Manny's Chieftain

[John Clarke]

Looks great Manny,
This might be a sticky wicket.
I don't know about an Arabic symbol, the symbol orientation seems wrong to me, it looks like a Hebrew symbol.(cheth=8)?
I've seen the picture, but not the actual photo, it might be just made up. (A Leonardo)

[Manny Leung]

It's been a year already since I finished my chieftain built,I though I will give it a go at adding more details to the model and give it a colour change as I'm a bit bored with the desert sand. It will be good old BAOR NATO green and black!

Antenna box with Armorpax extinguisher

Trying to get my head around those smoke discharger mounts!

[Richard Goodwin]

Great stuff Manny, keep it coming!

[Charles A Stewart]

Hi Manny
Lovely to see your Chieftain back on the forum.

Cheers Charles

[John Clarke]

Great job Manny,

ATU certainly looks the part.

Do the smoke dispensers use the originally supplied rear flat brackets?

Looking forward to seeing the new paint scheme.

[Manny Leung]

Hi John ,the ATU needs to be a bit wider,but I'm going to leave it for now,anyway I'm just a CAT2 person.
I'm using the kit supplied brackets for the smoke discharger,as I'm trying to make it look reasonably accurate without too much alterations.cheers

[John Clarke]

Hi Manny

The reason for asking about the bracket plate is, a lot of my parts are buried in a box somewhere, others scattered here and there, I was just interest about the brackets because of the mounting lugs and how they would look.

Though the turret at my rate of build is year away.

There's a lot of detail that's been pointed out to me on the smoke dispenser brackets that could be done, hinges etc, but the mod you've made looks pretty good to me. So thanks for the heads up.

If you've started chucking original parts in the spares box and making new, that makes you a ginger cat 3

[Richard Goodwin]

If you've started chucking original parts in the spares box and making new, that makes you a ginger cat 3

That's a CAT 4 John......

[Manny Leung]

Managed to mount the smoke dischargers after much butchering of the turret casting!

For the CAT 3 or 4 brigade the smoke dischargers need to be set lower than the stock position unless you're doing a Stillbrew.

[John Clarke]

Your certainly starting to sound like a cat 4 person Manny.
Once you start it can become addictive. Chasing the details, a little here, a little there, before you know it, youll be taking a grinder to it.

[Manny Leung]

After taken the Chieftain apart and put into storage for the last year or so I've finally found the courage to dig it up and start rebuilding it.
Everything went well except when I tried to reinstall the smoker unit I forgot where to connect the fan units as there's no connections to the smoker module as described in the wiring diagram.

[John Clarke]

Looking good, nice bit of canvas covering, tongue in cheek, but has your Chieftain gone green?

[Adrian Harris]

The connectors I've ringed in red shouldn't be connected together like that.

Use the picture below to follow through where the wires to the fans go.
There's only one fan and element in this picture but everything else should be the same.

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Adrian.

[Manny Leung]

Hi John indeed I've changed the colour from desert sand to NATO green

Thanks Adrian for the picture