Vickers M1936 Light tank replica

[Rob Dyba]

Anyone who can provide assistance your imput will be welcome. I am proposing to take the cut bren carrier hull as pictured, and using a second hull in far worse condition but with wheel assembly's still attached, make a working replica of a M1936 Vickers light tank.

Powered by a Ford or Crysler Hemi 6 cylinder engine & automatic gearbox, by moving the front carrier cross-tube forward, installing an additional cross tube & twin bogie setup approx. where the rear wheel station would normally go, installing an up-side down carrier diff to the front & std idlers to the rear, I hope to make a reasonably accurate copy of the tank pictured below. Visually accurate on the outside, with the interior made more to function rathar than historical accuracy, I hope this will be a project that takes shape easily, uses readily available components & that can, when completed, be painted up to look either like a Vickers Light Tank (opposing the Germans), or a Japanese Type 97 tankette (The Jap tank was based on one of these). Upper armour made from lighter material than original, possibly angle iron & 3mm plate, with easily detachable panels designed with pyrotechnics in mind. (Boom!) Hopefully paying it's way with movie work just down the road at Movie World- The Gold Coast.

What ya all recon- am I mad??????

Rob Dyba