London for Wargamers

[jwilkerson]

The RN must have liked the 68 Lbr size, here from an earlier age, is a 68 Lbr carronade, on board the Victory.

[jwilkerson]

Oops, technically those last two would be "Southern England for Wargamers" rather than just "London for Wargamers". So back to London, here a 2 of many of Assyrian Warriors, early 1st Millineum, BC, I got large versions of these which are needed to see the detail, but have to upload reduced size for the forum, if anyone wants larger versions, lemme know. These are from the British Museum.

[jnier]

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[sprior]

I took my son to IWM last month too, and Pompey dockyard earlier in the month. Some pics on FB, if anyone wants to add me as a friend. (reading it back makes me sound like a sad lonely git doesn't it?)

Bovington tank museum is in Dorset, just so no-one gets lost trying to find it. If you drive there you drive past the pongo's test areas so you mught get to see some of the prestent stuff put through it's paces. The last time I was at Bovington they had a Sherman and a couple of other tanks out and about.

[IainMcNeil]

Some other places to try
Duxford IWM - loads of aircraft but also a landwarfare hall (Got the Tiger from Saving Private Ryan and a JSII). Usually you'll see various WW2 planes landing and taking off from the runway. Nothing like a fly past from a Spitfire or a Mustang.
Chatham Docks - where Victory was built - longest building in the wold at the time for making the ropes required for the RN.

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ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

OMG, I just came back from a trip to London, .... [:D]

I like the nose of the Lanc, visible beneath the FW.

[SireChaos]

Next one... This is HMS Belfast in all her triple-turreted glory, permanently moored a few hundred meters from Tower Bridge - in fact you can see Tower Bridge in the background on the right.

[SireChaos]

This diorama is at the Science Museum, showing a V-2 being prepared for launch.

[SireChaos]

This is the model of HMS Vanguard, the last British battleship.
The model behind it should be HMS Monarch, one of the first dreadnaughts.

[SireChaos]

Here´s HMS Lord Nelson, the last British pre-dreadnaught and the last battleship to be built with a bow ram.
On the upper right is a smaller model of the pre-dreadnaught HMS Albion; if I decipher the writing correctly, she was the first battleship to use water-tube boilers, whatever that is.