Hello to all, new to the forums and impressed with the amount of info and knowledge available.
I have been modeling for 27 years, but have only started doing the “detailed” modeling for 5 years or so. I have just returned to modeling after about a 3 year break while moving, new jobs, buying a new house, ect, just seemed to not fit with the hobby. Now with my own pad, I am bitting at the bit to get back into it. I like 1/35 armor and 1/48 & 1/32 WWII and some modern jets but mostly a Warbird lover.
I do have a question for the armor people. My dad just got remarried last year and I have aquired a sister in the process. About 4 months ago, she lost her grandfather of whom she was extreamly close to. I would like to do a model for her in honour of him but I can not for the life of me find a model anywhere. I need some help!! He worked on a Daimler Scout Car doing recon. I am waiting for his regimental and platoon info, but I do know it was that type of vehicle. Does anyone know of where I can find a model??
Hate to say it, but have you tried Ebay? Model contests where there are a lot of vendors are a great source for hard-to-find kits as well. You might even make a few calls to stores which advertise “We will buy your old kits…” in their ads; they might have, or come across, the exact kit you’re looking for.
Not exactly what you’re looking for, but Bronco recently released a Humber Scout car, included a full interior+engine, resin crew figure, and even a good bit of PE. Got a great review as well.
Hmmm…there are a few options out there. Now, will just have to make a decision. I also found the Tamiya one on Ebay for 14 USD.
WHile I was searching on Google, I came across a German and a French web site talking about a 1/35 Staghound Mk II. Has anyone seen this kit? All I could find was the 1/72 kit.
Rollmodels (in Minnesota no less) has one for $10.50. Goto http://www.rollmodels.net/search/phpsrch2.htm and enter British Daimler Mk2 Scout Car in the search Key Word field and the search will take you right to it.
Manstein is right about it being an old Tamiya offering. It date’s from the early 1970’s. I built one last year, and it is a nifty little kit. It doesn’t have much suspension detail, and the windows and doors don’t open, but it looks fairly accurate, and is crisply molded. Out of the box it looks good, and if you want to add more detail, it’s a good model to enhance. I’m sure your new sister would appreciate it.
FWIW, I read a book last year on the Canadian effort in the Gothic Line (August 1944). I think it was sub-titled “Canada’s Month of Hell in WW2”.
I was tickled pink reading about how a Daimler Scout car (Dingo) took out a Panther. Here was the situation:
The Dingo was travelling through this town (near the Adriatic … can’t remember the name, maybe Rimini) when an unbuttoned Panther came rumbling around a corner in front of them. The tank’s commander was killed by the Dingo’s Bren. The driver had limited vision and was relying on the commander to guide him around the corner. Without that guidance, the tank mounted the curb and threw a track. The crew then exited the vehicle.
Has anyone done a review - with pics - of the Daimler with the Eduard PE kit attached? I’ve got a Tam kit sitting in the pile and since it is such a small kit, was thinking I might could actually find time to build it. If the PE kit makes it look lots better, then I’d use the small, simple kit as my PE “launching” as I have never worked with such before. I’d like to see what a difference a PE kit would make on this kit.
(*NB: honestly, the kit will be for a “fictional country” my wife runs on NationStates.net, a rather Scottish-based country with a distinctly-lagging military. should be a fun project!)
From there you can download the instructions and get a much better idea of their PE is all about. I built my Daimler virtually OOB, adding only mudflaps and a little detail strip to represent the lid of the utility boxes (both of which are covered by Eduard’s PE). Out of the box, Tamiya’s Daimler is crisply molded and seems fairly accurate. Everything went together easily. The only tricky part during assembly, was that the driver won’t fit into place after the everything else is assembled, so I needed to leave the front part off the body until I had placed the driver. My only real criticism of the kit is that it is a bit light on the detail, and the Eduard PE set would go a long way toward remediating that. Although I didn’t use their Daimler set, I have worked with other Eduard sets and they are pretty easy to work with and do add a lot of detail.
If you already have the kit and are wanting to take the plunge into PE, I’d say go for it. It should be reasonably easy and the PE set is inexpensive. Built out of the box, Tamiya’s Daimler is a nifty looking model, and adding a PE set would only make it better.
Holy crow! Thanks for the link, Andy - looking at the two pages of instructions certainly gives me an idea of how much detail the PE kit adds! One thing I noticed is all the detail involved just for the pair of oil cans (?) of part 17 (page two of the instructions). By the time you remove all the molded-on detail, add the tie-down strap, and then add the replacement handles, I’d think you’d’a been better off buying a bundle of resin oil cans and using a couple of them as replacements!
But WOW! Doubling the price of the kit by buying the PE set sure looks like it would turn out an incredible model! (wait…even better, I bought the scout car at Hobby Lobby during a sale-week and got something like 40% off, so the kit only cost me $6 and some change)
(now, if I could just figure out where and how to mount a FN-MAG or .50 on it…) [:D]
