Phil Loder

Some good news from my home town. kentonline.co.uk/ashford/news/i…

@markchristie @SOFOtrust 😂😂😂

@PhilLoder @SOFOtrust There are talks in just about every section - easily on lume alone, B-Uhrs, British flying watches, Panerai, trench watches…

Went to an excellent talk by @markchristie yesterday on 'Watches and War', tracing the importance of knowing time in warfare. In ancient times, armies fought when they met; by WW1, attacks were timed to the second. Pic=watch found with the remains of a WW1 officer (@SOFOtrust)

@markchristie @SOFOtrust I thought that that might be the case! 😂

@PhilLoder @SOFOtrust Thanks Phil - it was great to see you. Such a fascinating subject and we only scraped the surface.

@Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 Excellent! 👍

@PhilLoder @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 Benning example 😎

Thursday Tank: late this week as I was in Italy! Here's an M15/42, Italy’s final medium tank. ~90 were issued to the Ariete Armd Divn in Italy, who used them against the Germans after Italy changed sides in Sept 1943. #WW2 @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 #TankTuesday

@USAS_WW1 @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene Very nice! 👍

@PhilLoder @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene Thanks, Phil! Also here is the Somua S35 vs Italy's M14... x.com/USAS_WW1/statu…

One of the rarities at Fort Benning is this 1918 Whippet, now in climate controlled storage after decades outside. #tanktuesday

@Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 I’ll bear that in mind!!

@PhilLoder @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 It's a long trip and they almost didn't let us on base due to the security situation but it was totally worth it!

Tuesday Tank: many thanks to @Burntime0101 for sharing these photos of the open-sided King Tiger at Fort Benning. A collection that is on my list to visit one day! #WW2 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 #TankTuesday

@WarMemorials @Britwarmemorial I’m just packing to go on holiday, but will aim to when I’m back 👍

@PhilLoder @Britwarmemorial warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/12036… was last updated in 2013. If you are able to upload pictures and update the condition details we'd be very grateful.

Was in Basingstoke last week so visited the town war memorial outside the War Memorial Park (1919) near the Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council offices. The memorial itself dates from 1923 and is topped by a bronze Winged Victory. #WW1 #WW2 @Britwarmemorial @WarMemorials

I drifted 2000yrs from my core areas of interest of WW1 and WW2! During the three Punic Wars, the #Romans and Carthaginians spent over 100yrs (with some breaks) bashing each other until Rome destroyed Carthage. Many battles were in the same areas as those in 1943-44! #books

May’s issue of @CMVMAG is the 300th and a bumper 100 pages. I particularly enjoyed Tom Baker’s article about Tobruk, John Ovenden’s build of a 1:16 scale Hummel and Craig Moore’s account of the Vickers-Carden-Loyd Mk III tank reproduction built by Jonathan Bradshaw in Canada.

Excellent evening yesterday at @DavidOlusoga’s ‘A Gun Through Time’. Of the Brown Bess, Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE), Thompson sub machine gun and Maxim gun he discussed, the SMLE is the only one I’ve fired, years ago in the cadet force. All fascinating - thanks David!

@MikeMeakinDHL @ArmourgeddonUK @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 @agbdrilling @thebattleguide A Rarden cannon with paintballs - now that would make a serious mess! 🫟

@PhilLoder @ArmourgeddonUK @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 @agbdrilling @thebattleguide IFV, They were used in Berlin in that format and today the 30mm Rarden cannon have been converted to fire ping pong balls with paint.

Tuesday Tank: so here's a question - these are @ArmourgeddonUK's paint-balling 'tanks', modified FV432s with custom-built turrets. Does this now make them tanks? Or infantry fighting vehicles? 😉 @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 @agbdrilling @thebattleguide #TankTuesday

@f_blackburn1925 @ArmourgeddonUK @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 @agbdrilling @thebattleguide Good thought! 👍

@PhilLoder @ArmourgeddonUK @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 @agbdrilling @thebattleguide I always thought, in olden times (the 1980s), the defining feature of an MICV, as they then were, was that soldiers had to be able to fight from inside the vehicle, i.e., firing ports (or M321 FPWs, if you're being silly). So these would still be APCs?

@agbdrilling @ArmourgeddonUK @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 @thebattleguide 😂😂😂

@PhilLoder @ArmourgeddonUK @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 @thebattleguide Tankettes 🇬🇧😁

@selhurstpaw1 @thebattleguide 😂😂😂

@PhilLoder @thebattleguide Donkey loads 😉

Two museums in one day - my cup runneth over! 🤣