Monty's Humber

[Ray S]

Hello all. As an antidote to building plenty of wingy and floaty things, I thought I would try something different. This was bought for me at Christmas by family members (they also got me the Airfix 1/32 Crusader tank). I am not good at armour (I did build the Tamiya BMW bike and sidecar combo, making it as a version with the Red Cross on, but added a machine gun -whoops!). I built it straight OOB, but found one or two issues with it. I probably got the two front seats in the wrong place, as the framework for the partition between driver and Monty would not fit in except at an angle of about 45 degrees, bashing Monty under the chin. I also could not find a place for the driver's side wing mirror - the instructions showed a location hole over the wheel arch but there was none, and the painting guide showed it was fitted to the side of the fuselage body shell near the windscreen. I drilled a hole in the arch as the shape of the wing mirror showed it went there. Some of the kit showed quite nice detail I thought, although it does show its age. I did not do anything to improving it, I just had fun. I tried to 'weather' the upholstery a touch, but I decided that the rest of the car would be in quite good nick considering the passenger, and the fact that the real thing is preserved. I really enjoyed masking the cockpit glazing, I wish hairyplanes were as easy to mask! I used a bit of filler over all four wheel arches where the body shell fitted. Anyway, enough waffle, here is the result:

This was brush painted with Humbrol and Revell acrylics. The main body was Humbrol 30. I did not gloss it before adding the transfers, but they did not silver at all. I was pleased with the way the badge on the back went over some raised detail (even though it seemed odd in its positioning), but the yellow circle with 2 in it did not like settling down onto the double curvature of the front and needed slicing.

I really enjoyed building this, even though the result is not up to the exceptional standards of all the other builds here on BM.

Thanks for looking,

Ray

[HL-10]

Very nice!

Definitely a neat staff car

[Black Knight]

Nicely done.

Don't do yourself down, it is well up to any 'standard'

[fredben]

Very nice build. It doesn't look like a brush painted build, its turned looking very good. I'd be happy with that build. Nice one.

[kwality8]

Looks great! Especially good finish for a brush-painted model....

[Buzby061]

Looks good. I made one years ago - a dollop of pure nostalgia!

Pete