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Humber Mk.II Scout Car 1/76 Revell (03289) The Humber Armoured Car was one of the most widely produced British armoured cars of WWII. Actually designed by Guy Motors pre WWII. This was the first British Armoured vehicle to feature and all welded chassis, it featured a slopped glacis plate with twin machine guns in a rotating turret. Guy were not able to produce sufficient numbers of Armoured car along with the main production of their artillery tractors, so the design and construction techniques were passed to Rootes and used as a basis for the Humber Armoured Car. The first Humbers being nearly identical to the Guy vehicles. The original Humber featured both a 15mm and 7.92mm guns with a 3 man crew. The Mark II improved on the Mk I with changes to the turret, better armour for the driver and radiator. 440 Mark IIs were built. The Kit As evidenced by the sprues this is the old Matchbox kit from 1973. Its been re-released on an off about every 10 years or so, the moulds are starting to show their age a bit with some flash on the pasts, but nothing that cant be cleaned up. Construction starts with the main chassis, the sides attach to the base with front & rear plates going on. The four main fenders then go on for the main wheels. A ladders goes on under the main right hand side hatch. The top of the hull then goes on with extra parts at the rear and on the engine deck. The base of the turret is fitted to the top with a lower part if you want this to turn. The two axles can then be fitted with their drive shafts. A commander figure looking through binoculars is supplied if you want to fit him to the turret. The front of the turret is built up with the two guns, this is then added to the main turret and added to the base part. At the rear of the turret an aerial mount is added. The top turret hatch can be open if you want to use the figure, or closed if you dont. The four main wheels and a spare are then added, headlights go on the front along with a pair of aerial mounts, and a tool/stowage box on the rear right fender. The turret can then be added. Rear view mirrors and the driver hatch can be added. Various stowage can be added as the modeller sees fit. As with most of the Armour kits of this vintage a base is provided for the vehicle. As well as the main base there are two small sections of wall and an old tyre which can be added here. Decals Two decal options are provided on the small sheet. F28901 from an unknown unit in North Africa circa 1942-43, Also another unknown unit on the Cassino Battleground in Feb 1944. Conclusion While its an old tool now it will make up into a good looking model with some care, their is still a great following for these ex Matchbox kits with their bases in the box. Recommended. Revell model kits are available from all good toy and model retailers. For further information visit or

Humber Snipe Staff Car, pics thanks to Dave Haskell.

This is my build of Tamiyas "British 7ton Armoured car Mk.IV" other wise known as the Humber Mk.IV armoured car; Not a big parts count on this one 1 main (body) and two Smaller (Wheels, etc) sprues; It only takes a couple of hours to get to this point; A couple more and she is built And then its off to the paintshop; NATO Black for the primer, followed by Dark Green as a base and then highlighted base mixture withKhaki, over two coats, getting lighter each time, Followed by a base dust covering of buff (all Tamiya paints). Sealed with Vallejo Semi Gloss varnish; Next will be to paint all the hand tools, guns, lights, etc then add decals (Tamiya only supply one polish optoin and i wanted a UK car, so i have purchased, for a bargin price, tamiya's 1/48 universal carrier, so will rob some brigade decals from hat tkit. Trying to find references and images of'badged' Humbers on the web has proved nighimpossible. Then will be filtering, washes and dot filtering.