M113 'The Bucket'

[rickshaw]

I don't fancy having to change the ammo boxes under fire!

There is that.  I noted early on when the pictures were first posted the bins on each side of the hull top to carry extra ammunition magazines.  I thought about how you could "bugger that for a game of soldiers," as Harry Flashman was wont to say, if I was asked to crew one of these things. 

[Weaver]

Okay, found this (1/100th) resin hull in a box of bits at the Crewe Show, and for 25p, it was worth getting just to find out: WHAT THE HELL IS IT? (Never seen that top configuration before.... )

[Captain Canada]

That's pretty neat Weaver ! Must be some kind of Israeli command type ?

[rickshaw]

Some sort of missile launcher?  It looks like it has two launching hatches to the rear right of the commander's cupola on the hull top.

[philp]

No idea what that is.  Don't think it is Israeli as have seen most of their variants.  A quick Google images search turned up nothing like it.

But I did find these 

A little less (as in no) armor for this gunner.


or this,


Also would like to do the NASA version.


And a SWAT version.

[Weaver]

Jeff Fontaine on BTS has correctly identified it as a German BeobPz M113 G A2 (Bw) artillery observation vehicle. The mounting a the front of the triangle carries a periscope.

Cheers Jeff! 

[Weaver]

Lawdy look what I just found:

http://www.lonewulfmodels.co.uk/view_product.php?c_id=25&sc_id=68&p_id=974

[Scooterman]

Didn't Verlinden do a 60mm conversion?  I'm thinking I had it at one point and was going to mount it on a LAV-25........

[Mossie]

Ver' nice!  I made a comment early in this thread about cutting down the hull to produce an Abbot/Falcon analogue, you could do the same with this turret to produce a full light tank.

Of course, has all sorts of applications away from the M113.  I've been thinking some time about a light tank kitbash involving a Saladin hull, M113 tracks and a new turret.  This might have solved the latter problem.

[NARSES2]

Until I clicked the link I thought it was a smaller scale King Tiger turret 

[Captain Canada]

Ooh...I love the 113. That Lone Wulf conversion looks awesome !

[thundereagle1997]

A light tank variant of the M-113 armed with a 105mm or 120mm rifled gun would be a great idea.