Saturday 9 July 2016

Trip to London Photoset 2 of 2

As promised, here's the second photoset of my trip to London in May. And here is where the bad quality photos are shown. And believe, these ones were the better of the photos I took.
 British 25-pounder howitzer, in desert colours as used by the British 8th Army during the North Africa Campaign
 Various WW2 Russian infantry weapons, with PPSH-41 varieties (top), scoped Mosin-Nagant (middle) and SG-43 Goryunov medium machine gun (bottom) 
 Sherman tank
 Katanas surrendered to Royal Navy officers by Imperial Japanese Army officers. Only the middle sword is an authentic katana, the rest are copies
 German Flak 88mm
 Nose art from the Royal Australian Air Force Avro Lancaster heavy bomber 'Old Fred'
 One of the casings of the Little Boy atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
 British Ferret armoured car in United Nations livery (or "just fucking shoot me" paint job)
 Humber Pig armoured car as used by both British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary during The Troubles
 German built twin-linked BOFORS anti-aircraft gun (I think)
 Soviet built T-34 tank (again)
 One of the gargoyles, in the shape of a tiger, on the roof of the Natural History Museum of London
 (Not sure if it's really clear) Another gargoyle of the Natural History Museum, this time in the shape of a pterodactyl 
 The reproduction diplodocus skeleton in the foyer of the Natural History Museum
 The animatronic Tyrannosaurus Rex in the dinosaur wing of the Natural History Museum
 Model of a megalosaurus (or possibly allosaurus) head
 Reproduction of an allosaurus skeleton (I am positive that's what it is. I really should have made notes)
 Reproduction of an iguanadon skeleton
Animatronic models of a pair of deinonychus

 Reproduction of a skeleton of a camarasaurus
 Taxidermy model of an American Brown Bear
 Taxidermy model of a red panda (my favourite animal)
 Memorial to Frederick Selous (1851 - 1917), who contributed many exhibits of animals to the museum
 Plesiosaur skeleton, as discovered by Mary Anning (1799 - 1847)
Statue of King George V (1865 - 1936) in Old Palace Yard, Westminster

So that's all the photos. Hoped you enjoyed them. I'd have taken more, but as I said, my old camera is complete crap and these were the most salvageable ones.

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