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MA130 Staghound turret stowage box and aerial
mounts
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All Australian
Staghounds were fitted with a turret stowage bin. Two aerial mounts
are also provided for the No.19 wireless sets used during the 1950s. |
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MA131 Australian
M3 Buna Stuart
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A conversion for the Academy kit No.1399, M3 Stuart “Honey”
riveted turret that replicates the Australian Stuart tanks used to
attack Japanese positions at Buna New Guinea. British forces used the same
conversion during World War II in the late North African desert and Burma
campaigns.
The conversion provides:
- 2 rear stowage boxes
- 2 water cans
- 2 fire extinguishers
- forward stowage box
- collapsed machine gun
mount
- turret ring
- exhaust armour
- 2 grouser storage
racks with grousers
- 2 blanked off machine
gun sponsons
Both riveted and
horseshoe turreted Stuarts light tanks were used during the attack on Buna
airfield. These versions will be released later |
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MA133 1/35 Commonwealth M3A1 Stuart update
set This update set is for the
Academy M3A1 Stuart. This version of the Stuart was used in Australia
only (as far as we can determine). These are British modifications and
were used ion the late Western Desert war and in Burma. |
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MA134
1/35 Belly and sponson
armour for Tamiya M113s.
This provides a full
length belly armour plate plus two sponson armour panels as provide to
Australian M113A1s operating in South Vietnam after 1968
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MA135
1/35 Belly
and sponson armour for Academy M113s
This provides a full length belly armour
plate plus two sponson armour panels as provide to Australian M113A1s
operating in South Vietnam after 1968
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MA136
Update set for
Tamiya Saladin turreted FSV (this conversion is
based on the Tamiya FSV kit)
This provides a complete hull
top that has been corrected for the riser ring and mounting plinth for the
Saladin turret. Also provide is an FSV extended trim vane and a range of
other kit enhancements including tow hooks, aerial based and mounts,
jerrycans with separate handles, some tools and a dust boot for the 76mm
gun..
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MA137 1/35 scale Sponson armour for
Australian M113A1 FOV (2) By the
end of the Vietnam conflict most if not all Australian M113A1 FOV had
the sponson armour fitted (welded in place).
The belly armour could be removed and within
Australia it was unbolted and put into storage. Some belly armour was
loaned to new Zealand when they sent some M113A1s to Bosnia. |
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MA138
1/35 Australian M3 mid production Buna Stuart conversion for Academy M3A1 Stuart
This conversion set
provides many of the items listed above in MA131 but also includes a M3 Mid
production horseshoe turret and hatches. Two types of M3 Stuarts were
used on the attack on the Japanese held airfield at Buna - the M3 with
hexagonal and the mid production horseshoe turret with raised cupola.
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