Mick Toal reviews the Australian Staghound Upgrade kit by Mouse House Enterprises, which includes a turret stowage bin and aerial mounts.

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Nice review of a simple but different update Mick.
BTW the Tamiya kit is just the Italeri kit packaged for the Japanese market with the addition of the crew from the Universal Carrier

Thanks for the response ... to quote from my review: "we have been blessed with not one but two fine Staghound kits from Italeri and Bronco Models and a re-box of the Italeri offering from Tamiya".

I was at a model show here in Sydney on the weekend and the Bronco Models Stag I am building is very visibly dimensionally different to the Italeri kit ... I have scoured the net and am yet to find a comparison review along with the kits measured up to a real vehicle, so that could be a future project ... .

"The instructions state the bin was "the same type as fitted to the Australian Cruiser tank Mk1 `Sentinal'", which may indeed be the case, however, some cursory internet research reveals that identical bins are fitted to surviving Staghounds in France, England and the United States, which indicates it is a standard, (possibly post war) T17E1 item."

The key there is "surviving vehicles", the ones you are looking at are all ex-Australian vehicles bought by overseas collectors and museums.

Unless you've seen period photos with the bin fitted?