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MA130 Staghound turret stowage box and aerial  mounts

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.

 

 MA131 Australian M3 Buna Stuart

      

 

 

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

 

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.

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

 

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

 

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..

 

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.

 No images see MA135 above.

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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