Muckleburgh miliotary weekend June 2011

[Shadow_Ops]

Muckleburgh weekend June 2011

After a slow non photographic start on Friday evening, mainly due to the rain and exhibitors only just turning up ready for the Saturday morning start.
Returning mid Saturday afternoon pulling up short of the car park attendants, we phoned a friend exhibiting for the weekend who kindly came to the gate and waved us down to get us in.
Shortly after we started a run round to look at what was on display picking up on the tank display that was already in full swing when we arrived it seemed like the time to get the cameras out and make a start…
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Walking back round to our contacts exhibit, I made an effort on manual settings on the camera and improved massively over the weekend.
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With all manner of vehicles from different eras and countries around it was well worth a look. So, next stop was the Germans camp, with authentic field kitchen and conveniently a FLAK gun
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As we left it late on the Saturday everyone was winding up and heading to get food or go home for the night, so after a quick run around the site to see what we could see we headed off to get some food from town then headed back to the site for beers and chatter.

On the Sunday morning, sun was shining, and we headed back down armed with a 1 person re-enactors/ campers pass and headed straight through the gates. While DJ Oska was chatting to someone from our camp I headed round the site to look at some of the other exhibits.
Next to our camp
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The police were out in force recruiting specials:
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There was also a display by the cadets of their acting skills (well the whole display was a set up)
Followed by a parade of American and british vehicles by the Norfolk owners club
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Leading to a couple of candid shots of the people involved…
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We still found time to go off the beaten track and have a little explore of the old gun pits and active weather station
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On the walk back to base at the end of the day
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And to finish…
Shadow ops looking down a big gun!
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Thanks for looking… here’s the link to the rest of the ones online, enjoy
http://s231.photobucket.com/albums/e...cpZZ1QQtppZZ24

[blueink]

some nice shots there shadZ! thata albert is abit spesh

[Shadow_Ops]

Cheers blue, that ferret (Albert) iisnt quite fully restored yet i believe. i think the owner said he was going to get some more radio equipment atc to complete it. nice sounding runner, pre select gear box and somewhere around 4mpg... given the chance id have one though

[MJS]

Looks like a good do does that! And I'm not really into military stuff that much!

[Shadow_Ops]

I never made it into the museum... just what people were displaying outside still. was well worth the sunburn on sunday.

[DJ OSKA]

Photo 2- check out the activity on the horizon- that's the oleg strashnov working on the foundations for 88 wind turbines off the North Norfolk Coast!

Great weekend- well worth the sunburn, Sebley, and stop photographing the Krauts! LOL

[Nicola]

I want that thingamyjig in picture 7!

[Krypton]

Nice on SO, looks like theres some good stuff there!

[Shadow_Ops]

I want that thingamyjig in picture 7!

You're not the only one Nic... Thats owned by the collection. brought outside for the weekends event.