Alvis Salamander, Stalwart, Saracen, and Saladin series of 6X6 wheeled vehicles

[Weaver]

Saladin turret on a cut-down Chinese Type 63 (YW531) APC chassis produced by the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka:





It looks like what they did was cut a horizontal slice out of the hull and then moved the engine to the back. Damned neat job for a 'garage mod'.

Thanks to Logan Hartke for correctly identifying what they did. 

[NARSES2]

That's neat. Has the look of an ultimate Pz II model

[pirx]

New Stalwart kit from ACE:   http://acemodel.com.ua/en/model/654   

[Weaver]

Just got the S&M Models Mk.1 and Mk.2

The Mk.1 is definitely going in BAS colours as loaned to them by Alvis in the 1960s as a publicity stunt.

I've been considering the Mk.2 as a movie-prop moon buggy for use in the (what-if) third series of Space 1999, or a 21st century re-imagining/re-boot of the same. Thinking about the background, I hit on the idea of Joss Whedon, still sore from the cancellation of Firefly and with an unsatisfied sci-fi bee in his bonnet, taking the project on. Then whadda ya know? I'm researching Stalwarts and I find that there actually WAS a Stollie in Firefly, if only briefly, with just the sort of cabin-on-the-loadbed modification I was thinking of, so that makes it even more credible that it would find it's way into another Joss Whedon series (Whedon has a reputation for re-using actors he likes from one series to the next, so why not props?)



It appear briefly (few seconds) during the Battle of Serenity Valley sequence in the 2 hour pilot.

[Mossie]

Back on page 6, I posted a stolly that looks identical to that one, except it's marked "Marshal" and in a stripy desert scheme.  In the link on the same post it also appears in grey, but that could be primer.  Looks like it may have been used in several shows.

[Old Wombat]

Found this one, too, from the Stallone Judge Dredd.

[Weaver]

Back on page 6, I posted a stolly that looks identical to that one, except it's marked "Marshal" and in a stripy desert scheme.  In the link on the same post it also appears in grey, but that could be primer.  Looks like it may have been used in several shows.

Yeah that's definately the same one. Doesn't surprise me that Firefly used an off-the-shelf vehicle: they were always short of money. Their bad-guy trooper uniforms were the Starship Trooper ones (they've been in loads of low-budget sci-fi flicks mind). For one episode they made a 'medical shuttle' out of a 3/4 scale fibreglass Hind D with the rotors taken off and two plastic dustbins grafted onto the sides as engines!

[Mossie]

Looking even closer, the grey version shows the same 'airlock' thingy on the left side and horizontal pipework on the right.  On the 'Op Granby' prop that I posted, it's got the same pipework on the right and the sides are slightly canted.  There's a good chance that it's also the same machine, without the extension on top.  Assuming it is, that's at least four guises for the same Stolly.

[Weaver]

Yes I agree: the tall version has a horizontal join line that corresponds to the short version's roof line. My guess is that the extension can be detached for different looks.

[Weaver]

Inside the Chieftain's Hatch: FV622 Stalwart MkII https://youtu.be/0TDLqSiu9AE via @YouTube

[Thorvic]

http://acemodel.com.ua/en/model/705

The new Ace Model Salamander Fire tender is in development now 

[Captain Canada]

That looks good !

[kitnut617]

That would be the type of RV I'd want 

[PR19_Kit]

That would be the type of RV I'd want 

So you could put out any forest fires that you came across en route to your holiday destination? 

[kitnut617]

That would be the type of RV I'd want 

So you could put out any forest fires that you came across en route to your holiday destination? 

Nooooo --- I'd convert it into an RV