Chieftain build by Phil Woollard.

[Phil Woollard]

Anyone else having to log in every visit, because I'm having to. The mid deck louver hatches, good luck sorting those out, just follow the build manual and label as you go.
I have a feeling that the L shaped hatch has the louvers arse backwards, or am I missing something. If anyone has a really good photo or diagram of the louver orientation that would be great, so please post it

[Youngjae Bae]

"As far as I can make out from my reference photos, all the louvers are angled toward the turret?"

Through your question, I have confirmed this fact correctly this time.
Thank you.

Youngjae

[John Clarke]

Hi Phil, there's serveral reversed, best picture I have at the moment, Most model kits have it wrong.

Armortek has it right though I think. Mix and match

The two pairs close to the turret are reversed. Not forgetting the triangled plate too.

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[Phil Woollard]

Every time I change the pages I have to log in again, it's getting a bit tiring
Louvers and their orientations examples. now I know I'm a little daft but I have taken into consideration that the photo shows the vents from the underside.

[Stephen White]

The covers work together to promote a flow of cooling air over the radiators. The air is drawn into the engine covers and expelled through the transmission covers by the radiator cooling fans. The louvres are therefore orientated in opposite directions between the front and back covers. Hope this helps.

[John Clarke]

From what I have seen I thought Armortek had it right with the "L" shaped louver, follow Stephen's description. I suspect their pretty heavy and once their in some not so purist's may say "sod It, that i'll do"

It's like large scale Tetris

Nothing on Chieftain is "said" just when you think the tool boxes are correctish you see something like this.

I've seen this on a couple tanks, so it's not a one off.

No problems with page swopping at the moment.

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[Mark Heaps]

Yes they were, except that in 4RTR the front left triangle bin was painted white and was our larder. I don’t remember the interior of the lids being painted but may be wrong about that.

I also cannot remember the interior of the lids being red-oxided on any of the vehicles. When open, that would have been a rectangular red patch on a green and black background so not very tactical.
I also cannot recollect any bins on future vehicles or any of the Chiefy long bins that we demanded for the REME vehicles years after Chieftain was withdrawn being red-oxided on the inside.
Possibly the red-oxide ( and white paint on the larder bin ) were applied later in unit lines for two reasons
1) Protection against rust. Bins corroded from the inside out. The paint protection got scratched more on the inside from the contents moving about than the outside ever did.
2) Helped with locating and identifying any debris or leakage / spillage when cleaning the bins after an exercise.

As the tank crews knew which bin was the larder, whichever bin it happened to be, I can only presume that either the white paint was easier than red-oxide to wipe clean, and / or the white paint made it easier to identify the contents in low light conditions when preparing the next meal.

Mark

[Mark Heaps]

I've seen this on a couple tanks, so it's not a one off.

Hi John,
Possibly a retro-fitted support for a cam pole.
On the front bin circled in green is a short tube angled forwards and slightly outwards which is the right size, shape and orientation for the cam poles.

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[Phil Woollard]

The vents.

[John Clarke]

That looks the dogs (Nice), did you see Mick Hiltons engine photo? You could have photo of the radiators under those grills.

Or even a beloved.

Maybach

[Phil Woollard]

Thanks John, thats just the basic out the box vents now to the detailing, these are not easy but we'll worth the cussing as you will discover, and I'm sure you will make a wonderful job of yours The plan is to have the Sundance engine under that lot!

[John Clarke]

Stephen and yourself set the bar very high. I'll do your track horns if you do my welds.

[Phil Woollard]

Yeah right Now you can't clip those horns mate , for one it would take for ever, and two they would then be out of scale and that would show big time! :

[John Clarke]

The original Chieftain model tracks are out of scale anyway. (shorter horns)

So what's to loose. (Outer return roller maybe )

These are the cut horns, They don't look half bad , No risk of damage to the return rollers, even if the tyres wear down a bit.

The newly cut Chieftain horns are still 1.5mm longer than the Armortek Centurion model horns (out of scale) and no one cared about them.

My Choice

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[Phil Woollard]

Be interesting to see how you get on running the ol girl, should be just fine