Work so far on the Takom Chieftain Mk10.
I decided to build it as the 14/20th Kings Hussars in the Berlin Brigade in Germany, 1989.
I hand taped off the camo and painted it with Blue-grey and the SCC2 brown.
I used Scorpion model Works Bowman antenna set instead of the kit antenna bases. EDIT: it’s the Clansman antenna set, not bowman. I can’t read apparently LOL.
Nice model; I know zip about radios but I don’t think the Bowman system was ever fitted to Chieftains.
I went off the description off the Bowman system as being introduced in the late 1970s and used up till the early 90s
Ah; I’m pretty sure that would be the Clansman system. As I say though, I’m no expert on tank radios.
It is the Clansman system! I went and looked at the packaging.
Nice build. You may need to address the engine deck colour unless you haven’t finished it yet …… It should be brown all inside the resilient rail area 
I haven’t done the engine deck yet.
Gotta paint the MG and ammo can, then think I can gloss coat.
Kingfisher miniatures do these if they of interest as they are not in the kit decals
I have quite a few Kingfisher decals as they do a great range that I think was based on the BW Models ones of closely mirrored.
However I have issues with them - resolution of printing isn’t great and the ones I have are on a white background so you have to trim exactly
What color for the vision blocks?
Chieftain didn’t have laser protected blocks so whatever you use for untreated ones!
I use Tamiya x19 smoke or that and a mix of x25 clear green …. Looking good …. And Comd spotlight lens but I’m guessing those and headlight lens will be last on…..
Very nice work!
Kingfisher naming them properly would be a good start…
I usually leave the clear bits until the very end after I’ve dull coated because knowing my luck, I’d accidentally paint over them
i got a crawl around this one in New Zealand a couple of years ago and some of these you will see the antennae bases it has fitted (some of these are not my pics but of the same tank)
i am sure they were using Clansman systems
managed to get my fat rear end into the drivers seat
with the turret facing the rear it is easy to get down into the seat
rear of the turret, the opening is just below
looking across from the loaders station
gunners station
i think this was the former commander presenting him with a flag - now belongs to the Waikato Armoured Museum Trust
the clansman systems have some amazing wiring in them for how old they are, they also had built in noise cancelling which was classified when they came out. we used some in an M113 i helped with for 5 years as you don’t need a radio fitted to run the IC. everything has multiple redundancy in the wiring harness.
inside one of the interlink boxes we got was making a squeal and we found it was full of water for who knows how many years. took it onto our electronics lab at work and ne of the guys drained it and filled with isopropyl for a few days then i cleaned it out and it came up much better and worked just fine. we dont know how water got in as it sealed water tight. put dry bags in before i closed it up.
after a really good cleaning
the way they bundle the wiring is really well done
master box inside
had to rewire our helmets to plug onto the Clansman but was an easy job
Rocol VTH helmets, the one on the right has the full armoured shell mine has just the fiberglass training shell
difference with Clansman is it is stereo sound meaning you could have one radio network on one ear and the other on the other side to tell which network it was. (we normally ran HQ network on right side)
heres one just for a laugh for you - a meme i made after seeing the top picture. there is one parked there on the sidewalk - honest LOL
Dude, that is some seriously restoration work on that radio.
