Bovington Tank Museum

So as a couple of you may know (Thanks to a mini shoutout on SnF by Ami) I recently invaded the Bovington Tank Museum, in Dorset, South West England.

I'd like to share the photo album I built up of just over 300 Photos of the variaous and wide ranged (no pun intended) collection of armoured vehicles, tanks, self propelled guns and often questionable ideas they have stored in the Museum.

The Museum has a huge collection which spans many many decades and conflicts. From The first world war, right up to present day vehicles.

Here's a link to the Album.
Bloke's Bovington Photos


Now, as it happens, I live literally 15 miles away from Bovington (at the moment) and plan on re-visiting the Museum potentially in the next week or so. (If you buy a ticket for 12.50 GBP, you get a 1 year free pass)

Does anyone have a specific Armoured vehicle/Tank they would like Photographs/Walk around videos of from the WW2 era (or other era)because I am more than willing to get them for you. If you would like a specific vehicle to be photographed feel free to post below and I'll do my best to get it on camera for you.

If you ever intend to visit Dorset, I cannot stress enough, how great a day out it is at the Tank museum. There's also the Conservation centre that opens at a specific and limited time per day, which allows you to view an entire hangar full of "to be restored" armoured vehicles. You gain free access to this with your museum ticket.

Anyway, I'll stop waffling on let you enjoy the photos.

some really good pictures in that album. Thanks a bunch.

Awesome, I go every other year.

Thanks for posting this.

Awesome, nice post)

Nice one, good pictures

often questionable ideas

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Nice Photo collection!
Didn´t knew the museum has 2 TigerB.

I need to visit there again!

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Thanks a lot for sharing Will definitely visit one of the (rather numerous) tank museums around here (Eastern France), and maybe share if i can take good pictures !

Excellent thread.

Planning on going down with a friend in August time. So stoked.

Wow those are awesome, thanks for posting those. Do you know if they have different versions of the T-34, like an M1942, M1943, M1944? I'd like to see those side-by-side. I have trouble spotting the differences through Google pictures

All I know for sure is the M1942 has a square hatch on the rear and the M1943 has a circular one. It's also difficult because the way the Soviets did things at times, so you get M1942 chassis with M1943 turrets and vice versa.

Wow those are awesome, thanks for posting those. Do you know if they have different versions of the T-34, like an M1942, M1943, M1944? I'd like to see those side-by-side. I have trouble spotting the differences through Google pictures

All I know for sure is the M1942 has a square hatch on the rear and the M1943 has a circular one. It's also difficult because the way the Soviets did things at times, so you get M1942 chassis with M1943 turrets and vice versa.

They don't, they only have the T-34/85.

Ah, that's a shame. Oh well, I have another question for OP.

How is the scale of the vehicles compared to CoH2? Is the StuG III / Panzer III really as large as a Panzer IV? Are the T-34 and Panther actually larger than the Panzer IV as well?

I know CoH1's scale was really wonky at times, like the M18 Hellcat being much larger than a Sherman even though it was smaller and armed with the same gun 76mm gun.

I'd say compared to CoH1's scaling, that CoH2 has improved and become more accurate.

It's difficult to really explain and demonstrate without physically having them side by side.

Stug:


Panzer IV:


Panzer III:

Right, I re-visited Bovington today armed with a full battery camera. But instead of spending most of the time with photographs I went all in and videoed as many of the Armoured vehicles/Tanks ,pertaining to Company of Heroes 1 and 2, as I could.

Shoddy Tank Photos

I also took a ride (for 3GBP) in an M548 tracked supply vehicle, which drove round the "Kuwait Arena" section of the museum (this is where they hold TankFest). And yes, it is really that bumpy.

My apologies for the rough edits in the video, as I'm on a minimal spec notebook that has trouble with anything more demanding than notepad.

Anyway, ENJOY the 20 Minutes!

Panzer IV:


Panzer III:

Funny enough, the MG 34 is probably the best scale we have here

Judging by that, I'm going to say the StuG is slightly smaller than the Panzer IV, which makes CoH2's scale slightly off, having them roughly the same size.

The Stug is about the same length as the Panzer IV, just not as tall (obviously). The width is fairly close too.

The Panzer III is a bit like a a Hatchback, where the Panzer IV is a Sedan.

Very nice pictures!
I plan on doing the same thing in the Tank Museum in Munster, Germany.
So good to see that they were able to restore most of the different tank types.

just great. thank you for photos..