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Australian Mk5/1 Centurion in Vietnam

I CAN’T STOP AT ONE CENT!

At the end of the day, I suppose building an accurate model of The Very Diabolical is the end of an aspiration that began back in 1991 when I came by my first photo of the tank.

Alas, I have been bitten by a bug - there are now a stack of AFV Club Centurions on the shelf, and I already have a 1968 version – which was almost “out of the box - painted, marked and sitting on its wheels, which I plan to depict in the dusty dry season for something different.

For me, replacement of the kit tyres with the resin Firestorm items is not negotiable and a mantlet cover is also needed, but apart from that these kits go together like a dream and there are so many interesting Cents which can be built from battlefields the world over during a service life that exceeds half a Century and endures to this day. That said, I reckon I’ll be fully occupied turning out Aussie Cents for a few years to come ... I just have to do a dozer in Vietnam, one complete with side skirts and headlights as they arrived wouldn’t be much of a challenge, then I could do one in the two colour camouflage applied in Australia when the tanks were retired in 1976 ...