Part 1 The Cold War

Well Saturday was my day to celebrate having survived my first 2 terms working in education and what an event to do it at! The War and Peace Revival is the renaming of the now famous massive military vehicle extravaganza that was War and Peace show and held at the Whitbread Hop Farm at Paddock Wood for the past 20 years. Due to various factors they moved the show to the recently closed Folkestone Race Course on the South Coast of Kent and even nearer to the continent which probably attracted more attendees. It is also a larger site and there are permanent buildings with excellent facilities. I took a huge amount of photo's so I will break them up into subject areas and post, also my ID on some of these vehicles is not very good so any comments on that front very welcome but they will hopefully act as useful references for modellers/wargamers out there.

 Fox Armoured Car

 Scorpion

 Stalwart (a favorite due to the Airfix 1/32nd model!)

 One of my Teaching Colleagues Husbands Ferret ! good to meet you David

Scimitar turret on FV432

 

 FV 432 Recovery or Ammo carrier?

 Rapier CVRT

 A Ferret mk2 with turret

 T62?

 Saracen

 Inside T62 Turret hatch showing the breach

 BMP type thing

 CVRT 'Striker'

 Scimitar

 CVRT family 'Spartan' ?

 Scorpion

 CVRT with some kind of missile affair? I admitted to being short on knowledge on this subject

 Scorpion again (picked up an Airfix model of one at the show)

 The Abbot Self Propelled Gun (Another Airfix1/32nd favorite!)

 FV 432

 A missile supply vehicle

 Abbot again

 a Czech BMP type Russian job answers please!

 FV432

 It was dusty!

 Chieftain

 Centurion at speed

 Saracen at speed

 The Centurion is for some reason my favorite tank and picked up 2 'cheap as chips' Airfix models at the show

 Engineers vehicle on Chieftain chassis

 A trio of Scorpions

Interesting armor detail

As a reward for making your way through all those pictures of cold war vehicles the shows 'poster girl' who was posing for pictures like a live piece of B17 'nose art', well it seemed rude not to take a  photo! Also I got a very rare Airfix Kit at the show which I don't think the vendor knew was worth more than £10 guess what it was? all will be revealed in tomorrows 100th blog posting!