Looks great, I'll have to look for photos of armed Dingos. I haven't seen the anti-tank rifle or the anti-aircraft bren on one before.

Were brens also used in the front panel where you have the anti-tank rifle?

Not sure about the Boys but there are ealry photos of Dingos with a Bren in the slot. The stowage diagrams for the MkII Dingo show a Lakeman mount for the Bren.

Another option, which is AFAIK widely used only 11th Hussars was a pair of Vickers "K" guns, There would be a rack containing 8-10 spare magazines on the outside of the car on the drivers side at the top of the side plates.
IIth Hussars Dingo

HTH

Aidrian

Also noticed the additional stowage boxe on the rear wheel arch.

James

Thaks for sharing the build - it's rather helped with a slight case of modellers block.

As far as the 11th's Dingo is concerned extra stowage seems to be a Cherrypicker speciality - all those years in the desert must have made them very canny travellers indeed. They also seemed to have a particluar knack for liberating wine cellars

Have fun in Dublin.

James

Just stumbled on this build - very nice! Congrats so far, a really excellent build.

If you're still planning on setting your dio in NWE 1944 then I suggest you ditch the .55 AT rifle - it was obsolete in 1939 and mightly disliked by those who had to use it! The only theatres you could really include it in are Pre-war, France 1940, the Home Front and the Western desert. Of course having said that it is entirely possible that an individual unit may have kept one but given that it was always a poor AT rifle this is doubtful. But if you like it - why not?

Anyway, keep it coming.

Cheers

Karol

James

A short addendum.

AA mounts on these would have been either Vickers Ks, Bren or (ultimately) Browning M1919s. Stick with the Bren mount - it's a nice touch.

Cheers

Karol

Hello James,

You are making some very nice details on the dingo, but I think you are making a mistake with the lakeman gun mount. If you go the next link you can find some good pictures of the lakeman in a dingo.

http://www.mindspring.com/~rmgill/britkit/vehicles/dingo.mod/pages/dingoBrenLakeman.1.o.htm

As I'am going a step back, rebuilding the mark 2 into a mark 1a there are some more details that can be intresting for your model.

The fenderswere made of steel plate, and the sides were in a 90 degree angle. Make the fenders out of te box thinner with a file and glue a spreu on it, see photo of the drawing on the front of the tamiya box.
The centres on the rims are much higher as on the wheels of the model.
On the fenders are lifting hooks, but these were made of thin plate, not enough to hold a 3 ton vehicle. As you look on the web fir photo's you can see there are reinforcement strips on both side of the springs from the bottom of the vehicle to the fenden. A little job in modelling, but it looks much better.
Under the radio there should be a (large) battery, proberly for the radio.
The seat for the gunner/radio operator was build on a steel plate that stands a little above floor, there is a good picture from above on the side I mentioned above.
In the stowage shedule there is a rifle in a horizontal rack above the rearside vision port.

But even if don't do anything with this your model stil looks great.

Greatings from Holland