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Plus @Claymore did an amazing WI line drawing of a Matilda a few years ago and, hopefully he can find it. So I can add it to my collection of his line drawings that I've slowly collated over the years.

It's the Matilda II for me for their employment supporting the Australian Army in the South Pacific jungles, in terrain that was initially considered unsuitable for armoured vehicle operations. The Australian War Memorial picture captures Australian Matilda II tanks in the vicinity of the...

Amazing I 400 journey and great design. How is your Type IX story going?

Having the Canadians export their surplus material to the Australians is a good move and negates the waste of material that was the Sentinel tank. The other one was that they ship their tanks to Australia and that would also help to fill the material shortfall. How a more integrated...

Possible but not recommended. Where I've seen it done was that that Force C was sent to Malaya along with the accompanying armour, which then turned Malaya into a quagmire for the Japanese. There was also a shuffle at the top as well and then we ended up with a radically different campaign in...

Is the Marmon-Herrington MLW Ram from a TL, where a Canadian Armoured Regiment was deployed to SE Asia? It was something that was looked at IOTL and was included in another TL that I read and, as I liked it so much was going to incorporate into my Field Marshall Blamey TL. For those that are...

Just to indulge my inner childhood, but with the name you could wink at the Prince Valiant comic book series. As such the SPG could be called Aleta (Prince Valiant's wife), or even King Aguar (after his father), but that is based on at least one of the vehicles being called Valiant.

"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and quietly strangled." Sir Barnett Cocks.

That's a really good upgrade package, which makes them a pretty effective little vehicle. An AMX 10 Squadron supporting the three other squadrons of BTR 82s would provide a very useful capability for the Amdo and will also come in handy in my latest story. Particularly as a key character is an...

I really like the AMX 10RC it fits quite well with the theme and is being retired in large numbers to make room for the EBRC Jaguar. Are there any changes that should be included, prior to adoption?

Okay chaps I'm working on my finale of Rooftop of the World, where Ollie and his plucky Amdo (ethnic Tibetan Buddhists) face off against a general Taliban offensive spearheaded by T - 54 / 55s . Now I'm writing an armoured focused chapter that describes an engagement between the Taliban attack...

Some really good designs in the last week - great work.

If anyone's willing to do a line drawing for me, I'm looking for a Mil 35 Hind that's tail has been coverted into a pusher propeller arrangement similar to the S 97 Raider. Alternatively, the Ka 52 or Ka 50 with a similar arrangement would also be neat. Just trying to see which one would better...

I can give you something similar... with a Cambodia wank (well it's Cambodian does better than OTL so that's not hard) or a story about an ethnic Tibetan Buddhist minority that carves out their own Kingdom in the Himalayas in the modern day (based on Ladakh in India). It features tales of daring...

I could see a non aligned or neutral Burma quite easily during the Cold War. Whether they had the political talent to play both sides against each other is the defining question.

In 1947 Aung San was invited by the British Prime Minister Clement Attlee to negotiate Burmese independence, the discussions were more fruitful then Aung San anticipated with a timeline for independence set in 12 months time. Apparently this was a surprise to Aung San, who had also prepared...

How difficult would it be for the Japanese to convert the Chi - Ha to a tank destroyer? Was it possible with their limited logistical base or would they have been better placed to convert some of their tankettes into vehicles resembling an Ontos? Just got a TL that is ticking over in my head.

I might have to PM you with some ideas, but in that case having IJA troops transferred outside of Burma from 1942 to other theaters might enable Yamashita or a relatively unknown General to be given the poisoned chalice of defending Burma. Than with limited personnel and material might provide...

I've found that you can develop a niche following, my Cambodian trilogy for instance, but that's about it as people understandably want to read about major countries.

Sounds like your design process to build a 'what if' AFV is very, very similar to how I approach potential timelines.