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1. Airfix recommend these be painted in Humbrol 159, which I believe to be Airfix's approximation of SCC.15. Yet, looking at Mike Starmer's British vehicle painting guide, it seems that SCC.15 was only promulgated as the basic colour for soft skin vehicles in A.C.I.1233 of April 1944. Would I be correct in believing that the base colour for the vast majority of soft-skin vehicles landing on D-Day would still have been SCC.2 (with disruptive pattern)? Any guesses on when SCC.15-painted vehicles would have started percolating through to the front line? 2. Airfix do us proud with 6 sets of WD numbers (3 each for the QLD and QLT), 4 divisional markings and 5 arm of service markings. However they give no indication of which serial bore which Div and AoS markings. Has anyone tried, or, even better, been successful, in tracking down photographic evidence to correlate the WD numbers to other markings? 3. The QLT shown in Airfix's painting guide is apparently based on a preserved vehicle depicting a lorry of the Guards Armoured Division. However it wears 2 AoS squares, the 84 on red/green of a "Divisional Troops Company RASC" above the 61 on green of a senior infantry battalion. Am I correct in regarding this combination highly improbable? Is there any period photographic corroboration of this scheme? 4. Any decent references on the QL? I have Robert Coates' Bedford To Berlin And Beyond and Mike Conniford's Military Vehicle Pamphlet 5: Bedford QL but they both concentrate on differences between variants rather than in-service history so haven't helped with the above questions. Thanks in advance.
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I fancy having a go a this, and I've pulled a kit out of my stash that has been there for years, and will take me well out of my comfort zone! As many of you will know, I'm basically an aircraft modeller kit assembler, so softskin military vehicles are well out the ordinary for me. I'll be building this: Here are the kit's mugshots- For some reason, I'm drawn more to the QLT troop carrier, so that will be built first. Build will be OOB, and it will be finished as a vehicle of the 51st Highland Division, in honour of my late father, who served (postwar) in that division. Construction will start as soon as the 1/32 Hawk currently on the bench has been painted, which should happen on the next couple of days.
