Bison

[Fitz]

In the background, an Austin 10 staff car. The figure is from Battlefront.

The Bison was a class of improvised armoured lorry, created by the simple expedient of encasing the cab and engine bay in a thick shell of concrete, and putting a concrete bunker on the back. All sorts of trucks were used as the basis for these ungainly machines, and there was no particular standardization about them at all.

I was intending to make myself a model of a Bison, but then I found that a chap going by the name of DeweyCat had already made one in 28mm for free, so that saved me a bit of work. I just had to re-scale it to 1:100 and print it.

For once the visible printing layer lines are actually advantageous, as they look like cast concrete. Bonus!

[armchairgeneral]

Nice model well painted. Never knew such vehicles existed.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Nice work on that. They are ungainly looking beasts.

Nice model well painted. Never knew such vehicles existed.

There is one at the Tank Museum.

[flatpack]

Yes there is one at Bovington.
I don’t think it would have been particularly quick on the road, but it did a job at the time.
Very nice model and well painted.