Petawawa 100th

[Darrell Zinck]

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Jeez Darryl, for a box o' beer and a couple a quarts o' paint, there's a whole lot of us who could do those trucks up right! Just give us the nod...

That's good to hear. The amount of local expert help going into the Museum restoration on the whole is phenomenal!! The Grenadier Guards, Horse Gunners, Airborne, Royals, Dragoons etc etc etc have exhibits and it will be a sharp looking Military Museum in the end. Most units have a Museum somewhere else, like the Royals but some will use the Petawawa Museum to show their collections. Some soldiers but a lot of old fellas and ladies in working hard and I can say first-hand that it's at the best I've ever seen it. The GovGen is coming for the opening but the Curator and her staff are handling it all very well.

The vehicles, well, are just cared for by a unit on base applicable to each. For example the Svc Bn cares for the Deuce and a half "Flying Kitchen" and the RCHA did the limbers. I've seen two other previous paint schemes on the Centurion in pics but decided the one we went with was best (and coolest ) .

The paint codes we had were FS #'s and it took a fella here at Base to get ahold of a gal at a paint company who knew how to translate them colour to an exterior Latex. As far as I can tell from colour pics provided by the FGH Museum Curator, our Cent is bang on. What do the CMP's look like for colour to you guys? I wouldn't know if they ran me over!! Their German equipment (Flak, Pak, FH18) is correct as I can determine.

The insides of them CMP's is supposedly very much intact. The ASU was missing a dipstick and battery!!

I encourage one and all to see the Museum sometime this summer.

regards
D