My European theatre British recce forces have always felt slightly inadequate, mainly consisting of Daimlers, Dingos and Carriers plus a Lend Lease White Scout Car. I fancied adding a 'heavy' armoured car, and the Staghound fitted the bill nicely, rather smarter than an AEC.
This is the Staghound offering from Battlefield 3D.
Like so many of their models, beautifully crisp and no assembly required, although it does have a rotating turret. Well, I say no assembly required, there are separate turret hatches which can be modelled open or closed. I added a commander, a PSC figure with his body trimmed down to fit the aperture.
There wasn't really room to fit the open hatch cover under his arm and it would have been very vulnerable to damage, so I left it off.
This is a very large vehicle for an armoured car. You can see the lovely detail all over it. I dimly recall an Airfix Magazine article on how to scratch build one of these. I can't recall which wheels you had to use, maybe off the tank transporter model? iirc the turret used the Grant one from the Airfix Lee/Grant kit, suitably hacked around.
It is a very imposing vehicle and those tyres are just enormous. I did this in plain late war British green - VJ Russian uniform with a light wash of VJ Bronze Green. Then the whole thing just got a light drybrush and a pinwash to pick out some of the details. I didn't bother with any markings.
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