Armortek

Busy day in and out the workshop.

Love is Centurion shaped

It's becoming one of my favorites of all time!

That's a lovely looking Cent there Phil. Great work!

The don 10 reel is all but finished

Hi Phil
Thanks, good bud. It's very much appreciated.
Im hoping to round up this last house renovation within the next couple of weeks and get back to the 251
Loving the build mate.
Take care and keep safe.

Muttley

Made a start on the turret basket. The winky pot arrived today thankyou Didier great service my friend, more on that very soon.

The searchlight is a big piece.

Did the Winky pot fold over and lay flat on the roof when not required?

This we need to know I think Mr Dawe. There's a wing nut involved somewhere me thinks!

Something else we need to think about is the Morris engine, often referred to as the "donkey engine", stl files would be fantastic! It's a simple straight four overhead valve petrol motor used in the Morris Minor, it drives a generator.

Phil, a couple of things which might help.

Flashing light. I wonder whether Centurion gun tanks actually had flashing lights in service, other than the ones which survived into later service with the Gunners and Sappers. I say that because I can remember the flashing lights coming into service on Chieftain as a result of German legislation, probably in the mid seventies. The fitting was a local modification, a simple tubular stalk fitted onto what had been the IR detector stalk to the rear of the cupola. It was nothing more than a piece of tubing with a rubber bung at the top and contained the power leads. It certainly didn't fold or anything fancy like that.

GUE (never heard it referred to as a "donkey engine") - this was a simple Morris USHNM Mk 3 engine. Photos from the handbooks attached. See also my thread (you probably already have) for photos.

Thankyou Stephen! I have found an engine on line as an stl file but they want money for it.
More milling and turning of the searchlight components.

I am nearly 100% sure that this won't work with a filament printer.
Vince

Looks lovely, if the clamps and lifting handles are to fine they could be printed separately but it's worth a go first. Alternatively the furniture could be made from wire and strip , or go slightly over scale on the thinner parts.