New Canadian Armoured Fighting Vehicles

 Sticking with my recent North American theme, I've also managed to finish a few vehicles for my Canadian battle group.  The first of these were amongst the first models I ever 3D printed on my old Saturn printer.  I learnt a couple of lessons on these, but never felt the need to reprint them - I can live with the small errors.

So I really wanted to print some Canadian Lynx's - based on the American M113 1/2 C&R.  They are a unique option - only really fielded in this particular format by the Canuks and I find this AFV to be a very interesting choice for a recce vehicle.  It forces the Canadians to pursue "recce by stealth" as their only real option.  "Recce by fire" is right out the window when your heaviest weapon is a .50 Cal HMG - unless you manage to borrow some Leopards - a fairly limited resource and not recce trained really.

The Tank Museum has done an excellent Tank Chat on the Lunx that you can find below

There is also a good article about the Lynx on the Canadian Encylopedia

Anyway - onto the models - which are all Bergmann prints which you can find for free.

This is my Platoon Commander.  I converted this model by drilling out the drivers hatch so I could open it and install an Elhiem crew figure.  I also added an Elhiem Miniatures .30 Cal MMG to the rear hatch.  The track commander is a AB FGigures British WW2 tank commander.  I think this all worked out quite nicely.

The second vehicle in the Platoon Commander's section is more plain, but does come with the additional .30 Cal and a nice red bike for quiet recce's!

The Platoon Sergeant's track get's his own little blue bike!

This is the second Lynx in the Platoon Sergeant's section.

This is the Platoon Commander's section

And the Platoon Sergeant's section

And this is the whole platoon, ready for action.

The next vehicle is a little bit different, but interestingly enough based on the same M113 chassis.  The is the ADATS CDN, with ADATS standing for Air Defence Anti-Tank System.  It's basically a short ranged missile system, equally capable of engaging and destroying aircraft, helicopters and tanks (and other armoured vehicles of course).  Fom what I understand it was a pretty decent/capable system - and was even trialled by the US Army - but it was a late comer - arriving in Canadian service in 1989, and being killed off in America due to the end of the Cold War.

This is another excellent STL from Wargaming 3D

In my Cold War Battlegroup variant it is currently available for the Canadians as a Speculative Weapon.  So of course I needed to have one - or two.

 

This is the ADATS CDN in firing mode.

This is the ADATS CDN in maintenance mode, with the platform on the sides of the vehicle raised.  The radar is in the stowed position as it would be under non-combat travelling conditions.

And finally the two vehicles together.

That's it for today.  Maybe some more American stuff next time.

Thanks for looking

Richard