This build is inspired by Mr Jeffrey Fontaine, who sent me a number of Saladin turrets from Tamiya M113A1 Fire Support Vehicles amongst some other odds & ends.
The base kit is an Italeri LVT(A)-1
Alligator which I am in the process of modifying, like the Australian army M113A1s, to mount one of the Saladin 76mm-gunned turrets.
Obviously, the vehicle being an amphibian, where to put this build is something of a quandary: Sea or Land? Land or Sea?
I settled on "Land" because it really only travels through the water to get from the transport ship to land, where it does most of its work. Although this Royal Australian Marines version is going to be operating in the flooded rice paddies & rivers of Vietnam as much as on firm dry land.
Photo's have been taken of these early stages & will, hopefully be posted
tomorrow ... later today.