After the Australian Army chose the Chieftain to replace the Centurion... backstory, backstory etc etc
So I inherited an old Chieftain build from somewhere which got me thinking about what to do with it. I had the turret and upper hull from an Accurate Armour MK11 Conversion (which is why you blokes now have the Takon mk11). Got me thinking about what mods the Australian Army might do.
Now the Australian Army/Defence Force is prone to tinkering with perfectly good weapons systems to "better suit the Australian requirement" and add/Delete/Change or otherwise modify perfectly good vehicles/aircraft/Ships for sometimes no apparent reason. But that is a whole 'nother topic.
So far I have added more turret armor, similar to the Stillbrew mods but called BillyBrew in Australia.
Deleted the NBC filter gear as clearly that would be unnecessary for the Australian Defence force(??), replacing that with another turret basket, that would undoubtably get filled with jack rations, gas bottles and perhaps a surrupticious EndEx Carton.
The IR Searchlight had to go as well as that will be replaced by a IFS system.
What we have so far
Billybrew armour with gunmount dust cover. Armour is chunks of Plastic card with Apoxy Sculpt. Dust cover is also apoxy sculpt.
The place for stuff and clutter. Soldered Brass basket
Some more filters to go on and some sort of IFS system.