RC 1/16 M113 Lynx C & R - Canadian army 1970s UN mission
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2021 12:06 am
Hi everyone,
After two complicated builds (GTK Boxer and the Churchill Mk III), it's time for something simpler. It is also time for my yearly M113 build. After a lot of reflection, i have decided to build the small M113 Lynx Command and Recon version, also known as the M113 1/2. Its different.
It is a shorter, smaller and lighter version of the M113, with 4 roadwheels instead of five and no rear ramp. It was sold to the Netherlands and Canada in the 1960s as a reconnaissance vehicle and was armed in Canada with a Browning M2 in cupola and Browning M1919 on the side facing rear. After being replaced, many Lynx were eventually re-sold to Chile and Bahrain. Iran got some empty hulks on the international scrap metal market and managed to put them in service, status unknown.
The model will be represented as a Canadian vehicle in the early configuration of the 1970s during a UN mission somewhere, un-modernized and still armed with the M1919 before its replacement with the FNMag later.
For the construction of the 1/16 model, i will be helped by the excellent 1/35 resin kit from Perfect Scale Modellbau for shapes, dimensions and details. It even has excellent 1/35 UN decals that i will bring up to 1/16.
What is nice about this resin kit is the fact that the core is made of two halves for a really fast construction. Just with this, i pretty much has all i need for quite a while.
Here are some parts gathered for the build, mainly from Tank Modellbau of Germany, and roadwheels from Ludwig. It is not the first time i used these. I thought i could initially fit a Mato gearbox in the hull but it won't fit because of the raised torsion blade suspension so i have to go with plan B.
The metal tracks with rubber pads are tricky to build but proved to work well after fine tuning.
Metal sprocket and Idlers are good but need fine tuning to work well.
Continuing on following post
After two complicated builds (GTK Boxer and the Churchill Mk III), it's time for something simpler. It is also time for my yearly M113 build. After a lot of reflection, i have decided to build the small M113 Lynx Command and Recon version, also known as the M113 1/2. Its different.
It is a shorter, smaller and lighter version of the M113, with 4 roadwheels instead of five and no rear ramp. It was sold to the Netherlands and Canada in the 1960s as a reconnaissance vehicle and was armed in Canada with a Browning M2 in cupola and Browning M1919 on the side facing rear. After being replaced, many Lynx were eventually re-sold to Chile and Bahrain. Iran got some empty hulks on the international scrap metal market and managed to put them in service, status unknown.
The model will be represented as a Canadian vehicle in the early configuration of the 1970s during a UN mission somewhere, un-modernized and still armed with the M1919 before its replacement with the FNMag later.
For the construction of the 1/16 model, i will be helped by the excellent 1/35 resin kit from Perfect Scale Modellbau for shapes, dimensions and details. It even has excellent 1/35 UN decals that i will bring up to 1/16.
What is nice about this resin kit is the fact that the core is made of two halves for a really fast construction. Just with this, i pretty much has all i need for quite a while.
Here are some parts gathered for the build, mainly from Tank Modellbau of Germany, and roadwheels from Ludwig. It is not the first time i used these. I thought i could initially fit a Mato gearbox in the hull but it won't fit because of the raised torsion blade suspension so i have to go with plan B.
The metal tracks with rubber pads are tricky to build but proved to work well after fine tuning.
Metal sprocket and Idlers are good but need fine tuning to work well.
Continuing on following post