Had an idea of how to make use of a brand new but very trackless M48A3 tank ive had in the stash for a very long minute .
With the very happy acquisition of new items for the stash the doors opened .

What if the Australian army in the Vietnam War didn't use the Centurion but was instead the M48 ?
But dew to the Aussies using British armour like the Charioteer tank destroyer they didn't like the 90mm gun as it's ammunition wasn't usable with any other vehicle in the armies inventory so they retrofitted their tanks with the 20- pounder gun .

This idea stuck and so this GB it will become a reality.
Start pics to follow in a couple of days as I've a wedding to go to tomorrow..so Sunday will be the day ...and no it's not mine 

As you guys can imagine I'm gonna beat this thing to with in a inch of its life ..bush bashing does alot of damage and it's gonna be loaded with crews gear for a long operation.
Next week I'm gonna have to look seriously at getting some Aussie tankers .

Great premise for the the build

Sounds cool!

More thoughts have entered the brain and thanks to back checking I remembered I'm fitting this with a mine roller too 
Yep I forgot 😅
I'll post start pics tomorrow and a complete M60A1 with mine roller which I haven't ripped off yet 🙃
You'll soon see that tho 😏

Still getting crunched aswell 

Or a dozer blade!

Quote from: kerick on March 15, 2024, 05:17:05 PMOr a dozer blade!

Well that I do have Ken ..it's for the M60 and these are different from the ones mounted on the M48 but in wiffy world funnily enough there exactly the same   
Awesome mate 👏 😀

It's getting a dozer blade lads ..that's gonna make my life easier and the tank much shorter 

Now ive gotta find the fecking thing 🤔😶�🌫�

That's always the challenge!

Quote from: kerick on March 16, 2024, 02:14:32 AMThat's always the challenge!

 
Turned out finding the blade took only a few mins ...amazingly it was where I remembered last seeing it ..tell ya mate ..I'll always be amazed by that   

Quote from: Wardukw on March 16, 2024, 11:27:15 AM...amazingly it was where I remembered last seeing it ..tell ya mate ..I'll always be amazed by that   

Tell me about it!

I spent five days last week looking for a multi-cam boonie hat that I could have sworn I'd hung on my dining table chair.

Eventually found it buried under some boxes in the modelling room!        

Quote from: Old Wombat on March 17, 2024, 02:18:53 AM

Quote from: Wardukw on March 16, 2024, 11:27:15 AM...amazingly it was where I remembered last seeing it ..tell ya mate ..I'll always be amazed by that   

Tell me about it!

I spent five days last week looking for a multi-cam boonie hat that I could have sworn I'd hung on my dining table chair.

Eventually found it buried under some boxes in the modelling room!        

You think that in a place as small as mine it would quite easy to find things but I tell ya ..things vanish in here with surprising speed somedays and it's just another mystery of our hobby I'll bet .
But ya also know something strange going on when I can't find a skilsaw 

Gremlins! Gremlins I say!
Or my wife moving things around on me!

Right lets make this thing official..heres the prestart pics ..
DSCF4529 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
The tracks in gonna use ..AFV Club M48 workable tracks from my M88 ARV .
DSCF4531 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
The tracks im not going to use ..believe it or not but these are Dragons soft smart tracks 
DSCF4530 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
Yep stiff as a plank of wood ..absolutley useless 
The dozer blade ..
20240317_081815 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
This is going to need a heap of work to mount it convincingly to this hull as the M8 dozer was for the M48 ,,this on the other hand is is a M9 which is for the M60 ,,theres a very large difference between the ways these were mounted to the hulls.

A start has been made  tho...glued the hull parts together and started to mount the suspension parts and glued the turret together so i could get the main gun mount sorted .
I was going to use the old Tamiya 20pdr gun but loe and behold i have one in metal from a AFV Club Cent i had scored online ..it was already made and not badly made  either but everything was painted first so the glue didnt take and its falling apart 
20240318_120242 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr

I shall continue to play with it more today 

Ken ,,mate its your wife ....or the carpet monster has now developed the ability to walk ,,which is possible in todays world ...ya never know ,,as strange things have happened 

Quote from: kerick on March 17, 2024, 11:57:30 AMOr my wife moving things around on me!

It's in their nature, or some of them anyway.

The late Mrs_PR19 used to have her fave places for everything, and woe betide me if I put something in the WRONG place!

But every now and then she'd change where those places were, but omitted to TELL me that they'd changed, so for some while I'd be getting in the neck and not knowing why.     

Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 17, 2024, 04:52:39 PMBut every now and then she'd change where those places were, but omitted to TELL me that they'd changed

That is a very common female trait!

My wife talks about something then changes subject without making that apparent and I'm still trying to figure out what it was the first time!