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Old 11-06-09, 19:03
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No I won't be useing the HL electronics as the sound is of a Tiger tank not a ford flathead motor and as for the smoker I don't think they are very realistic as any motor that smoked that much is really due for a motor job.
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Old 12-06-09, 14:52
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hahahahahaha yeah your right......really noisy too those smoke units .

anyway congrats on a fantastic model !


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1944 Morris C8 radio body (under restoration).
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Old 16-06-09, 14:37
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Here are a couple pics of the carrier as it was at the Toronto show. Still not complete but it is slowly getting there

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Old 17-06-09, 10:16
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looking great ! the drivers ehxhaust heat sheild on the rear pannel (next to the box) should be mesh, and if that box on the back is the radio battery box, it would be mounted near the top of the rear armour in the middle, on the back of the box itself would be a tray to hold oil/petrol and on the back of that the number plate (if this is what the box is to reprisent, however if radio not fitted your good (she has no antenna's so i presume not ) looking fantastic mind good work !

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ps i am not picking holes here just giving you a heads up in case you are bothered
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1942 Ford Universal Carrier No.3 MkI*
Lower Hull No. 10131
War Department CT54508 (SOLD)
1944 Ford Universal Carrier MkII* (under restoration).
1944 Morris C8 radio body (under restoration).
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Old 17-06-09, 14:26
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You referring to the half round things on the rear deck correct? should both be mesh or just the one? I do appreciate all the help I can get and I didn't take your comments as an attack but words of wisdom to help me make this carrier even better. I still have alot of ork to go on it. One thing is all the rivits. One friend said if I leave the rivits off it could a welded carrier. I only have one reference book called Universal Carrier 1936-48 The 'Bren Gun Carrier' Story
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Old 17-06-09, 14:48
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i have that book too, but the ones you want are the carrier books vol1 and vol2 written by Nigel Watson, he has his own website and can deliver worldwide.

vol 1 is pretty much the intro of the carrier concept vol2 is later Mk carriers but has lots on the Mk2.

yes the half round things on the deck is what i refer to, one is solid as you have it and one is mesh, the one that is mesh is on the drivers side, the otherone was left solid (on Mk1's anyway) because the cam net / tarp and bag rested on top of it.

will post up reference shots from the mannual 2 secs.

Ok these refernce shots are from the carrier ops instructions book UC-F1 and are for Mk1 but it may assist you.





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War Department CT54508 (SOLD)
1944 Ford Universal Carrier MkII* (under restoration).
1944 Morris C8 radio body (under restoration).

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Old 17-06-09, 15:00
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not sure what Mk you decided on in the end, but as the top armour does not yet have the round bar on the tops, you could make it a Mk1 which has had the later mods (like the wheel bracket on the front plate there is a picture in the carrier book you have of a pair outside a workshop in england being upgraded "before" and "after"

here is a reference shot of the no19 radio set.
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1944 Morris C8 radio body (under restoration).
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