A couple of weeks a go I finished some british armoured cars from
GHQ models, but I haven't had the time to write up a report on them.
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Daimler armoured cars armed with 2-pounder guns. |
These are 1:285 scale, or 6mm scale. 40k players might recognise it as Epic scale, although GW never wrote out the actual scale. It's more commonly known as microarmour.
The UK commissioned a lot of different wheeled armoured cars used for recon duties as well as simple liaison or staff duties. They were divided into three types; Light Recon Car, Scout Car and Armoured Car. Since all of these are called armoured car in daily terms by modellers and wargamers and quite a few historians, one can easily see how confusion can arise. Since no manufacturer could fill the need by themselves several different but similar designs were used.
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"Look out for Gerry, lads!" |
Scout cars were lightweight, fast and carried at most a bren gun. Armoured cars were more heavily armoured and carried a "proper" gun ranging from 2-pounders or 37mm guns up to 75mm guns. While meant for reconnaissance work these could deliver a bit of a punch should the need arise. The LRC seems to fall somewhere in between the other two, still armed with only a Bren gun or an AT rifle at most. As far as I can discern there were no hard and fast rule to classify the cars based on equipment. Instead they were classified by their intended roles.
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AEC mk III, looking particularly orky thanks to it's 75mm gun. |
Just as the Daimler the AEC mk III is designated as an armoured car, but it's quite different. Sometimes referred to as a heavy car it was manufactured by the Associated Equipment Company of Middlesex that usually made truck and bus chassis. The first mark was simply a standard truck chassis with the turret of a Valentine tank! The third and final mark had a custom designed turret carrying a 75mm gun for close support and usually operated together with the lighter scout cars. It had a four man crew and carried two machine guns and a large radio set in addition to the main gun. In a sense it was more like a wheeled tank.
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Big Brother! A size comparison. |
The vehicles were painted quite fast with a simple basecoat-wash-drybrush technique. I might return and do some details later on, like painting the shovels on the sides of the Daimlers or dust the sides down a bit.
- Basecoat: GW Knarloc Green.
- Wash with GW Thraka Green.
- Drybrush Vallejo Russian Uniform
- Drybrush Vallejo Russian Uniform + GW Bleached Bone
- Paint the tires slate or dark grey (can't remember which one I used but it's not important).
- Drybrush GW Bleached Bone for the final highlight.
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The whole family out on a field trip. |
Done. The cars were mounted on Renedra bases which got a thin layer of Tamiya textured paint and then flocked. I took the photos right after flocking so there's a lot of flock around the models. I hope you like them.
Anyone who has ever played the old computer game Panzergeneral will shudder at the mention of Daimler ACs!
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