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Just a quickie, Fitted a second, larger speaker tonight. Fits perfectly undernieth where the turret would have sat. Inconjunction with this, the tank is starting to feel a little heavy, what with the extra speaker, solid fuel drums and metal jib. What effect is this going to have on the tank?

Sorry guys, not had much time recently to work on the arv, but heres a quick up date;- 2nd speaker fitted which doesnt add any more volume but does  give a sutble bass tone, and makes any thing layed on top rummble which is quite cool. All the parts for the rear tow plate are now made, just have to paint them and then fit, and as for the winch, im going to go with my first idea(see "winches on wwII tanks" in general disscusion) it may not be correct but it looks like a winch which is what i was after, the pictures i have of the real thing just shows a chain going into a hole in the back, not much to look at. I'll add some photo's when i get a chance.

Cheers, Luke

Spot light made.

Made me a spot light today. Cost- 99p
                                      Time- 1/2 hr
                                      Materials- 1x AAA cell pencil torch
                                                    1x Led(pinched from garden light)
                                                    Card
                                                    Drinking Straw
                                                    Filler mesh
                                                    1x shower head from pepper pig accessorie!
Basicaly, ive taken the head from a small pencil torch which cost me 99p, changed the filiment lamp for an LED, added a bit of mesh in the end, cut down a toy shower head to cap off the other end and mounted it using a drinking straw. Powered by robbing the feed to the light on the side of the tank.

Here's the tow plate finished and fitted.

Here's the 'Luke Mk1' winch finished and fitted........

ni9ce job luke

that winch looks real good

on the plough/tow plate wasnt it also used as a sort of digger to stop the recovery following the vehicle to be recovered?

Not sure, ive no pictures of it in use so i can only guess as to how it was used. Glad the winch has got some approval, i wasnt sure if it would look right, as ive written in previouse post's, i think the winch on the real thing was within the engine bay, but i wanted it on show, so i just bodged this up from imagination. Glad you like it, just got mainly cosmetics to do now

yes you maybe right on the winch but as you say and i agree it looks good

we had similar ploughs on the back of 155 spgs and that was to stop the platform going backwards when "popping" off lol

great looking winch youve made there, love the rust effect youve done all over it

Have been scanning Tankzones site today, im now thinking that i might open up the drivers hatch with the one you can get from them, and then maybe a driver inside seeing as theres no turret for a figure.