Starting in June 1978, Canada started to receive their first Leopard C1, 114 of them having been ordered in replacement of their Centurion MBT. The Leopard C1 was a modified version of the Leopard 1A3 fitted with the Belgian SABCA computerized fire-control system and, at left of the main gun, a PZB 200 TV camera with image-intensifying technology giving the tank night-fighting capabilities without the use of infrared light. Starting in late 1985 the Leopard C1 were fitted with a IRS 100 thermal-imaging system which greatly enhanced the tank night-fighting capabilities and were installed at the left of the PZB 200.
Starting with the Italeri Leopard 1A4 I have done a lot of conversion work to get my Canadian Leopard C1... and I am quite happy with it 😎 As I would like more of them, it is too bad that no resin conversion exist for this one (ModellTrans if you hear me 😇 as you already have a lot of Leopard conversion...) (made 2021)
Like all your stuff these Leo C1 look great. How did you do the PZB200?
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