I would like to congratulate IPMS Bloemfontein for a great event. I know that hard work was put in by the Bloemfontein guys and it did not go unnoticed. Well done. We have really enjoyed the weekend and have taken a lot with us back to the Vaal.

Those would did not make it to the Nats, sorry you sure did miss a lot of fun.

Congratulations to all teh winners as well. Well done lads.

Regards,
Tappie.

Good to hear.

I hope you guys took plenty of picture so that we can showcase the cream of the SA crop here on the big A.

I just also wanted to say that we had a realy great time!!!

The visits to the different museums, rides on the Rooikat and TTD tanks (including over the tnak obstacle courses) The taking out of the T-72 for us to sit in, photograph and get a de-briefing on.

Having an Olifant Mk1A and a Rooikat taken out and all hatches opened for us to climb in and photograph to our hearts content . The visit to Armour school's open air museum. (VERY interesting!) and indoor museum.

The huge facilities

The fantastic visit to 16th SQDN - home of the Rooivalk Attack Helicopter! - being able to photograph them close up. :-) . The de-briefing on them and further visit to our new Agusta 109M, Oryx, and Alo's.

The after hour activities

Many thanks to Charlie Deal and the guys from Bloem!!!

All those who missed it - man do I feel sorry for you!!!

Cheers,
Graugrun

Sheesh, Matthew! Rub it in why don't you? :-) :-)

I keep hearing about these photographs, but I don't see any arriving in my Inbox.... :-) :-) :-) :-)

Great.. Thats 2 I missed. Wonderful.. Sounds like you had a good time though.

Rudi: Happy anniversary!

Ditto on the thanx to the bloem guys. And on the pics. I think your inbox won't be able to handle the 1.2 Gigs worth of pics I took. Rather send a DVD.

Oh and those rides where very lekker. Now I know how it feels to ride armor.

Send away... my gmail account has a 2gb mailbox :-)

I'd rather not for I can only send 10mb at a time. I will send it to you along with some other pics and stuff.

Rudi,
I don't want to sound too daft, but how do I post pic's here?


I want to put up pic's of the venue for the September event to whet the tastebuds so to speak.

Regards,
Tappie

Hi Tappie,

Posting pics is easy - I see you've already got uploading pics sorted, so I won't go into that

To post a pic, click the thumbnail of the pic you want to post. A bigger (full size?) image of the picture will be opened. Underneath the image are two framed sections, namely Photo Details and Additional Info. Under the Additional Info section, select the text contained in the UBBCode text box, and simply paste into your message...

Hope that makes sense...

PM me if you need further help.

Rudi

Just found the IPMS SA report of the Nats over on their site. Here's the link: http://newsite.ipmssa.za.org/content/view/183/51/

Unfortunately there are no pictures of the models yet, but apparently the gallery will be set up shortly.

Hi Rudi,
Thanx, I'll try it. Watch this space.....

Regards,
Tappie

Hi again,

Here we go......


The "Valie" gang, f.l.t.r myself, Vaughn, Dennis, Marc & Fanie.


Marc's "Thud" in 1/32 scale


Marc's Spitfire Mk8 in RAAF colours, converted from the 1/24 scale Spitfire Mk 5


Dennis's Diorama 1/35 scale


Vaughn's 1/32 FW-190 D


Fanie's 1/16 scale figure


My 1/72 Snowberry Flower Class Corvette

Please feel free to comment, thanks.

Regards,
Tappie

Thanks Tappie...

Do you have many more pictures? If you want (and this goes for all that have pictures of the event) you guys can either upload to the support centre or email me selected pictures (ideally we would need 50-200) and I'll happily do a Photo Feature here on Armorama showcasing the cream of the SA crop.

Thanks Rudi, I'll send you some in the mail.

Just found the "official" gallery of nats 2006....

HERE