20mm Humber Scout Cars

[PAULSPENCE]

Bonjour Chaps,

Help! Need Humber scout cars.

Seems to be a choice of EWM, Ready to Roll and Britannia.

Which would you recommend?

Cheers,

Paul

[Tony Barton]

What about Milicast ? They do a very precise resin one, assembles in 10 minutes.

[Gunbird]

Until Britannia solves their terrible resin castings (or outsources it to another caster that nows what a vacuum chamber is)  I can't reccomend them. Ready to Roll is nice but comes with a base (but that can be removed). EWM is with their new resin I believe and works really well. Milicast ups the price a bit but is lovely.

[PAULSPENCE]

Bonjour Chaps,

Thanks for your input.

Will try some from each but may be too ham-fisted to do the Milicast ones though I agree their models are superb!

Cheers,

Paul

[has.been]

Didn't Matchbox do a kit?  Armored car & Command lorry.

[Gunbird]

* I must not mix up British Armoured Car types *
* I must not mix up British Armoured Car types *
* I must not mix up British Armoured Car types *
* I must not mix up British Armoured Car types *
* I must not mix up British Armoured Car types *
* I must not mix up British Armoured Car types *

 

[Vintage Wargaming]

That's a Daimler Dingo in the Monty's caravan set, completely different vehicle. S Models do one, Oxford Diecast do a nice Dingo in a few different colour schemes, and there are all sort of resin Dingos. No plastic Humber Scout Car kits as far as I know, Matchbox did the Humber armoured car but again its a different vehicle

[Golgotha]

Also Matchbox is 1/76 not 1/72.

[has.been]

Matchbox may be 1/76th but:-
a)I have used them with 20mm infantry & was quite happy with them, and
b)They DID do a Humber armoured car, maybe not with the Monty's caravan set, but they did (still do?) a Humber.

[gamer Mac]

I have some by I believe cromwell models
Lovely but a bit tough removing the excess cast material between the wheels
Fits well with both 1/72 and 1/76
Its an AB figures commander






Sorry not great photos I am not used to photographing my 20 mm stuff

[vodkafan]

Matchbox may be 1/76th but:-
a)I have used them with 20mm infantry & was quite happy with them, and
b)They DID do a Humber armoured car, maybe not with the Monty's caravan set, but they did (still do?) a Humber.

I remember building that tiny Matchbox Humber armoured car many moons ago. I used to work in the old factory that made the real ones in Coventry, down Humber Road

[has.been]

Vodkafan, what you want is the 'Coventry' armoured car. It combined (supposedly) the best of the Humber & some others. Unfortunately it took so long to sort out the problems it was too late for WW2. I don't know if it saw service in Korea. Given your history, & your desire to do the Korean war, it might be worth looking into.

[vodkafan]

Vodkafan, what you want is the 'Coventry' armoured car. It combined (supposedly) the best of the Humber & some others. Unfortunately it took so long to sort out the problems it was too late for WW2. I don't know if it saw service in Korea. Given your history, & your desire to do the Korean war, it might be worth looking into.

Hi Peter, no I know about the Coventry armoured car. I did mean the Humber. It used to be built in the factory in Humber Rd, Stoke, Coventry.  The "new" factory at Ryton down the road was built as a "shadow factory" in 1940 in case the original one got bombed.
 The part where I worked half a century later used to be the final inspection bay for the armoured cars, so I was told. By that time they were knocking down loads of the original large buildings and sheds. In my lunch breaks I used to wander through the old buildings in the hope of turning up some small forgotten bit of old history.