Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Beaverette Armoured Car

Had this on the go for a while now. A nice little resin model from Frontline; all of x3 parts



Made crew from donor figures, the Bren gun is from the Imex Korean War set


Added ammo pouches to the crew, not that you really see them


Was looking at doing some more early war stuff in the future and have been doing a lot of research around Operation Sealion, as this will provide a number of interesting 'what if?' scenarios using all my favourite kit



Added a rolled tarp,  Jerry-cans and a spade from the bits box, decals from S-Models, Cruiser kit



These were mostly used by Home Guard and RAF units during the early war years. Eventually nearly 3000 were produced and included a number of Mks with different combinations of kit and armaments, including radio sets, Boys anti tank rifles and Vickers medium machineguns.

14 comments:

  1. That looks excellent Al, nice conversion with the crew too.

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  2. :) Downright cute car, feel good when see this...

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  3. Your Home Guard are lucky to be supported by such a splendid kit.

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  4. Great model - no need for the lads to panic now!

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  5. We had them in NZ as well Bootneck.

    Great use of the useless Bren pose in that set mate.

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  6. Like Your work on the Crew to convert them for the Vehicle- well done!

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  7. Beauty
    Well done

    Impressed with the Front Line model and your skill!
    You have made me envious enough to want one

    Well done

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  8. Brilliant. You wonder what the MOD was up to with its designs when the Germans were designing classics that lasted the war! I think the first time I heard of the beaverette was in the Airfix Guide to Armoured Cars. I still have it...

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  9. That's great. You don't see many of these things on the gaming table.

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  10. Some great comments gang. I'm actually considering having a crack a scratch building a MkIII Beaverette, Col gave me the plans.... from the Airfix Guide :)

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  11. Maximex is right...'cute', neat little model...if you do Sea Lion; you get to scratch-build all those mad concrete blockhouse AFV's using Matador and Monty's Caravan chassis!...Bargain!

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