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Canvas cover for MK2 stove.

They look good John. The actual stove used one the Pinkie is the British Army No2 field stove. Google for pictures of it stowed and in use etc. It lives in the rear offside corner of the back body and has a canvas cover that starts bolted to the bodywork. It was intended to be used in situ in case they had to move sharpish. Leaving the cooker behind was bad form. The 84mm rounds were stored in pairs in the metal flat bar baskets inboard of the back body wheel boxes. They laid horizontal and not stood on end as often seen. There's a rubber strap to hold them in. I've uploaded a photo of the spare wheel in place with the tyre bead breaker that lives on the offside rifle holster. The nose of the bead breaker locates in a reinforced hole in the front bumper. The wheel is mounted on the spare wheel carrier to keep sand out when replacing the inner tube. A good little diorama. The wise old hacks just carried extra spare wheels and returned them to the LAD later. https://pin.it/4KHuvpj https://pin.it/4KHuvpj

.I'll waffle on about the Clansman fit: The manpack Clansman sets are 24v, kits were available to fit them into 12v Land Rovers, these included frames to mount, interface boxes to integrate the harness and battery chargers that would charge a 24v Manpack battery from a 12v supply if required. Most of this wasn't going to work on the Pinkies as they had no traditional back body to mount in. A length of angle iron is fitted on the bulkhead behind the front seats. All existing radios and mounts need to be removed first. Two 12v battery chargers live behind the Commanders seat (the raised passenger seat). A 4Ah battery lives behind the drivers seat. There is a combination of Larkspur switch boxes and Clansman crew/harness boxes mounted on the bulkhead between the front seats. These allowed the crew to communicate and monitor radios at the same time. Any old soldier can pull up a sandbag and chip in here about Clansman 🙂 The 351 VHF set mounts on the offside fuel board along with a crewbox and the initiate box. If detail is your thing, the Initiate box has a big orange button 🙂 351 radio antenna mounts on the nearside wing. You would usually see a large metal box that houses the electrically powered tuning unit with the antenna base on top of this box. This would make sense here, it keeps the antenna tuner out of the elements. But no, not this time. The antenna tuner is on its own and the antenna base mounted in front of it. There must be a really good reason for this, buggered if I know. If a UHF radio was included, a PRC344 lived on the nearside fuel board, I don't think it has the battery attached, I think the battery might have been attached remotely behind the driver. HF set, the 320, mounts on the offside wing top tray. It is bolted to it's universal carrier and then clipped to the tray framework. It can be dismounted and attached to a Bergen frame and carried to site. There's an antenna base in front of it. Harness wiring back to the crewboxes is out of sight. Couple of things while I'm rambling. Tyres are 9.00x16 Bargrips, same as the 101 Forward Control Land Rover. I don't know who would do them but if you found a 1/35 scale 101 then they would do, as long as you remember that the 101 has 6 stud wheels and the Pinkies are 5 stud. A good opportunity for 3d printing. The theodolite stand is moved from the offside wing and either goes laterally across the bonnet just in front of the netting, or has been seen running down the centre line of the bonnet. No reason why but it's easier to reach when going fore and aft rather than across. 10FG51 has it going across because that's where the old bolt holes are. Shovels on the nearside wing mount again on the new wing top plate. That'll do for now, happy to follow on if you like, or have specific questions. I couldn't speculate any further as to the Clansman fit, I'll no doubt be getting it wrong and incurring the wrath of those who know better. I'd like to see a couple of these kits tailored to suit the Clansman, there's also plenty of scope to build a pre Marshall Pinkie. Take a military SII and add a few minor changes, you'll have a display that shows the heritage of these lively vehicles. Google is your friend if you want to see more of the radios mentioned. Likewise the unit modified Pinkies, one easy way to identify is the rifle holders on the front wings, they're not square, they're made from a curved sheet.

Replying to John Tapsell about his kit additions, are these bought? I've never seen anything that acknowledged the Clansman fit. Cheers, Wayne

New to Britmodeller, found this thread by accident. I'm custodian of a couple of Pink Panthers, one of which had the comprehensive Clansman fit in it's later years of service. I'd be thrilled to see a good variation on the Tamiya Pinkie with the Clansman wing trays and radios visible. I can go into as much detail as you want, it's an ongoing reinstallation on 10FG51, all the witness marks and mounts were evident but finding the mounting hardware took time. We believe that some vehicles only had the VHF aspect installed although the mounting hardware would allow for more. I think this was to enable short notice configuration rather than load up with full HF, VHF and UHF. Ask away, I can give you detailed photos that should easily be taken as factual and accurate although opinions and conjecture are mine alone and worth exactly what you're paying for them 🙂

10FG51 with Clansman wing top mounts.

Clansman 351 set on fuel tank board.

Clansman 320 HF set on wing mount.

New to Britmodeller, found this thread by accident. I'm custodian of a couple of Pink Panthers, one of which had the comprehensive Clansman fit in it's later years of service. I'd be thrilled to see a good variation on the Tamiya Pinkie with the Clansman wing trays and radios visible. I can go into as much detail as you want, it's an ongoing reinstallation on 10FG51, all the witness marks and mounts were evident but finding the mounting hardware took time. We believe that some vehicles only had the VHF aspect installed although the mounting hardware would allow for more. I think this was to enable short notice configuration rather than load up with full HF, VHF and UHF. Ask away, I can give you detailed photos that should easily be taken as factual and accurate although opinions and conjecture are mine alone and worth exactly what you're paying for them :-)