Armortek

Lots done today.

Got to get on with the painting.

I was thinking about green for the inside of the NBC box. Now I really need a photo of the inside of that rear hatch or I will have to use my imagination

Can anyone identify this area of the turret please? I would say loader as it's left of the breech and there's plenty of room, also what are the conical fittings at head height, and the Orange handles?

Photo shows the left front of the turret, ie the loader's station. The orange handles are the breech opening and closing levers, used for the first round and for cleaning/stripping the breech. The left lever is the Breech Mechanism Lever (BML). Push forward on the BML retaining catch lever on the top of the handle and pull the BML to the rear to open the breech. The breech is closed by pulling the right hand Breech Closing Lever. The breech remained open after gun run out.

The conical fittings are the front end of stowage for two APFSDS projectiles (="fin"). The two small clips to the left are for the loader's SMG and to the left of that, out of frame, is a stowage rack for one more fin proj. Fin was introduced in mid service and, as a much larger projectile, required a lot of extra space, resulting in a revised ammunition stowage.

The beige stuff is the spall liner, which covered a lot of exposed turret wall.

Thank you Stephen, I wonder if Dave might produce some of the pointy rnds, I could do with a few of them.

The rear hatch detail I am really struggling with. I believe from the info from you guys that they housed the metadyne compartment, and the other hatch was for the radio batteries compartment, just to clarify which hatch was for which? Can you serving guys remember what it looked like in there per chance?

Message for Dave, did you see my request for another two turret position seat sets please? I will then have a total of three for all the turret bums!

Getting it done.

Thanks Charles, a quick edit and out pops the detail.

Lots more done, I hope you guys are not getting bored with all the little detail jobs that I'm describing?

Sorry Phil,

Missed your note.Two more of the last one I sent you?

Cheers

Dave

Yes please Dave and anything else you ready for me, kept safe mate kind regards Phil.

Dave I also need 8 of your finest 12 volt lead acid batteries and connectors if you have them please
I'm painting and have made a start on the turret interior.

Really like the Fuzzy bits

Phil

NOT getting bored at all, loving it in fact

Keep up the good work and stay safe

Regards

Andy

I'm supposed to be having a day off today but after my Sunday tidy up I just couldn't resist getting a bit done.