While my Allied troops have plenty of jeeps, carriers and radio trucks, they don't have some of the smart rides that my Axis senior officers do. So, time for some staff cars!
A pair of very inexpensive Austin 10 staff cars from Battlefield 3D. 1/100th scale naturally.
These are beautifully crisp single piece resin prints, with lots of fine detail.
The windows are decently recessed too, which makes it easier to paint the 'glass'.
I did one in plain green so it will do service for British, US or even Russian armies, while the other has the mid war SCC2 and black disruptive pattern - so good for Europe and at a pinch, the the desert. I added some night visibility stripes on the bumpers (fenders to my US pals) to the green one for a bit of contrast and I figure these aren't going to be in the front line that much.
I'm very pleased with those and a useful addition to my softskin fleet.
With the advent of 3D printing, we are eventually seeing more 1930s cars which is very useful.
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Yes indeed, along with all sorts of fun Interwar aircraft.
DeleteVery nice. How many of the various British colour schemes do you think you have in your collection?
ReplyDeleteOooh, that is a hard question. Umm, various BEF, early mid and late desert, boring NWE green, Mickey Mouse over either green or brown base various variations on brown/black/green and the odd thing in plain SCC2 brown. So, several,if not many.
DeleteSounds like quite a few to me. Your post inspired me to look over the possibilities... there is quite a lot of choice: https://mafva.co.uk/british-vehicle-camouflage-1939-45/ I must get round to doing a few more!
DeleteOh yes, the British certainly went through a bunch of different schemes before settling on boring green. I have a particular fondness for the BEF schemes. The MAFVA site is very helpful on this stuff, many of my books focus more on the arcane marking systems, and less on actual paint schemes.
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