15mm QRF Quads
The last of my Stage One desert Brits were some tows to go with the 25pdrs. In this case I got a couple of Quads from QRF. I actually have four of these already, all marked up as Denzil Skinner models, and painted for NWE. If I wanted loads I could have got the PSC ones I guess, but the price rather put me off.
They are Quads, nice easy models. Single piece bodies and five wheels. Something has obviously changed over the decades though, as these are my old QRF Quads (below) .
The wheels are completely different on these old ones.
Much more delicate, and much more like the wheels on real Quads.
Anyway, the new style wheels are fine. Slightly crude castings, but they look a lot more like the wheels on the Airfix Quad. Perhaps they are special desert tyres!
The wheels went on easily enough, helped with a bit of Blu Tak. The only slight issue with these is that as the moulds are quite old, some of the window backing was so thin it either wasn't there at all or was full of holes (you can see how the windows used to be solid on my NWE Quads).
It doesn't matter too much, I cleaned out the window frames where the backing was missing or damaged, and fortunately the windscreens were still intact so I could paint them.
Even though the moulds are old, they are still crisp enough to take a drybrush. I did them in Light Stone overall, which looks pretty good on these, and just a light drybrush of Pale Sand to bring out the highlights.
If I've got gun models, I like to use them, and the same goes for prime movers, so these are a useful addition. My only slight disappointment is that QRF seems to be having problems. A recent order never arrived, and all communication with them has ceased, so I ended up raising a credit card dispute with them. I hope they don't fold as they have a great range and I've bought loads of stuff off them over the decades. Fingers crossed it is just a temporary glitch.
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