Austran shelter quarter tent

Hi all just a few pics of my tent as used at War & Peace revival 2014 at R.A.F. Westerhanger Folkestone "THE WORLDS LARGEST" military vehicle and militaria show

http://www.thewarandpeacerevival.co.uk/

Setting up in the brilliant sunshine!!!



Seen next to my mates 12X12 for size comparison!!



Calm before the storm!!!



This was just before the biggest storm front I've ever witnessed  knocked it flat!!! (I had to park my Munga Jeep on top of the flattened sheets to prevent them blowing away!!)



Storm front moving in!!!






Most of the poles I was using were Swiss 1940's dated and in hindsight were not up to the task!!!(snapped them like dry twigs!!)
Amazingly not too much damage was done apart from that... (just a few torn buttons really)


MK II involves nice strong aluminium camo "poles"(not so original as the sectional wooden type but soooo much stronger!!!!)

Looking forward to next year already!!!!!

Nice shots! I don't think I've seen anybody use Austrian shelters to make such a big tent. Well done!

I used 4 for a sun tarp at a military vehicle show one time and built my own supports out of dimensional lumber. It looked terrible, but it worked great

Steve

I Found this tiny little fella (see zelt button for scale!!) using the Zelt tent for a perch(some 5 feet up) and shelter from the elements!!! hope he hopped it before the storm!!

Looks like a young Bufo bufo

great pictures austro and nice to see the reverse side of the zelt ,cool looking jeep too ,thanks for showing, james

Thanks Thunderchild !!! for the hot summer weather it was the correct way round.. the autumn winter side would have gotten too hot!!!! even with all the vents and front flap fully open it was still toastie inside!!! just received the entry form for this years show this morning!!!http://www.thewarandpeacerevival.co.uk/ 
 and the jeep is still in bits!!(engine failure!!) but the parts are all coming in together now!!! so I best get on with it!!!