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This has been hanging around in my stash for awhile. My attempt at the Bronco Humber Scout Car, British painted with Vallejo and Tamiya acrylics, with Vallejo Model Washes to weather. Final Matt varnish is Green Stuff World Maxxx Matt. Finished out of the box as a representation of a vehicle from 30th Armoured Brigade, 79th Armoured Division outside Caen, July 1944. Build thread can be found here: On a base I made for a previous model, along with a certain tea-drinking individual who does seem to get about. Finally one in greyscale:

After a short overseas vacation, I still had a week or so off work so I thought I would dig this out of the stash. It’s everything you might expect from Bronco - interesting subject, nicely molded with many tiny bits, ambiguous and downright confusing instructions (not quite in the right order). There is also some photoetch - which is mostly ignored in the instructions. What could go wrong? I had meant to keep a full build log, but just ploughed ahead. While tricky it’s been a lot of fun. First real attempt at a complicated AFV interior - most of which will be invisible. As indicated the instructions are terrible, so I kind of used them as a guide rather than follow them slavishly. First the chassis and suspension. Front was a bit complex but seems reasonably sturdy once built. Started the interior. Brush painted with Tamiya Matt White acrylic with details in various Vallejo acrylics (mostly guesswork as of course there are no serious interior painting guidance in the instructions). The wheels are made up of separate hubs and some rather unpleasant soft vinyl tyres. I decided to paint and weather the hubs separately. I am using Vallejo 71.017 for the main scheme, which looked good on the RFM Firefly I made last year. The spare wheel doesn’t coming with any kind of blanking plate, so I faked something up with scrap plastic and the bolts that Bronco provide on the sprue (but don’t mention in the instructions). Probably not very accurate, but it’s better than a plain hole. Bit of a jump ahead and here is where I was at after a few days of working on it. I also went cross-eyed trying to get the twin-Vickers mount sorted - only to find that the vehicle I intend to make actually has a single Bren. Doh! Too late now. Interior finished and weathered to make it good and grubby using a variety of Vallejo model washes. Some nasty injector marks are visible - but they are invisible once the cabin is put together, which was the next step. Rather disappointed with the fit, needed a bit of filler here and there. As expected, all that work on the interior is pretty much invisible. The vehicle I am building appears to have metal plates attached to the racks at the rear for the formation badges (which makes more sense to me than how Bronco shows the markings directly on the cans). There is also a little plate for the “50” decal, which Bronco shows as being attached direct to the exhaust muffler. I assume that’s a convoy plate of some kind? I also lost one of the tiny lifting/towing eyes, so I replaced it with some stretched sprue. Here are the wheels painted up, weathered and given a coat of matt varnish ready for the tyres. And finally for this first post the two side hatches I am leaving open so you can actually see inside.

Dear fellow Britmodellers, here's my 1/72 Dan Taylor Modelworks Humber Mk.II Scout Car. I built from the box, adding resin figure from Attack, scratch-built side mirrors and antennas from Albion Alloys steel wire. On first impression, the Dan Taylor kit looks like an Eastern European short run product. When I started construction, I was surprised about the ease of assembly and good fit of parts! I painted with Gunze/Mr.Hobby acrylics, weathering was done with artist oils and pastel chalks. Decals are out of the box (#M-72502) and were applied according to instructions, representing a vehicle of 59th Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery, 2nd Army, 1945. Photographs by Wolfgang Rabel. Thank you very much for your interest in this topic. Best greetings from Vienna! Roman