15mm Marmon Herrington Mk II

More British Armoured Cars. This time I wanted something a bit more early war-ish.

This is a QRF Marmon Herrington Mk II. I slightly wish I'd gone for one of the Breda or AT gun armed variants, but this is the one I got.

It went together OK. Hull, four wheels, turret, spare wheel and separate Vickers gun. There was a bit of flash to clean off, and the wheels are mounted on axles already, which is fine, but there wasn't much in the way of metal to fix them too,. I ended up using huge blobs of blu tak and covering them in superglue.

I didn't have a clue where the Vickers gun was meant to go, but I put it in an AA position on the turret. There is quite a lot going on with this vehicle, with all sorts of odd doors, panels and protuberances.

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It came out fine in the end. As it was a 1941ish vehicle I did it in late Caunter - Dark Green over Smoke Grey over Sand. I had to slightly make the pattern up, but I've done enough Caunter now that I know how it is supposed to work. I've actually got quite good at painting the hard edges.

Otherwise the vehicle has loads of sharp edges, raised bits etc so my washes and drybrushes took well.

This model had its combat debut as part of the recent Operation Crusader game, serving as recce with 1st South African Div.