Australian Armour and Artillery Museum

[shadowbeast]

Some things I saw upon this years visit:



















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[Ultravanillasmurf]

Nice.

Any more shots of the Carrier, AT, 2lb?

[Splod]

I dragged my long suffering fiance here when we were living in Cairns. I was sorely disappointed not to be able to make it back this year for a ride in the T-72!

[Redmist1122]

That's a pretty cool looking collection!  Thanks for sharing.

[shadowbeast]

That's all I had worth posting.

[Captain Darling]

Thanks for posting these pictures!
The UC with 2 pounder ATG is nice.
It’s cool they have two Sentinal tanks, I think the MkI is a marriage of different tanks hull and turret. The fact they could put a 17 pound gun on this tank shows forward thinking when selecting a turret ring size, a pity it never got passed the development run of vehicles (from what I read the designers had fixes for the drive train issues it had)
Cheers!

[Eclaireur]

lovely pics shadowbeast, thanks for posting. I get the impression from your report that they allow more 'hands on' at that museum than many do, and plenty of vehicles giving people rides. A lesson there maybe for UK collections,
EC

[shadowbeast]

Thanks for posting these pictures!
The UC with 2 pounder ATG is nice.
It’s cool they have two Sentinal tanks, I think the MkI is a marriage of different tanks hull and turret. The fact they could put a 17 pound gun on this tank shows forward thinking when selecting a turret ring size, a pity it never got passed the development run of vehicles (from what I read the designers had fixes for the drive train issues it had)
Cheers!

Actually I believe it was the MkIV that was the spare parts build. And it did get past development; many were built for training. The MkIII and IV were only experiments anyway. Still, when it came time to deploy troops British and American vehicles were now easier to acquire.

lovely pics shadowbeast, thanks for posting. I get the impression from your report that they allow more 'hands on' at that museum than many do, and plenty of vehicles giving people rides. A lesson there maybe for UK collections,
EC

Hands on, I couldn't really say. This event only occurs over the Fathers Day weekend. They do have a vehicle you can ride on regular days, costs extra and needs a certain amount of people to book; regular "open Hatch Days" where you can hop into a selected vehicle in the hangar; and a shooting gallery where you can try various manual rifles (bolt-action .22LR, SMLE 8x57mm, Kahr 7.92, pump .223 Remington, lever .44 Magnum).
Also there's a table of army men for children to play with and child-size replica military kit they can wear.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Thanks for the Carrier photographs. Excellent.

That is a nice collection.

[JOHN BOND]

Thanks for posting, very interesting
cheers John

[FreakyFenton]

Thank you for sharing! 

[N.C.S.E]

What the...

What is a T-60 doing in this part of the world?

[shadowbeast]

I don't know where they get them all. Some are the dearly departed Melbourne Tank Museum's collection, some are acquired by private deals with restorers. Some acquired through deals with entities tasked with disposing of equipment that is now surplus to requirements; some bought off farmers who were using things like a shell from the Dora artillery piece as a water tank; and some stuck together from battlefield salvage.

[has.been]

Which version of the Sentinal is it?

[shadowbeast]

They have a Mark 1 and a Mark IV (which I believe is the spare parts replica).